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An Eye for an Eye

 An Eye for an Eye Aryan Mukherjee An eye for an eye. The principle of revenge. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. The principle of forgiveness. But what if the eyes taken did make the whole world blind? And what if the perpetrator got off scot-free? What if lies after fallacies after little mishaps all built up so far and so wide that by the time people really started catching wind of what was truly being conspired, it was too little too late. Thus is the story of Stephen Glass. Stephen Glass was born on September 15, 1972 to a Jewish family in Chicago, and appeared to have an instant knack for journalism. From joining the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated from, to having colleagues ranging prominently in several renowned magazines at the time, especially The Rolling Stone . However, his goals crossed paths like a double helix, and as the delightful odor of journalism wrapped him in from one side, his family’s bigoted idealogies ste...

Irreversible

 Irreversible Aryan Mukherjee      “From an early age, kids have always been told that they should think before they speak, as they can never revert what comes out of their mouth. And although this phenomena could be an unnerving realization, it is something that brings comfort to all who travel through life. You see, the pillars of life, no matter how many times struck or battered, always inches by with but a few dents or cracks, always minor in comparison to something bigger, and always able to be polished up. But there is one thing on this planet, that no matter how hard you try to revert or how much you put in to alter, can never be brought back; love. And thus is the story.”      Martin groaned. Finally, this generation-long dim-witted podcast was finished, he thought. He shoved his finger into the speaker and changed the tunes to hard metal rock. Finally, his style. His mom, like a trigger in disposal, snapped back and changed the channel, a gris...