Intersections (Fall 2025 at 10:20)

  Reading Fantasy Helps Children in Critical Thinking In this day and age, all generations, young and old, are bombarded with misinformation, advertisements, and brain rot. Mindlessly scrolling through social media and shorts, avoiding and/or encouraging conflicts and/or separation, marginalization, and hatred. A lack of empathy and literacy has run rampant. But, reading literature, whether fictional or nonfiction, can expand the reader's point of view, offering them the opportunity to learn lessons that would be hard to come across in life. With this, it could affect children and their wild imaginations, along with their simple view of the world and open-mindedness. But what is literature? Literature is a form of communication and expression. Although non-fiction still does appeal to children, fictional narratives are particularly appealing, offering them exciting works and characters. In the article, Changed by literature? A Critical Review of Psychological Research on the Ef...

Does Artificial Intelligence Impact Child Development Negatively? With the rapid advancements of the 21 st century, we’re all subjected to the growth of technology throughout our everyday lives. From improvements to previously existing technology to completely new and innovative. When phones and computers were becoming mainstream, the processes and hardware were able to give a user more ease of use in programs and do things that were never imaginable in the past. With the advancements in hardware comes “AI” or Artificial Intelligence. AI started out as a system to assist people and workers in minuscule things, like counting. Although it wasn’t necessarily called “AI”. However, as technology has progressed up to this point within this decade, it now manages to scour the internet, using the media it is fed and acquired to generate images, code, text, and stories, all at the press of a button. But that’s generative AI, in this modern age, it has become the center of the “AI” subject ...

Cookies: Youtube Vs. My Grandma Everybody LOVES chocolate chip cookies; there are tons of variables and preferences in ingredients, proportions, and even how long they sit. For one thing, cookies could be generational, but easy to make. So, in this review, we will be reviewing two recipes of chocolate chip cookies, one from a YouTube video by Natasha Kravchuck, “Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe- Natasha’s Kitchen” , and another from my great-grandmother’s recipe book.  We will be reviewing the texture, flavor, durability, recipes, and my experience in making each recipe. Recipe Kravchuck and my grandmother’s recipe were in a similar nature, as it is chocolate chip cookies after all. Though the proportions vary, Kravchuck’s proportions in her recipe follows for a smaller portion, while my grandma’s portions are for gatherings or to stand for a longer amount of time. The ingredients’ portions vary for taste and texture as well. Natasha’s Kitchen Grandma’s...