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Are You a Quaker?

Fourth Season's Featured Video Ensemble
Online Features

Interrupting the Family Barbecue: In Search of the Planetary Health Diet

The urgency of transforming our systems for food production. Jim Ross
Online Features

A Critique of Health Consciousness

The possible ill effects of worrying too much and talking too much about our food choices. Caroline Morris
Student Voices Project

A Tool or a Weapon

The Quaker approach to competition has influenced my life greatly. From my experiences, I’ve learned that competition can be utilized… Hazel Mariani
Student Voices Project

Wrestling with Defeat

I am not a perfect Quaker. My family discovered Quakerism when I was two years old. I grew up with… Clay Lewis
Student Voices Project

High School Hierarchy

I cried yesterday. I was sobbing: red, wet, puffy, and gross because of the academic competition I face in school… Felicity Medina
Student Voices Project

What Page Are You On?

Competition surrounds my life. In almost everything I do there is some sort of a competition involved even when there… Nicole Sosnik
Student Voices Project

Truly Winning at Life

Competition is a big part of the everyday world. It overlaps with the desire for power and the desire for… Sophia Stylianos
Student Voices Project

Growth and Learning

I used to wrestle... One time, after losing a match, I sat back down on the bench, changing my shoes… Wielond Kirby

Competing Against Myself

What does it mean to win or lose? How can we use competition to grow as individuals? In response to…
Student Voices Project

My Revelation with Quaker Competition

I used to despise competition. Growing up with siblings, our lives were devoted to one-upping each other and proving who… Carluccio Horton
Student Voices Project

The Value of Intense Competition

As my dirty, sweaty palm makes contact with my opponent’s, I look him in the eye. He was their striker… Jack Davis
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