5. Tortellini 2025

https://www.globalvillagespace.com/civil-servants-barred-from-speaking-on-social-media/ An addicting platform and application—social media, the world’s most modern loop of connection, influence, and distraction. Every day, millions, if not billions of people log onto their Instagram, TikTok, or even Facebook accounts to chat with their friends, scroll through endless short videos, and learn surprising facts or news about the world around us. Although social media has integrated itself into being a major part of our lives and has proved to be one of the most powerful resources of the century, especially for our generation, the immense power it has to unite peers and strangers, control what information we see daily, and make people hooked on the platforms is undeniable. The power social media has to bring people together, whether they are your peers and friends or strangers you’ve never met, is honestly remarkable. Any question or thought that you have could be immediately sent and recei...

Have you ever stopped to think about how powerful nature is or can be? Nature is all around us, it's the trees, the flowers, the animals and the sky. It's also in the mountains, the oceans, and the desert. It's not just a roaring thunder or the swinging waves, although those are pretty impressive.  I have been a huge gardening enthusiast for a while now. I love planting new trees, growing veggies, fruits, and exotic plants. While gardening, I always think about a tiny seed, which looks so small and fragile but on the inside holds the power to grow into a giant tree that reaches for the sky. Where that tree can withstand storms, provide shelter for animals and even help clean the air we breathe today, that's the power of nature. I mean like, think about a small flowing river. It might start as a small stream but over time (like 1 to 2 years) it has the power to carve another stream of river. That's how nature shows its strength to us, or imagine a volcano eruption se...

  If power were a person, it would be the most dominant force in our lives—the one we can’t live without, the one that controls everything yet rarely gets acknowledged. Electricity doesn’t just support modern life; it is modern life. It’s in the walls of our homes, the batteries in our pockets, the invisible current running through everything we do. And like any force that holds power, it dictates the terms of our existence without ever needing to announce itself. Our relationship with electricity is one of complete dependence. We wake up to alarms powered by it, cook breakfast with it, drive cars charged by it, and work in buildings lit by it. It connects us to the world, stores our memories, and entertains us when we’re bored. But for all that it gives, it also can take everything away in an instant. One power outage, and suddenly, the world feels frozen in time—silent, uncertain, vulnerable. That’s the kind of grip electricity has over us. Like any dominant force, electricity do...

“With great power comes great responsibility.”  I’m sure we’ve all heard that quote at least once, seeing as it’s included in every single Spiderman movie, but in case you weren’t familiar with it, it’s what Uncle Ben tells Peter Parker before promptly being killed off. And every time, the combination of the quote with Uncle Ben’s death teaches Peter Parker some sort of lesson through the consequences of neglecting his responsibilities as a person with fancy superhuman abilities, prompting him to become the vigilante hero known as Spiderman. This quote clearly holds up in the cinematic universe, but how applicable is it in the real world? Now out in the real world, I’m sure none of us have actual superhuman strength or agility like Spiderman, so the most appropriate metric for this “power” that brings responsibility with it seems like wealth. Billionaires hold so much power in today’s world, as they pretty much have the ability to influence whatever they want. Need a favor done? Th...

I have seen the movie Inside Out many times and each time it never fails to leave me in both tears and awe. Watching the five emotions work hard to give Riley a seemingly normal life never fails to amaze me. Although, the thing I always find most intriguing is the memory orbs. The endless number of them that we keep inside of our heads is certainly astonishing to me. These simple yet complex memories that are created every second of our lives hold much influence over our daily lives. Not only do they hold control over our character but also the very essence of who we are. Our memories hold more power than we give them credit for. Even something as simple as memorizing terms for a test requires our memory, and it is its level of strength or power that can determine if we pass or fail. The preservation of bits of experiences that have occurred over the course of our lives determines our identity, no matter how big or small. It forms the beliefs and values that guide us throughout our li...

  The power of performing. I have been dancing since the age of two. It definitely took me a while to find my true passion in dance. I started off doing ballet, then jazz, then bharatanatyam, then hip hop, then contemporary, and now finally Bollywood. I experimented with slow and graceful styles, and realized after several years that my expertise lies in the fast-paced moves of Bollywood dance. I started Bollywood dance twelve years ago when I lived in India and it was an eye-opening experience for me. I feel an incredible rush whenever I dance and even though I normally hate physical activity, the sweat from dancing is always worth it because of the joy I get while performing. I will never forget the first solo performance I did at the age of five in front of hundreds of people on the large stage. I had been practicing for seven months beforehand and it all came down to the final day when I put on my cute red tutu and blouse and performed "Disco Deewane". After my dance was ...

  Photo Credit:  Samuel Corum, Getty Images Last week, on Monday, the United States experienced a peaceful transition of executive power known as Inauguration Day. A president leaves, and another president enters. It isn’t just the government itself that changes, but the tone of politics itself. As we react with mouths agape with the fast-moving news cycles that characterize Trump’s leadership style, I wanted to reflect on the previous administration—the four years of sleepytime led by a Sleepy Joe between two radically norm-breaking Trump administrations. I don’t see Biden as a bad president. A former Senator, he was adept at working with Congress and garnered an impressive record of legislative accomplishments during the first two years of his presidency. Although his foreign policy was mixed , being tarnished by a disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, Biden successfully unified countries around Ukraine during Russia’s invasion and helped negotiate a ceasefire between Israe...