Jordyn Gallegos

Jordyn Gallegos, senior, loves the humanities because it’s so fun to see everyone’s different writing styles. She is excited to serve as Co-President of Humanities this year. In her free time, Jordyn likes bonding with her soccer and flag football team or hanging out with her cat.

More work by Jordyn Gallegos:

• Women in the Frontier – The Frontier Thesis is a theory constructed by Frederick Jackson Turner, summarizing the importance of the open frontier to America. His theory is popularized and continually referenced in history classes …
• The Economic Frontier – With an open frontier came a vast amount of land to be inhabited, all with different opportunities and resources to capitalize on. Very different from most of the land that …
• Cowboys – The stereotypical cowboy image is a young adult male, usually white. This is because of the portrayal of cowboys in popular media — however, one in four cowboys were Black.  …
• The Safety Valve – Picture Credit: Google
• The Woman that Redefined The Gunslinger – On television, a character with a gun performs an impossible trick to save a life or impress a crowd. They set their gun on their shoulder, look in a mirror, …
• Pleasance – 2023 Upperclassmen Fiction Runner-Up – Huck Johanberg moved into Pleasance two months ago. Pleasance, overall, wasthe wrong thing to name this town, in Huck’s opinion — if you considered muddy, crocodile-infested marshland pleasant, then Pleasance …
• 1800’s Slang That Should be Brought Back – The Wild West was full of new opportunities, fabled stories of robbers and lawmen, and more gunslingers than you could count. What is most notably different from now, however, was …
• eggs – even a pigeon will sit on a chicken egg, nurse a foreign thing to life. why can’t love be shown  limitlessly, generously, fully? why must there always be  a difference …
• The Dark Origins Behind Valentine’s Day – Valentine’s Day is traditionally celebrated in America with teddy bears, sweets, and love. However, it wasn’t always celebrated this way. In Ancient Rome, this holiday was celebrated for three days, …
• Chrysalis – the world is cruel to the caterpillar, as it grows up on the ground. it is cruel even as it cocoons,  as it grows and lives and eats  because it …