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Zach Viera

Bio: My name is Zachary Viera, or Zach for short. I’m a graduate student from UMass Dartmouth expected to get my master’s degree in professional writing in May 2027. My interests include Video Games, Movies, and Books. I’ve taken to professional writing to write in depth about my interests and learn things outside said interests. I’m excited to join the NYC Tastemakers team with hopes to learn more and improve as a writer with this internship.
Health and Wellness

Reasons Why People have Unhealthy Diets

Everyone says to eat healthy for a longer lifespan. It’s a simple diet change; you do have the power to change your diet if you so please. However, people often fail to recognize other people’s lives and everything that demands their time in place of a healthy diet. Not everyone ...

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Politics

Tipping Culture Sucks

Assuming you have been to a restaurant, you have experienced U.S. tipping culture, which involves giving a tip for the waiter or waitress’s service, typically 20% of the total price of your meal. Maybe less if the service was mediocre, maybe more if it was exceptional. This tipping culture comes ...

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Sports

Love & Ball: Progressing Against the Negative Stigma Surrounding Women’s Sports

Women’s sports has always had the negative stigma surrounding women being biologically weaker than men. “This isn’t the best we have.” “Men would trounce these women.” “Nobody would watch this junk,” people would say or think. People who claim others only want to watch the best of the best bother ...

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Latest News

Trump launches State Controlled Media after Major News Outlets File Lawsuit

On Friday, September 18th, 2026, Donald Trump banned CNN, Politico, and MS now from the White House. Trump accused the organizations of writing “fiction” or “lies” about his administration. Reporters were denied access to the White House from Saturday, September 19th onwards The three outlets have since claimed they will ...

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Sports

Children’s Sports Games get too Competitive

Sports games across the world come with the spirit of competition; everyone wants to see their team win, and there’s a sense of pride behind it. Professional sports have massive stadium-wide crowds cheering for teams; college sports have entire campuses cheering for their teams. It only makes sense that parents ...

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Politics

What Will Happen after Trump Leaves Office?

It’s common knowledge that Donald Trump had one of the most memorable political campaigns in the past decade. It’s caused one of the biggest modern cases of blind loyalty this country has ever seen with the Make America Great Again movement. This idea that America was better in the past ...

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Movies

Disney Announcing Movies Multiple Years in Advance Ruins the Magic of Announcement Trailers

It’s commonplace for a movie to get announced for a feature release around a year or two in advance; that way people know what the studio behind it is working on. Typically, this is accompanied by a title drop or some form of announcement trailer. However, in modern times, it’s ...

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Latest News

Trenton Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay AI Data Center Approvals in New Jersey

This week Assemblywoman Annette Quijano introduced a bill in Trenton, New Jersey, that would delay the approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for oversized AI data centers. The bill would create a 12-person commission to study the potential impact of AI data centers on New Jersey, reporting its findings ...

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Health and Wellness

Diet Food Programs are Too Expensive

Everyone wants to live healthy lives, but a healthy lifestyle requires a healthy diet. Eating healthy requires meal preparation and knowing how many calories, among other nutrients, you’re taking in with every meal to balance your nutrients; most importantly, it requires the money, knowledge, and dedication to coordinate all of ...

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PoliticsUncategorized

Anger from the Right: Charlie Kirk as a Political Figurehead

On September 10th, 2025, as most people know, Christian nationalist debater Charlie Kirk was assassinated at his own political debate session in front of hundreds of people, with footage of his death spreading like wildfire on the news and across the internet. That day the political landscape felt akin to ...

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Sports

The Culture behind Sports Betting

People have bet on the outcomes of sports for a long time, first getting standardized pay in 1867 with the Pari-Mutuel System. People would put money on a certain player getting a goal or a horse winning a race, and then depending on their track record, the payout would be ...

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Politics

Why Did We Reduce the FDA’s Budget?

Over 2025 and 2026 the FDA has lost millions of dollars in their budget and thousands of employees in a move to cut costs thanks to Robert F. Kennedy and the Trump Administration. Thanks to these budget cuts there are now significantly fewer people checking the quality of the food ...

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