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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

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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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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Books

The Absence of Visuals and Sound

Books have been portraying stories for thousands of years, and in the last century we’ve been able to communicate stories with visuals and sounds with the rise of video technology. We have movies, television shows, comics, manga, video games, and many other ways to portray stories in modern day, but ...

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Politics

9/11 Attacks Caused a lot of Islamophobia that Still Persists Today

25 years ago the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world and took the lives of 2977 people. As we all know, these attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim al-Qaeda extremist, and with this public knowledge, Western views on Muslims changed for the worse overnight. To a ...

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Fashion

There Shouldn’t be a Social Stigma Against People who Wear Wigs

For centuries there’s always some kind of beauty standard that everyone wants to reach and everyone else admires. People chase this their whole lives, living in fear of the natural process of aging beyond a so-called prime. People put on makeup to hide blemishes, fast to fit within their perfect ...

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Sports

Cheering Culture at Sports Games

Whenever you go to a stadium, whether that be a soccer game, American football, basketball, baseball, or any sport that has a bunch of spectators sitting next to each other, you’ll always find people cheering loudly for their team whenever something interesting happens, like a cool pass or shot, and ...

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TV

Has Children’s Entertainment Changed in the Past 20 Years?

Children’s entertainment in the past few decades has revolved around TV, with Saturday morning cartoons and TV shows, games, movies, and toys—stuff made specifically for children. Back when I was growing up, there were cartoons such as Ed Edd n Eddy, Chowder, Regular Show, and many other cartoons; there was ...

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Politics

Age Verification Methods Do Not Work

Over the past few years there’s been a rise in age verification methods all over the internet requiring people to scan pictures of their IDs, faces, or both into company databases in order to use their software. On paper this crackdown sounds appealing, making sure children don’t get into adult ...

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Latest News

9/11 Documents Suggest NY Officials Knew of Poor Air Quality and Withheld Information

New York City officials released thousands of never-before-seen documents questioning the air quality at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks. The city launched a public online portal with around 170,000 documents from various government agencies dealing with NYC’s air quality after 9/11 and the health risks posed by it. The ...

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Video Games

Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade Receiving Feature-Length Documentary

Beloved and influential Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade, who passed away in 2022, is receiving a full feature-length documentary titled “Technoblade Never Dies,” named after the late Technoblade’s catchphrase. This project is being produced by Candle Media’s Candle True Stories, with financing from Hypixel Studios, the creators behind Minecraft’s biggest multiplayer server, ...

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