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This is the inaugural issue of Artifacts relaunch....

Table of contents for Artifacts, Issue 8 (2013)....

A poem about technology.

Images created in times of war reveal the tensions and fears ignited by the conflicts between nations.

Table of contents for Artifacts, Issue 12 (2015)....

Missourians will remember the summer of 2012 as hot and dry, browning grass and brittle leaves all too visible in the landscape. Gardeners report lackluster tomatoes, farmers anticipate disappointing yields. We've watched gray skies, hoping for rain...

Cancer is not pretty, it is a harsh, ugly disease and the treatment is uglier still. There is no cure for cancer, at least not yet. I think the best solution is to be there for the ones you love, and help others by donating ...

The raven serves as the representation of the unreal because it is nothing more than an anthropomorphized version of the narrator's subconscious despair. In this way, the poem consists of a pseudo-dialogue between the ...

Vaudeville was an expressive, innovative, and quirky form of popular entertainment in America that spanned the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, vaudeville was more than mere entertainment for the American mass culture—it ...

Many of the pieces published in this issue invite readers to think deeply about questions of policy--which course of action should be pursued in a given set of circumstances?...

Like photography, documentaries are a representational medium: They record and occasionally reconstruct the everyday reality viewers typically cannot experience themselves. Because photography is an indexical sign signifying ...

I started this essay with the intention of crafting a new chapter, a 21st century update, to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. What I soon found was that this task is fundamentally impossible. There can't be another Silent ...

In modern times, the ever-growing world population has caused the boom of giant cities with limited space, along with the rise of amazing places that are built to round in tourists. The allure to build and have the tallest ...

This is a poem by Lacy Mans.

This poster shows effects of oral mucositis in cancer patients.

The conflict has been raging for over half a century. Israel and Palestine are like two brothers; brothers that are sprung out of the same core and host religions and nations that share the same origins. But in spite of ...

Bend It Like Beckham is primarily a film about soccer. However, because the protagonist is part of a traditional Indian family, food plays an important role in the film.