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Stories that inform. Content that inspires. Creators that impact.

The Impact

If first you don't succeed....

If first you don’t succeed….

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff May 11, 2014

As this semester comes to an end, like most of my peers, I am getting ready to graduate and hopefully begin a new chapter in my life and put all of the fine schooling that I have received to use. As I...

How Cliché!

How Cliché!

Joseph Cogdell, impact staff April 25, 2014

A cliché is a trite stereotyped expression.  It's a sentence or a phrase usually expressing a common or popular thought or idea that has lost its originality, ingenuity and impact due to long overuse....

Too Smart for Your Own Good

Too Smart for Your Own Good

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff March 11, 2014

In 2007, a show named "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" aired on fox throughout homes across the nation.  The game show consisted of 2 contestants attempting to answer a slew of questions taken from...

What's your sign?

What’s your sign?

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff March 4, 2014

Astrology is the study of movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.  Astrology is synonymous with the word horoscope,...

Promise You Won't Tell

Promise You Won’t Tell

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff February 23, 2014

The definition of the word secret is to keep hidden from others: known to only a few people.  If you truly understand this definition then by now you must have realized that everyone has secrets!   Just...

Gone, But Who's To Blame?

Gone, But Who’s To Blame?

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff February 6, 2014

Unfortunately this past week, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away from the same disease that killed fellow actors John Belushi, Chris Farley and River Phoenix.  The disease is drug addiction and...

The New York Bricks

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff December 3, 2013

I don't usually write about sports in this column, but being that I have been a Knicks fan my entire life I feel like I have to address this situation. Why can't the Knicks win at home? With a 3-13...

Team of I

Team of I

Joseph Cogdell, Impact Staff October 18, 2013

How much do you do to please other people? If you really think about it most of us are so caught up in what other people think about us, that we forget who we really are. Lately I notice tons of people...

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