By Lareesha Khabatari, lk145@uakron.edu   We all know that Chinese is difficult to learn but what is it that makes it so hard? Well, there are a multitude of reasons for this and it is especially confusing for the average English speaker. The language groups themselves vary extremely yet Chinese still seems somewhat challenging for people in the sinosphere as well.  But why? Well, the main reasons for Chinese being hard is that there is no alphabet, the tonal system, and no s

Dakota Polk, dp220@uakron.edu Ke’Ila Frazier, kkf20@uakron.edu We all know the holiday St. Patrick's Day, where everyone wears green and elementary students go on hunts in the classrooms for pots of gold supposedly left by a leprechaun. But do you know the origin of the holiday? Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary who helped spread Christianity throughout Ireland. But something that many people may not know about Saint Patrick is that he isn't actually Irish. He was orig