Owen Brader

Telling your story through modern means.

Author: Owen Brader

  • Young Adults’ Relationship Values May Be Changing

    Young Adults’ Relationship Values May Be Changing

    Abstract This study seeks to determine how relationship satisfaction is affected by trust, intimacy, and communication in college students. It was hypothesized that relationships with higher levels of trust, intimacy, and communication would report higher levels of relationship satisfaction. The participants consisted of 259 University of Pittsburgh students older than 18 years old who have… Read.

  • How Pittsburgh is Fighting the Housing Crisis

    How Pittsburgh is Fighting the Housing Crisis

    When the building known today as 412 Boulevard of the Allies was first constructed by the W.J. Gilmore Drug Company in 1927, the Pittsburgh Press optimistically deemed the structure “an example of Pittsburgh’s progress.” Since then, the building has been home to a revolving cast of assembly lines, oil companies, and art institutions.  In late… Read.

  • To Choose, or Not To Choose: Unpacking A “Hamlet” CYOA

    To Choose, or Not To Choose: Unpacking A “Hamlet” CYOA

    There are very few literary works more widely scrutinized than William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Published soon after the turn of the 17th century, Hamlet has since become one of the most recognizable facets of English culture. Even those who have never read the play are most certainly familiar with Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be”… Read.