Opinion

  • Amazon dominates the market

    The world wouldn’t be the same without two-day deliveries from almost everyone’s favorite online shopping site. Over the years, Amazon has acquired several other companies and recently, they even bought Whole Foods, a popular organic grocery store. Many don’t know of the long list of popular companies that now belong to Amazon. This list…

  • Spend more time with friends

    After school? I was studying. Weekends? I was studying. Summers? You guessed it, I was studying. Ever since I can remember, I have spent all my free time on school and extracurriculars. Even when it was unnecessary, I found myself staying at home in attempt to get further ahead and study more (even though…

  • Embrace your Halloween spirit

    People set out jack-o-lanterns to fend off ghosts. Starbucks is selling their famous Pumpkin Spice Latte. It’s that time of year again– Halloween! With Halloween comes candy, and with candy comes children. But how old can you be to celebrate Halloween before you get “too old?” Many people stop dressing up and going out…

  • The little things are gone

    Monday morning. I take a sip from my coffee and yell at my dear brother that I’ll wait for him in the car. It’s 6:55. As I warm up the car, which is covered in frost from the June-gloom mornings that somehow still exist in October, I tune into my favorite radio stations: 93.1…

  • Letter to the Editors: Oct. 13, 2017

    Letter to the Editors: Ever have a time when something comes out of your mouth and you wish you could pull it back in? Well this happened to me just recently. In the last edition of the Panther Prowler, I made a statement describing how I preferred AP Studio Art over IB Visual Arts.…

  • Never again: Americans must take action on gun violence

    In July of 2016, 49 people were shot and killed at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The tragedy became the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Just over a year later, this record was broken.   A gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, on…

  • Take an early start

    High school is hard. College is harder. How do I know this? I am doing both at the same time. Once junior year started, I began to look at colleges and what they wanted from applicants. I found that I was in the middle range for everything: grades, SAT score and extracurriculars. I knew…

  • What is wrong with Netflix?

    There is no greater tragedy than being excited to watch your favorite movie, only to go through all the work and anticipation of opening Netflix to find that it has been replaced by some millennial children’s garbage TV show. Netflix was created in 1997 but gained much of its popularity during the 2000s. Since…

  • Will we survive a disaster?

    This week, a shooter released round after round of bullets into a crowd of people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, turning a peaceful music festival into the scene of a massacre. In the world we live in, disasters are everywhere, from shooters at concerts and schools, to earthquakes shaking Mexico,…

  • Falling back on seasonal flavors

    Ah fall, a time of falling leaves and colder weather. Yet, my favorite part of this autumnal season is neither of those things: my favorite part is the food. Every season has special flavors, but it is fall that steals my heart. Who can resist the taste of caramel and apple? Butternut squash? Gingerbread?…