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Senior year scheduling dilemma: you’re sitting in your counselor’s office, choosing eenie-meenie-miney-mo between AP and IB. Which will give you the best chance of passing, and the most college credits? Starting this school year, students don’t have that choice for some classes. Specifically, AP English and AP Spanish are no longer being offered. While…
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It’s safe to say we have all seen our fair share of buckets of ice water being thrown over the heads of our friends, peers, and family. Everyone from Lil Wayne to Bill Gates has participated. While some call it wasteful, others find it heroic. This is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. For those…
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The tragic deaths of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotlott, who were kidnapped and executed while reporting in Syria, haunt the minds of all reporters, professional and amateur alike. No matter how often such events occur, it is impossible to become accustomed to the victimization of reporters, considering that the occupation of…
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It might seem that speaking out against the kidnapping of Nigerian students would not be controversial. However, in today’s highly politicized society, even efforts as noble as protesting for human rights become controversial. In the current American political climate, everything has to have two opposite sides. For some political commentators, the action of speaking…
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According to Uncle Ben from “Spider-Man”, “with great power comes great responsibility.” I first learned what it truly meant to have superpowers in the sixth grade when I was given my first super cool slide-out texting phone (I never counted my TracFone as a real phone). To be fair, my first reaction to this…
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One of the great myths of high school is that you learn something. That’s just stupid. The truth is, we are just inundated (that word means “to be covered with a flood,” boys and girls) with random facts called “knowledge” by some higher law of osmosis or diffusion. We “learn” only to forget them…
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You may believe that the existence of life, blood, and a pounding heart in your body define you as living. In literal terms, this is very true. But what boring lives we all live. Living should not simply be going through a routine, but rather living life to the fullest, no matter what society…