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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…