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Fake news used to be easy to spot. “Elvis is alive – His Nashville hiding place!” “Russia’s colony on Mars exposed?!” “Bigfoot infests hikers with polio!” Spared only a glance at grocery checkout lines, these tabloid headlines were obvious fake news to many people, unsupported by facts and filled with outlandish claims. Most also…
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As 2016 washed by, so did everyone’s goals and resolutions they set out to accomplish over the year. Now people create new goals and have a new determined mindset as 2017 begins. This yearly repetition of making a promising New Year’s resolution, breaking it, and subsequently forgetting what you were hoping to achieve is…
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This year’s election has run its tumultuous course with Donald Trump taking the victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. A mixing pot of shock, surprise, fear, pride, and even utter confusion are dominating the minds of Americans. According to the Gallup Poll, 75% of Americans were surprised at the outcome, including 62%…
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Despite what Halloween costumes may lead you to believe, Native Americans are not uncivilized, Mexicans are not for your entertainment and women are not sex objects. Halloween costume companies will sexualize or stereotype anything in order to make it sell. Cultural appropriation and sexism have become unavoidably present in Halloween costumes, and it needs…
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As Americans, we’re proud of our legal system. The Fourteenth Amendment establishes “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” However, the law has fine print: if the bad guy is successful, it’s not their fault. On January 17th, 2015, Stanford…
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Before the three bullets pierced his chest and killed him, before he walked almost 400 kilometers and fasted for days, before he was the leader of the nonviolent protests against British imperialization in India, Mahatma Gandhi was a journalist. After more than forty years of working to express the voice of his fellow countrymen…
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As Americans we tend to view our founding fathers as the primary embodiment of our country’s ideals. But the United States we live in today was not made solely by the white men who have traditionally held prominence in this country. Rather, the United States has been molded by all those who have struggled…
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The United States prides itself on being a nation of acceptance, where people of different nationalities, backgrounds and religions can come together as one. However, this is a skewed perspective; since the 9/11 attacks, negative religious rhetoric has exponentially increased. These perceptions have sparked a new debate on whether to grant refuge to people…
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The decisions of school boards affect every student on every campus in every district of this state – from the appointment of administrators at their schools to the educational policies in their classrooms. Despite this fact, students do not have the right to vote for the representatives of these school boards. However, they want…
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Someone in the United States is sexually assaulted every two minutes. 44 percent of sexual assault victims are under 18, according to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Although this is a crime rarely heard about in Newbury Park, it is a serious offense that affects more high school students than most think. As…