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Our school prides itself on having an incredible selection of extracurricular activities. We have incredible teachers and coaches who are dedicated and strive to make sure we achieve excellence in our chosen areas. If there is a sport you are interested in or an art form you want to explore, chances are we have…
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Looking around as you walk down the street on a fall day, the sights and sounds of the autumn are mingled, without fail, with the words “pumpkin spice”. The flavor has lost some of its unique autumn charm due to this overuse. The name seems to appear in every possible location and starts to…
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There are fifty-two cards in a deck, or, if you include jokers, fifty-four. I learned this lesson the hard way, through a game of “52 Card Pickup” initiated by my demonic older brother. While this was a rather unpleasant way to embed this lesson in my head, I haven’t forgotten it since, so you…
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Seeing a teenager off their phone is a rare sight. It’s safe to say that cell phones have changed dramatically since the first mobile phone was created, and this has sparked an equal change in the way many people live. No more sitting around the home phone, awaiting a call. Now, you can be…
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To the disgruntled students who wanted to take AP English or AP Spanish, you are not alone in your annoyance at this year’s changed schedule. Both of these classes were cancelled and are no longer offered, and students wishing to take either class were enrolled in IB English or IB Spanish in a schoolwide…
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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…