I have always identified with art and in doing so it has given me many roles in my life: I am the daughter who will draw and paint twenty Santas for your Montessori each December; I am the student who has their head constantly burrowed into a sketchbook; I am the neighbour who will get […]
“Now a lot of you won’t like this assignment…” My painting teacher started while introducing our project. “Because it’s spontaneous—it cannot be planned.” My heart sank —I am a deliberate person. I like to know exactly what I am doing before I do it. With an encouraging look around the room, she handed out a […]
Who wants to be immortal? That question could be asked at some point in the future in a parallel world. To get to this parallel world where you live on, however, you may have to kill yourslef. The Quantum Suicide theory explains how every time a decision is made, the world splits into two parallel […]
Michael K A Hat’s voice What’s so special about a hat? Does it really say something about you? Why spend so much money on it when it will get worn down, wet, and sweated in? A hat doesn’t feed me when I’m hungry, like my favorite dish on Thanksgiving. It doesn’t get me friends when […]
The ending to the classic Jon Steinbeck novel, Of Mice and Men, can be argued as both reinforcement to an important value and ruin to a perfectly good story. The book finishes with Lennie Small, a large, lovable, and slightly mental challenged character, getting shot in the head by his only friend in the world, […]
“Everyone’s journey is completely different,” Jeremy Piven once said. This has proven to be true multiple times. Not one person experiences something the same as another does because everyone goes through life differently. Each person battles their own unique battle in their own unique way. For example, in literature, each character undergoes different aspects of […]
Scripted dramas or even comedies are most often intended to have some central purpose behind the film. Yet with so many movies today, only a number stand out prominently which display important lessons about life, the country, and the world. One movie in particular that resonates is All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), based […]
Cloning.”Your gut reaction is, ‘Oh, mixing humans and animals, cloning, that’s all bad… ‘ the real reason it’s scary is that there’s enough vague language in it to leave it open for interpretation.”~Dr. Nathaniel Zoneraich, Valley Fertility SpecialistIt is quite ironic how true that is. My first reaction was the same –as expected. Cloning is […]
Who was Elizabeth I? This woman whose name has been scattered timelessly across our globe for hundreds of years since the day of her birth! Why is she still so important to us? What did she accomplish back in the days of darkness to make us so aware of herself and her time? And what […]
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him,” asserted Booker T. Washington in his famous aphorism concerning the peculiar institution of slavery. Although an abundance of his 19th century contemporaries marked this idea as a foolish and false declaration, Washington hosted a very credible theory. The bondage of African Americans in the […]
On March 6, 1921, people flocked to the theaters to see Hollywood’s new star in Metro Pictures’ silent film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Women of all ages were captivated by the man on the screen, a darker, exotic man who was far different than any other silent film stars. Rudolph Valentino soared to […]
On April 14th, 1865 a tragic event occurred in Washington D.C. The 16th President of the United States was shot and killed by a well- known stage actor, John Wilkes Booth, in the famous Ford’s theatre. This is not only a terrible loss for our country, but also a large threat to our humanity as […]
Characters in The Smurfs are use to symbolize groups of people that do not fit into society. Women characters specifically tend to be stereotyped. Women are constantly portrayed as housewives, protective of others, and they are always in need of male support. Although this is sometimes true, women are given more authority over men and […]
“Don’t have sex. Because you will get pregnant. And die.” These lines from the infamous movie Mean Girls show the humorous side of chastity education’s many problems. A well-rounded sex education curriculum gives students accurate information without censoring and does not cater to religious groups as chastity education often does. It also encourages critical thinking […]
“Four score and seven years ago…” the kids’ eyes begin to glaze over. After two minutes, few students are still listening, and those who are look like they’re about to fall asleep as they rest their chins upon their palms, eyelids flickering shut. How did these once-eager, happy-go-lucky, information-absorbing children suddenly, one by one, drop […]
Is everything a coincidence? Is change as simple as flipping a switch?The novel Jennifer Government starts off showing the title character investigating the murder of 14 teens at a Nike Store.Upon investigating, Jennifer finds that the liaison of Nike, John Nike is pulling the strings.He uses, murders, and manipulates people such as Hack Nike and […]
What is a Tsunami? A tsunami is a huge wave that creates by an earthquake and comes out the ocean and destroys anything in front of it. They come towards you from a speed of 500 mph. Tsunamis are like giant floods. The destruction is so bad in 2004 there were 250,000 dead. In a […]
As you grow up, the way you look and the way you carry yourself is very important. You are supposed to learn these things throughout your school career. By middle school, there is confusion on what you should and shouldn’t do. Now, most people our age will know right from wrong; but then there are […]
Comic Book Superheroes and the End of the Idyllic Era Olivia Richey America, a hero no longer: sad, lonely, and confused. The Vietnam War caused America to fall from its unwavering optimism into a state of knowing maturity. Once the young hot shot country going out to save the world, we grew up in an […]
I create art. Writing is an art form not recognized by other people. I began my journey into the ever-changing world of writing at a young age. Since then, it has been a valuable and important aspect in my life. But there was one instance that changed the way I thought of it all. I […]
Sitting in math class, starts out as a normal day, until blood splatters on my paper and on the right side of my face. I turn to find a gun pointed on my head and am being told to get on my stomach with my hands up. I look around and see a couple of […]
S. A.D. By: Moriah Wicker Did you know that the United States is the number one country in obesity, not just adult obesity, or teenage obesity but childhood obesity too? Our country’s diet is the worst by far, and truly appalling. We are the most powerful country, yet we’re the most unhealthy. This diet, you […]
What does someone expect out of a man these days? Should he be good with words? Does he need to be good looking? These both were expectations of men in Cyrano’s time period. In this tragic love story about two men who struggle to win over one woman’s heart, deciding to work together seemed like […]
You walk up to the kid that is tiny, He cant defend himselfso you take advantage of him and bully him, you take his lunch money and call him a loser, Ruined his self esteem. You see a sixteen year old girl walking down the street withher two year old son you call her names, […]
Muckraking is more of an art dedicated to informing the common folk of the more corrupt and overlooked side of our country. One of these is our wasteful destruction of the environment. The universal conscience of the higher parts of our society completely overlooks the utter chaos they leave in their wake of consumption. Their […]
St. Cyril of Jerusalem once professed, “The dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you, we go to the father of souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” Flannery O’Connor believed that pride, one of the seven cardinal sins of the Catholic faith, […]
Depression in the United States has reached rocketing numbers. It is the country with the highest depression rate. I cannot bear to see gloominess, especially when my own feelings are so felicitous. They can only be felicitous. Therefore, being a valid advocate because I am one of the few who has luckily received a Temporal […]
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia and an appeal to the essence of being”- Albert Camus. The novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a realistic fiction based novel about a young man coming of age and expressing a loss of innocence in his life. This young man, Tom Sawyer, is […]
In the course of this passage Macbeth settles his inner conflict between flimsy “goodness” and the evil that he yearns for by sacrificing his love for his wife.Macbeth’s inner conflict is not between “good” and “evil.”It is between love for his wife, the only reason Macbeth retains any semblance of goodness, and his desire for […]
With the sophistication of the production of films, America found itself introduced to a new medium of communication, and the films produced in the early 1900’s were for the most part favorably received by American audiences. From Charlie Chaplin’s comedic style in Shoulder Arms to the more dramatic approach of Michael Curtiz’s The Third Degree, […]
