I will be doing my report on vocal nodules. Vocal nodules are callouses in the back of your throat. They can be caused by a number of things but overall it’s caused by vocal trauma. It causes the voice to sound rough and breathless. It constrains the pitches you can reach. Say if you could […]

You hear them every day. Everyone says them, even you. Students are downgraded for it; actors show hosts, and non-live performers have them edited out; live performers get bad reviews for it; politicians are called out on it; and public speakers criticize them. They are verbal pauses, speech errors, that infamous “um”s, “like”s, and “you […]

Bennie Salazar’s life is anything from ordinary. He grows up with a love for music, dreaming of one day becoming a successful rock star. Although the Flaming Dildos did not receive a platinum record, he successfully involved himself in the music business to continue working in a career that was both enjoyable and worthwhile. However, […]

Freedom of speech is a quintessential part of the high school experience, and the First Amendment should not be scaled back to fit the needs of a higher power; it should be used to protect the speech of all. Period. It serves as training for later life, teaching teens to be assertive with their beliefs. […]

The Consequence of Expectations “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else” (Yogi Berra). Expectations are strong beliefs that something will happen in the future and can provide a compass to guide one toward that vision. They can also be beliefs that someone can or should achieve something. On the […]

In the story, The Crossroads , by Megan, a boy has an encounter with Satan at a desolate bar and makes an intriguing deal with him. He agrees to only live 15 more years if Satan wakes his brother from a coma. The story teaches that even if people make bad choices and go down […]

Different languages drive distinctive thought processes and cognitive skills. Language is the form through which human beings communicate; this communication affects a person’s perception of the world. Influential researchers such as Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and Lera Boroditsky have studied this phenomenon and have even achieved quantitative results from lab research. Together Edward Sapir […]

In the United States the drinking age is twenty one, but that would surprise you if you have ever been around high schoolers in America. This is because even though the law prohibits it, most American teenagers ignore the law and drink anyway. It was found in a 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey that 33% […]

Fashion; the glue that holds style, popularity, and much more together. Most people don’t realize how important fashion is. Even boys need it. For example, do you think they would be playing video games if all the characters were dressed like clowns? Probably not. Or in movies, would Actresses look as beautiful as they are […]

When a novel is banned from society, the government is removing any kind of learning, whether it may be corrupt or not, to be obtained from this book.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a beloved novel that teaches the life of Americans on the Mississippi River in a truthful form; not many writers have the […]

Pittsburgh Public Transit is a Problem A man in the suburbs outside of Pittsburgh misses his bus and the days when he could catch one. He always used to be on time, but when the Port Authority pulled his bus stop, the nearest station to him became a mile and a half away. People like […]

Sylvia Plath wrote many amazing poems and stories, had a good family and seemed to have a normal happy life. Despite all of these things, on the inside she was fighting severe depression. From this depression she pulled most of her creativity for her writing, her stories being mostly about the hardships of life and […]

The time of year everyone has been waiting for is now here, with the traditions that you hold so dear and near to your hearts.. Are they not harmless traditions passed on through family from generation to generation? The answer is no, Those whom believe in the Bible should not celebrate Christmas and Easter because […]

“The Jacket” is about a girl who wanted a new jacket. So her mother got her one but she didn’t like it. She said it was too ugly, and she described it as a “guacamole” colored jacket. She said she was ugly in the jacket. She is obviously struggling with her self appearance. She wore […]

As I ride my bicycle past another corn field I explore my surroundings, wondering how I have waited so long to have this sublime experience. To my right is a water buffalo resting and bathing in a muddy puddle; this once foreign scene is now just an everyday occurrence since my arrival in China. As […]

Every year in October, we celebrate Christopher Columbus day. It’s the day where America was first discovered in October 12, 1492. We celebrate this day because it gives us the time to look back on what it took to get to where we are. We’re lucky to be in the United States today, to get […]

(Attention) By the looks of it most of you are planning on going to college. Why else would you be taking this class. Well, no matter where you go there are always going to be issues you have to face, whether it’s lack of studying, roommate disagreements, or stress. Those are important things to figure […]

Do on to others as you would want done to you. Chapter 1: Words Kill. Bullying is a horrible thing to do. Not only is it rude but it is also life changing. People need to realize that words hurt. Weather you like to believe ” sticks and stones may break my bones ,but words […]

Robots flying around delivering packages and taking pictures of everything their digital eyes can record, sounds like some sort science fiction right? No, the year is 2015. Since as early as the mid 1800’s drones have been used for military purposes, where unmanned air balloons filled with explosives to attack cities. The unmanned vehicle or […]

What is natural phenomenon? Natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made.There are several natural phenomenon in our world. Some of them are very awesomeand some of them are very deadly and horrendous. Examples of the awesome natural phenomenon are aurora borealis also known as the northern lights and bioluminescence. Hurricanes,earthquakes and tornadoes […]

O’Connor, Today is the ninth day i haven’t been able to write you and complain about my feelings and lack of friends. I’ve decided to embrace the fact that your must be confused or even concerned about what happened to me after i told you that i was suicidal and didn’t come to school the […]

For most twenty-first century teenagers, Texas in the mid-1900’s was simply a barren land peppered with cowboys and rodeos. Perhaps a few would take the time to include a few slaves and cotton plantations into their interpretations of the state’s rich history. However, this rather myopic preconception of the Lone Star State leaves little room […]

“William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America’s greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it” William Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. He is considered to be one of the […]

Although I believe that Rockefeller is a wealthy and fascinating individual; I also think that the way to his success was along with some ugliness in their personalities as every celebrity does. Rockefeller was a philanthropist. He expressed the ideology created by Carnegie, the Gospel of Wealth. This idea exemplifies that capitalism rewards the upper […]

Born on December 27, 1571 in Weil, Germany, Johannes Kepler was a weak, sickly child. His parents frequently quarreled, and most unfortunately, Johannes’s father deserted the family when Johannes was still young. Now, Kepler’s family was unimaginably poor, occasionally touching the border of bankruptcy. Sadly, this contradicted the young boy’s ambition to become a Protestant […]

This is about Napoleon. He was a brilliant man and a very successful military leader. He was short, standing at 5 feet 6? inches tall, average height at the time. In his early years he was quite lean and only after 1806 did he become heavy. In his younger years he was often described as […]

Did you know that during WWII Americans put tons of citizens of Japanese ancestry in concentration camps? This is very true and it happened in 1942. Japanese Internment Camps were not justified because, the Government was imprisoning tons of Japanese humans in America, who had all the constitutional rights, without “concrete evidence”, they were making […]

From O’Henry’s short about a safecracker to his short about two friends meeting up after 20 years, O’Henry has written some of the best short stories I have ever read. O’Henry started writing short stories in 1896 right before he went to prison. In many of O’Henry’s shorts, he breaks the laws of grammar to […]

The Tragedy of Hamlet is a romantic play written by William Shakespeare that focuses on the complications arising from love, death, betrayal, and perceptual ambiguity. Hamlet brilliantly depicts the struggles of departure from conventional revenge and indecisiveness upon actions of the characters. In addition, their desires for romantic and reputational success amongst the Danish court […]

My parents and I were captured one night in front of the television, entranced… the show was paid programming courtesy of the state of Texas. We did not switch channels, we barely moved, and if we spoke it was about the thing that captivated us… Music! Chris Botti, an American instrumentalist, had played a concert […]