A picture of a group of friends holding some variation of deep fried food on a stick is posted to Instagram. The caption reads, “I went to the state fair and came home with diabetes.” A picture of a dessert is posted with the caption: “This brownie looks like diabetes.” Even a simple Google search

Students being forced to take a gym class? Crazy! The debate about if students should be forced to take a gym class or not has been going on for years. Should they be forced to or not? Obesity Rates Well in today’s society most people think that students should be forced to take a gym class

¨The pain of losing my baby feels like rabid dogs tearing away at me. I murdered my own child. Like knives stabbing at me. Every. Single. Day. I still haven’t been able to talk to my parents. I don’t know if I should apologize to them for getting pregnant and getting an abortion, or just

At the young age of 11, Antonio Alarcon made the tough, and illegal journey to America with his parents. Antonio’s parents knew how difficult the journey was, and because of this Antonio’s younger brother was forced to stay in Mexico with his grandparents. During the illegal border crossing they had very little water and food. After

Abortion… The hardest decision to make When my sister was seventeen and a senior in highschool, she became pregnant.  At the time she was in an unhealthy relationship with, as she explains,”An unmotivated, abusive piece of sh*t.” Initially my mom wanted her to get an abortion, especially because my mom felt the relationship she was in

Posted By: Sophie L. Featured Image: Pierre ARNOU / pexels   Every second of every day in the US, 1,500 plastic water bottles are consumed (according to an article by Petz Scholtus). That means that in the time you have read this, about 9,000 plastic water bottles have been consumed. Plastic water bottles are very convenient, especially

April 20th, 1999 was like any other Tuesday for the students of Columbine High School. Krista Hanley remembers that it was two days after junior prom and that her “fingernails were still painted a dark red to match the dress” she had worn. But that Tuesday turned out more catastrophic than anyone could have imagined.

We all know that kids aren’t the ones who sit and review movies for a living. Yes, I’m looking at you, the inspiration for the forever alone meme. No, it’s the adults who must drag their little kid to a theater because they wanted to see the movie about the bunny and the fox. The

Beloved president, Teddy Roosevelt once said, “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.” Since the white man first discovered the new world, Native Americans

Jordan Younger, a vegan, became very well known for her blog, The Balanced Blonde. She loved the popularity and felt great after choosing to become vegan. The diet seemed to work well for her. Her stomach felt lighter and she was losing weight as she had hoped. What she didn’t realize is that this newfound diet

 Post by RandC. Image By Thomas Hawk            The Republicans used to be the part of the little guy.  They ended slavery and were among the lead architects in engineering Theodore Roosevelt’s trust busting administration.  But then things started to go awry.  In the 1930s, the party was split in half between