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Category: Current Issues
Obesity Rates Soaring Because Of New Requirements
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 toContinue reading
The Reality of Abortion
¨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 toContinue reading
Social Media: the facts
Luke Brynley-Jones writes in her blog, Our Social Times, how Applebee’s should not have handled a social media crisis. In the post, she explains how a pastor ate with a group at the restaurant, and when the bill cameContinue reading
Should They Stay or Should They Go?
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 forcedContinue reading
6 Ways Society Continues to Body Shame Girls, and What We Can do to Stop it.
Madelyn Sheaffer decided to visit the Adventure Oasis Water Park after losing 100 pounds. She felt confident and decided to wear a new bikini. She was in the water playing with her son and nephew whenContinue reading
A Simple Knee Erupts an Earthquake of Emotion and Controversy: and the military is caught in the crossfire.
The National Anthem Debate One of the biggest, most controversial topics in professional sports today: The National Anthem debate. In the NFL or “National Football League” , one player by the name of Colin Kaepernick,Continue reading
Why Are You Still Stereotyping Pro-Choice?
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 pieceContinue reading
The Brown Elephant in the Room
My three year old cousin loves nothing more than her dolls. So when she decided to name one of them after me, it was a pretty big deal. The kind of big deal that isContinue reading
Is the Convenience of Plastic Water Bottles Worth It?
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 inContinue reading
Why I’m Scared and How the Government Could Help Me
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 darkContinue reading
Carpets and Drapes: The Stigma of Female Body Hair and How it is Dangerous
Ray Stilles found Jessica Olmstead to be quite charming for something that one might find odd. In an article by The Huffington post, Ray says “The first time I saw Jessa, I was amazed thatContinue reading
2016: The Year When Disney Makes a Movie on Racism
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 dragContinue reading
People Over Pipelines
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 toContinue reading
Let the Gays Eat Cake
In July of 2016, ISIS threw a man, they assumed to be gay, off of a building. Afterwards, they continued to throw stones at his corpse. Like many countries in the Middle East, the IslamicContinue reading
Things You Need to Consider Before Making the Switch to Vegetarianism
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 stomachContinue reading
The Republican Party is Wrong
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’sContinue reading
Make the Right Choice: Choose Trump
If you look at the presidential nominees you can see two of the most uncongenial, despised people to ever run for office. You can see two people that are unfit, unfair andContinue reading
The Famous Aren’t Always Fortunate: Why Fame Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Posted by Dylan C. Feature Image by Charlie Llewellin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Mingle Media TV In February of 2011, Jill Serjeant of Billboard Magazine published one of the most important, thought-provoking pieces ofContinue reading