Our always changing lifestyles are impacted by hundreds of factors, with one of the major ones being films and movies. Flesh craving ghouls overwhelm everyone in “Night of the Living Dead“, which reveals the ideaContinue reading
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
Should Rules be Stricter For Athletes Who Get Caught Using Steroids?
Alex Rodriquez had been getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons. The article from Biography tells us about Rodriquez’s suspensions due to the use of steroids. The Major League Baseball player hasContinue reading
Salads or Sprints: If You Had to Choose, Is It Better to Eat Healthy or Exercise?
Everyone has a different way of “Staying Healthy” In 2013, Peach Friedman, a senior at California College of the Arts almost got diagnosed with Exercise Bulimia. She thought of nothing but exercise, and eating under 800 caloriesContinue reading
Is your phone really slowly KILLING you?
The use of technology has risen EXTREMELY since the first time they came out in the early 1980’s. Now having these devices for over a decade and at your very own fingertips with a small touchContinue reading
Why Animal Testing is Abuse
How would you feel? Imagine humans having to be stuck inside a small contraption with a feeding tube down their throat. Getting forced to drink bleach, while you were squirming, fighting the pain. After thisContinue 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
GMOs: Fact or Fiction?
Image from Pexels About 85 percent of corn in the U.S. is genetically modified. Soy is the most heavily genetically modified food in America. Genetically modified squash and zucchini can be found in twoContinue reading
See How One Singer’s Charm Was Changed With Just One Word.
Umji, is an 18 year old girl in a Korean girl group called Gfriend. She was recently called out for being too ugly or unattractive to become a kpop celebrity. There were many articles and commentsContinue reading
Easy to Gain Hard to Lose
One of the heaviest people in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch who was born in 1941 and died in 1983. Minnoch had suffered from obesity since he was a kid. He was 6 feet and 1 inchContinue reading
People Who Swear May Be Smarter Than You Think
A scientific study suggests intelligent people swear more. Basically, this means that people who swear don’t use swear words due to a lack of other words with which to express themselves, but because they want to use swearContinue 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
Losing a Legend
At some point in everyone’s life, they will have an encounter with a celebrity. Whether by bumping into them on the street or seeing them in concert, it’s inevitable. I can now say I recentlyContinue 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
Fact or Factitious: Five Conjectures on Serial Killers
Death by strangulation, mutilated corpses, decapitated their heads, and gruesome necrophilia. Ted Bundy, an infamous killer, had a very charming, articulate, and an intelligent personality described by many. These traits made it very easy to get close toContinue reading
What No One Ever Told You About Allergenic People
Many people have allergies, but how many have had the reaction? Charlotte had a reaction in 2011 to curry. She had “started to cough and wheeze quite dramatically.” But she had such a badContinue 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
Change Your Life By Being Positive!
Dennis Kimetto became the marathon world record-holder in 2014, running a time of 2:02:57 in Berlin according to the International Association of Athletics Federations. His ability to run at a fast pace was reliant on not only his training,Continue reading
Could A Good God Really Exist in a World of Evil?
Believers in God or a Godly figure of any religion principally believe God is both omnipotent and benevolent. Thus He sees all and only believes in good, but how could this be when an abundanceContinue reading
7 Reasons to Reconsider Your Dog-Free Household
When was the last time you could count on someone the way you can with a dog? Who else can you count on to make you constantly laugh, to bless your day with cuteness, orContinue reading
They Didn’t Choose The Gay Lifestyle, It Chose Them
It was Saturday Latin hip hop themed night at the Pulse club in Orlando, Florida and the atmosphere was bright as members of the LGBT community danced in “social solidarity.” This was until the funContinue reading
The Flaws in Our Society: Body Image and Media
Marilyn Monroe is known as one of the sexiest women to ever have lived. She was 5ft 5.5in and weighed around 140 lbs. Monroe is idolized by many women to this day. Although Marilyn wasContinue reading
Greatest place on Earth… Or Worst Place to Work
One woman feels Disney violated her rights, Imane Boudla filed a lawsuit against Disney for federal discrimination. Imane wasn’t given the job she wanted at disney due to her religious headscarf. Disney did offer herContinue reading
Don’t Be Fooled by the Flicks
Chick flicks, rom-coms, romances, all terms for the movies that fool the minds of young women in a matter of two hours. These movies not only convey false expectations for falling in love but false expectationsContinue reading
Athletes or Fans? Who is Really Driving the Multi-Million Dollar Express
Robin Ficker, a superfan for the Bullets professional basketball team, had season tickets for twelve years. His seats were located directly behind the visiting team’s bench. His mission was to get underneath the other team’sContinue reading
The Death of One Way Thinking: Do books change the way teenagers think
If a book is well written, it can change the way you think. Whether it’s your view on life in general or just a singular topic. For example, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak isContinue reading
Martin Shkreli Dindu Nuffin
Post by SamB. Featured Image by NEPA Scene Most people who know who Martin Shkreli is also hate him. He gained national criticism when he raised the price of life saving drug Daraprim from $13.50Continue 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
Solutions to Underage Drinking: Simpler than you think
Drinking alcohol, the world’s pass time. Anywhere in the world , alcohol is being consumed by men and women alike. It’s so popular it has trickled down to young ages who probably should know better.Continue reading
Trying to Understand an Elephant when You’re a Mouse
Post by MelainaA, Featured image by pixabay In the movie, Fluke, a father dies in a car crash, and wakes up as a golden retriever puppy who has flashes of memories from his humanContinue reading
The Pink Tax: Why being a woman is more expensive
Featured image courtesy of Ken Teegardin Women can only be mothers, caretakers, or homemakers. They are incapable of any type of physical labor, such as serving our country or even having a job. They areContinue reading
Working Out Working Out: What workout is right for you?
For softball we have morning workouts that start at 6:00am and go until 6:45am. One day we had a grueling morning workout with one of our coaches who is notorious for making exercises as hardContinue reading
What you need to know about arts in your school
Photo by Adrianna Calvo In 2003, Rogers High School in Minnesota completed a major construction project. The renovation included many new classrooms and a new two story building. A running track was added on theContinue reading