About a month ago, I went to my car with a friend to grab my laptop and a sweatshirt. On the walk back from my car, I noticed that there were two administrators waiting at the door. As I got closer, they began lecturing me and other students trying toContinue Reading
As storms and tornadoes ravaged through Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina, residents were left without shelter, staring at what remained of their homes. More than 300 people were reported dead, making this one of the worst disasters since Hurricane Katrina and the 1974 Hurricane Carmen that killed 310 people.Continue Reading
Things going on in the world only come to my attention on Sundays when I watch Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN with my cup of tea and apple pie. However, it was my friend who had brought to my attention a certain statement that exists in the leadership application ofContinue Reading
Publicly funded television and radio programing has become a waste of money for our government. What with heading the conflict in Libya and the war we have in the Middle East we can not be wasting money on public programs.
The end of publicly funded television and radio programming could be devastating for Americans. Perhaps that sounds hyperbolic, but it is not. Programs like National Public Radio (NPR), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are not the entertainment-based, liberal subsidies that the conservatives in Congress pretend they are. In fact, they provide vital services to all Americans.
I moved from Illinois after my freshman year in high school. I thought that the school would be almost the exact same as Illinois, both socially and academically. Socially, it was, because high school is pretty much the same anywhere you go, but academically, boy was I mistaken. Never beforeContinue Reading
What does it mean to be human? This question has indirectly split our society in two. Every day in these halls is a slow one, not because of work stress but because we are made to feel inferior. Any teacher or administrator would dispute this but that is sheer denial.Continue Reading
There was a time in our society that referring to a black man of any age by the term “boy” was a perfectly acceptable practice. It was used as a way to show that black men were not equal to white men. This is certainly not the only term orContinue Reading
Due to the global economic downturn and governmental corruption, revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt have occurred. It is unlikely this trend will continue, however, because of the determination of the remaining regimes to stay in power in the Arab world. Furthermore the western world, specifically the United States, will use diplomatic pressure to maintain the governments of their allies.
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