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Technology in this day and age affects all aspects of our lives, and recently, our educational system has been making the digital transition as well. This has its advantages, but its consequences could weigh out the conveniences. In a survey conducted on teachers by Pew Internet Project, nearly 90 percent …

Over the years, childhood obesity has been an epidemic of growing concern. According to the CDC, the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents (ages 2-19) was 18.5%, affecting approximately 13.7 million individuals in the US.  Many programs hope to combat the rise of obesity in America, including Kurbo, a …

 Vape brands market their products as game-changers: a solution to cigarette addiction crafted by the very people who made the problem. When they first came out, vapes gave hope to millions of cigarette users who could not break their habit. However, as vaping becomes more widespread, statistics are showing vaping …

Currently, federal law allows the block of sales and confiscation of firearms from people who have been “convicted of certain crimes, adjudicated as mentally ill or involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, or who are subject to a final domestic violence restraining order” (Everytown Research). However, a person who presents …

As a young Angie Serrano walked onto the stage at Theatre at the Mount for her West Side Story audition, she was met with chatter and what appeared to be disrespect from the drama teacher at the time, Doug Smith. “Doug Smith was in the very back of the theatre …

Flames ate away at the heart of France, black smoke curling into the sky on April 15th, and the world jumped into action. Money flowed like water, quenching the flames with capital instead. In the wake of the Notre Dame fire, people have donated over a billion dollars in order …

Reddit has conspiracy theories, Instagram has food blogs, and Facebook has moms. But Twitter isn’t as clear who it’s targeted audience is for. Twitter rises as a haven for young, sleep-deprived, white guys who appear to catapult Twitter higher than other social media outlets.   Every month, an anonymous group …

On April 17th, the Republican governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin held a round-table discussion on education in Lexington, Kentucky with US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos helping to lead the discussion alongside him. The roundtable was to be focused on the discussion of freedom scholarships, a proposal by DeVos  where privately …

Hóla! Soy Dora- as a teenager, and not as a child, like how I was portrayed on Nickelodeon broadcasting for decades!

“Humane job-training centers”-the label China gives to its Muslim internment camps, according to the New York Times. These camps are supposedly intended to educate Chinese Muslim residents and contain terrorism; Chinese government even goes as far as to classify prisoners as “students”. According to The Guardian, when the United Nations …