It’s a rite of passage for every teenager to see their favorite artist live and in concert, a rite that, as the years goes on, costs more and more to realize. Why do ticket prices rise? Blame yourself. Less than 50 years ago, a concert ticket could go for ten dollars, a price that, taking…
Year: 2018
The Flaws of Group Projects
The objective of a schooling system is to educate its students in a variety of different subjects, the most obvious being math, science, history, and English. However, children are also sent to school to learn how to communicate and work well with others, skills necessary throughout all stages of life. It would seem that group…
Parkland Massacre Part II: What To Do Now
Our government cannot respond to the climbing death toll and irreversible loss engineered by mass shootings by honoring victims and failing to act. This is not a time for passivity, but one that demands action. In December of 2012, twenty children and six adults were killed in Newtown Connecticut at the Sandy Hook Elementary School….
Roger Bannister: Running Legend
3:59.4 Each stride down the straight-away was one step closer to making history. As Roger Bannister sprinted down the final stretch of the Iffley Road Track on a May afternoon in 1954, the crowd roared with excitement. They were witnessing one of the greatest moments in the history of athletics. Roger Bannister was born in…
Some Thoughts on the Strangest Movie Ever
If you haven’t seen the new film, The Shape of Water, I suggest that you do, but not for the reason that you think. I don’t know if I have ever seen as strange a movie as this one, and that’s saying a lot coming from me. So what really gets me is the fact…
The Black Panther Movie – A Historical Milestone
Many people not a part of the black community wonder why Marvel’s Black Panther movie has been receiving so much attention. What is not seen and understood is that the release of this movie is a historical event. Now you may ask, ‘why is this movie so special?’ ‘There are other ‘black movies’ in Hollywood,…
Parkland Massacre Part I: Quotes From Survivors and Their Families
Students marched at the Capitol on February 21, 2018, Photograph of the Nation, J. Scott Applewhite Time, Jennifer Calfas Quotes from School Shooting Survivors and their Families “What these politicians that are in Congress are trying to do is make us forget. They are hoping that we move on with our lives. They continue…
Red Gerard: Exposed
“What the f***? Hoooly sh*t!” The profound reaction of Red Gerard on live television, upon winning Gold in slopestyle snowboarding on Saturday night, intrigued me to find out more about the seventeen year old. For those readers who were unaware, the 2018 Winter Olympics began this past Thursday night in Pyeongchang, South Korea. America picked…
Marblehead Needs to Shovel
In Marblehead, a town where 8,144 households have at least one person under age eighteen, it is inevitable that there will be hundreds of children walking to and from school each day. In addition, the lack of school buses increase this number. Walking to school is great exercise, and often gives children a great way…