“My daddy a gangsta.” With his 5-year-old daughter’s opening statement, Quincy Hanley, a.k.a Schoolboy Q, launches into the first song of his third studio album, Oxymoron, appropriately titled “Gangsta.”...
In 1892, an American socialist by the name of Francis Bellamy wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance. However, it was not written in an attempt to inspire nationalism by cold, tired soldiers striving...
As South students plan and organize their future academic goals, according to an Oracle-conducted survey, 47 percent of 202 South students said that they plan to pursue a certain field because of money.
The...
Dani Tuchman, asst. opinions editor March 14, 2014
I was exceedingly uninformed and unprepared as to what being anything but a meat-eater entailed prior to starting my two week-long vegan experiment. Veganism, otherwise known as abstaining from the consumption...
Let me give you a general overview of my face: my eyes happen to be on the smaller side, my jawline more sharp, and while my nose bridge isn’t incredibly low, it’s definitely not high. I admit that...
Every weekday morning yields the same routine for me: I shower, put on music, apply makeup and get dressed. I rarely deviate from this cycle, even if it means being a couple minutes late to first period....
I remember it like it was yesterday. I nervously crane my neck to try and see what the driving instructor is scribbling on a clipboard. After an agonizing two minutes, I hear what I’ve been waiting to...
As I’ve gotten older, it seems that my childhood idols have been falling slowly to mental health issues. Ke$ha recently sought treatment for an eating disorder, Demi Lovato was treated for binge/purge...
It’s a beautiful sight: the green checks lined up next to each other on the online Common App form, all of your supplements turned in and the most stressful part of high school just about over.
Hopefully,...
He Said - Important-simply politeness, by Aaron Ach
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, some are considering what they can do to give their better half especially romantic treatment, which usually means...
I used to be very judgmental. I was never purposefully mean; rather, my judgment came from an innate sense of perfectionism that negatively affected how I viewed myself and others. Then I developed General...
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