By Daniela Morales, 10th Grade Imagine you were visiting a well-known tourist attraction and suddenly your life was put at risk. This is exactly what happened to those who were at the Morbi bridge on October 30 in Morbi, Gujarat, India. When the bridge, which was reopened on October 26 after undergoing renovations, collapsed, it plunged visitors into a 45 ft drop to the Machchu … Continue reading The Morbi Bridge Disaster
By Ana Perez, 10th Grade In 2016, Twitch streamer Amouranth was asked by the company to join as a content creator. As of October 2022, she has 5.89 million subscribers and became popular due to her dancing, ASMR, and hot tub streaming content. A businesswoman, Aramounth owns a character company for children’s entertainment, a gas station, an inflatable pool company, and a company that matches … Continue reading The Situation With Amouranth and Domestic Violence
By Sydney Joa, 12th Grade Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, passed away this past Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. With 70 years on the throne, having celebrated her Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, she was the only British monarch most people have ever seen reign in their whole lives. Since assuming the crown in 1952, … Continue reading The Death of Queen Elizabeth II: What’s Next?
By Ana Perez, 9th Grade As one of the most isolated countries in the world, North Korea was relatively safe during the first wave of COVID in 2020, reporting zero cases. Now, the country is facing at least a million cases – an average of one case per 25 people. State media reported their first COVID-related death over the weekend. But North Korea is severely … Continue reading North Korea Caught COVID
By Ana Perez, 9th Grade Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision of the U.S Supreme Court made in 1973, where the Supreme Court ruled that the American Constitution protects pregnant women’s freedom to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restrictions. This decision struck down many federal and state abortion bans in various U.S states and fueled an ongoing debate on the legality … Continue reading The U.S. Supreme Court Will Likely Overturn Roe v. Wade
By Roque Rodriguez, 10th Grade President Abinader’s speech in the Asamblea Nacional has been considered the best speech made by him since he became president. On the 27 of February Abinader gave a speech regarding the very bleak situation happening internationally due to the war in Ukraine. The speech was surprisingly well structured, and its development was interesting. The president felt compelled to inject as … Continue reading A Recap of President Abinader’s February 27th Speech
By Sydney Joa, 11th Grade Ever since the appearance of the relatively new and highly-contagious Omicron variant, Covid-19 vaccine-makers have been fine-tuning the original vaccines to help fight the rapid spread of the virus. Despite the fact that those who have been vaccinated and boosted seem to be better protected against Omicron-related severe illnesses and hospitalization, the highly contagious variant has nonetheless resulted in a … Continue reading Trials for Pfizer’s Omicron-Specific Vaccine Have Begun
By Linnette Cruz, 11th Grade Affirmative action is known as the act of “positive discrimination”. It is a government policy that takes minority groups and gives them a small advantage in college admissions (meaning that their admission will not be based on merit alone) in the hope of mending the societal issues of racial bias, essentially creating a balance between white applicants and applicants of … Continue reading Supreme Court Will Hear Affirmative Action Challenge at Harvard and UNC
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