“Over 20% of our world’s population don’t have access to a vital resource that is necessary for human life,” stated by professor John Ahart at Hart High School. Each year 10 million people die because from not having this vital resource for consumption and other uses. Nearly all 10 million of those deaths occur in…
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Taking Action to Help Students
Currently in the process of being built, a wellness room is opening up for students at Academy of the Canyons, or AOC. The students in AOC do not get to experience a normal high school experience like other students do. From freshman to senior year, the students are required to take multiple college classes such…
Editor’s Column: Diversity in the 21st Century
As a society, we have strived long and hard to reach the goal of attaining diversity – or is it only on the surface? Dove has been one of the first companies to step up to address the societal problems regarding diversity and acceptance through their Real Beauty Campaign, which was launched in 2004. The…
Dia De Los Muertos
While the US is busy preparing to have the spookiest Halloween celebration, their neighboring country, Mexico is working extremely hard to have the brightest yet most exotic Halloween-like and traditional celebration for themselves. Term El Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), this Mexican festival, as a memorial for the dead, is celebrated…
Coastal Cleanup Day
Earlier this month, Heal the Bay hosted their annual coastal cleanup which is the largest volunteer project to protect the ocean. During this event, volunteers gathered in 61 different sites along the coast of California to pick up toxic waste. A total of 9,600 volunteers showed up to beaches, creeks, and rivers to collect trash…
Rising Star in Hollywood; Marketable R-rated Films
Recently in the Hollywood movie industry, R-rated movies are very famous and leading the new trend of the movie industry. Starting from last year’s movie “Deadpool”, which was one of the first hero movies that premiered as an R-rated film. Coming in as one of the top 10 movies in the box office last year,…
Opinion: Baseball is the Best Sport
There are many different opinions about which sport is the best, but for me, baseball is the best. Ever since I was a child, I watched baseball. Every time there was a game, I would sit on my living room couch with my family and watch the game on television. It would be a…
Editor’s Column The Busan Bullying Incident Raises Greater Concerns
This article contains graphic images “She was covered in blood and was lying on the floor, with a hat covering her face…” These were the words that a witness used to describe the horrific bullying incident in Busan of South Korea which caused global outrage after the victim’s story was posted online. A group of…
Gun Violence and the Need for Stricter Policy
Blasting music filled the air. People were enjoying their time. And another tragedy occurred. October 1st, 2017. A gunman, safely and slyly nested in his hotel room, fired a deadly volley of metal Reapers into an unassuming crowd at a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to New York Times, Stephen Paddock, with…
The Doormat Pizza: Inner Workings of Employees Contribute to Success
While he spreads his hands over the daisy white pizza dough, the flour evaporates into the thick air of cheese. Sam shifts and swings across the floor while holding the dough on his hand, matching his moves to the rhythm of the dulcet song. Like Sam, workers at Koronet Pizza relish their job of creating…