Many Teens Today Struggle with Academic Performance
Jenna Whitt, Staff Writer
March 11, 2020
Teens today struggle with poor academic performance, fatigue, headaches, depression etc. Going into a high school class teacher are dropping 2 or 3 textbooks near their desk or hitting desks with yard sticks to attempt to wake students up. This should not be happening in the year of 2020. School systems...
Social Media, Helpful or Harmful?
Jenna Whitt, Staff Writer
February 18, 2020
“Social media has been proven to be just as addictive as alcohol or some narcotics, considering there is a similar loss off matter in the areas of the brain that control attention, emotions, and decision making. This manufactures a greater want for the stimulation of likes, comments and messages. Al...
EXAM SEASON
Tamar Greenhill, Staff writer
May 14, 2019
A little stress around exam time can be a good thing (if you’re a positive person), as it motivates you to put in the work. But sometimes stress levels can get way out of hand, predominantly at the end of the school year. Having to think about exams causes us to worry more, experience skyrocket anxi...
Malaria Vaccine for the Win?
Tamar Greenhill, Staff writer
May 3, 2019
Malaria is a serious, life-threatening, and sometimes fatal, disease spread by mosquitoes and caused by a parasite; the way that the “malaria cycle” works is: a parasite is carried to its life cycle area in your body, since a parasite has multiple subspecies you begin to feel multiple vile symptoms ...
Don’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover
Tamar Greenhill, Staff writer
March 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/canewv/status/1104060288649912320?s=21 As I was scrolling through my Twitter this morning, a Twitter thread had caught my eye. A girl by the name of Cassie talked about her trip to Planned Parenthood: a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care for Women and Men ...
