In this day and age, most teenagers are glued to their phones, but for 30 minutes on September 16, 2019, my classmates and I had a unique experience where we were connected with nature without being distracted by the buzzing of our phones. To be specific, we were passengers on The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment Glass-Bottom Boat Tour. The Glass-Bottom Boat Tour […]

Time travel is ethical because we can learn about the past, solve unsolved crimes, and visit lost loved ones. Time travel has shown that can be very helpful in most cases. Lacking knowledge about how the future will evolve given changes to the past is no different than lacking full knowledge about the future consequences. We have the knowledge of how the past turned out […]

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce gives an interesting, yet disturbing theme of illusion versus reality. This theme intrigues me more than the other short stories that I have read. The story has a simple plot of a man during the American Civil War about to be executed, but the shock end is what makes the work truly shine, not to mention […]

The definition of a fallacy is a false or mistaken idea based on faulty knowledge or reasoning. “Rhetorical fallacy is a type of fallacy that doesn’t allow ideas to be communicated through back and forth communication but rather distracts the reader with appeals instead of using sound reasoning”. There are several different kinds of fallacy used in everyday life. Ad hominem, begging the question, false […]

This is the class that had me most nervous because asides from my dance experience when I was a little kid, i have no dance experience. I swim and did a little track and volleyball in high school. I had seen hip-hop, jazz, ballroom and afro pop/beat dance but I had never heard of the butoh dance. I took this class as an elective hoping […]

As President of the United States, you are expected to carry out a multitude of jobs and duties. Presidents are not only expected to lead the country and its people to succeed but also motivate and encourage them along the way. There are many ways to do this, but the most effective strategy is by giving speeches. Speeches are used to make a connection and […]

What are our ‘Laws of Life’? They are what we live by, what we base our decisions on, and what we abide by. We follow these decisions based on what we believe is the right thing to do. My central law of life, is that I follow what my conscience tells me. A person’s conscience can be their strongest weapon when traversing the complicated and […]

It’s a good day, and you are walking to lunch when a classmate stops to tell you that he “forgot” to do his Laws of Life essay. He then pulls out his notebook and begins to do it. About midway through the page he gets frustrated and asks you to see you are essay. You know this is cheating, but he is your friend, and […]

Throughout history, humanity has developed various tools to achieve personal evolution and enlightenment to varying degrees of success. One such philosophy that has gained significant traction in popular discourse is the Law of Attraction, which posits that energies attract to like energies, theoretically making it possible to improve one’s life through thought. Unfortunately, the current scientific landscape is void of significant research regarding the law […]

Art is a form of expression that comes from an individual’s creation. Whether it’s to be the creator or the admirer, the person’s interpretation is a true reflection of their soul. In his novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro creates a world where the main characters are torn between being who they are as clones and finding who they are as individuals. Ishiguro uses […]