Ever since I was little, I have struggled with socialization. I have always been afraid of being judged based on what I say and to this day spend hours thinking on how the things I say make me appear to...
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston, I was immersed in the history and culture of the northeast United States at a young age. I remember being in elementary school and learning about Thanksgiving and...
Try to wrack your mind of memories and imagine yourself as a 10-year-old again. Now you’re probably imagining yourself with your friends playing video games or watching YouTube videos, but what happened...
Who are the first people you go to on bad days or good days? Who shares your struggles, your triumphs and your losses? No, it’s not your friends—think even simpler than that. Yes, this omniscient figure...
On Oct. 3, the United States bombed a trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 12 doctors from the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders and 10 patients, while 33 remain missing. On Oct. 6,...
I am responding to the article you wrote in the HiLite school magazine. I started my police career in 1984 as an Indiana State Trooper assigned to Hamilton County. I left the State Police in 1990 when...
In my IB History of the Americas class, many discussions include a conservative denouncing liberal views or vise versa. Ironically, in the same classroom, we learned about the first president of the United...
Almost a year ago I was on the sidelines of a CHS varsity football game with my DSLR camera in hand. Halftime had just ended and the game was starting to pick up again with the Greyhounds just ahead. No...
Radicals. Exponents. X. Y. Equation. Simplify. These phrases were going through my mind as I tried to stay awake in Algebra II. Granted, I had only slept three hours the previous night. I finally woke...
Just this past month, Taylor Swift released her music video for her song “Wildest Dreams.” Throughout the video, the viewer is exposed to an African landscape and African animals, but, ironically,...
When I hear that another African-American teen has been killed by the hands of law enforcement, my stomach churns. One of the biggest issues in the country today is racial equality, and I’m tired of...