Valentine’s Day is the day of love, when lovers shower each other with affection in the forms of cheesy confessions and gifts, most notably red roses and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. However, Valentine’s Day wasn’t always like that, and it has come a long way to become the holiday that we celebrate today. …
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Bleak Outlook for Trump in Border Wall Concession
After a record-breaking 35 days, the longest shutdown in government history is over…for three weeks. The recent short-term spending bill signed by President Trump on January 25, though only a temporary funding measure, came largely as a result of pressure over the inability for federal employees to work – or, in…
Thousand Oaks Shooting
Throughout the past several years, there has been an increase in mass shootings in the United States. These shootings have been extremely distressing and traumatizing to many across the country. From the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to the Orlando nightclub shooting, the people of the world’s hearts have been shattered, and…
High School Cheating Culture
High school cheating culture reveals the prioritization of grades and college acceptances over the maintenance of the students’ sense of dignity. This is a result of numerous heavy and injurious exterior pressures. Because of these pressures, the students cannot help but resort to different ways to raise or keep their grades, making it so that…
The Undeniable Power of Social Media
By now, you must have heard about the egg being the most liked photo on Instagram, surpassing the previous world record of 18 million likes on Kylie Jenner’s post. On the 4th of January 2019, a picture of an egg was posted on Instagram claiming the goal of breaking the world record of most-liked…
Student’s Take on The Lorax Project
Climate Change is real, Global Warming is here, and yet the world stays silent. In the past century alone, carbon dioxide emissions have increased on a far greater level than predicted. Carbon Dioxide emissions are growing exponentially with increasing reliance on fossil fuels, consequential obliteration of forests, and irreversible consumption of natural resources. Just last…
The Indigenous People’s March and the Controversy Around It
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the Lincoln Memorial steps to an audience of a quarter million people. Sadly, on January 18, 2019, an event spurred the opposite of what his speech was about: a fight between ethnicity and religion broke out….
Celebrating Korean American Day
As of 2010, California has held the largest Korean population in the United States. This serves great importance to Korean Americans who are currently residing in California, and it is just as important to share the history behind this movement. According to Boston University, Korean American Day is celebrated on January 13,…
Causes and Outcomes of the UTLA/LAUSD Strike
The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest district in the nation. It serves about 600,000 students from kindergarten to high school. And, although the national class size average is 26-28 students per classroom, the overflow of students in LAUSD has led to classes averaging from 36-46 students. So, on…
More Females Dominating Politics in 2020
The presidential election of 2020 is less than two years away and members of the Democratic Party have already announced their candidacy. After President Trump won the presidential election in November 2016, many members of the Democratic Party have vowed to defeat him in the 2020 presidential election. Some of the Democrats who…