My whole life I’ve wanted to live in the ‘70’s. Listening to my dad’s stories about the political protests, the music, the rebellion of it all, I can’t remember a time when that wasn’t all I thought about. And then I realized, I’m not the only one. Most people I know want to be part of another generation.
Why is it so difficult to get some decent food sold at San M a t e o High?
Certain schools today use a child’s gender as a tool for segregation. By determining one’s eligibility to attend the school, they are also determining the child’s future. Founders of an organization, American Council for CoEducational Shooling, have argued that by segregating a child from the opposite gender, they are not in fact improving their education but destroying their social skills.
Much like the iconic image of the Titanic capsizing in the Atlantic Ocean, the Costa Concordia cruise liner ran off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, on January 13, leaving 11 dead and 24 missing.
If you’ve been on the internet lately, chances are you’ve become at least somewhat aware of SOPA, a piece of legislation introduced by Texas Representative Lamar S. Smith aimed at stopping piracy on the internet. Proponents of the bill say it protects intellectual property while opponents claim it is an infringement on freedom of speech. The idea of censoring the internet in any way drives people crazy, especially when Wikipedia and Tumblr threaten to shut down in protest.
SOPA and PIPA. Don’t they sound like the names of two female characters from a ditzy, educational, kid’s TV show? If only they were, then this nation wouldn’t have been up in arms about these two bills: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) which were up for vote in Congress on January 24. These two bills became infamous as the general public decided to support them or protest against them.
Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears of War, Halo, Left for Dead, Medal of Honor, Homefront: all of these are first person shooter video games that have found extreme success since their release. These are full of violence, gore, and murder, so the question is, why are they so popular?
School weeks without Mondays? Sounds good, right? Wrong. According to a Washington Post survey, at least two hundred ninety two school districts out of all the fifteen thousand districts in the United States have changed their school week from five days to four. This statistic shows that the number of districts with shortened school weeks has more than doubled since the year 2009. Schools have been forced to cut the week down in order to accommodate for the gross lack of funding in public school districts.
In our lifetime, we will learn things by experience, others by books. However, books may not always give you the knowledge that will be most beneficial to you that actual experiences will. With the written word, we can see an actual scene and the experiences that a character describes, something extremely important to the reader. I love books, for they help me understand and realize important life lessons, but what I find to help me remember these lessons are actually experiencing them.
Today book burning, though still existing, takes another form: book banning. Today, book banning consists of individuals taking books out of libraries and classrooms, deeming them inappropriate for their children to read. We should not be robbing children of the chance to read great literature, and we should not be robbing them of the chance to learn from it either.
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