By BRETT WILKISON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Behind the busy schedule that Anacari Anguiano keeps these days is a goal the 16-year-old Healdsburg High sophomore has had for as long as she can remember. The long days at school, including the full set of classes she’s taking this summer [...]
by Cassidy Jourdan As our generation continues to age, our perceptions of our surroundings change as well. One of the most obvious changes I’ve seen as we’ve grown together, is how often one might consider themselves having a bad day. I’d estimate about two or more friends of mine state [...]
There are dozens of them and one of me, and while I wanted to meet them and get to know them, there was the fact that there was no spoken language we shared.
By Hank Smith On April 14 of 2010, episode 201 of the Comedy Central show South Park aired for the first time with multiple bleeps and “CENSORED” blocks spread throughout the episode, and they weren’t part of the original episode. As it turns out, the TV network, Comedy Central, [...]
By SAVANNAH BERRY HEALDSBURG HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR, 17 The words “being a teacher would suck” are too frequent on the lips of students. Teachers may appear to be underpaid and overworked, but not every teacher shares this view. And, as everyone knows, when one truly loves his or [...]
By Elia Rodriquez It didn’t look like much. The gallery and surrounding furniture consisted of a brief and narrow hallway leading into a room with four placid, bare, blue-gray walls, the light sifting through the windows to highlight the dirty gray floor and the gigantic roll of brown paper lying [...]
By Graham Sarasy We are the distracted generation. My generation – from here onwards referred to as The Google Babies – is the first in history to have such unprecedented access to information (and by that I mean mostly garbage) in the form of the Internet. We – specifically those [...]
By Graham Sarasy It was only ten years ago that we all stood looking at the coming decade with glowing eyes and expectations, the future was so full of hope, and now the past is so full of pain. We can see now that the world is changing, the [...]
By Rebecca Friedemann Never forget Brett. Those are the three words printed on the orange basketball I have attached to my keychain. The problem is I never even knew Brett. He died back in 2004, before we were in high school, before we yearned for a license, before any of [...]
By Colin Deas For years, people have tried to predict how human society will change, how our technology will evolve, and how we as a species will reshape ourselves. These people range from science fiction writers to early-twentieth-century historians to experts in genetic economics, and some of them make predictions [...]