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E-books: Eco-friendly approach to reading

By ZAC COOPER PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOL, 15, SOPHOMORE That special touch or feel we get from reading a traditional book cannot be replaced. The feeling of accomplishment every time the page is flipped is amazing. But gone should be the days when humans don’t care about the Earth. [...]

By | November 11th, 2012|0 Comments

Seeking equality in college admissions

By KT BUCKLER SONOMA ACADEMY, JUNIOR, 16 In a little over a year’s time, I will be nervously awaiting college acceptance letters. I have a 4.3 GPA, am bilingual and participate in numerous extracurricular activities. These sound like the kind of things colleges are looking for, right? Not [...]

By | November 11th, 2012|0 Comments

Lucy Slavin, 17

Views on Feminism The first time I saw Gilda Radner was the day her “best-of” DVD arrived in the mail and my mother sat me down to watch one of her childhood heroes on Saturday Night Live. I latched on to the vigor and passion that spurted out of her [...]

By | November 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Simone Akelman, 17

Lack of Appreciation Michael Jackson passed away on June 25, 2009.  Congress held a moment of silence on June 26, 2009 to recognize the singer’s unprecedented talent and his humanitarian efforts. Meanwhile, the number of casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq are amounting to numbers in the thousands.  And the numbers [...]

By | November 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Gabriella Fleischman, 17

Defining Diabetes I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in April of 2009. I stayed up that night for hours crying, clutching the bed sheets into my tearstained face, knowing that somehow my life was different; I would depend on something more than the standard necessities of life to keep [...]

By | November 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Ashley Moffett, 17

A Passion To Run Running is an individual sport; a runner may be a member of a team, but in the end, the result of the race depends solely on one person: you. Regardless of the speed or strength of your body, without mental stamina, your endurance, performance, and potential [...]

By | November 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Paco Villegas, 16

A Loving Companion     To me he is a friend, a loyal companion that never leaves my side, a lovable pooch that forgives without remorse, and a gullible pup that chases after every stick, but to society he is a criminal, an awful animal with a bad reputation, a cruel [...]

By | November 6th, 2012|0 Comments

Teen Face: Paulina Cradeur

By PAUL PAYNE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT It is the rare teen who does not dread doing homework. But in Paulina Cradeur’s case, the hours spent hitting the books every night are a prelude to a career in the sciences. The Analy High School junior hopes someday to parlay [...]

By | November 5th, 2012|0 Comments

Teen Face: Holley Maassen of Piner High

By DEREK MOORE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Holley Maassen’s dream is to become a forensic pathologist and unravel the mysteries of how a person died. It’s an interesting goal, given that the 17-year-old Piner High School senior describes herself as a sunny person who enjoys nothing more than being [...]

By | October 22nd, 2012|0 Comments

Karinne Defanti, 17

A Dose of Reality Growing up, I was always told to appreciate life; I was always told to never take anything for granted; I was always told to remember that things could be worse.  These cliché phrases swirled around me my entire childhood, yet it wasn’t until I was fifteen [...]

By | October 19th, 2012|0 Comments