By BRIANA LEPPANEN VALLEY OAKS INDEPENDENT STUDY SCHOOL, SENIOR, 17 For me, school has been mostly enjoyable. I was the quiet student who took the hand that she was dealt without complaining. But this all changed when a new teacher in the school treated the entire class disrespectfully. [...]
By ROBERT DIGITALE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT When Jose Soto Jr. was 14, he got up at 4 a.m. two days a week to take a four-hour bus ride across dry ranching country from his hometown to Guadalajara, Mexico. Those long days in travel and classes at a [...]
28,390. That’s the number of the nearly 30,000 children from the corrupt, east African countries of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, and South Sudan tha
As the United States is only just beginning to pull away from its military exploits, many politicians, particularly Republicans running in the primaries, are calling for military action in Iran
I hate bad endings. To anything. And by a bad ending I mean any ending that is sad, or heartbreaking, or depressing, or makes you cry tears, not of joy, but of despair and agony.
hen I was your age, there were only 150 Pokémon.” Such is the line that many of the adolescents of my generation will be able to say to our children, or really to any seven or eight-year-old boy or girl of the future who decides that the concep
There is a short segment at the end of Countdown with Keith Olbermann that encapsulates everything that is wrong with our country’s political atmosphere. The segment is The Worst Person in the World, and consists
Rage. Betrayal. Denial. A flurry of emotions pulsated through my body as I stared at the bottle sitting on the counter, tears streaming hot down my cheeks. It sat there mocking me
My family is small. So when a tragedy strikes one of us, its weight is magnified, sending rippling waves of trauma through our world.
I remember the first time I stepped into a rowing shell. The boat rocked precariously and the oar felt odd and heavy. Moving through the motions of each stroke