A good student can mean a variety of things. It can mean being involved in school activities, getting good grades, or just trying hard. A good student is basically undefined, and is what is made of it. Everybody wants to do better than they’re doing, but they don’t actually do it. Not necessarilly because they can’t, but [...]
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Adult decisions give you adult consequences. I decided to interview two students to show what it’s like when you do things that you’re not able to get out of. These two students have been in juvenile detention. Realize that the way you live your life today is not a right. Many young people think that they [...]
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A mechanic can be given all of the tools he needs to fix a car, but without the knowledge of how to use them, they are useless. Bill Proctor has a similar belief when it comes to his members in Brother to Brother (B2B). B2B is a male mentoring program, mainly for minorities, that teaches [...]
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Standing up for what you believe in can be a way of giving back to your society. For students Beyond War coming together against war is their way to strengthen our society. For senior Sean Bremhorst who has been a member for 2 years, the thought of organized violence is wrong. everyone in the group has [...]
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Walking through the halls of Hoover distracted by our schedule we find on the sides the people who take part of this school. Those are the janitors. Naming one, Kelly McCann, that has been a janitor for 15 years. “I’ve worked at Hoover for nine years, I did work as a janitor at another school [...]
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I shuttered as my mother handed me a small cardboard box labeled ‘At Home Marijuana Testing Kit’, “Take it”, she said, walking out of the bathroom. I looked up to see my pale, stunned face staring back at me through the mirror, toothpaste foaming out of my mouth. In all reality, I should have seen this coming. [...]
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