As the school year begins in many parts of the world, concerns over the safety of students and their families has led to education during COVID-19 being limited. Most schools have incorporated some level of online distance learning into their curriculums, and the amount of schools which are fully open […]
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Students’ Perspectives on Distanced Learning Amid a Pandemic
As the world sits in a time of uncertainty, students are starting their 2020-2021 school year. While some schools have found a way to send their kids to school in-person, many students this year will have to adapt to a fully online curriculum. I was able to host a survey […]
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Are Antibiotics Becoming Useless Now?
An emerging problem in the healthcare world, that is typically overlooked, is the issue of viruses building immunity against common antibiotics. More and more cases of common illnesses are becoming dangerous because antibiotics are not working as effectively as they used to. “Common diseases are becoming untreatable.” That’s the blunt […]
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San Diego Zoo Reopening After COVID-19 Shutdown
After many establishments were forced to close their doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses such as the San Diego Zoo are beginning to reopen. The world-famous zoo has entered the first phase of their “Roaring Back” initiative, designed to ease the zoo back into its normal opening schedule. […]
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Is Trump Abusing His Power by Sending Troops West?
If President Donald Trump has his way, federal law enforcement agents like those in Portland, Oregon, could soon head to other cities with Democratic mayors: “I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore […]
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The Homeless and the Coronavirus in America
Poverty and homelessness in America have been an underlying issue for the majority of the nation’s existence. Costs of living drastically increasing year by year, making purchasing affordable housing and maintaining housing more difficult have amplified these problems. It’s hard to ignore the fact that the homeless population exists considering […]
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How Teenage Influencers Impact Youth Activism
At the turn of the century, our society was introduced to a new form of media. It was a way for average people to connect with others across continents to share their pictures or messages. Use of social media has grown astronomically in the past decade and has resulted in […]
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Did NASA Really Discover a Parallel Universe?
The internet has done it again. Today it abounds with stories from tabloids like the New York Post, Express and the Daily Star—mostly quoting each other—that major on claims that NASA scientists have evidence that could prove the existence of a parallel universe. It’s all way overblown and misrepresents what the research in question is about. […]
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The Police Brutality Riots: It’s No Longer About Justice
In America’s polarized politics, pointing to the errors made on both sides of the conflicts that divide us gets a bad rap. What has the Civil Rights Movement taught us? What did it say about police brutality? It just comes to show how little our society has actually come. This […]
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The COVID-19 Crisis on the Navajo Nation
COVID-19, commonly known as the Coronavirus, has disrupted day-to-day life for nearly everyone. From schools to travel, it has disrupted the way in which people accomplish some of their basic activities. The Navajo Nation sees this disruption perhaps more than anyone else. The Navajo Nation, a Native American Tribal Nation […]