For two years, COVID-19 has stayed ongoing and detrimental to the health of people, globally speaking. It remains lethal and, up to this day, has a persistent grasp on the lives of people who have been exposed to it. Anchorage’s COVID-19 Case Overview was recently updated January 24th with the help of data from Our...
Category: Culture
High School Nothing Like the Musical
Do you remember those days when you were a bright-eyed elementary kid excited for the seemingly fantastic world of high school? Being a child, the only knowledge we had on high school was from false movies like High School Musical. So when we entered high school it was not a surprise we all thought it was...
We Don’t Have a Planet B
Climate Change: it’s like a thing that is there, but doesn’t feel real. Something that everyone talks and is concerned about but won’t actually do something about it. But it is real, it is going to happen and has been happening for a long time. You may not see or feel it, but it exists. Don’t...
The MacArthur AVID program helps coordinate community donations
Monthly donation drives get MacArthur students and staff into the spirit of charity. The Advancement Via Individual Determination, AVID, class has been coordinating monthly donation drives, encouraging charity among students and staff. Each month MacArthur students and staff donate different items, depending on what the donation for the month is. For the month of November,...
Salva Dut: A Long Walk To Success
Across all eighth grade ELA Classes at Bernardo Yorba Middle School, students had the opportunity to read and analyze the novel “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, based on a true story about Salva Dut, a teenage boy living in Southern Sudan. Salva Dut is among one of the 3,800 Sudanese “Lost...
A Serious Conversation: Celebrating Black History Month
In 1926, a public school teacher, “Mr. Woodson,” initiated the first ever “Negro History Week” on February 7th to celebrate and raise awareness of Black history. Fifty years later in 1976, Afro-American professor Albert Broussard turned it into a month-long celebration that is now known as Black History Month. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History...
A Different Donut
I discovered Sufganiyot when one of my neighbors made it for a houseguest of hers who was celebrating Hanukkah. Sufganiyot is a traditional Israeli jelly donut. It is one of the many foods fried in oil Jewish people eat at Hanukkah to celebrate the oil in the menorah lasting eight days. This donut is also...
The Exaggeration of the Teenage Experience in Homecoming
The epitome of every American teen rom-com from any decade: the big dance. Whether that be a Spring Fling, Prom, or Homecoming, the states’ youth seems to revolve around events such as these. Dramatic proposals, shopping for outfits, and the event itself are always the climax of several notable cult classics for students in high...
John Stuart Mill: On Learning Things
“The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever...
The Blooming History of Cherry Blossoms in Korea
Times pass and seasons change. As the once-naked trees escape the winter, the blossoming trees reveal their true beauty. The petite, delicate buds blooming into soft cherry blossoms and the rays of sunshine melting frozen streams tell us that spring has officially arrived. The majority of the people I know are pleased with this transition—everyone...