by Julissa Higgins Though personally acting a little too creepy for my taste in her new music video “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift successfully portrays the stereotype of the crazy-girlfriend, poking fun at how the media portrays her and so many other women who “obsess over the guys they’re dating.” In an interview with Yahoo music…
By Julissa Higgins The holidays are about more than just gifts but everyone likes receiving them and it’s a good idea to give back to those people you appreciate. So if you are a last-minute gift shopper or simply want to make something from scratch, follow these instructions for making cute holiday gifts.
For all of you college-bound seniors who have started on your Common App, have started to ask your teachers and counselors for recommendation letters, and have started to pull your hair out because you’re only confident that you can’t do it – you’re worrying for nothing because college applications don’t mean much of anything.
Living in a country that is based on consumerism means that the majority of society values hard work and plenty of spending. To some extent, these things should be followed. Hard work is important, but at what point does too much ambition and hard work turn into an unhealthy quality? Well, the answer is simple:…
Put into simplest terms, magazines make money off of models, and if having thin models or digitally altering them sells, then it’s good for business. And if you really start thinking about the science behind this, it’s genius. It doesn’t mean it’s morally or ethically right, but from a strict, business standpoint, it’s genius. We…
The Malaysia flight 370’s disappearance has left the world on edge. 239 people here one second, gone the next. Among the biggest questions involving the case is “How does that even happen?” What’s most disconcerting, especially for the families of those on board, is that there are no answers. We do not know what caused…
By Julissa Higgins Most people think that teenage sex trafficking is a thing of the past, something that only happens in other countries, that for some reason, America is exempt from its horrors. Unfortunately, nothing is further from the truth. Teenage sex trafficking has been dubbed “modern day slavery”, and it is a common practice…
The Ukraine is currently experiencing both internal conflict, wherein bloody anti-government protests are rising, and external conflict, wherein Russia has invaded the country, and taken a hold of Crimea, the peninsula that became a part of the Ukraine after the breakup of the Soviet Union. On March 3, the U.N. met to discuss what would…
Fraud in the dental community is not a strange practice. It is not unusual among doctors either. Though it is not to say that all dentists are committed to a life of fraud, recently, many dentists have been found cheating the system.
The push towards new common core standards adopted in Florida by state legislatures has brought a series of new changes to education. Among these, one of the most significant will include the shift towards a new state test to replace the FCAT.