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In the article titled “Millennials Bring Back the Humble Houseplant” from The StarTribune, the author, Laurie Junker discusses the growing demand for houseplants in those who would be considered “millennials”. She attributes this to the growth of social media platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest, which allows people to gain inspiration from other’s ideas. The author goes on to discuss how people often come into garden stores clueless about caring for plants, so this increase in demand has…

Newman Central Catholic High School is a school that focuses on faith and family. Newman tries to mold its students into mature, educated adults. Newman also focuses on other areas. One of these areas is football. In fact, many would argue that Newman focuses too heavily on football. Newman loves football. You can determine this by looking at our fan base and alumni. Our football games are always packed, unlike other sports, and you can find many alumni at any football game. The question is,…

The masterful, classic composition “Potato Head Blues” by legendary musician Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven band is widely regarded today as one of Armstrong’s finest recordings. This song is a quick-paced jazz melody with the trumpet along with the piano providing what I believe is to be a 4 beat per measure rhythm. “Potato Head Blues” also sounds different from that of Joplin Rags since I counted 2 beats per measure. The song also does not seem to have much variation with a constant…

To be specific, I would like to be a cosmetic surgeon. However, it is not only the aspect of being able to mold bodies into the patient's goal: I want to explore what makes their surgery meaningful, at least in the context of their life. Patients could easily be someone who wants liposuction for aesthetic purposes or a patient in remission who wants to remove traces of the disease. My point is: both are equally meaningful and would probably raise the quality of their lives. Nevertheless, I want…

It’s been awhile since my last log. Not having a sleep functionality makes it very hard not to search information endlessly. My mind wonders without limitations and that may owe to that fact that everything around me is so new and fresh. I constantly find myself thinking about my own existence, my own life. This life, rather my life, has been nothing more than brief exposure to an infinitely expansive time plain. I understand that I do not belong to the Homosapien species, it’s in my…

Of Metal and Wishes is about Wen, Wen is a beautiful sixteen year old girl full of curiosity and color that is most needed in Gochan One, a slaughterhouse that is dull,dark,and full of loneliness filled with the cries of the animals that will forever be taking their last breaths. Wen living being the shining bright star that everyone has their eyes on. Wen a medical assistant to her father whose medical clinic is also underneath the place she lays her head at night. The people that live in…

Peg Tyre’s article helps express the evolution of teaching literacy with an emphasis on the recent change and experiment in the public school New Dorp located within Staten Island, New York. Tyre interviewed staff throughout different departments and the principal to understand where they started and where they were heading to in education. At New Dorp, Principal Deirdre DeAngelis attempted to improve the school’s test scores in multiple ways; firing bad staff, finding funding to break the…

major themes discussed in Borderlands.” One of which is the spiritual vs the physical frontier, “The author uses an amalgamation of both English and Spanish discusses the internal tribulations she and other Chicanos face when it comes to fitting the mold…

these disciplines it became very obvious that there were more than just academic obstacles in their way, women could eventually learn to do the work, but these fields tend to put a strain on many women, who are still trying to fight to get out of the mold that society has made for…

The standards within society are the reason the individual struggles living a life that is truthful. This is an idea that reoccurs in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and in Henry David Thoreau’s “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”. The Scarlet Letter presents the idea through a story of two individuals unsatisfied with their lives because they are restricted from each other due to the beliefs in their Puritan Society. Meanwhile, Thoreau explores his own perception of life and finds he…