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Do you find yourself always scrolling through social media? Or never leaving your house? Well if you do, this article is for you. I believe technology has made human society isolated and depressed, along with making you feel unaccomplished.
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Video games are often unfairly blamed for causing negative behavior in people, but I believe that the truth is, video games can actually be beneficial in many ways.
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The coronavirus impacted everyone's jobs, families and life, but COVID-19 affected school students drastically. These students will be the future of mankind; if these students can not have a good education, we as a society will be in trouble.
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The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City was a devastating event that changed the world forever. It was a day that will never be forgotten and its impact was felt not only in the United States but throughout the world. Many people, including politicians, scholars, and thinkers have given their views on how the events of 9/11 changed the course of history.
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It is important for schools to have safe spaces for queer students and allies. Fortunately, DMHS has one it is called SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Alliance). SAGA is a safe space for queer students and allies.
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In the U.S., money is an important resource of your daily life. Money can buy anything from chips to a multi-million dollar house, but most U.S. citizens don't have that much money. What all people do have, is the ability to decide what they want to buy. So money can buy you happiness even if you don't have a million dollars. You just need to be able to know what makes you happy.
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Attending an opera is an opportunity most high school students don’t get. Theater students at Denver Montessori Jr/Sr High recently had their first experience with opera when they attended “Die Tote Stadt.”
A student’s mind can only hold so much, which is why they get weekends off but sometimes that’s not enough. Field trips are another way to have students feel more relieved as well as an educational experience. So why not have more?
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In downtown Denver, Cinco De Mayo is a huge event where everyone is invited and welcome. The holiday celebrates Mexico’s victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. While the holiday is not widely celebrated in Mexico, it is still popular amongst Mexican Americans in America. There is a lot of entertainment and food. One of the entertainments is Folklorico Dancing. Folklorico Dancing has been around for many years. It is mostly known for the dresses, the movement of the dresses, and the music.
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The Sexuality and Gender Alliance, also known as SAGA, is a club for LGBTQ+ and allies to meet and socialize every Thursday at DMHS. SAGA is led and was founded by Lauren Lyon, and she says, “It's important so that LGBTQIA+ students have a space at school to create connections and be their authentic selves.” LGBTQ+ students that attend SAGA meet every Thursday and share new things about themselves with their peers and Lauren.
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“Having the kitchen closed has caused a huge amount of upset to the DMHS culinary program and to me,” says DMHS culinary teacher Anders Benson.
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Oprah Winfrey once said “Education is the key to unlocking the world. It is the passport to freedom.”
Education is really important, but are the types of things that students are learning in school important? How much of what students learn do they use in their adult life?
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A natural disaster impacted Syria and Turkey harshly on Feb 6 as more than 36,000 people died in total in an extremely destructive 7.8 magnitude earthquake which is almost one of the worst on the magnitude scale. Although this is not one of the worst earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, it still affected millions of people.
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Art is normally a way to easily calm the mind and soothe the soul. However, to do this it may be required for some people to have a quiet place and a peaceful environment. Period 3 Art class is loud and causes headaches, say many of the students there. However, does this really bother the ones trying to create?
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February 3rd, 2023 the DMHS farm school put on a musical: The Jungle Book, based on the story by Rudyard Kipling, with music by George Bruns, and directed and choreographed by Robin Yokel, the theater teacher at DMHS. There were about 100 friends and family members in the audience and 24 students performed (including actors, tech, light and curtains). The cast had rehearsed every Wednesday since late August until the show on February 3rd.
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Bob Lazar is an American physicist who claims to have worked at area 51. He claims to have worked in a section of the base titled S4, which contained extraterrestrial technology.
Section S4 has one of the highest levels of security at area 51 and is a 15-mile drive from the main airforce base. Bob Lazar states, “Nine interstellar spacecraft were housed at the S4 facility and have been used in a reverse engineering program for ten years prior to my introduction to the program.”
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Middle school should have co-ed floor hockey because it's for everybody and everybody can play instead of playing basketball. Some people don't like basketball and not as many people participate when we play it. Sports are good for kids and we should be able to have sports for everybody in the school.
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The recent Ohio train derailment has caused a life and death situation.
On Friday February 3, 2023 tragedy hit the village of East Palestine, Ohio. A Norfolk Southern Freight Train was carrying the dangerous chemical called vinyl chloride, which is flammable, without adequate protection around them, leading to a cloud of chemicals raining down on people and pets in the town, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. When the substances leaked from the damaged train cars, boiling liquid and gas started pouring down killing animals and causing people to get sick. Vinyl chloride is also a known carcinogen.
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Tigers, Elephants, bears and other circus animals do not leap through holes, balance on their heads, or ride bikes because they want to. They have to be taught and teaching wild animals can be difficult. They do these and other tough techniques out of fear of what will happen if they don't. All around the world, circuses do not care about their animals. They care about entertaining their audience and what they can do with their animals. They torture their animals if they don’t do things right after a certain amount of times.
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Considering the economic state of the United States with inflation, house costs, food costs, and many other factors, a minimum wage job will not get you far. An average minimum wage worker will make about $28,392 a year. After factoring in the average cost of rent, utilities, water, food and other necessities, you will come out at the end of the year with about $1900 that hasn't gone into only bills. This isn’t factoring in car payments, repairs, or other things that can come up.