“I have been shot! Please come! I need you!” These were the horrifying words that came out of Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz’s mouth as he called his wife in fear for his life, according to the Washington Post. Hernandez-Ortiz survived the mass shooting on March 16 in...
My parents thought that teaching me Vietnamese would hinder my academic performance. And yet, by omitting it from my childhood, they had unwittingly destroyed something else: my confidence. Vietnamese died with my parents’ assimilation in the United States — to the...
On the morning of January 21, I was very anxious to know the final verdict of Trump's impeachment trial. After 13 long hours of intense deliberation, the trial finally came to an end. He was impeached, but the Senate rejected the evidence that would have removed him...
For many students, graduation is a celebration of accomplishment and hard work. For Sebastian Araujo, a recently graduated senior at Canoga Park High School, graduation was also a celebration of family history, heritage and immigration. The ceremony, held for...
Fifteen-years-old is an uncomfortable age. It is the golden era of raging teenage hormones, cluelessness of your peers, and superficial knowledge for the sake of an advanced placement class. Education and life itself always seem like a lie, or so says the existential...
Los Angeles- The excruciating journey of an undocumented immigrant is composed of many obstacles from day one. Since the day they decided to come to the United States, they arrive to racism, attacks of violence towards their communities, and many more hostile...
My grandmother, Ngorn Por, has a love for food; not just the final product, but how it’s made step by step. She learned how to cook from her mother way back in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cooking with my grandmother is something I enjoy doing, and as I tell my grandmother's...
When I was young, I'd hear a voice blaring out the words to a pledge that was happily said in unison, like a orchestra playing at the Hollywood Bowl. The pledge itself seemed like a spell that had gotten everyone. Once it was over, the spell was broken. Being too...
Literature has an amazing ability to portray all sorts of ideas in precise, captivating words. The stories that are told through literature have the ability to motivate and inform in a way readers could not have fathomed. Writers bring together their opinions and the...
On the streets of Portland, Ore.’s city center, Ranya Muttaleb is an unassuming presence, a seemingly ordinary girl often dressed in skinny jeans, a plain shirt, and colorful hijabs that framed the ovalness of her face. If you talked to her, she was unfailingly gentle...
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