K-pop, the common moniker for pop music based in South Korea, is a global phenomenon famous for its addictive melodies performed by synchronized dance groups in a variety of genres spanning pop, R&B, hip-hop, rock, and more. However, K-pop is more than simply a...
The days are getting colder and bleaker in Southern California, which means winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD), commonly referred to as "seasonal depression," is around the corner. “Seasonal affective [disorder]... is a type of depression that is caused by the...
High school students in Oregon recently received tremendous mental health support from their state government. New York Times announced that on July 1 of this year, Oregon passed a law that allows high school students to take five mental health days within a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7igMpahf1jU Over the past school year, I produced a film regarding mental health stigma at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale. Originally created as a year-long assignment to fulfill the senior project requirement for my AP English...
There are over 5,300 colleges in the United States, and upwards of 10,000 in the world. People take gap years, go to community colleges, and even go to school online. For further education, the sky is the limit. So, whoever you are, whatever your GPA or standardized...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FziJE-fYllM Quinn XCII (Mikael Temrowski), a singer from Detroit, Michigan, released his latest album “From Michigan with Love” yesterday Feb. 15. Entertaining his friends and family since childhood, the artist has been perfecting his...
Visual art has garnered much praise for its aesthetic qualities and the beauty it evokes in an audience to this day. This doesn’t come off as too much of a surprise; art is a creative study meant to take an artist’s imagination and concepts and turn it into a work...
The world has seemed to turn on the Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO. Although once widely worshiped, Elon Musk has accomplished a growing list of controversies within the past year. Tesla has been under numerous instances of scrutiny for Musk’s off-character behavior,...
In the process of trying to look good to colleges on paper, it’s easy to lose track of what’s real. Throughout my high school years, I felt the college-focused monster in my head growing bigger as I pushed my family and friends away to focus on school. I stopped...
When Netflix released the first season of "13 Reasons Why" last year, the American entertainment company had a potential hit on its hands, but it also faced a major controversy. The second season of "13 Reasons Why," is an attempt to stray away from this controversy,...
