When all mirrors are covered for a day as a part of a campaign to increase confidence, people are forced to look behind appearances and rethink an old message.
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Success Time provides new opportunities, challenges for students
Instead of going to lunch or Advocate after 3rd period this past week, students have been going to Academic Success, a new 25-minute-period that focuses on helping students become more successful students during the 2014-2015 school year.
Despite success, ice bucket challenge lacks sincerity
For those of you who have watched any ALS ice bucket challenge videos, I want to challenge you with a simple question: What is ALS?
And for those of you who do know what it is: hey, you’re probably smart. For the rest: you’re probably smart also, but let me educate you beyond what the ice bucket challenge videos have.
Memorable works of late comedian revisited
Actor, director, writer, and comedian Robin Williams (1951-2014) was a celebrated figure of the contemporary age. He is credited with over 100 works and an enormous impact on the many generations of the 20th century. In honor of his enormous contribution to some of the best-known films of the last five decades, The Roar revisited and reviewed three of his most iconic works.
“The Giver” shines in details, neglects plot, characters
A flash of red in an apple thrown into the air. A gleam of green on a tree. The stark black-and-white beginning of “The Giver,” punctuated by occasional colors that escalate in clarity through the film, hints at the coming discovery of something essential, something intangible, something pure: emotion.
Summer’s end leads to reflection on high school experience
On one hand, I’m pretty much the same awkward 14-year-old I was two years ago (as my sister loves to remind me), but on the other hand, I have learned a few tips and tricks that would have made my first year of high school a little more bearable. If I could travel back in time and have ten minutes with my former freshman self, I think I would say something along the lines of this…
Worth of SAT prep courses ultimately dependent on self-motivation
As Regina Brett says, summer is one grand permission slip to be lazy. But for some students, the threat of the PSAT and SAT looming just around the corner replaces that permission slip with a ticket to summer SAT prep courses.
Trek Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: China
Summer and sleeping are synonymous to me, so it does take a lot of persuading for me to leave my home and depart for a foreign country, or even Houston. But some things you just can’t see if you stay put.
Photoblog inspires new, brighter outlook
While parents like to blame online communities as another outlet for procrastination (they’re half right), I prefer to think of them as platforms to make new discoveries. The Internet recently led me to the photoblog “Humans of New York.” I’m so glad I stumbled onto it because quite honestly, it changed the way I look at a lot of things.
Submarine epic’s realism, perspective remain relevant
Nazism isn’t representative of the entire German population, as German director Wolfgang Petersen makes clear in his 1981 film “Das Boot” (“The Boat”). In fact, Nazism barely makes an appearance in the film. “Das Boot” is not about good and evil: it’s about a lone U-boat, her mission and her crew.
