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Guide your own sleigh, Santa!
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Guide your own sleigh, Santa!
The holiday season is supposed to be a season of appreciation, when families come together from around the world to soak up some quality time. But with ever-present advertisements for consumer products promising upwards of 90 percent off retail price, it can be difficult to remember the true meaning of the holiday season. Suddenly, things we did not think we even needed look irresistible with that sale tag hanging around it.
Puppies are in for some serious cuddle time this week.
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, a young boy named Jake, who lives in a small village in Ghana, became a worldwide sensation as Instagram photos surfaced of the boy completely entranced in a lesson. Taken by Carlos Cortes, this photo far surpassed any expectations of receiving many “likes” on the social media site. Rather, it has given the boy the chance to receive an education thanks to donations from people around the world. Without Instagram, Jake and his peers might not have had the chance to attain an education.
How many mornings have you woken up, looked in the mirror and wanted to crawl back under the covers? Beyond the messed-up hair and tired eyes, the reasons we feel like this extends much deeper: Society has become so obsessed with perfection that anything less than what we see on the covers of magazines fails to satisfy us when we look in the mirror.
It’s graduation day — the day you’ve been waiting for since you arrived on campus freshman year as an 18-year-old kid with the belief that after four years of intense work, you would graduate with a degree that will actually land you a job. How mistaken you were. As you walk across the stage, what should be a joyful feeling becomes apprehension as you realize that you will have another two to four years of school and tuition fees to earn the next possible degree in order to land a decent job.
April 1 in Chicago, Illinois, should have come and gone just as any other Friday does: school-aged children seated at desks with pencils in hand and recess on their minds. However, on this particular Friday, thousands of discontented public school teachers decided to strike against the state government’s failure to allocate proper funding to schools, a neglect which has resulted in not only the lack of proper resources for students but also the lack of fair pay for the teachers.