Tips To Improve Your Narrative Writing

BY ALICE FONTANESI

STAFF WRITER

If quarantine hasn’t reduced you to half a brain cell then writing a story is a good way to keep yourself busy. Here are a few tips to improve your plot, writing processes, and characters. But I want to say before I start that these tips might not apply to you because all of this is based on what I have learned over the years. I am not a professional writer, but I don’t consider myself an amatuer. Try and survive this word vomit I have created. Also, no none of this will help your vocabulary or grammar because I suck at that also.

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Fashion at the Inauguration

BY LYNNE INOUYE AND SYDNEY WESCHCKE 

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF IN TRAINING AND STAFF WRITER

On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. While this was a historic moment in many fields, in this article we’ll be talking about one of the subtler aspects of the event: the fashion. There were a lot of big names – both as politicians and celebrities – that were there, and each had their own sense of style.

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SPHEREx: The New NASA Space Observatory

BY LAASYA AKI

STAFF WRITER

A mission planned for two years, worth over 240 million dollars, the SPHEREx Observatory will survey space through optical and infrared light telescopes, hopefully helping us answer more questions about the cosmos. This amazing observatory is set to launch on June 17th, 2024. It’s main goal is to record information on galaxies and stars. SPHEREx will help us find the origins of different galaxies, our universe, and water in different planetary systems. 

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A Guide to Chinchillas

BY PRISHA RATHORE

STAFF WRITER

The chinchilla is a small rodent that is commonly found with gray fur, and with “velvety rounded ears” (San Diego Zoo). There are two types of chinchillas, domestic, and wild chinchillas. Wild chinchillas live in herds that contain 100 animals; Surprisingly when chinchillas have kits, male chinchillas can help raise them. Also, when kits are abandoned, “another female may come and rescue [the kits] and feed [them] (San Diego Zoo). The long-tailed and short-tailed chinchillas are two different chinchilla species. Sadly, Chinchillas are endangered and their numbers drop day by day.

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Athena

BY LAASYA AKI

STAFF WRITER

Athena: child of Zeus, the Greek goddess of war and wisdom. She is also associated with crafts, especially weaving. She was a natural leader and everyone feared her. Heroes often went to her for help on quests. She was full of vengeance and made enemies with Poseidon, god of the sea. Athena was born from the skull of her father. Hephaestus, god of fire, had to split Zeus’s skull open with an axe just to bring Athena out. 

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Wall Street VS Reddit

BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER

STAFF WRITER

As you all may have seen recently. the internet is kinda going a bit off the walls (get it, wall street) recently when it comes to the stock market recently. From what you may have heard, the price of the GameStop stock has increased by an insane amount in terms of cost. It just simply seems that the stock had just increased for no apparent reason at all. So, to help all of the confusion that is surrounding this topic, I will be mashing all of this stock-market-drama into an easy-to-understand one-page summary. With that out of the way, let’s get into some economics!

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Bills in Congress

BY CREIGHTON LEWIS

STAFF WRITER

Before a bill becomes a law, there is an extensive series of steps it has to go through before it makes its way to the President’s desk. If you want to see the most recent bills that have been introduced, look below, as this will detail their full process. First, bills are drafted by a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate. They basically explain what the bill is going to be about in a short sentence, and a number is added to the end to differentiate it from the rest of them. Online, the website shows what stage a document is in, the date it was introduced, as well as the sponsor. Depending on how far the bill has progressed, the website may show cosponsors of a bill, too. These are individuals who pledge their support for a piece of legislation. It’s best to get as many of these as possible because if there are a greater number of people supporting it, it’s more likely to pass. 

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