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• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  What We Learn from Pop Music

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  In Bruno Mars's hit "Just the Way You Are," he sings: "Oh, her eyes, her eyes Make the stars look like they're not shinin' Her hair, her hair Falls perfectly without her trying She's so beautiful And I tell her everyday [...] Every time she asks me ‘Do ...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  The Problems with Society

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  When I passed through the locker room one day to get to the gym, I couldn’t help but overhear snippets of conversation of the girls who were still changing. “Wasn’t the math test really hard?” “I don’t wanna play volleyball. I suck at it.” “Ooh, I like your shirt.” And, “That’s...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  How Not to Live, Featuring Baby Me

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  By the words of my parents, the dusty photos adorning the dresser, and the blurry videos of my sister and me, I know that I was an adorable baby. Recently, finding myself unoccupied, I decided to watch some of those blurry baby videos. Afterwards, I sat deep in thought. The images of myself as a chu...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  End-of-the-World Speech

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I hope that today, one of our world’s last, finds you well and ready. For, as you know, a threatening future looms over us. Hundreds of years ago, the Mayans realized that the world could not exist forever. They realized that Earth must have had some sort of ...
• Opinion > Entertainment / Celebrities
  Doctor Who: The Best Television Show in the Universe

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  Most television serials include this: studio laughter, people falling in love, and/or people (for no apparent reason) betraying the ones they just fell in love with. Most television serials do not include this: outer space, time travel, or deep characters. A serial that did contain universe-related ...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  The Deterioration of the English Language

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  “To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” –Jane Austen, 1775-1817 “There is not hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Why Read Jane Austen?

  

  By LakeSilencio, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that humans have differing opinions on most everything. For example, some people loved the movie Titanic and cried for its three-hour duration, while others simply didn’t understand its sentimental value. But does that mean that the people who didn’t watch ...