“Now Batting…Number two…Derek Jeter…Number two.” Those were the famous words spoken every time former Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter would come up to bat. On this past Mother’s day, Jeter’s number was retired. He was alongside his wife, his grandmother, parents, sister, and nephew. Seven of his former teammates, Mariano Rivera, Paul O’Neill, Tino Martinez, David Cone, Hideki Matsui, Jorge Posada,
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The music is hyped up, the visuals are beautiful, and everyone’s favorite galaxy-savers are back for more in the sequel to the 2014 hit. Directed once again by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 brought back the familiar characters of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Rocket Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper),
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For many elementary school P.E, Art, and Music teachers, House Bill 13 may determine whether or not they have jobs for the 2017-18 school year. Back in 2016, a law was passed to reduce kindergarten, first, second, and third grade class sizes from at least twenty-four students to between nineteen and twenty-one. In the North Carolina General Assembly, the House
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Heathers. Freaks and Geeks. Mean Girls. These all portray the potential reality that high school can be a cruel and unusual place for a teenager. 13 Reasons Why tells the chilling story of how teenager Clay Jensen receives cassette tapes recorded by his classmate and crush Hannah Baker who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On the tapes, Hannah unfolds the
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The Apex Legacy took a poll, and out of 113 people, thirty-six percent would go take a trip around the moon, thirty percent would not, and thirty-four percent would rather take the trip with an astronaut. Regardless of what decade we’re in, spaceflight will always be dangerous and risky. NASA has lost many astronauts and astronaut hopefuls since the maiden
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If you’ve paid any attention to social media or to your local news lately, you might have seen a live feed from Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York where keepers are anxiously awaiting for April, a fifteen-year-old Reticulated Giraffe, to give birth to her fourth calf any day now. Support for the park and the giraffes have been pouring
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“There’s quite a few women working in the space program.” Hidden Figures tells the story of three fantastic African-American female mathematicians who defied all expectations to be three key components to the Mercury program at NASA. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn worked for NASA, but their potential was always denied by NASA because of segregated bathrooms, segregated work
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