On Monday, May 22, approximately 18,000 people gathered at Manchester Arena in England, expecting a great night filled with dancing and fun at an Ariana Grande concert. All was well until the last song finished, and tragedy struck. As people began exiting the building, a man set off a homemade bomb in the foyer of the large venue, killing himself
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Today’s society is presented in a plethora of different ways, but one of the most significant ones is representation in media. The way we watch the world portrayed on television often impacts how we view it in real life. If we turn on our televisions and watch an award show where men and women are constantly divided into two different
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There are seven weeks until summer break, which means people are scrambling to get their summer to-do lists done. Whether it’s finding a summer job or getting their “summer body” ready, there are plenty of things that students are wanting to get done before break rolls around; if making a summer playlist happens to be one of those things, they
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Graduation is less than three months away which means a plethora of things are currently on all seniors’ minds. Between doing things like selecting colleges and paying enrollment deposits, there are countless mental to-do lists going through every almost-graduate’s head right now. Having that many things can be hard to keep up with sometimes, so to make things a little
Read moreWhile the weather in North Carolina has been freezing, things were only heating up in downtown Raleigh on March 16. An apartment under construction caught fire. The fire was so large that the entire night sky over the capital city was lit up. The Raleigh Fire Department Division Chief John Fanning said, “This is the biggest fire that I have
Read moreNetflix original shows have been increasing in popularity for years, with shows such as Stranger Things and Orange is the New Black being practically all that people on social media can talk about. One show in particular that got picked up by Netflix has recently gained public interest but not for the same reason as all the others. Black Mirror is
Read moreThe Super Bowl LI commercials were hits for many different reasons, but of the sixty-five brands that were advertised during America’s favorite sporting event, none started quite the social media firestorm that the Netflix original series Stranger Things did. A teaser for the second season of the supernatural drama was unveiled during Sunday’s Super Bowl and generated 307,000 tweets within
Read moreThe first six months of a new President’s term are always the most influential ones; it is the time where citizens get to see if the promises made during the campaign will be kept. It typically takes a few months for the newly-elected to leader to be comfortable enough in the office to start making executive orders; however, it only
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