With the growing popularity of Netflix has come many Netflix-original series that can only be found through the streaming television application. Netflix-originals like Orange is the New Black and Stranger Things have had their fair-share of views, each receiving a high rating of 95% from Rotten Tomatoes, an American review website for film and television. However, there are many Netflix-originals
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Mastering a new language requires practice. Immersion is the ultimate way to dive head first into another culture. The closest thing to immersion while not traveling is watching movies and TV shows. They allow you to hear various accents and dialects, expand your pool of vocabulary, and learn something about the country, even if it is fiction. I was first
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Written by Newspaper Advisor and English Teacher Mrs. Tori McGee. I despise the book categories “Young Adult” and “Chick Lit.” As an English teacher, I know I’m supposed to be a champion for great works of literature and frown upon books with no “literary value.” I’ve always felt, however, that it’s more important to connect to a book, to be
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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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Elizabeth Valcher wakes up after her 18th birthday party on her parent’s yacht and finds a dead body in the water right outside of the boat. She recognizes the body and comes to the realization that she’s no longer alive. She can hear and see everything that is happening with the people alive around her, but she is completely invisible
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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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I have spent the week binge listening to S-Town and then trying to recover from the emotional rollercoaster I just endured. Over the course of one episode, I experienced blood-boiling anger, on-the-verge-of-tears sadness, and amused laughter. The immense range of emotions over such a short period of time has a numbing effect–a hand-to-my-mouth stunned effect. S-Town, a production of Serial
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You voted, and we listened! According to a poll Legacy took last week, the most popular way to celebrate high school graduation at Apex is via a party. Why not kick off the summer with the perfect high school send-off? Here are a few quick tips and tricks that are essential to throwing the perfect bash. 1. Invitations Don’t invite
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Drake’s officially back with his new so-called ‘playlist’ titled More Life, and it has completely shattered Apple music’s streaming record. The album was streamed a whopping 89.9 million times within the first twenty-four hours of the release. In addition to More Life breaking Apple Music’s record it also broke Spotify’s streaming record of 76.4 million streams. More life currently features
Read moreThe premise and the comparison to the hit show Parks and Recreation is what attracted me to the Trial and Error in the first place. I tried to keep my expectations low, so I wouldn’t be disappointed. However, the overwhelming positive reviews weren’t helping my cause. Regardless, I threw caution to the wind, put my heart on the line, and
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