Nowadays high school isn’t as black and white as you would have seen in movies a few decades ago. In most high schools nowadays, the “nerdy” kids aren’t being shoved into lockers and the “jocks” aren’t all douchebags. But from this era of overdramatized high school cliches, there is one that has stayed almost the […]
Day: September 11, 2026
The Absence of Visuals and Sound
Books have been portraying stories for thousands of years, and in the last century we’ve been able to communicate stories with visuals and sounds with the rise of video technology. We have movies, television shows, comics, manga, video games, and many other ways to portray stories in modern day, but regular old text-only books remain […]
What Anime Gets Right About Feeling Like an Outsider
I’ve enjoyed watching anime since I was about 12 or 13 years old, and I’ve connected with a lot of characters from different shows. A lot of shows have a story about the main character being sort of an outcast. Whether it be someone who is cursed, someone who wasn’t born with powers, or even […]
9/11 Attacks Caused a lot of Islamophobia that Still Persists Today
25 years ago the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world and took the lives of 2977 people. As we all know, these attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim al-Qaeda extremist, and with this public knowledge, Western views on Muslims changed for the worse overnight. To a lot of people, they’ve never […]
Western Michigan Robbed: How Referees Affect Sports
On September 5, 2026, in the first week of the College Football season, the Michigan Wolverines and the Western Michigan Broncos faced off. It was a low-scoring game, with the Wolverines winning 13-12. But there’s a big catch that came alongside this win for the Wolverines, as the game had a major controversial ending with […]
Never Forget Betty: Remembering the Flight Attendant Who Made the First 9/11 Call
25 years after the historical 9/11 terrorist attack, Harry Ong, the brother of the flight attendant who made the first reported call of the hijacking, still gets anxious as the anniversary approaches. “As September 11th approaches each and every year, the tension just builds up and the stress, sometimes debilitation, we never forget,” said Ong. […]
