things I submitted but it still feels crazy to have been selected amongst such a large pool of peoBahre said.
Bahre is now part of the five percent of applicants that are admitted to the FSU College of Motion Pictures. She has committed to continuing her education and chasing her dreams with this pro-
I definitely put a lot of faith into getting into FSU’s Motion Picture Arts program now that I
This February the JROTC program successfully passed an inspection and was awarded the honor unit of distinction award for the 30th year in a row.
“You can really feel the legacy. It was obviously important for us to focus on maintaining that legacy, keeping the streak going,” JROTC cadet Ethan Strickland said.
Strickland noted that, to continue this legacy in the future, the battalion would need to “continue [the] work with the different teams.” The teams referenced include the Rifle, Drill, Color Guard, Archery, and Raiders.
Additionally, Strickland emphasized that future cadets would need to focus on “expanding the leadership for the betterment of the battalion.” The battalion currently feels very accomplished to see the fruits of their labors.
“[We all] feel very honored and proud that our Battalion received this award,” JROTC staff head Nicholas Albritton said. The impact of the cadets in the program was emphasized.
“…the amazing feedback and support from the cadets along with the leadership from command and staff really allowed us to achieve our goal of being Honor Unit with Distinction Award for the last 30
years,” Albritton noted.
The Golden Eagles battalion has worked hard to excel and surpass the summit of excellence. The battalion is focused on maintaining this legacy in years to come and continuing to be a source of pride on campus.
every user under 18 will soon have their accounts default to a onehour daily screen time limit, one of the most combative moves made by a social media company to help teens control their continuous scrolling.
Teenage TikTok users will have the option to disable the new preset setting when it becomes available in the upcoming weeks. However, the feature modification may improve the digital well being of
perts from the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children's Hospital.
“While there’s no collectively endorsed position on how much screen time is ‘too much’, or even the impact of screen time more broadly, we recognize that teens typically require extra support as they start to explore the online world independently,” Keenan said in a company statement.
TikTok's statement was not well received by The Tech Oversight Project, a Big Tech accountability
"[It is] a fake ploy to make parents feel secure without actually making their product safe,” according to The Tech Oversight Project. Mahsau Cullinane, a spokesperson for TikTok, told The Verge that all enhancements to Family Pairing, as well as the new default screen time limit for teenagers and customizable daily time limits, as well as the Mute Notifications feature will be implemented over the next few
A girl sat in the back seat of the car, watching the world pass by in a blur of greens and browns. Her little brother chattered away in the front seat, his voice carrying over the sound of the engine and the wind rushing past the windows. He was always talking, always asking questions, always eager to explore the world around him.
Her little sister, meanwhile, was a storm of motion. She kicked the back of their father’s seat with her tiny feet as the car jolted and bounced along the road. The girl tried to ignore the constant movement, tried to focus on the trees outside the window and the changing landscape as they drove from one place to the next.
But no matter how hard she tried to stay focused, the nausea would always rise within her, a relentless tide that threatened to overwhelm her at any moment. It was a feeling she was all too familiar with, a constant companion from years of moving from one place to the next.
Her mother, who was sitting in the front seat, was trying to calm her little brother down and drive at the same time, but the girl could see the worry etched on her face. She knew her mother was thinking about her, about the girl’s constant nausea and the endless hours of driving that lay ahead.
The girl closed her eyes, taking deep breaths and trying to calm herself. She was used to this, used to the constant motion and the endless hours on the road.
Sophomore Matilda Gerring is the daughter of a Navy officer, and has lived in various parts of the world, including Japan and Singapore. This experience of moving around has greatly influenced her life and shaped her worldview.
Iron plates clashed. Sweat and tears hit the floor. The last young lady finished lifting. As the barbell fell, everyone’s anxiety rose. A dozen schools, one title. Who would take it all back home?
On Jan. 12, schools across the district gathered at Mandarin High School for the 2023 Girls Weightlifting Gateway Competition. The gateway competition concludes the regular season and allows athletes and coaches alike to prepare for the long road to the state championship in February. Leading up to the gateway competition was four months of hard work from the ladies on the team. The season consisted of practicing after school three to five days a week and competing in several preliminary meets.
“There are no such things as long-term friendships,” Gerring said. “When you move around a lot, online communication has been beneficial, but I think moving around has given me a lot of social skills to be able to make friends fast. And I adapt very well to new environments because of it.”
Gerring is well adapted to the challenges of starting at a new school and making new friends.
“People walk up to me first,” she said. “I think most schools are kind of the same. No matter where you are, you always have the same social dynamic. And so, I think it easy to pinpoint who to go to for help or for friendship. And same thing with classes. They’re all kind of the same.
Her experience of living in different parts of the world has shaped her worldview, making her more open minded to new things. more open-minded to new things. Living in other countries, obviously, those are completely different experiences, and so I think it really helped me empathize with people and, like, understand other people’s point of views.
Gerring stays connected with her friends and family members that live far away through phones and social media. “Phones are very helpful, I can text people a lot, social media, anything online. Letters don’t exist anymore.”
When asked about adjusting to new environments, Gerring said “I think moving around a lot gives you the ability to adapt, like I don’t think there’s any way for one
Maddison Green is a senior and secondyear veteran on the weightlifting team. She made it to the state championship last year and details what weightlifting has been like
Lots and lots of soreness,” Green Many times, I wanted to quit because t doing as good as I
person to adapt but understanding different social constructs and the way that people think is very helpful when you ure out how certain places behave culturally.”
Moving has also taught Gerring about
Nicole Gray is a first weightlifting senior
she explained that weightlifting is different due to the amount of self-motivation it takes to progress.
“Every time I stepped into the weight room and the gym, I would always think about what I’m there for,” Gray
also influenced her future goals.
It made me want to join the military, s in the military, every time we move around, it’s just great being able to see new places, it’s an experience that not many people get. It kind of makes me want to join the Navy or Coast Guard,” Gerring add-
Gerring has had many memorable experiences from living overseas and believes that her experiences of moving around will benefit her in the future. think it just developed all my social skills. It helped me better empathize with people and understand where people are coming from their cultural backgrounds, so I think it’s going to be in the Navy or Coast Guard, I think it’ll help me in the Navy or Coast Guard, I think it’ll help me easily adapt to new places and new people.”
Gerring’s life experiences have had a profound impact on her personality and
While competitive weightlifting is different than other sports in many ways, one thing that is common across female athletic groups is the discrimination and stigma that surrounds them.
“As a female, there will most likely be boys calling you weak,” said Green, “but as long as you don’t believe it and can be confident in your abilities, s nothing that anyone can say to make you doubt yourself.”
After a long season of hard work, these athletes stepped on the platform and prepared to lift. Now it is between them and the bar. For most, anxiety would be soaring, but not for our athletes.
“We’re goated,” Gray said. "I already knew we were going to win.”
And that’s exactly what happened. An underdog story unfolded in front of everyone’s eyes as Paxon Girls’ Weightlifting became the 2023 Girls’ Weightlifting Gateway Champions. Since the team’s establishment,
riences, no matter where life takes you. As the car carried her ever forward, she couldn’t help but feel a twinge of sadness. She missed the roots that came with staying in one place, the chance to build real connections with the people and places around
the title has never reached the Eagles’ nest. Mandarin High School has won for most of the last decade.
“I expected a lot out of the team this year,” Green said, “we did not disappoint and I’m proud to say I was a part of the team.”
Jordan Thompson, a first-year weightlifting senior doubled down on what it means to make history.
“It feels amazing knowing that I was a part of the win and that I helped contribute to making it happen,” Thompson said. After the win, the team took the award home and presented it in person to Principal Turner. They will be commemorated with a banner in the gymnasium for the first time, and hopefully not the last. The story of our girls’ weightlifting team serves as a reminder to not count out the underdog, whether it’s a whole team or just you.
“You don’t know what you’re capable of until you do it,” Green said, “you might surprise yourself with your performance.”
murder someone? Chances are that would probably leave you mad, but would you really be mad enough to watch them be murdered? What if they were a close friend or even family? Some murderers are sentenced to death as a punishment for their crimes.
One problem with the death penalty is that many criminals are criminals due to their childhood traumas or because they are mentally ill. “Approximately half the people in U.S. jails and over one-third of the population of U.S. prisons have been diagnosed with
according to cops.usdoj.gov. Many people who have mental illness struggle to control the things that they do and sometimes don’t even want to be doing what they are doing. If a criminal is mentally ill or was abused as a child, should they really be murdered? When some criminals are on the run from cops, they commit suicide to escape the punishment of spending the rest of their lives in prison. According to National Public Radio, “the leading cause of death for prisoners is suicide.” When we allow prisoners to escape the death penalty, they no longer have to worry about spending the rest of their lives in prison, and some prisoners may prefer this outcome over life in prison.
Although, the death penalty was designed to quickly murder criminals that’s not exactly what it does. Sometimes the machine may not kill the victim right away and may leave them suffering and or being tortured for longer than what was planned.
Imagine having a family member or a loved one taken away from you in an instant. The person who murdered your loved one gets caught and arrested and you’re there in court waiting for their sentence. You then hear, “Life in prison”. WHAT?! They took someone’s life that was very important to you, they should have that same fate and get the death penalty, not life in prison! The death penalty is not too harsh for criminals because victims’ families get closure, it discourages crime, and it helps with investigations and negotiations.
Families that have lost someone to murder would obviously be upset at the murderer so much so that they would want the murderer to get what they deserved and be put to death. “The death penalty also ends a horrific and prolonged period of pain and justice delayed for a victim’s loved ones,”
Leslie Rutledge, JD, Arkansas Attorney General, and Tom Cotton, JD, US Senator said. The families of the victims must be worried about whether the murderer has been caught, if they’ve been brought to justice, or if their loved one will ever be avenged. When the murderer gets caught and sentenced to death, it brings a sense of relief to the families, knowing that
“Over 120 years, 8,776 people were executed and 276 of those executions (3.15%) went wrong in some way,” according to Austin Sarat, professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College. Some of these people were left suffering instead of having a quick death. Sometimes people are also executed when they do not deserve to be. “Since 1973, at least 190 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated,” according to The Death Penalty Information Center.
the criminal will pay for what they’ve done.
If you’re a criminal and you’re wondering about what crime to do but hear that certain crimes result in death, then you’re less likely to commit those crimes because you want to live, and that’s just human nature. “Legal executions are logical to scare people from committing horrific crimes,” according to Jensen Skinner on ELawTalk. Not many people think that horrific crimes are worth dying for, and if more people fear the death penalty, then more people are less likely to become a criminal out of fear of the consequence.
Police officers must investigate criminals to find out any unclear information, figure out if they remain a threat, or if the criminal was working with anyone else. The criminal is likely to deny everything asked and to try to say as little as possible because they want something in return for the information given, but with the death penalty criminals are more likely to talk because they don’t want to be killed over some information or another person. “Where the possible sentence is death, the prisoner has the strongest possible incentive to try to get their sentence reduced, and therefore are likely to help with investigations,” according to Netivist. People don't want to be executed because of their loved ones, so they will give the police the information they want. In return, the criminal’s sentence gets reduced and they won’t face the death penalty.
Some may argue that no crime is worth someone’s life. On the other hand, “Only by putting murderers to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again,” according to Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez of Saint Clara University. Without the risk of criminals arrested for murder returning to society, society can thrive without worrying about the next time someone will lose their life to murder.
Stereotypes against people of different genders are prevalent in the world today. Whether they are subtle or deliberate, they bring some people down and uplift others. Constantly saying one gender is better at something than another gender provides this sense that some people are not fit to do tasks
Growing up, children in their developing stage experience stereotypes repeatedly. They are then expected to behave in certain ways, including behaving in ways they do not wish to do. Studies done by The Fawcett Society show that 45% of people say they witnessed gender stereotyping firsthand growing up, with 51% of people affected saying it constrained their career choices and 44% saying it harmed their personal relationships. Despite some women having the skills and passion to work in male-dominated jobs, they were rejected due to predetermined bias against women in these workplaces.
Those women who are accepted into predominantly male workplaces suffer from constant sexism and harassment. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 18% of women say there are more men than women in their workplace. Some people having the desire to work in workplaces dominated by their gender because it makes them feel more comfortable is understandable, however, if it was not for the sexual harassment in workplaces then this would not have been so common. Up to 49% of women working in maledominated workplaces say sexual harassment is a problem and 32% of women working in female-dominated workplaces say the same, according to a Pew Research Center survey. This stops young women from wanting to work in a field they enjoy purely because of how they would be treated by coworkers.
The reason for all the sexism against men and favoritism towards men in certain workplaces stems from gender stereotypes. It has been proven that in many fields women can keep up with men despite many people employed in those jobs being men. Outside of the workplace, there are subtle stereotypes against men and women, like mental health stigmas. It is said that women are overdramatic, and men should not show their emotions. This usually stems from influences growing up as a father figure might have told a boy that showing emotion does no good and he should not be sensitive towards trivial matters. Showing emotions was seen as a “female trait”.
Suicide is the twelfth leading cause of death in America and approximately 80% of these acts are committed by men, according to CDC suicide data statistics. Because of the stigma that men should not show feelings, they don’t get seek and obtain proper mental health care. They do not see therapists, they do not find solutions, and for the most part, they go on with their lives by living through their pains.
Gender stereotypes harm everyone. They do no good and the continuation of them will only gradually increase these horrible statistics. Women lose jobs and are seen as less valuable than men, while men try to act like they do not need proper help, harming themselves and others. Statistics support the notion that some people are better than others at certain tasks, however, that is because these stereotypes prevent people from getting experience in work fields or getting the help they need. By restricting the perpetuation of these stereotypes, more opportunities will arise, and the world will be more equal.
1940’s there were only a handful of news stations that existed. While only ABC, NBC, and CBS existed back then, and still do, now there are virtually hundreds of news stations. While most give the impression of giving you the cold hard facts of the news, there are several that lightly or even blatantly push their agenda. However, do people like to hear someone like them discussing the topic, or would it be better to hear the facts? In my opinion, news stations should be neutral no matter what.
Now the idea of news reporting is to share the news with the mass public to inform them. When you’re showing bias with political views when reporting news, it starts to become less about provable facts and more about one’s opinion. According to a study done by the Katz Media group, 48% of biased news was from cable news/ news stations. While you can have an opinion on the news (i.e., editorials), it should still be separate from news reporting. However, what are the effects of biased news stations?
While the various news stations are supposed to give the who, what, when, where, why, and how of a story, for one reason or another, most reporters add their political opinion. “It can lead us to miscalculate certain risks, shape our views on foreign countries, and possibly influence the health of entire economies,” according to BBC reporter Zaria Gorvett. So, news reporters have a huge effect on how people see a certain topic. For example, if people are told that grapes are bad, (even though they aren’t) then people would avoid grapes without researching if they are or not.
Some people, however, might like biased news. In terms of the viewer, they get to hear people of their party talk about a set topic. The reporters get little to no opposition from their statements and get paid off if the bias comes because of money. However, this does not allow for the viewer to see both sides of the argument, and their side might not even be right. Depending on the party, they can impose a certain view on a set opinion.
From the beginning, news stations were created to share and inform the general public about stories that they weren’t able to see. However, almost half of the news stations tend to be biased in their coverage, whether it be for political views or money. This distortion of information can also misinform the normal viewer. I humbly think that, while having opinions on the news is great, all news stations should be neutral, no matter what their party or payout may be.
smart them easily. This is forgivable, as the killers in each movie are different people who are not very experienced. In a series like “Halloween,” the killer is always experienced, clever, and knows what he is doing. But in the Scream” franchise, the killers are just normal people, so it makes sense for them to trip and fall, although it does break the tension. When the main character is running for their life and
Ghostface, you feel the tension. When Ghostface s shotgun from his hands and then shoots him, your heart is beating out of your
