Seventeen lives lost in the Parkland, Florida shooting within six minutes and twenty seconds on February 14, 2018. Fifty-eight lives lost in the Las Vegas shooting within ten minutes on October 1, 2018.   Twenty-six lives lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting within five minutes on ...

As the school year comes to a close, many students will revel in the thoughts of the freedoms of summer. However, the fun school-time activities do not end. June 1, East High coordinators and members of student senate have put together a luau. There will be free pineapple Dole Whip and spam musubi, whic...

On April 4th, 2017, there was an attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, that killed about 78 people who were seeking safety in basements. 43 of those people showed  signs of being exposure to chlorine and sarin gas which are highly toxic chemicals. These are the chemicals that were supposedly used by Bashar ...

Talking about mental illness is hard in a society that likes to sweep it under the rug. Those who do speak out about it are often ostracized from society, judged for talking about an issue that is detrimental to this country’s success. At least 1 in 5 American adults suffer from a mental illness in...

In 1926, Yellowstone's wolf population downsized by hundreds due to excessive hunting. Over the many years of hardly any wolf activity, Yellowstone had a drastic change in its environment. As a result of having no wolves to help regulate the elk and deer population, the number of these large herbivore...

The two forms of art taught at East High by East teachers are, visual and performing. Visual arts consists of art that utilizes paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing Arts include artists who use their voices or bodies, often in relation to other obje...

Opposed to a staple of Donald Trump’s campaign speeches, immigrants are not the leading cause of crimes in the United States. Why do many people, including the president of the United States, have this thought? Referring to the Democratic party, Donald Trump once stated, “They want to have illegal im...

As an African American, the “n-word” evokes feelings of oppression, disrespect, and an appearance of an overall racist mentality from the speaker. For countless years, my ancestors were oppressed as slaves, having this word spat in their faces by their oppressors who saw them as objects or lowly...