TikTok is the new social media craze, and with the Covid-19 pandemic, its popularity has only grown. As teens search for new ways to pass the time and connect with peers, TikTok is an easy outlet, and...
Over the past few months, I’ve been forced to reflect on art and what gives it value. My thoughts led me to the ongoing discussion about high art vs low art, and as I’ve read, I’ve come to some important...
With everyone in quarantine, there has been an increase in movie and music streaming service subscriptions. Music encapsulates our emotions and there’s no doubt that this quarantine has been a rollercoaster...
The use of graphic images in media has been a topic of widespread controversy for decades. The debate of either graphic images are necessary in bringing awareness to issues has come to a boil in the last...
The gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 has been on the news a lot lately, especially with its potential use to help treat COVID-19 and genetic diseases. It has been praised by the media and by the public alike,...
This school year has come with a variety of changes and challenges, some of the biggest ones coming from the College Board. In response to schools supporting distanced learning and all the challenges to...
President Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was an actor, starring in many films before his presidency. Donald Trump, the 45th president, was the owner of a private conglomerate and...
Since March of 2020, the Amador community — along with the entire world — has been on lockdown because of the pandemic. Not only has the pandemic brought very big changes to the 2020-2021 school year,...
The US has reported an alarming number of 45 mass shootings in the last month.
A mass shooting is an incident in which "four or more [are] shot and/or killed in a single event (incident), at the same...
As America is getting vaccinated, discussion shifts towards the new “vaccine passport” idea – where Americans have to obtain proof of vaccination to access select private property, such as sport...
No one can say for sure how life will go on as coronavirus never ceased to disappear from the news reports with an ever growing case number in the U.S. As vaccines started to be distributed across the...
Earlier this month, on March 4th, Facebook ended the ban on political ads on its platform. Facebook had banned political ads indefinitely one week before the presidential elections last year to prevent...
