Recently, for one of my duties as a member and President of the Raffaello Sanzio Italian Honor Society chapter at FTHS, I had to give a presentation on a current event in Italy for our recent meeting....
Big Muddy Monster: A Big, Muddy Monster
Many creatures have called the swamp their home. Whether it be lizards, big hairy men, or sea monsters, the swamp is a biome surrounded by legend and fear. The...
Rona, macarona, the rons, corona - all nicknames for the commonly known virus COVID-19 that has taken over our world for the past two years. Everywhere you go, people are wearing masks. First discovered...
The Attack on Ukraine: Over the past week, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent forces to violently and forcefully invade Ukraine, deepening the trajectory of a world war. BBC reports that by...
For centuries, music has been a source of entertainment and emotion. Many listen to music seeking some sort of connection or meaning. Others see it as merely “background noise” and don’t dive too...
Kraken: An Unimaginably Massive Squid
The ocean can be pretty terrifying. Imagine being surrounded by never-ending waves in every direction, with thousands of feet below filled with alien creatures...
In the last month, internet game Wordle gained popularity over social media. As a word guessing-based game, players are challenged to guess the day’s word of the day, a five-letter mystery term, in six...
Debates in Education: Society is constantly changing, the expectations and normalities of the modern world shifting into a new narrative as time progresses. Such a change causes a domino effect where all...
Mokele-mbembe: One Who Stops the Flow of Rivers
The Congo River is one of the longest rivers in the world. Reaching over 2,900 miles in length, the river flows from the Atlantic Ocean to the heart of...
Champ: American Nessie
As addressed in a previous edition of this column, the Loch Ness Monster (also known as Nessie) is one of the most famous cryptids in zoological history. A so-called living dinosaur...
Kongamato: The Living Dinosaur
65 million years ago, a giant asteroid collided with the Earth, generating an irrevocably deadly explosion that killed nearly all living creatures. The most significant...
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Foreign conflicts impact nations from across the seas, clear when analyzing the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the U.S.’s involvement. First and foremost, let’s establish why...
