Category: Opinion

“That advisory was so boring.” I consistently hear this quote from at least three different people after every advisory period, complaining about how the last hour was a complete waste of their time. But...

As a resident of Amherst MA, it’s relatively impossible to escape the frenzy surrounding the upcoming election. Even if Bernie’s not your guy, it’s likely that you’ve heard someone rant about Trump or read...

Hungry students stare at the clock during the enterity of C period, waiting for lunch to begin. They are starved and tired. Differential and integral calculus does not seem as relevant as eating food....

The brand new Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released on December 18, 2015, has caused fans across the nation to go wild. ARHS students were among the crazed. Jack...

The Force Awakens came out in December, and the reviews  around ARHS were positive overall. Student Adi Shmerling loved the film. He said that the main character, Rey, was “great” and that co-star Finn...

What is Star Wars?  Certainly a cultural icon, a hegemon of the American film industry, and as box office receipts indicate, world pop culture. When it was released in 1977, Star Wars  opened in...

It all started when I had nothing better to do at recess, so I figured, why not? It was the first time I remember feeling a sense of pride and courage, emotions I had...

My three-year-old cousin sat on the couch crying for his mother’s attention, while she sat on the rocking chair reading across the room. Right away, my aunt handed my little cousin her iPhone and...

According to the dictionary, the definition of pretty is: (adj) attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful or handsome, (n) an attractive thing, typically a pleasing but unnecessary accessory. But what really...

I was the mere age of four when I first had a soccer ball at my feet.  It is a game that I, along with millions of people all around the world, have fallen...