There are four main core classes in the modern schooling system: Math, Language Arts, Science, and History. In my high school, they require you to take four years of all of those except History. That actively shows the fact that school systems know History is useless. Compared to Language Arts, Science, and Math, History has …
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Ocean Pollution
Although, we heavily depend on oceans and it covers more land than anything else, we don’t treat it with the respect it deserves. Oceans “[produce] over half the world’s oxygen and absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than our atmosphere” and it is disappointing that ocean pollution is a problem. A lot of the waste …
Living through a Pandemic
Vidit Agarwal, April 2020 Usually, in the Agarwal household, we start swimming and it begins to feel like summer. Although we are going through a horrific dull time filled with all kinds of uncertainty, we are given the opportunity to spend more time with our loved family and learn more about ourselves and what we …
Living in a Pandemic
Vidit Agarwal March 2020 Quarantine Diary 1 Contrary to popular belief, quarantine hasn’t been that bad. There are disadvantages, but it isn’t that big of a deal. I’ve spent a lot of time doing what I usually do outside of school hours. During school hours, I just text my friends, so I’m able to stay …
Caffeine Addiction
Vidit Agarwal, March 2020 It may be hard to realize, but caffeine is a drug. According to the American Foundation of Pediatrics, 75% of teenagers and young adults devour caffeine by an average of 400 mg of caffeine a day. That is four times more than the amount humans can tolerate. People consider it funny …
The Influence of Rap Music on Teenagers today
Vidit Agarwal April, 2020 The Box, the number one song on Billboard, amassed over 68 million streams according to Complex by January 13. Roddy Ricch, the artist behind this hit, created a bizarre and catchy beat that featured lyrics filled with vulgar slang peppered with crude profanity. Most rap songs, like The Box, display an …
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Apple, and it’s Rise to Luxury
September 2019, Vidit Agarwal Intro Apple started with three men—Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Mike Markkula—who together in the late 1970s designed and marketed the Apple series of computers. It was the first commercially successful line of personal computers, and led to the Apple Lisa in 1983—the first computer to use a mouse-driven GUI (graphical …
The Economic Sanctions Against China
Vidit Agarwal, August 2019 The Facts The Trump administration imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, including flat-screen televisions, aircraft parts, and medical devices. The goods marked for tariffs will now face a punishing 25% tax when they’re imported into the US. The point is to punish China by making Chinese products more …
Spider man’s Exit From the MCU
Vidit Agarwal , August 2019 Ever since Tom Holland’s Spider-Man was introduced in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, it was clear he was being readied by Marvel Studios to become the spotlight in the MCU’s future. But now it looks like those plans will no longer come to fruition, as it was announced earlier this …
Issues with the NCAA
May 2019 Vidit Agarwal The annual basketball spectacle called March Madness is the NCAA’s big revenue raiser and what student-athletes prepare for their entire year. It receives lucrative television income associated with this 68-team tournament. But March Madness is but a small portion of the madness associated with college sports that occurs pretty much year …
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