What if Rap Were to be Taught as Poetry?
What if rap were considered more than just pop culture? What if it were to be studied as an academic subject? As it turns out, there is much to be learned from rap songs....
Category: Commentary
Reading For Fun
The bookshelf beside my bed is aspiration and accomplishment in equal measure. One shelf holds stories that I am now familiar with, full of marked up pages with dogeared bottoms. The second bends under...
The Promised Neverland: Review
The school library has recently added a large selection of new comics. The librarians actually reached out to me for some ideas. Naturally, I provided them with a two-page list of recommendations, with a...
“Star Wars: Visions” Review
I have been waiting for this. Star Wars: Visions was announced in the winter of 2020, and I’ve been looking forward to it the second I heard the premise. It’s a series of animated...
Food for Thoughts: 4U Bubble Tea
Many Hanover restaurants and shops have left or changed their location this past year, and the turnover has made room for new businesses to open. One of the new businesses is 4U Bubble Tea,...
The Reckoning of the Republican Party
When Senator Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012, the response from the left was beyond intense. Opinion writers falsely called him an animal abuser, twisted his words to make him sound like a...
“Nyxia” Book Review
Nyxia is the debut novel of Scott Reintgen, and the blurb on the front cover describes the book as “A high octane thriller… Nyxia grabs you from the first line and never lets go:”...
“Earthlings” Book Review
My first thought when I finished reading “Earthlings” by Sayaka Murata, was “what the hell did I just read?” I received the book as a Christmas present from my mother. I had never heard...
Education, Compassion, and Ignorance
Sitting in the library as I write this essay, I see dozens of students taking their education for granted, walking to and from our cafeteria and wandering around the hallways to avoid returning...
The Inherent Whiteness of Skiing
When I was three, my parents took me skiing for the first time. I wasn’t too enthusiastic about the sport initially, but as time went on every day among the trees and my friends...