When one thinks of Los Angeles, California, sunny beaches, multilingual communities, and burdening taxes probably come to mind. In the world of Legend, an apocalyptic fiction book by author Marie Lu, there is barely any of the sprawling metropolis left unaffected by natural disasters.
The United States of America? Pffft. That’s been gone for years. In its place there are...
Book Review: Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, many young men and women, deeply affected by this mass slaughter of U.S. citizens, felt a moral obligation to join the military and help in the fight against Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. One of these young men and women stood out from...
“Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood/Under the bridge I could not get enough/Under the bridge forgot about my love/Under the bridge I gave my life away.”
Perhaps no other set of lyrics that Anthony Kiedis—the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—wrote is as insightful or powerful as this set here. These lyrics, excerpted from...
Crack! The 34.5 inch, 33 ounce brown wood bat connected with the small white ball blur, catapulting the baseball way over the centerfield wall, the sound reverberating throughout the venerable Yankee Stadium. Josh Hamilton’s 28th homerun in the first round of the 2008 Home Run Derby set the record for the most homeruns ever hit in a round, a...
With the final season of HBO's Game of Thrones set to air April 14, fans will finally see the conclusion to this series. By its end, "Game of Thrones" will have over 100 hours worth of episodes. Having invested so much time into this show, viewers would be sourly disappointed with a mediocre ending, and it is...
Exhaling through his nose, aiming through the scope of his rifle, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle pulled the trigger. The bullet leapt out of the rifle, screamed through the air, and directly hit its target: a woman. The women, a middle-aged Iraqi, had been attempting to set off a grenade and to blow herself up, taking many U.S. Marines along...
All teenage boys want to make men of themselves. True to their natures, they prefer chasing after pretty girls, earning quick cash, and living a life free from parental supervision instead of experiencing another dreary moment of school. Girls, money, and an adventurous lifestyle, Eiji Ijichi—once a starry eyed teen—had it all.
At age fifteen, after abandoning his failing academic...
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The exhausted student releases a sigh, dragging his hands from the keyboard and mouse across the desk, each hand gliding unevenly and at different intervals across the mahogany surface, drenched in sweat. Pulled over the edge of the wooden desktop, his hands fall to his thighs,...
