In November of 2017, a Chinese company called ByteDance obtained the app Musical.ly. Rebranded as “TikTok,” students and adults alike populated the app and began a new era of lip-sync and dance videos. Musical.ly was popular back in 2014, when students who now attend high school were still in middle school. When Musical.ly debuted, the number of accounts and users grew dramatically, becoming a huge success....

The simple consent or thought to vape is all it takes for one to join the thousands in today’s society that are part of an epidemic called vaping. Many people can conclude that the rates of vaping, among teens especially, continue to escalate every day. It has become common place to hear about another teenager's death due to vaping, and if it´s not death, hundreds of people are suffering from...

My parents sat next to my hospital bed, their heads in their hands in defeat, for there was nothing more they could do to help me. The event that had occurred just hours ago repeated in my head, causing a stir in my stomach and grimace on my face. The regret was powerful enough to make me shake in fear of what was to come next. The pain was ever so slightly pinching my entire body as I focused all my...

An unknown topic has risen in the midst of the already tenuous Middle Eastern problems: the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. This conflict has been significant in the Middle East starting from the 1970s and tensions have risen since. The Kurds, the 4th largest ethnic group in the Middle East, do not have their own homeland as they are spread out in the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia. K...