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Quote of the week: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence. We all have read this quote before. We hear it in social studies and literature class. Most of us have probably heard our parents talk about it at some point. We have heard it so many times before that sometimes we tend to take it for granted that this is the way things are, or should be. However, the truth is that things are not always just. We often times see injustices happening all around us. We say the Pledge of Allegiance every single day, and talk about a nation with " Liberty and justice for all".  However, often times we don't take into realization how we should behave under such a nation. Image source The truth is that most of us would probably agr...

Quotes of the week: "Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." -Euripides "Beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal." -Unknown Reasons why school is prison (besides the terrible lunch meals) Image drawing and editing done by me . Have you ever sat in a boring classroom, with nothing to do but hear the teacher talk about the most boring subject ever, and asked yourself, "Why am I here?." As students, we sit in classrooms, in the exact same location that we're in, six to seven hours a day, five days a week, sometimes even more. A  friend of mine  once said that " Instead of striving to learn any of the vast curiosities that surround us, we drill in just enough to bubble in and scribble out the right letters to be passed along year after year, with no actual gain of useful knowledge more than facts that we will inevitably forget as we move along." The truth is that for most of us, it feels like w...