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Recently, the media has been in over its head over the controversy that surrounds singer Chris Brown’s song “Turn Up the Music”. What, you ask, is it that has the media buzzing about this particular song? Well, for one thing, Chris Brown’s ex-girlfriend Rihanna is featured in this song. (Both are pictured at right.)
2012 is a Leap Year, meaning that an extra day has been added to our calendar – February 29th, or Leap Day. This date only occurs once every four years, when this extra day is added to correct for the fact that the earth does not actually orbit the sun in precisely 365 days, the length of a typical year. Continue reading How Would You Spend ‘Leap Day’?
A conversation with some of my friends got me thinking: are we really eating responsibly? Are we making a conscious effort to evaluate how the foods we eat affect our overall health? Are we so accustomed to eating unhealthily that snack and/or junk food companies have made us out to be predictable customers? To these questions, my reply is: perhaps. Continue reading Are We Eating Responsibly?
Hello, my name is Jason. I just recently graduated from an amazing program called the Advanced Credit Experience (ACE) program. I have been up at York University’s Keele Campus for the entire first semester. During that time, I received a university credit, as well as four high school credits. I participated in a university course, found out what a tutorial Continue reading The ACE Program
There was a great article that I read on Thursday, January 26, 2012, entitled “Under Pressure: The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario families”. This article was based on a report that the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives did on rising tuition fees in Ontario. The article talked about how Ontario undergraduate students have witnessed a 244% real tuition Continue reading The Shrinking Opportunity For Post-Secondary Education
Do you remember the time when one actually played outside, or met up with friends and actually spoke, or when people actually had physical communication and did not hide behind the screens of their phones all day long? Those days no longer exist. Instead, today much of the Western population, youth especially, spend their time behind the screens of their Continue reading Crackberry