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  American High Schools: Lacking Life Skills

  

  By bb-rocks, Uniontown, OH

  Imagine giving a group of elderly people cell phones and then asking them to text a friend. Now imagine a giving high school students needles, some thread, and buttons. The general expression of astonishment would beg the question, “Now what?” The generation gap is far too wide; just as the elde...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Skype: Technology's Portal for Human Connection

  

  By bb-rocks, Uniontown, OH

  Picture a soldier. He knows three things for sure: one, he is fighting and willing to perish for the country to which he is loyal; two, he is one million miles from home; and three, he has had to leave behind everything and everyone he loves. His question soon arises: Will I ever see my family and...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Run Softly

  

  By bb-rocks, Uniontown, OH

  Run like the tomatoes and ‘ketchup’ Run like the neighborhood kids playing freeze-tag, like the red lips of lemonade-drinking, gossiping women Run like the superheroes saving damsels in vine-climbing sky-towers Run like the drawbridge will stay open for you just a crack, just enough to ...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Beauty vs. the Beast

  

  By bb-rocks, Uniontown, OH

  The beast preys greedily on a 15-year-old girl, showing no mercy. Physically and mentally, she deteriorates, fades, and weakens, but it cares only for her money. She surrenders to its unceasing trickery. At last, it devours the skeletal, exhausted girl, but it does not stop at just one; it will bing...