By Adam Kelly | Echo Reynolds High School, Oregon; Taft Union High School, California; Seattle Pacific University, Oregon; University of Central Florida, Florida; New River Community College, Virginia; McNair Discovery Learning Academy, Georgia; Santa Monica College, California; Sparks Middle School, ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Imagine a world where monkeys, squirrels and other small animals don't exist. Plants are withered or dead. Water has drowned coastal cities. This will happen if the earth's temperature continues to rise. Carbon emissions are a large reason why the temperature is increasing. Development ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Would you be willing to give up having children forever for $23? India's sterilization program to slow population growth is second only to China's. Mobile clinics are put up all over India, many in poor areas, to handle these sterilization procedures. Women are offered 1,400 rupees ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Is Snapchat learning bad manners? Once strongly opposed to the idea of introducing ads to the app's personal communications, the company went so far as to say if Snapchat did that, it would be "rude." It's rude now.Snapchat decided to start showing ads because it needs to create ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo How many students spend their free time binge-watching Netflix? More than 50 percent? Yeah, that's what I figured. A survey by Alloy Media and Marketing stated that 61 percent of students that watch movies watch them on their computers. How many students still go to movie theaters ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Trick or treat, smell my feet; give me something good to eat. Kids love Halloween. They get to dress in costumes, walk door to door asking for free candy and devour their stash over the next few days in celebration of their hard work. As a kid, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays. ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo How does one die with dignity? What qualifies dying with dignity? Recently, the topic of assisted suicide boomed across the Internet when a woman named Brittany Maynard decided to end her life a few days from now at age 29. She has inoperable brain cancer and was given six months ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Emma Watson. I bet you are picturing her as Hermione Granger in "Harry Potter" or Sam in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." That's not a bad thing. My mind conjures plenty of images from both movies. But she is doing something infinitely more important now that needs to be recognized. She ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo Bullying isn't something new. It hasn't started recently, and it continues to make headlines across the U.S. A couple weeks ago, two major headlines about bullying have popped up. In the first, teenagers beat up a man in Delaware with a neurodegenerative disease. The attackers filmed ...
By Adam Kelly | Echo I love to see submissions of opinion articles pop into my email. It shows people want to share their view on a topic with the Taylor community. I hope to see these submissions throughout the year, either in response to an opinion or on their own topic. However, neither faculty ...
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