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The Advocate

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How to Prevent Climate Change in Your Everyday Life

Anna Hansen, Writer September 29, 2019

As we’ve seen over the past few years, our Earth’s temperature is changing, drastically.  According to Cool Earth, the Earth has “warmed by 1°C since the middle of the 19th century, and could reach...

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The Underappreciation of Special Needs Students

Jennifer Campos Olvera, Writer September 29, 2019

The underappreciation of special needs students is still very common. Many have been hardly disciplined and been excluded from the other students due to many of the distractions that they may cause. Many...

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Does High School Prepare You For Adulthood?

Gwendolyn Woods, Writer September 29, 2019

School is important, there is no doubt about that, but I think that there are things that could be changed. Yes, classes like Math and English help prepare you for future jobs or lifestyles you might have...

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The Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

Jelani Dupon, Writer September 29, 2019

The Bahamas don’t have great luck with storms, with a direct sweep through the island every 4 years, and a warning of a hurricane almost every single year. Hurricanes hit The Bahamas frequently, and...

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The Good Side of Social Media

Matthew Lowther, Writer September 29, 2019

Social media, is it a blessing or a curse? Recently social media has been on the hot seat of how damaging it was to people, more specifically, teenagers. As social media grows and gets more advanced so...

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Lights, Camera, Xanadu

Mikaela Conway, Writer September 29, 2019

Xanadu is a musical based on the unimpressed sidewalk chalk artist Sonny Malone who’s falling in love with Kira, an unspoken for Muse. We place them at a roller disco in Venice Beach and Mount Olympus....

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How-To Create and Preserve the Perfect Jack-o-Lantern

Amelie Verlinden, Editor September 29, 2019

We may only be a few weeks into autumn, but everybody knows what’s in the air: Halloween season! While there is still sometime before the costume-creating, candy-crazy decorating frenzy begins, stores...

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The Ups and Downs of Celebrities You Might Know

Daniela Ortiz, Writer September 29, 2019

2019 has been a year full of many ups and downs, especially for some celebrities, including arrests, scandals, and much more. These include the rapper ASAP Rocky, Jordyn Woods, Khloe Kardashian, and Lori...

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The Effects of Hurricane Dorian

Savanah Amaya, Writer September 29, 2019

Hurricane Dorian developed on August 24th, 2019 over the Central Atlantic and by September 1st, 2019 it hit the Bahamas, causing the death of 51 people and counting, along with the destruction of many...

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Exchange Students: Esperanza Contreras

Seamus Robison, Writer September 29, 2019

Every year Rotary Youth Exchange sends one student from Forest Grove High School on an exchange trip to a foreign country. This will be a profile piece on the students visiting our school for this year....

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Sexism and It’s Impact on Mental Health

Joselyn Gonzalez, Writer September 29, 2019

   In today's time, it's not shocking when a woman says they have experienced sexism. What is shocking is the fact that those brutal interactions have caused women to develop some sort of mental illness....

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