All posts tagged "student reporters"

  • Esther Kang 
Troy High 
10th grade
    Covenant House opens doors for homeless youth

    The covenant house is an organization that strives to rescue and take care of the many homeless teens in America. There are many teenagers and children that are homeless because of family issues and many other factors....

    • Posted November 30, 2015
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  • By Kyung Jin Kim 
Valencia High School 
Junior
    You are what you meet: The contagious nature of health risks

    The saying “you are what you eat” has recently been supplemented with another phenomenon: you are who you meet. Friends, family, and the community greatly influence life habits of a person. The latest studies prove that this...

    • Posted November 23, 2015
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  • Dorothy Kang 
Claremont High School 
Senior
    Connecting empathy through the web

    The Internet’s potential to propagate empathy, compassion, and knowledge of global problems is often times overlooked. Currently, social media is today’s freeway for connecting with others both close and far away. The unimaginable network of the Internet...

    • Posted November 23, 2015
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  • Chaerin Lee 
Fairmont Prep Academy
9th grade
    China ends ‘One Child Policy’

    As China’s population reached 1 billion in 1979, the Chinese government had established the one-child policy to reduce the birth rate. This rule was generally enforced by financial consequences, and in some cases, violent punishments such as loss...

    • Posted November 9, 2015
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  • Sorah Park 
Westtown School 
Senior
    Liberty In North Korea

    I started the LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) rescue team at my school, driven by my passion for human rights. LiNK is an organization that works with North Korean refugees to help resettle into their new lives...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • Jeanah Lee 
Beckman High School
Sophomore
    Effects of the California drought

    California is in a drought. In some places in which the drought is extreme, water is extremely scarce, so when residents turn on the tap or the shower, or try to flush the toilet or run the...

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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  • Jason Chung  
Orange Lutheran High 
Junior
    Thor’s hammer in real life

    Marvel’s fictions tend to be so surrealistic that it is nearly impossible to replicate such supernatural events in real life. Thor’s hammer, the Mjölnir, is no exception. In Marvel’s The Avengers in 2012, nobody was able to...

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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