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Excerpts from The Diary Project, a non-profit organization,
a global multimedia resource that encourages teens to write
about their day-to-day experiences growing up.
living
on oxygen by trista::., 15, female
...((nothing
matters when i'm thin...like a plant, we can train the body
to exist on nothing and take nourishment from the air...nothing
tastes as good as being thin feels...to be appreciated you
have to be tall and thin, but if not tall, then at least under
100 lbs...hunger hurst but starving works...food is an enemy,
the only real deprivation is never being thin...) omg, i'm
obsessed. ...
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A
spark of hope. by Vloek Norton, 18, male
The world could never have too much of God's grace, or will
it be overwhelmingly satisfied with too much security. We
cannot buy security, and yet people still fail to understand
this concept of reality. We will have security when we can
feel that we've done well in life. Security comes as a result
from what we do.
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Essay
by a Black Girl by IHaveANightmareToo, 18, female
..."I have a nightmare," she writes, "that the black family
in America has disappeared. While 80 percent of black children
lived in a family with a father and a mother under the same
roof when I [King] grew up, fewer than 30 percent do today.
Why have we allowed this to happen? Neither the Klan nor Jim
Crow did this to us. We have done it to ourselves." In these
few sentences, she identifies the single greatest problem
facing black Americans today; and in so doing, she articulates
what our most prominent civil rights leaders – who focus almost
exclusively on white society’s allegedly racist transgressions
– dare not say....
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Binge-Drinking
Plagues Even the Ivy League
Is
boredom a factor in binge drinking? Is it a pressure relief,
or a way to fit in? Ms. Dressler examines these and other
possible causes of this dilemma.
From
Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, NY, NY
by Suzanne
Dressler, junior
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The
Most Productive Third of Your Life
Sleep
is needed to rejuvenate the body and mind. What is the most
important part of sleep? Too little sleep can be very detrimental
to your health.
By Igor
Rybinnik
Spectator Staff Writer, Columbia
University
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The
Rise of Gun Violence: Who Shoots Whom?
 What
can be done to end the senseless mass killings? Is the Media
to blame? Can the Media paint a more accurate picture?
From
Columbia Spectator, Columbia University
by Ethan Perlstein, junior
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Public
School Reform: Innovation, Not Renovation
Public
schools are in serious trouble: Standardized test scores have
not increased while dropout rates, teacher turnover rates,
and school violence rates have all increased. Students are
more belligerent, curricula are less modern, and teachers
are less skilled than ever before. Is there a cure?
From
Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, NY, NY
by Michael Ricci, sophmore
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Student
Activities: Supporting What We Don't
Believe
 Freedom
of speech is not absolute, as Supreme Court decisions have
told us. Yet what rights do we have about seeing our funds
being used as we want them?
From
Columbia Daily Spectator
by Joel Rosner
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The
Honor Code Vote: One Student Senator's View
Should
an honor code place one student against another? Is it the
best way to ensure an honest and trusting atmosphere at a
high school? Will it ensure moral action and thinking?
From Powderhouse
Gazette
by Alyssa
Vangelli
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Getting
Along with Others
As students we should learn to live with one another right
now, because we're going to have to do it the rest of our
lives. By learning to live and accept that others are and
will always be different, we take a step away from ignorance,
and a step towards knowledge.
by Erin
Donahue
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