Competition has been in games since they were created. The first commercially successful video game, Pong, is a game where you bounce a ball with a long white bar against another player with the same objective. You score points when the other player misses, and the game essentially goes on forever,...

The academic pressure of achieving “good grades” has exponentially grown in recent years, impacting the mental and physical health of students. When many consider a “bad grade anything under an A-.”  At only eleven years old a young girl committed suicide jumping off a eleven story building....

WMS students elaborate on today’s youth obtaining positivity through social media worldwide.  Fiona Van Tassel, an eighth grader, explained that a positive use of social media is how it allows students to “try new things.” Sarah Rasimowicz, WMS eighth grader, agrees it is a way to learn, “they...

Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon? Starting with the 1980’s, which was the “Green Decade.” The movies I chose are The Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, ET, and Heathers. The most common response WMS students replied with was the film Ghostbusters with a percentage of 40.2. The next common film was...

When a couple decides to raise a child, they take on a colossal responsibility. With their best interest at heart, parents can invade their child’s life.  Children often wonder: What is going through my parents’ minds when they tell me no? I see no reason I can't do this, so why are they telling...