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The student news site of North Forsyth High School

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Ashton Bruce

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer

Ashton Bruce is a junior at North Forysth High School who loves going to thrift stores to find Renaissance-age art and quirky mugs for ninety-nine cents. She considers her junior year to be the prime year of her high school career and has high hopes for the rest of the year regarding her classes. When she’s not in school, she is playing softball, meeting up with her friends to be the certified broke gal, or mucking around the house relaxing with her hot chocolate from her favorite painted mugs she made regardless of the temperature outside.

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The next few days are the same, thinking about the trees and dirt outside, thinking about God, thinking about finding a new job, thinking about her. Some days she comes home and when it’s sunny outside, I’m on the ground and she’ll sit beside me. We’ll talk about our day and write words into the dirt before going inside to wash our hands and make dinner.

Rot

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
May 15, 2017
Above is a screenshot taken from YouTube of Richard Spencer, leader of the alt-right movement, being punched in the face mid-sentence by a protester at Trump’s Inauguration. The alt-right movement, as Spencer explained, has taken Matt Furi’s popularized drawing of “Pepe the frog” and attached it to the Alt-right movement as a symbol for white nationalism, which just proves that 2017 is just as disturbing as 2016.

Worst Time Machine Ever: Nazism Revived in 2017

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 28, 2017
Many people protest in Flint, Michigan the government’s inaction regarding the amount of impure water in the town and advocate for the clean water supply in the name of human rights. Credit for the photo goes to Business Insider.

Flint Not Forgotten

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 10, 2017
And every morning, the white wall would whisper, “Hello,” to the sun every morning. “You’re here,” the white wall would whisper, and smile.

White Walls

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
December 19, 2016
Mackenzie Cary, President, and Morgan Kilpatrick, Vice President, both worked to arrange the event scheduled in Mr. Hodges’ classroom, Room 343. “It’s going to be a cha-RIOT,” senior Mackenzie said, laughing.

Latin Club Schedules Tie-Dye Fundraiser to Raise Money for Chariot Race

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
November 18, 2016
North Forsyth junior, Noah Smith, regards the LGBT community with respect and high praise, addressing the importance of acknowledging how the LGBT community sought reform. “I think that our history is us dying,” Noah says earnestly. “After a while, everyone said, ‘All right, fine,’ but there’s still the discrimination and hatred. I think history is important for every community.”

Kicking, Clawing, Fighting: A Brief History of the LGBT Community

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
November 2, 2016
A screenshot of Jane Wood Allen’s original post in which she directed racially charged insults at First Lady, Michelle Obama, is shown above. Photo credited to Georgia Newsday.

Forsyth County Teacher Aide Fired

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
October 11, 2016
Juniors Addie Harris, starting shortstop, and Madelyn Oliver, starting second baseman, celebrate in the North Georgia softball dugout after a motivating speech from Coach Henderson. “Playing at North Georgia is a great experience,” says Harris after the game, “especially for the girls who are motivated to play collegiate softball.”

Varsity Lady Raiders Dominate Madison County

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
September 8, 2016
Freshman pitcher, Sarah Lowe, was wicked on the mound. With five strikeouts within the first three innings, she readied her team to fight against South.

North Forsyth’s JV Softball Team Fights Hard Against South

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
August 31, 2016
She makes the tombstones smile and the graveyard whisper compliments. I’ve always tried asking them questions—“Is it something I should really be scared of? Is there really a God, or are these whispers ghosts or my mind? What’s the point?”—but she tends to just have chitchat. She’s always been better at chitchat. Photo used with permission from Leilani Gibbons.

Selfish God

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
May 23, 2016
Her soul formed the sketch of a bear in the sky, the name of Ursa Major, her soul dotted in stars on the dark span of the sky.

MUD OR MAN

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
April 27, 2016
I refused to take my heart out of my chest to sew it onto my sleeve, because that was just another way to bleed out.

Alphabet Magnets

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 15, 2016
Kimya Dawson, aged 43, is a songwriter who worked with plentiful of other artists in the punk folk genre and on movies such as Juno. Photo used from Kimya Dawson’s public Twitter account.

Kimya Dawson: Soccer Mom Punk

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 8, 2016
The velociraptor, pictured above, is not all that you think them to be. Velociraptors, the stars of movies like Jurassic Park, every sequel after, and Jurassic World, were actually the size of lapdogs. They also had feathers.

Five Fun Facts about Dinosaurs

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 23, 2016
Scientists in New York discover a way to program very polite robots who apologize for their mistakes and question what this means for roboticists in the future. Daily Mail writer, Sarah Griffiths, comments on the experiment in an analysis of, “Its response demonstrates a basic level of self-awareness ... as well as good manners.”

Scientists Create Polite Robot That Passes Self-Awareness Test

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
November 9, 2015
“And everyone is smiling for me. No one’s crying. Everything is black but not in a scary way.” Photo used with permission from Leilani Gibbons.

Glow-in-the-Dark Stars

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
October 20, 2015
Sophomore Lauren Hogan brings in a run with a good hit in the second inning.

Lady Raiders Compete in First Games of the Season

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
August 28, 2015
Picture used with permission from Savannah Keith. When I’m at the top of the hill, he’s at the very edge of the rocky cliff, staring out to the forest. A creek runs through the middle, and I thought it was beautiful. I admire from afar, keeping my distance. “Beautiful, isn’t it?” I say, smiling.

Falling Off

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
May 7, 2015
It isn’t a matter of trust but a matter of knowledge, and I’m a bit of a know-it-all.

Theia

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
May 5, 2015
Pictured above (left to right): Front row – Medea, Artemis, Persephone, Cassandra. Back row - Europa.

Mythological Story Time

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
April 14, 2015
I find a place with a tree, and I forget about the car as I walk to it. I sit against it, feeling my shirt ride up against the stump as the bark clings to the fabric, and I close one of my eyes. Everything is clear. I close that one, and then I open the other, and everything is the same.

Something Felt, Not Explained

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 20, 2015
Many people take a stance on the controversial debate of whether GMO’s benefits outweigh the harm they inflict by identifying as pro-GMO or pro-organic. Freshman, Leilani Gibbons, provides her evidence to support organic products with the aid of bees. “Bees are an essential part of the environment because they provide for all of life,” Leilani says. “They are debatably the most important species in the circle of life.”

Why the Human Race Needs to Help the Bees

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 11, 2015
“I grin at him and toss the magazine onto his face. The cover has a picture of Angelina Jolie, and before I can read the gossip that has about a half-chance of being true, he groans and tosses it onto the floor. He crawls onto the couch, his left arm stretched across the back of it, and he smiles a Cheshire-cat grin at me.”

A Conversation about a Hostage Situation

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 9, 2015
Sara Bahayi interviewed with the Afghanistan Wish on her important contribution to the community by encouraging women to get out of the house in order to become independent. “For how long should women depend on men’s income, taking the men’s orders?” she asked. “I want them to be independent, to do something for themselves.”

Meet Afghanistan’s First Female Taxi Driver, Sara Bahayi

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
March 5, 2015
Photo used with permission by Beth Elzey. Due to the differences in mutations that cause autism, scientists say that it is more appropriate to refer to the disorder as “autisms” (in that, it is plural) to allow diversity within the disorder.

Why the ‘S’ in Autisms Matters

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 23, 2015
“I can’t answer that,” John mumbled, and he tilted his head to see William stare at him, his eyes squinted like he was still looking at the sun. “I don’t know what heaven looks like. I can’t contort my beliefs in order to meet the hypothetical.”

The Process of Independent Thought

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 23, 2015

Gravity

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 3, 2015
Pictured above: Harriet Brooks, female scientist of the nineteenth century who was the first to realize that elements can change from one to another.

10 Female Scientists We Never Learned About

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 3, 2015
I Never Wrote a Letter Back

I Never Wrote a Letter Back

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
December 1, 2014
Above is photographed the horror of a bee upon beeing punched savagely.

Beekeeper’s Guide to the Galaxy: How to Punch Bees

Ashton Bruce, Megan Hoffman, and
December 1, 2014
Smoke tastes better blown from your lungs rather than resting inside.

In the Perspective of a Cigarette

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
November 20, 2014
Delirium

Delirium

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
November 13, 2014
Jaimee Davis, sophomore and Junior Varsity Lady Raiders catcher, stands on second base after her steal to second on a wild pitch at home plate. She caught for the entirety of the game for pitcher and junior, Courtney Walls.

Raiders on Raiders

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
October 14, 2014
Hands to yourself, boys. No matter your relationship to someone (whether they be a stranger or your girlfriend) doesn’t mean you have any right to touch her body without consent.

“Innocent” Flirting May Be Venomous to Teenage Girls

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
October 2, 2014
Don’t be scared of falling in love with the same sex. The only shameful thing in it is that some people can find something vulgar in love.

Gay Anthem

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
September 13, 2014
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