Nike Introduces Hijab for Female Muslim Athletes
Kristin Iler, Sports Editor
April 26, 2017
In recent weeks, Nike has created a prototype for a hijab. It is designed for the Muslim Female athletes who were complaining about the comfort of their traditional hijabs while competing. The hijab is designed with the Muslim rules in mind. For example, it is breathable, but also opaque, which i...
Worst Time Machine Ever: Nazism Revived in 2017
Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
February 28, 2017
For the first time in about sixty years, Nazism makes headlines once again--which is not the new part since Neo-Nazism as a regime has been lurking in the dark spaces of the internet since the internet began—but the shocking part about it is that people seem to be defending Nazism in a way that is...
The Spirit Behind Japanese Martial Arts
Bim Peacock, Literature Editor
March 8, 2016
A flow of tradition has opened wide across the ocean between Japan and America. Since the time of the Shogunate’s fall in World War II, their foods, their stories, their art, countless things have melted into our culture from our island brothers. Beyond the many superficial ideas, however,...
What Once Was a Diamond
Bim Peacock, Staff Writer
May 12, 2015
Before the days when religion ruled mankind, before the days when it would even bother to kill for such a petty thing, a proud civilization rose from the sands of the east that would witness the world rise and fall. From the Tigris and Euphrates, the city-states of Sumeria were born, farming and fighting...
Path to Heaven
Jacob Blodgett, Staff Writer
May 8, 2015
Heaven: a shining place full of wonder and light, where souls enjoy the afterlife in peace and happiness. Around the world, cultures speak about a “heaven” with great rewards. In most, eternal happiness is guaranteed and enjoyed. In others, instead of going to heaven, souls are reborn over the course...
Journey Through the Underworld
Jacob Blodgett, Staff Writer
May 5, 2015
The Underworld: a place of fire and brimstone where evil souls are thrown into its dark maw and punished for all eternity. Around the world, different cultures believe in different versions of the underworld that range from a solemn, wandering existence to a flaming landscape filled with demons waiting...
Stop Erasing Me
Emma Franklin, Senior Editor
April 28, 2015
My grandmother is from the Philippines. She was born there, raised there, and then married a white man: my grandfather. They had six children, and the children look Pilipino. One of them was my father, who married a Japanese girl, and then a ginger girl from Tennessee. I am pale but I am not white;...
Putting a Face on Nations
Jack Scott, Staff Writer
March 6, 2015
There is no modern country that does not have a national flag. Even the Vatican, home of the Pope, has a flag. These designs provoke a spectrum of emotions inside humans, like fear or anger or pride. Flags invoke a variety of feelings, yet they are just sheets of cloth with designs on them. Humans a...
French Class Takes on the Paintbursh
Rhiannon Martin, Staff Writer
December 16, 2014
Coinciding with the class’s trip to the High Art Museum in Atlanta on November 12, Levels Two and Three French Classes at NFHS are currently working on a project about French artists and how they impacted art. In the project, the students are required to complete a research paper and to paint in the...
Around the World in 25 Countries
Jack Scott, Staff Writer
October 31, 2014
Every autumn, a section of Disney’s Epcot Park is transformed into a surreal and sometimes confusing conglomeration of culinary culture from all over the world. Chinese monasteries stand aside Norwegian stave churches, attracting crowds of people weary from the blistering and oppressive central Florida...
Pretty in Pink Prom
Meredith Pirtle, Staff Writer
May 12, 2014
What do you think when you hear the word “prom”? Big hair? Glamorous dresses? High heels? If you are anything like me, you hate all of those things, but that does not mean you can not go have the time of your life at prom. The thing most teenagers do not know is that prom does not have to be all...
Lost Spirit
Bim Peacock, Staff Writer
March 21, 2014
Let’s go play video games! Let’s watch TV all day! Let’s read a book about a pointless made up world similar to ours! Let’s sit inside and rot away in the darkness! What has our culture come to? Humans were born to trek across the world and witness the miracles of the universe. Yet...
Sarah Treusch, News/Sports Editor
September 17, 2020
Student registration for the Preliminary SAT (PSAT) opened Aug. 12 and closes Sept. 27. The exam will be held on Oct. 14, and for students not taking the PSAT, that day will...
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