As an admitted music addict, I spend a good amount of my life searching for songs – new and old – that I might fall in love with. I’ve listened to a huge range of genres, though I think it’s near impossible to find every single nook and cranny where music thrives. However, in my…
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Do you want to work out AND have fun at the same time? Here’s a video that won’t let you get bored even after you hit repeat five times! Enjoy!
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For many years, and even today the word attempts to control women’s bodies. In addition, they have tried to control their identity, and behaviour as well. This type of oppression has become entangled so deeply into our culture that people no longer know that it is even there, or how cruel that can be. Brazilian…
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A bouquet next to the bed You know that feeling you get when you come home to a bouquet of flowers? Well, this is a similar situation. If you place a fresh bouquet of flowers next to your bed, it can make you feel great. I would say that you should buy fake flowers…
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Grade 10 is scary. You’re thrown into a brand new building, often with over a thousand other hormonal teenagers, and often on your own, with friends going to a different school or maybe hanging out with a different crowd. Like, honestly, who came up with this whole “high school” concept? Who decided that putting kids into…
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17-year-old Anthony Khem found his passion for dance and he’s been pursuing it ever since. This led to the creation of his own YouTube channels where he does dance covers of some of his favorite artists and also some original work. Hailing from Calgary, he moved to Burnaby to train for dance in order to…
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Summer will be officially over by the end of this week and autumn will be here in the blink of an eye. Traditionally, autumn is all about browns such as “Scores a goal!” by OPI or the dark sophisticated red such as “dress to kilt” by Essie. But this autumn, why not try something new,…
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“There are infinite possibilities for what our lives can be. But only one reality we can live in. Only one we’ll ever know” – ONE by Wong Fu Productions. I could’ve tried counting every star I saw that night but I would be nothing more than a rotting skeleton before I finished a quarter…
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Every relationship has its ups and downs. Life is as full of difficulties as it is full of happiness. In my opinion, a healthy relationship is not the same as a perfect relationship. A healthy relationship occur when effort takes place and problems are solved. Perfect relationships in which there are zero conflicts don’t exist;…
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Sleek lines in front of an intently lit grey backdrop, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue is coming to your stands soon. Wait, what was that? What people would normally expect to be the milieu for an Apple product, IKEA parodies Apple’s advertising scheme to create an ingenious marketing scheme of their own. The bookbook™ mocks the highly…
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So there I was, walking through the evening rush at Stephen Avenue. People were filtering out of buildings, for it was finally time to go back home and relax with a cup of coffee on that chilly (summer/fall) day. Music resonating in my ears, I stumbled (literally stumbled- I had tripped on my own feet…
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Grief and hesitance hang in the air today, as a third video was released by the radical terrorist group ISIS, showing the beheading of a British Humanitarian Aid worker David Haines. The executioner in the video, named by the media as Jihad John, had also threatened to behead yet another H.A. worker…
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Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal opinion and should only be regarded as such. This does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Youth Are Awesome or Youth Central. The topic of modesty is controversial and I therefore warn you that some content may offend some people with differing opinions. Pretty much every girl in our generation,…
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Sleep is a big issue among teens. I know that we stay up all night doing our homework and then end up sleeping five hours or less because we don’t want to be late for first period. Of course the main reason for that could be procrastination, job, volunteering, sports or anything else that you…
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Mindfulness means being in the moment, and not being on what what would be called an “automatic pilot” mode. Since we are all so busy with our lives, we are not fully conscious or aware of what we are essentially doing. By being a mindful person, it would mean that you would be present in…
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