Now I’ll say in advance, I don’t think this is the exact order, because I’m incredibly indecisive and every song deserves first place. I also decided to exclude all my favourite musical related songs, because they seemed a little out of place. If anyones looking for something to listen to, then I’d highly recommend all…
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What happens to cookies baked from dough that has not been cooled? Background Recently, I came across a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that called for refrigerating the dough before baking it, which I hadn’t done before. I made the recipe, refrigerated the dough overnight, and baked the cookies the next day, and they turned…
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Adel and Hiyam Ghanam along with their three daughters, aged eighteen, sixteen and thirteen, and nine year old son were one of the thousands of Syrian refugee families who came to Canada in 2016. For Adel, living in Aleppo, Syria with all the bombing and danger; he was always worrying about what might happen to…
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We all know that in our math and physics classes 3.14 is a sufficient substitute for pi. But how much error does this method produce? What does NASA use for their calculations? According to the chief engineer for NASA’s Dawn Mission Marc Rayman, pi to the fifteenth decimal place is sufficient enough for all calculations…
DetailsLet’s take a look at the Alabama Human Life Protection Act which was signed into law on Tuesday by Republican governor Kay Ivey. The bill takes a severe and zero tolerance policy on abortions (with very, very few exceptions) in the state of Alabama. The bill strips women of the right to make their own…
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Welcome to fashion’s night out. The Met Gala, formally named the Costume Institute Gala, is an annual fundraising event held by Vogue at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to encourage donations and raise funding for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. For the second time since 2017, Frank Ocean…
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Journalism is a career path I can be quite scared of, yet I can’t look away from it entirely. There is something heroic about writing stories. Since those stories are meant to be factual, there’s a guarantee that a number of people will be caused to think and reflect on the world we live in. Before…
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Once again, as I was browsing YouTube, this video was recommended to me: It reminded me of the bleak, and inevitable prospect of climate change. It was frightening, how drastically, yet easily this world could collapse and transform. This daunting fact was stated by the video I discovered, and it encompasses a grand sense of…
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There’s a one-in-a-million chance global warming is not caused by humans. The evidence pertaining to manmade global warming has reached the ‘gold standard,’ which is not something take lightly in the scientific community. For example, this ‘gold standard’ was applied in 2012 in the discovery of the subatomic particle, which is a basic building block…
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If you google “Should We Pay Kids For Chores?” you would get websites debating whether we should or not. Would you pay your child for doing chores? Pros Responsibility These chores will eventually become routine, and your child will adopt these habits. Soon, you won’t even have to ask them to do something, they’ll automatically…
DetailsIf you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 11 years, than you probably have heard of Avengers: Endgame, the latest addition to the MCU. It is on track to become the top grossing movie of all time, and is packed with moments that are sure to send shivers down your spine. Here…
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I am honoured to introduce our newest blogger of the month, Donel Kadima! Since joining YAA, Donel has written numerous eye-opening and unique posts that I strongly suggest you check out! A grade 10 student at Ernest Manning high school, Donel is a girl of many talents! Not only a writer with Youth Are Awesome,…
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Life can be stressful, especially with an overwhelming schedule. Whether it’s an incredibly tedious and uninteresting assignment or a task that you have been putting off for a week, it is easy to fall into the habit of forcing ourselves to finish a task that must be completed. We begin to ignore the important parts…
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Escape rooms or locked rooms whichever name you prefer to give them is a fun way to test to see how smart your team, friend group, family etc. is. I love doing them because I get this rush of adrenaline as my friends and I try to gather the clues and figure out how to…
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