Vertical Forests – A Solution to Pollution?
These snazzy “living buildings” are a sight for sore eyes, bringing much-needed greenery to urban centers.
Blogger of the Month, April 2016- Hafsah Syed
Introducing: Hafsah Syed, April 2016 Blogger of the Month! Not too long ago, I had the enlightening opportunity to get to know outstanding Youth Are Awesome blogger Hafsah Syed. (actually, we chatted on her 17th birthday!) We sat down at Good Earth Coffeehouse, and didn’t end up eating or drinking anything, but I still learned…
A Sentiment About Time
Dear Diary, Time is not a ticking bomb nor is it a devil to be feared. Time isn’t compelling you to race against mankind nor is it pressurizing you to brawl against the inescapable movement of hands on a clock. However Time is seeking your companionship, it is craving for you to accompany it with…
Advocacy 101: End Poverty by 2030
I was recently given the opportunity to participate in a webinar put on by RESULTS Canada designed to train people to advocate for ending world poverty. We have the ability to end poverty by 2030 if countries donate 0.7% of their GNI* as promised when the Millennium Development Goals were set by the United Nations…
Big Dreams, Harsh Realities, and Meeting Halfway
{Source} From a young age, we’ve been taught to have big dreams and do what we can to make them happen. But as we are exposed to the world’s harsh realities, goals we have might never be achieved. After a phone call with a friend, it dawned that I am a dreamer. I think far ahead into the…
WHOLE Churchill: You Are Not Alone
On a sunny Tuesday morning, four enthusiastic students sat down for an interview about WHOLE Churchill. WHOLE Churchill is a community created by Haroon M., Megan C., Rahul A., and Sidharth S., to promote awareness of mental health for all youth, starting with the students of Sir Winston Churchill High School. Shruti: What is…
Existentialism in the Eyes of the Beholder
Have you ever sat back and just thought about where your life is going? Not the typical, “Ahhhh what am I gonna do with my life and myself and my everything??? AHH. High school is almost over.. ahhhh,” type thoughts, not those. More so the thoughts along the lines of, “Where is the human race…
The future of concerts is now: Perfume at SXSW 2015
Produced by the acclaimed Dentsu creative director Kaoru Sugano, Japanese girl group Perfume’s performance last week at SXSW 2015 was nothing short of mind boggling. Featuring complex visual projections and synchronisation of military precision, the massive production team of the SXSW performance created a dizzying, seamless audiovisual treat with the help of enormous technical production…
Post High School Security Blanket
As teenagers growing up, we’re beginning to face daily struggles and pressures revolving around one question; what are we going to do with our lives? I can say my biggest fear is amounting to absolutely nothing. While I know (ok, strongly hope) that won’t happen; there is the slight, terrifying possibility it could. Which is…
Who you know vs. what you know
Does who you know matter more than what you know? FOX Business argues that who you know is more important because knowledge is only valuable if you have somewhere to support you. Networking is more important than ever with the rise of social media outlets geared towards professional life. It’s also an indicator to employers…
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Lately, everyone around me has been asking me one question; “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My friends, family and teachers have asked this question for as long as I can remember. My answer has changed at least a dozen times and I still have a short list of career’s floating…
Where would we be? (Short Story)
“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…
The future of gaming PCs: Alienware Area-51
Alienware has devised a new gaming PC that is compact without sparing any performance. It is said that it will have a high power processor with intels new Haswell Cpu, up to three full size graphics cards, up to five hard drives. The amount of ram slots available is not known yet. As you can…
A personal bucket list
Sadly we are not going to live forever, I mean nothing is bound to exist forever and neither are we. Humans have a limited time in this world and that my friend is our existence’s bitter truth. And in that limited time we have in this world we get to decide how we spend it.…
Fashion designers of 1939 predict the future
(Original Image) As curious humans, we enjoy finding patterns in behavior in order to predict the future. You know what I’m talking about; movies like Back to the Future are perfect examples of the high hopes that people in the past had of us in the 21st century. Obviously, technology has (sadly) not advanced at…