In late-October 2017, my social teacher introduced an opportunity to me, called the Vimy Pilgrimage Award: a fully-funded week-long educational experience to Belgium and France, where you go to learn about Canada’s efforts in the First World War. Curious to see what would happened, I applied and to my surprise: I won. Now this was…
Thursday morning, April 21, 2016. Paisley Park, Minneapolis. A panicked call to 911. An unresponsive male in an elevator. Paramedics rush to the scene, performing CPR, but alas it is too late. Prince Rogers Nelson is pronounced dead at 10:07 AM. The world goes into shock. At only 57 years old, a legend has died.…
In 1982 a movie was released by Disney. While memorable, it was not a traditional Disney cartoon based on a more-or-less famous fairy tale. The movie told of a world not far in the future where anthropomorphic computer programs lived in a digital realm and where a sentient program has turned the realm into a…
Recently I saw the much acclaimed Tron Legacy in 3D. When I first heard of the movie and saw that it was a Disney movie, I didn’ t really expect much since Disney has never appealed to me. This is because many of Disney movies have been mostly family movies so Tron seemed like it would…