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  • Is College Worth the Debt?

    Posted on by Sierra Knapp

                Anyone who has ever considered going to college knows that it’s not cheap. While it may be expensive, many people still want to go. College offers many experiences that an individual may only get there. It also offers a chance of obtaining a degree in something you love and wish to make a career out of. Just how much debt can one accumulate over the course of their college career and is it worth it?

    Being a college student myself, I’ve always had pressure by my family to get a degree in something. Even if that means not liking what they want me to major in. Success is all that matters to most people, but what does enjoying life mean if you don’t like what you are doing? It’s important to think about the many options it can mean to get a certain degree and the amount of money that goes into it.

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  • Living in a Fascist Government: 5 Signs

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    D. Trump & Mussolini

    Authoritarian government that is in control of such things as the media as well as trying to control many other aspects of what is not already theirs. That is fascism. It may sound familiar because that’s what the United States government is looking like already.

    “Fascism is purely authoritarian in nature” and “the leader of a fascist state will be an all-powerful dictator as being all-knowing and at near demigod status” (Fascism). I wouldn’t go far as to saying ‘demigod,’ but perhaps the ‘leader’ will think that they are.

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  • Natural Gas brings end to Coal

    Posted on by Sierra Knapp

                Coal is mainly used for electricity, but there are other ways to generate electricity including natural gas, hydro and nuclear power. Coal is dying though. How can this be? Why is this happening? Furthermore, why is it not coming back as an economic force in the United States?

    What is coal exactly? “Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago” (World Coal Association). Basically, when plants die, their energy gets trapped because their “decaying process is interrupted, preventing the release of the stored solar energy,” and that’s where the energy gets locked in the coal (World Coal Association).

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  • Feeling Safe through Ignorance

    Posted on by Sierra Knapp

                People will sometimes only watch what they believe in and what they want to see or hear. Maybe you know someone who watches only a certain news station or reads only a certain newspaper, and they don’t want to give anything else a try. Even if they know what they are reading isn’t true. They are stuck on a station/newspaper. I can see it making sense though. They have always relied on their station for 40+ years and they don’t want to ‘betray’ them. I can understand how one might feel about that.

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  • Why Do People Believe Fake News

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    Let’s first address what fake news is exactly. It’s nothing new despite the overwhelming spotlight it has been getting in the past couple of years due to social media and viral emails. Fake news is pretty much exactly how it sounds: news that is not real; news that did not happen. It’s also news that is not completely based on facts. As we all know, we want news that is real and based on facts. We want the truth.

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  • Does Bigfoot Exist?

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               Many wonder what’s really out there, in the world. Who’s to say what can and can’t be real. Between aliens and possible creatures in forests or in black lagoons, who really knows? However, I believe that there is a line between what can be real and what is absolute nonsense. An example here would be: Bigfoot. Also, known as Sasquatch.

    What exactly is this “Bigfoot”? People have been seeing a “hairy man-like creature that walk on two legs and live in the forests and mountainous areas of North America and around the world” (oregonbigfoot.com). Believers of this “creature” think many possibilities as to what they think it is. An elusive primate, a spiritual being, an alien transplant, or even a shapeshifter (Williams). It’s reasonable to think such things about something you don’t really have credible evidence for. Really, there are only “eyewitness sightings, footprints, recordings, and somatic samples (hair, blood, etc.)” (Radford). Continue reading → Post ID 271

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