-By, Teresa Lawlor On November 18th, over five years after the release of the final chapter of Harry Potter’s story, a new film was released, to the delight of millions of fans around the globe. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is the story of Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who visits NYC over sixty …
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Moana: A Success in Disney’s Revival Era
-By, Dayoon Chang It has been said that this decade marks the beginning of the “Disney Revival Era.” Since 2008, Disney has been creating characters that are “more visually appealing, more believable, [and] funnier than the characters in Disney's previous film[s],” according to Caitlin Roper from the monthly American magazine Wired. And she is right. …
Civil Disobedience
-By, Mikayla Chen and Talia Ward During their sophomore year at Winsor, Class VI English students write the Civil Disobedience paper, an assignment inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Resistance to Civil Government.” Students must find an issue within their community, either large and small, that they have a moral imperative to protest and outline a …
The Issue of Kneeling
-By, Sindhu Krishnamurthy On August 26, 2016, Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, kneeled while the National Anthem played at his third preseason game. He had sat for the previous two games as well, but it was at the third game that people began to notice what he was doing. He explained …
World Series Curses-broken?
-By, Sam Goldenson The Major League Baseball season has finally come to close with a nail-biting World Series Win by the Chicago Cubs. Going into the 2016 World Series, the Indians and the Cubs had not seen World Series’ victories for their teams in several decades. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, the Indians had not made …
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