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My Voice Matters- First Place 2024 Youth Speech Contest

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  My Voice Matters By Aryan Mukherjee They say that children are the keys to doors that we can’t see- doors above us and around us and beyond us but rarely ever right there within reach. In a society, young people are often more creative, less likely to overthink, and more inclined to express strong opinions on matters without their every breath dampened by a hush of hesitation at being wrong. They can even help take more unconventional or surprising routes to come up with a solution that could actually work, but that the average adult could never even think to think of. Especially here in Orange County, our students come from strong educational backgrounds, are exposed to so many youth-shaping activities from a young age, and form a cultural melting pot of diverse opinions that all come together to form a well-rounded community. So with so many benefits, why isn’t it normalized for K-12 students to be more involved in the decision-making process? One way, specifically, that we could
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Eulogy of my Grandfather

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  What’s Popping my Dearest Dadu, Oh, where can I even begin? All of the things I wanted to tell you, all of the feelings I wanted to feel, all of the memories I waited to etch into that log that ultimately drifted with the currents before I could even extend my arm out for it. I knew one day that this time would come, but how could I expect that day to be so soon? So incredibly, tragically soon. When you passed away, it would be imprecise to say that the emotions came in waves. More so, they came in two parts: the sudden shock and onslaught of sadness at the instantaneous realization of what the word “dead” meant, and the slower, deeper and more excruciating depression that clung onto my soul and still hasn’t let go. And if you weren’t such a good grandfather, such a pure human being, and such a fun and lovable person who in every moment where the alchemist within me brewed up split feelings would without hesitation suck out the poison and put my life before his, that second part WOUL
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Psst… Have You Heard The Gossip?

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  Psst… Have You Heard The Gossip? Gossip. You hear it all the time. Or maybe you don’t- all those little tidbits floating around in the air like the stench of stale cheese from hallway to auditorium to friends to colleagues all the way right outside your front door. And you might not even know about it. Did I just make you paranoid? Well, don’t worry, because the topic for this article is one that you may not have foreseen- the brilliant benefits of gossip unbeknownst to much of mankind. Yes, you heard me right. Researchers in the Plotkin Research Group in Mathematical Biology in the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences recently assembled a mechanistic math model showcasing the relationship between gossip and cooperation. The authors- Mari Kawakatsu,  Joshua B. Plotkin, and Taylor A. Kessinger- state that gossip can actually help facilitate discussions that hold people accountable for their actions. After all, sources like social media, news, and journals onl
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Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month- A Press Release for Currently Informed

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Currently Informed Supports Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders By Aryan Mukherjee      We, at Currently Informed, are excited to celebrate the unique culture and historical presence of Asian Americans and Pacic Islanders during the month of May.      An Asian American can be defined as anyone who is, of any generation, Asian, and is or has had family who have immigrated to America. Pacic Islanders are those to reside on the islands of the Pacific that are territories of the United States. Unfortunately, both groups faced debilitating racism, hatred, and gut-wrenching conditions in our country’s past, and the month of May is set to rectify such painful memories by rejuvenating in glorious tradition. From conventional dances to games to songs, Currently Informed looks forward to spotlighting the various facets of Asian American and Pacic Islander culture throughout the month and showcasing our support.      But why specically was May chosen to be Asian American and Pacic Islander mont
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Sculpture Park in Alabama’s Capital to Reconcile Past African American Experiences

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Sculpture Park, Alabama- A Step in the Right Direction Opening on the first week of April in Montgomery, Alabama will be a new Sculpture Park commemorating the past experiences of enslaved African Americans in the United States of America’s history and containing several different forms of physical artwork modeling the worst aspect of our country’s history. The park contains 17 acres of statues along the Alabama River, a key source of transportation for the African American slave trade itself centuries ago. With over 15 million African American men, women, and children perishing over the course of the 400 years in American history during the slave trade, such monuments are cardinal to preserving the history of the abominations that transpired. They simultaneously work to touch the hearts of citizens and those abroad to empathize with victims and never repeat such a travesty again. Logistically, the project, created by social justice activist and director of the Equal Justice Initiati
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Embracing Dark Matter

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  What’s The Matter ? Something Not ‘Normal’ ? According to Professor Elisabetta Barberio from University of Melbourne, over 70% of our galaxy is made up of dark matter, a theoretical substance which as per NASA, can only be mapped out in galaxy clusters based on gravitational lensing with light and space-time. With its wavelength straying far from the radio-frequency continuum, this omnipresent matter’s highest concentrated location cannot be definitively concluded by physicists; even so, many have speculated that an answer lies in more darkness: black holes. This flyby mission will send an RTG-powered space probe into the Hyades Cluster- the hypothetical hub of the closest known black holes to our galaxy- in an attempt to determine properties of dark matter such as the force and nature of its gravitational pull. It will also investigate dark matter’s ability to interact with the nucleus of an atom in a chamber prohibiting the entry of cosmic rays and radioactivity. As black hol
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Don't Ever Buckle to Pain

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  Over Pain It hurts. It’s like a thousand pins and needles strangling me from all ends. Every part of me aches. I keep crying and crying but it won’t go away, Just temporarily slips away before round 2. My knees are quivering. My bones are brittle and eroded. I’ve been chastised for far too long to be able to feel pain, But it beats louder inside of me, louder than my heart beat, Louder than the echoes of an orchestra band, Beating away through the night. I’m scared. I feel like throwing up. Everywhere I go it feels like I’m being watched, Every time I want someone to watch me, There is no one. Everyone always says I’m being dramatic, I’m overthinking it. I should just suck it up and move on. But I can’t. I need someone, something, some way to hold onto what isn’t this creaky guard rail called hope. I feel pain, and I don’t care if it's less than that of the ones around me. I want to breathe. Just let me breathe. It was this how so many others felt around me, feel around me each
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