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Spring Edition March 12, 2021
Rochester Area High School
THE ORACLE
education teachers should have more of an understanding of
LGBTQ Awareness at the community because thats the time when you get judged the
School most.” Zoe isn't the only member of the community. There are
so many students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
Staff writer, Keara Alberts
or either questioning their sexuality. As a school district we
Picture of Friends from Zoe Boren
should show love towards everyone, no matter if they are
straight or not. Let’s love and support each other as much as
The LGBTQ community at Rochester Area High
possible and spread awareness of the LGBTQ community
School needs to be heard. LGBTQ is an acronym for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. There are
many students at Rochester who are a part of the community.
Many students in high school questioned their sexuality/
gender in middle school. Middle school can be a scary
confusing time in a child's life. They're discovering who they
are as a person and going through a lot of changes in their
body. Some students go through a lot more in middle school
than others. As a straight female, in middle school I had it
easier than others who questioned whether they were actually
straight or not. Zoe Boren, a local student at Rochester High
School said “when I rst came out in middle school, bullies
would call me homophobic slurs.” This is unacceptable
behavior. People who rst come out as who they were born to
be, is really hard for them to do. On top of that, to be bullied
by others in school is just wrong
People have the right to have their own opinion, but
to bully or use homophobic phrases isn't ok. In our high school
we are respectful of the LGBTQ community and students are
supportive. But in middle school the LGBTQ youth are nearly
twice as likely to be called names verbally harassed at school
compared to their non-LGBTQ peers, according to cdc.gov.
Their mental health and education can be at risk. There should
be awareness starting in middle school about the LGBTQ
community and if students have questions there should be
some type of meetings or somebody to talk to you about these
feelings that students may have. Zoe Boren also included “ sex
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EDITORIAL
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ourselves. Cyber bullying can cause depression in children and
Teen Depression on the teens. Once something is posted it never goes away. These
Rise people that are cyber bullied
can never escape the
Editor, Jenna embarrassment and
Zawislak harassment. Until they realize
Picture taken by Jenna that others' words about them
Zawislak do not define them, they are
Depression and anxiety sad, lonely, and depressed.
Cyber bullying can sometimes
are serious issues that
lead to suicide. Children and
people of all ages face.
teens sometimes don’t see any
Young children do not
other solution. They feel that
necessarily understand what
the world would be better
depression and anxiety are,
without them in it. Covid-19
so people really start
has done nothing but make all
realizing they are anxious
of these problems worse.
or depressed in their teen
Everyone was stuck in their
years. This world is so
house. This left some children
superficial anymore. People
with no one to talk to that
strive to be like shallow
they trusted, and put some in
celebrities who look
dangerous situations due to
amazing but are not good
abusive parents. Some
people. Society pressures
children were left at home
teens to want to look and be
with access to alcohol, pills,
like people that they will
and other dangerous things.
never be like instead of
With no one there to watch
encouraging kids to be
them, some could have the
themselves. High
inclination to try some, or
expectations from parents, teachers, and others as well as the
purposely try to harm themselves. My mom works at
pressure to succeed makes teens extremely anxious. A survey
Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, and she was telling me one
taken by Higher Education Research asked incoming college
day that they have seen a huge increase in overdoses in teens.
freshmen if they felt overwhelmed with all of the things they
Low self esteem, irritability, tiredness, insomnia, social
were expected to do. Out of all that were surveyed, 41% said
isolation, and use of alcohol and drugs can all be signs of
yes. Social media is another cause of anxiety and depression.
depression. If you see these signs and are worried about your
We compare ourselves to other people’s posts, wondering why
friend or child, talk to them. Make sure your children and
we don’t look like her, or how he looks more athletic than me.
friends are okay and if they aren’t help them out or refer them
I’ll admit I’ve scrolled through Instagram and thought to
to help.
myself, “wow she’s gorgeous, I wish I was as pretty as her.”
We shouldn’t have to feel like we have to be anyone other than
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feeling empty. Once you surround yourself with the right
How to be Yourself and people, it will help you to continue to grow and live the way
Live a Complete Life you want to be living.
Finally, once you have completed the first two steps, it is
Co-editor, Ryan Zawislak
Picture from Pexels important you stand firm in the life you have created for
yourself. People will always judge you and tell you what they
Everyone always hears people say they should be believe you should be doing with your life. However, you
themselves and live life to the fullest. They believe that this is must do what you feel is best for yourself and ignore the
the way to live a outside influences trying to pull you from this. It doesn’t
complete life. matter what anyone else thinks, as long as you are happy and
However, many thriving - that is all that matters.
people struggle and If you are able to live your life following this process, I
find it difficult to be believe that you will be successful in your journey to be
themselves and live yourself and live a complete life. Keep continuing down your
their life to the intended path and you will be satisfied with whatever you
fullest. They come across during your passage through life.
ultimately feel as if
they failed to live a
fulfilling life. In
order to avoid
becoming a part of
this group of
people, I am going
to explain how I feel you can achieve being yourself and
begin to work on living a complete life.
The first step in this process is finding out who you are.
Sometimes, people want to be themselves but find it
impossible to do so. In many situations this is because they
are not even sure who they are yet. In order to find out who
you are, you must look at two major things. These things are
your morals and your values. Morals are what you believe in
and how you decide right from wrong. Values are what you
find most important in your life. Once you figure these two
things out you will be on the right track to being yourself and
living a complete life.
The second step in the process is acting on your morals
and values. Living in line with your moral code will help you
develop as a person and placing emphasis on your values will
help you surround yourself with people that have the same
values as yourself. It is important to be around these types of
people because otherwise you will be led down a path you
shouldn’t be going down with the wrong people. This will
inhibit you from feeling fulfilled and will instead leave you
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Bullying and Drug
Abuse
Sta writer, Bronc Tomochak
Picture by Bronc Tomochak
Do you know anyone who is being bullied? If the
answer is “no”, then you're either not very observant or you
just wanna believe that you don’t. In an anonymous survey, 25
people were asked about bullying and substance abuse. When
asked if they were ever bullied 16 out of 25 said yes, and when money that they’ll say something along the lines of “If I saw a
asked if they knew anyone who was a victim of bullying the student being bullied I’d step in and do whatever I can to
number was even greater with 21 out of 25 saying yes. Would help.” But if it actually came down to it only 10% or less
you say that this seems to be a problem? I guess the question would truly have the students back. Even if teachers and
is, who should deal with it? Teachers will say parents because parents can’t see it, many students have each other’s backs
they should teach their kids to defend/stick up for themselves, when the people who are supposed to be there just don’t help.
whereas parents say it should be the Many don’t notice and many just don’t care but there are more
school’s responsibility - if it takes students than
place on school property to step in teachers and more
and deal with it. It’s complete students that will
chaos, and call me crazy, but I help you than
don’t see how both teachers and teachers. Remember
parents can stand here and blame to keep friends you
someone else when it’s the child trust with you
who is suffering. This causes many because they will
students to think they just aren’t help you. Never try
worth the effort. “Students who to deal with it on
experienced bullying or your own because
cyberbullying are nearly two times although there’s
more likely to attempt suicide” many people who
Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. won’t help you
Patchin. “Just stay away from them” or “they wouldn’t just there’s more people who will help you. Many bullies don’t
randomly try to start something if you didn’t provoke them” notice until after they have already hurt someone, and in many
are two great examples of things you shouldn’t say if a kid cases they are being hurt by someone close to them so they
tells you they're being bullied. However those words are some think it’s normal. Being a bully is never acceptable and can
of the most used responses to a kid thinking they can trust an cause serious mental damage to the victim, but if both sides
adult by telling them about their bullies. This is a problem! can work through it, it will get easier and don’t forget to lean
However if you interview any of them I’d be willing to bet on people when you need to.
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Recipes
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Russian Mini Cakes
• Sift the combination of cacao and powdered sugar in a small bowl
and roll each ball in it. You might desire to repeat it once or twice,
Sta Wri r, By: Abi’s for a thicker coating.
Using a pastry bag or small wooden stick, decorate with chocolate
Grandmo er Cookbook
•
chips.
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Ingredients
• Arrange on a plate, cover, and let them cool in the fridge for
30-60 minutes.
• About 350 gr. neutral cookies
or biscuits (Like Maria, German Cookie Cakes
digestive cookies, or similar
tea biscuits) – always have a
Sta Wri r, By: Abi’s Grandmo er
few extra cookies Cookboo
• 1,5 sticks of butter (about 170 (Pexels Picture)
Ingredient
gr.), soften
• About 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk – always have a few
• 1 cup light brown sugar
extra spoons.
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1-2 tbsp. of strong alcohol like cognac, brandy, or rum
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1-3 tbsp. dark cacao, for the dark version
•2 large eggs, beaten
• ½ cup walnuts toasted and finely chopped
•2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Coa ng •1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa, such as
• 3-4 tbsp. dark cacao powder, sifted Hershey's
• 1 tbsp. powdered sugar, sifted •1 teaspoon baking soda
•Pinch salt
Ins uc ons •1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• Beat the butter with a mixer, until lighter, •1 cup shredded sweetened coconut, such
about 2 minutes. Stir in the sweetened as Baker's Angel Flake Coconut
condensed milk and beat for another 1-2 •1 cup chopped pecans
minutes, until well combined. Reserve 1 tbsp.
of the cream, for the “eyes” if desired. Ins uc on
• Place biscuits into a blender and pulse until they turn into fine • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with
crumbs.
parchment paper.
• Take about 2/3 of the crumbs and mix with the cream. If using, add
• In a stand mixer or large bowl using a hand mixer, blend the butter,
the cacao powder (for the dark version), walnuts, and alcohol. mix
both sugars, vanilla and eggs. In a medium bowl, stir together the
well, adding more of the reserved crumbs, until you get dough-like
flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Gradually add the flour mixture
consistency. If you’re using nuts or cacao, you will need less of the
into the butter mixture and blend until combined. Stir in the
crumbs. The mixture will be slightly sticky and soft but pliable.
chocolate chips, coconut and pecans.
You can always chill it out for 20-30 minutes to make it firmer.
• Drop the dough by tablespoons onto the prepared baking sheets, 12
• Take a little piece of dough (around 3 tablespoons or less
depending on desired size) at a time and roll it into a ball or oval cookies per sheet, and bake 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on a baking rack.
shaped “potato”
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Student’s Work
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And our freedoms may be a cruel and hard but we all will
Student Poems spread our wings to take flight to see our beauty of our
Roses Like Us
(Picture from Pexels by Gabby K.) Student Winter Break
Why should I listen
why should I give
Memoirs
(Picture from Pexels by Andrea Piacquadio)
enough thing for
people who don’t My winter break was like an old wooden roller
coaster, starting out slow and rattling. After reaching up to the
matter and respect
top of the wooden boards holding the wooden cart, with
me. they say “life’s
too short” then why clipped, faded red and green paint decorating the wood in a
play this game of festive manor. The cart stops after a long and slow incline of a
rosey poses when massive hill. I am allowed to take a breath before the old cart
we’re all gonna fall starts to roll down, the slow movement is beginning of the
down a rose lives cookie backing war, then in second, at the speed of light the
and can create cookie war takes off like cannon fire. Batting in the trenches of
beauty but can die
school, cookie tray making, gift wrapping, gift gathering,
short and make a
decorating the tree, delivering breakfast boxes and cookie
blooming flower short
trays, the old cart races down the massive coaster tracts and
and fake
Are we sweet or sour rattles with stress and sleep deprivation. The night of
Are we corrupted or cryptic Christmas Eve, the cart slows down to a tunnel, this tunnel is
We are free but trapped in a cage were a bird caged dark, but it is decorated
sitting there for years. We fly to get free but fail with garland, ornaments,
we’re trapped in a cage by our guilts and hostility and creates a sense of
we are trapped by the thoughts yet we can only set wonder and excitement
ourselves free.
after the intense coaster
When we free ourselves we may not be the prettiest
ride. Going through when
bird. We may not be a Phoenix with it’s dazzling
it seems like a dark tunnel,
fire feathers that turns ugly once near death and can
once the old cart slowly
re make itself from the ashes good as new
We are a single rose but living longer enters the tunnel the
We grow from the seed then sprout soon we blossom and we darkness turns into light. The old roller coaster cart turns into a
die sleek, new, and exciting cart and track. The day continues on
the new track at a slow, but quick speed with soft hills and
We can never truly break the cage we will anyways have guilt turns that can fill anyone’s stomach with thousands of tiny,
but we ourselves can only set our guilts and pains that can fluttering butterflies. By the end of break, the new coaster
hold us down free
slows to a stop, the new and old tracts combined as life, new
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and old, continues on for a new year to be filled with new bit then after a little over an hour and a half I was able to make
memories, and revisit the past. my way upstairs. I spent most of my time in my room after
that, for the next week or so I rarely came out. It’s awfully
Other Student Winter Break strange to sometimes become my room is nothing special. It’s
Memoir(Picture from Pexels) actually quite a wreck. My bed is never made, my clean
laundry is always thrown onto my bed. I always tell myself
This isolation was enough to make anyone that I would do it later, but I never do, dishes and laundry piled
completely insane. Everyday on our dreary break from online up over the floor. I’m not sure as why I can stay in my room
school leading up to Christmas was like a ticking time bomb. for so long with it being like this however I guess I’m just
When will I used to it now. I laid
break? When in my bed until 5
will I just lose o’clock. I just sat in
it? Finally on the my bed looking out
eve I stayed up the window at
until about 3 nothing. I wasn’t
o’clock in the even focus with my
morning. I slept sight. I don’t
in the closet. For remember that I was
some reason the was thinking about
peeling probably stupid or
wallpaper and me just
unfinished overthinking
hardwood floor something that
made me feel dozens’t even
safe. I stuffed matter or making up
my turquoise random scenario in
blanket-which my head of how I
was barely long enough for my body-into the closet with my wish my life were. About a day passed and the snowed melted.
stuffed black bear. As I laid against it I could feel the red The ground was muddy and gross, my own company was
ribbon tied as a bow around his neck softly caressing my enough to keep me sane and unfazed by lack of social
cheek. I eventually fell asleep. The next morning I was interaction however it was in my household I don’t know what
surprised as I gazed outside to see ivory. The palest most it is or was about this house but it brings this sorrow every
freshly untouched sheet of snow. This was our first white time I stepped into it, maybe it because I know that once I go
Christmas in a while. I made my way downstairs unamused. in I won’t be leaving until I have school or have an
For some reason, maybe because I am getting older, I felt no appointment for some reason. This entire Christmas break has
holiday spirit. It could be just due to the fact that I am aging made me quite numb. I truly believe that I reached the
and becoming more and more mature. However I paid no mind pinnacle of the nonchalant mountain and I don’t care. I know
to my immature thoughts of nonsense. I wished not to ruin it’s horrible to not care and feel nothing when it comes to
Christmas for my siblings. After about thirty minutes or so the others I still believe I feel things it’s just when it comes to my
3 of them came rushing down the stairs, stomping and jumping household I’m just numb to everything at this point this
over most of the steps. They hurried over and looked joyful. Christmas break has been a long outdrawn ceremony of
That childhood joy I remember feeling was worlds away. I nothing.
remember being happy. Oh what a feeling. I envied them for a
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Randomness Ram Page
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Something needs to change, I don’t know what exactly, and
Salting Fresh Wounds maybe it won’t happen today, or tomorrow, or the next day, it
Staff Writer, Bronc Tomochak might never happen if I’m being honest. Yet that shouldn’t
(Picture by Bronc Tomochak) stop you from trying to change it yourself. Go out and salt
Have you ever been walking down the street, when you your sidewalks, salt your neighbors sidewalks, salt your
randomly need to stop yourself from slipping on ice, only to grandma’s sidewalks, and whatever you do be safe and don’t
fall and hit your back on fall.
the snowy pavement?
This is a common
Movie
occurrence in the winter
months. One way many
Review
Staff writer, Jeremiah
people prevent this is by
Gallagher
putting out salt and
(Pexels Picture)
shoveling their sidewalks.
The movie I
However, in most states,
reviewed is called Full
there is no law forcing
Count. Full Count is a
people to shovel or salt
movie about faith and the
their sidewalks and many
will to keep going no
people don’t even attempt
matter what the cost. This
to do it. This causes many
movie is very good and I
people to get injured
highly recommend this
while walking or working.
movie to anyone. A boy named Milton Young was born in a
There is also an increased chance of car crashes with fatalities.
small town in Georgia, he had a love for baseball and farming
According to the Federal Highway Administration “Over
(which was his family business.) As he grows older his love
1,300 people are killed and more than 116,800 people are
for baseball excels and he is known as a town hero for his skill
injured in vehicle crashes on snowy, slushy or icy pavement
at baseball. But his father doesn’t want him to play baseball
annually.” Yet, there are still no laws enforcing salt to be put
and wants him to focus on
on roads, it’s considered “just a convenience”
the family business. He
by many politicians and many streets don’t
leads his team to a state
get salted. This is partially because many
championship and gets a
states find it too much of an expensive hassle
huge offer from a college
to salt unpopular roads. “Winter road
and then chooses to
maintenance accounts for roughly 20 percent
finally pursue his dreams
of state DOT maintenance budgets. State and
of playing national
local agencies spend more than 2.3 billion
baseball. When he arrives
dollars on snow and ice control operations
at college he is not
annually.” Said by the Federal Highway
welcomed by the students.
Administration in the same article. Yet falling
He meets a player who is the starting pitcher who hates Milton
on ice is still one of the highest amounts of workplace injuries.
with his guts and constantly calls him names and starts a fight
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with him. After all that drama the coach decides to make him with seasonal depression. As a per caution you should warm
the starting pitcher, this causes his bully to freak out and up your muscles before working out in the cold because cold
overdose. Now the whole team is shocked and this causes muscles have a greater chance of injury. You want to bundle
Milton problems later in his life. As things finally start to get up and put a little sunscreen on because even if it’s cold
better he receives the outside the sun still produces UV
worst news of his light. If there is snow the UV
life.... light will bounce off the snow
I would love to tell and hit your skin instead. You
you more but I do are now ready to go outside and
not want to spoil it! conquer the cold.
I highly recommend
it to anyone who has Rochy
Sports
some free time on
their hands. This
movie is family Editor, Jenna Zawislak
friendly and is rated (Pictures took by Ms. Zawislak)
PG so anyone can Rochester High School
watch this amazing sports have achieved major
movie and enjoy it! success this year despite the
roadblocks Covid-19 have put in their way. In the fall,
Conquering the Cold Rochester’s varsity football team were the Big 7 section
champs and made it to the semifinals of the playoffs. It is now
Staff writer, Seth Cervi winter and our winter sports so far have not disappointed. The
(Picture from Google Images)
boys varsity basketball team went from worst to first. Last
season the boys went 0-21 not winning a single game and not
If you are still committed to your New Year's having much hope for the next season! With new leadership, a
resolution you should start working out outside. When you new coach, and the notion that things couldn’t get any worse,
workout outside, the cold air is more dense than normal. If you the boys were ready for this new season. Head coach, Sean
Keaton, has led the team to a
breathe the more dense air then when you breathe the warm air
winning season, with a record
it will be easier. It conditions your body to breath and operate of 10-3. The starting varsity
with less oxygen. Also, if you are trying to lose weight then team is senior Devon Hemer,
the cold will make your body burn more calories trying to junior Sal Laure, junior JD
Azulay, junior Noah Haskins,
keep yourself warm. When you get to a point where your legs
and sophomore Duke
and arms are numb it’s fine you just won’t be able to feel the Mullins. Sophomore Parker
cold. If you are looking to get more muscle quickly working Lyons and senior Ryan
out in the cold helps, too. When you are out in the cold you Zawislak are sixth and
seventh man off the bench .
generate more lactic acid. So your muscles rip because of it
Devon Hemer and Sal Laure
and when they heal. The muscles will be stronger. Covid are the team's leading scorers.
attacks the lungs and weakens them. Working out in the cold The success of this season led
will help you fight off Covid. Also, if you workout in the cold the boys to become this year's
Class 1A section champions! The girls have not disappointed
your heart doesn’t have to work as hard according to Harvard
either. Last year, our girls basketball team made it all the way
Men’s Health Watch. Also, according to the same article you to the state playoffs. Sadly, Covid ended the season before
sweat a lot less which saves a lot of energy so you can they had the chance to make it to states, which they had a
workout longer. It also helps with mental health. It can help really great shot of winning. This season the girls are doing
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great! The starting varsity team is senior Alexis Robison, Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Limited Series. It
senior Kallista Seybert, senior Alysha Martin, junior Corynne also won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best
Hauser, and junior Mekenzie Robison. The team's leading
scorers are Limited Series. On April 19, 1989 a woman jogging in Central
Alexis Park was brutally assaulted
Robison,
and raped. She was found
Corynne
Hauser, and naked, gagged, and covered in
Mekenzie mud and blood by a policeman
Robison. At the next morning. Five
a game this
suspects were brought into
year against
Aliquippa, custody and falsely accused of
junior committing the crimes. Their
Corynne names are Kevin
Hauser
Richardson(Asante Blackk),
scored her
thousandth Antron McCray(Caleel
point! Head Harris), Yusef Salaam(Ethan
coach CJ Herisse), Korey Wise(Jharrel
Iannini has
Jerome), and Raymond
led the team
to a winning Santana(Marquis Rodriguez).
season, with a record of 12-3. A winning season is great, but The five individuals are each pitted against each other and
winning the section is even better. Our girls varsity basketball forced to oust each other in order to try and secure their own
team is this season's Class 1A section champions! Both the
freedom. However, each of them end up receiving charges for
girls and the boys are headed to the playoffs. All of Rochester
wishes them the best of luck! So far we have three section the crime they didn’t commit. Kevin, Antron, Yusef, and
wins in the 2020-2021 school year. Let’s hope spring sports Raymond were treated as juveniles and given the maximum
are a success as well. Rochester is so proud of all of its term they could receive.
students and athletes for making the best out of this Korey is charged as an
unpredictable year.
adult despite only being
16 when the crime
Miniseries Thriller occurred. The rest of the
series follows the five
Co-Editer, Ryan Zawislak individuals and their
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families as they live
through their time in
When They See Us is crime drama television prison and what
miniseries found on Netflix. It was created, co-written, happened to them once
and directed by Ava DuVernay. The miniseries was they were set free.
released on May 31, 2019. The cast of the series includes Overall, I really
enjoyed watching this
stars Jharrel Jerome, Asante Black, Jovan Adepo, Michael
series. It was extremely
K. Williams, Logan Marshall-Green, Joshua Jackson, informative about a
Blair Underwood, Vera Farmiga, John Leguuizamo, and topic I didn’t really
Felicity Huffman. When They See Us has received much know anything about.
Also, it was very thrilling to watch. I never felt there was a
praise and recognition following its release. It received 11
dull moment, the events of the series always had me sitting at
nominations at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards including the end of my seat. When They See Us is a prime example of
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what can happen when corrupt people have the power to do The big reason I have a problem with this is all of your
what they want. These innocent men were put through so college visits in ninth grade do not count and I, wish I knew
much just so the police could close a case. It shows why
that one. Saving time and getting less stressed is the point of
everything should be analyzed fairly and we should always try
our best to identify injustice when we see it occurring. having certain knowledge beforehand. Seniors have to worry
about enough stuff like trying to make life altering decisions
and what not so it is best to be prepared and be informed
Senior Project Stress before the last two years begin.
Staff Writer: Keara Alberts
(Picture from Keara Alberts)
Being a senior in high school is exciting and stressful, I YouTube and how it helps
wish I was aware of certain requirements for the senior project anxiety
prior to my senior year. Since my sophomore year I was Staff Writer, Mickey Buffington
recommended to start (Picture from Google Images)
my volunteer hours According to the National Institute of
year for the senior Mental Health, “Anxiety is the most common mental
project. So that’s what illness in the US, affecting 40 million adults.” It’s an
I did,I went to my local umbrella term for a number of mental health
animal shelter and disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder,
logged my hours like I panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder and
was supposed to for the post-traumatic stress disorder. These are
senior project. But characterized by persistent and unrealistic worry
what they didn’t tell about everyday things. Treatment typically involves
me was that you need talk therapy, such as psychotherapy or cognitive
pictures of the behavioral therapy, and more severe cases can be
volunteer work you treated with medication. Brian Primack, professor of
did. I should have read medicine, at the University of Pittsburgh, also agrees
the senior project that YouTube videos about anxiety are a big step
packet on the school’s towards talking about mental health. Primack, who
website but students specializes in the effects of social media on mental
can clearly miss those health, adds that the impact of these videos is strengthened
details. It would have been nice to know that while I when they’re made by
was volunteering my sophomore year proper prominent YouTube
documentation was needed. There is a way around not personalities with large
having pictures by taking pictures off the internet with fanbases. “Instead of a
the owner’s permission but taking your own pictures stuffy doctor giving you
would have been easier and more meaningful to my jargon and terminology
project. that’s complicated, the
Another thing I would have loved to have known information is coming
is when you visit a college for a tour - you must bring from a peer,” he said.
back a brochure, a signed application of some sort or Eve Critchley, Mind’s,
an email confirmation from admissions. That would head of digital, says
have been another great thing to know beforehand. social media can help
anxiety sufferers feel less isolated. “Increasingly social media
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is giving young people a way of voicing their experiences,” to deal with it and missing school because you are in so much
Critchley said. “Mind actively encourages people to create pain that pain medicine won’t help. There’s sometimes where
their own ‘mental health selfies’ because sometimes the best you have to go to the hospital multiple times a week due to
mental health advice we get is not from professionals, but dislocations. The pain some days is so unbearable that even
from people who’ve been through the same thing as us.”Life sitting or laying in bed hurts. There’s some days where
With Ehlers Danlos and how it affects people.” walking can hurt so much. People who live with EDS can tell
you how much they have to fight with doctors because doctors
are not educated enough on EDS. If you would like more
Life With Ehlers Danlos and how it
information about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome visit
affects people sunshinesndspoons.com or go follow Life with Stripes on
Staff writer, Mickey Buffington
(Picture from Google Images) YouTube for more information.
What is Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? EDS is a genetic
connective tissue disorder that affects the collagen. Collagen is
the glue that holds your body together so when it is faulty,
your body is
literally
falling apart
on the
inside. It is
estimated
that 1 in
2,500 to
5,000 have
EDS. What
are the
symptoms
of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Joint hypermobility, easy bruising
and scarring, joint dislocations, chronic pain, chronic fatigue,
low muscle tone, muscle spasms, flat feet, dysautonomia,
migraines, Gi issues and MUCH more. Why the zebra?
Medical students are taught that when they hear hoofbeats,
think horses, not zebras. In other words, look for the obvious
diagnosis because that’s probably what it is. However EDS is
not the obvious answer and even though zebras are rare, they
do exist! Other Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Facts. There are 13
different types of EDS. Each one can be diagnosed with a
blood test except for the most common type, Hypermobility
EDS or hEDS. The gene for hEDS has not been identified yet
so it is clinically diagnosed, usually by a geneticist. There is
no cure for EDS and symptoms can vary widely from one
person to the next. Life with Ehlers Danlos and how it affects
people. Living life with EDS can be very difficult with trying
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Monday - Beach Attire Tuesday: Preppy Attire
Wednesday:
Winter Attire
Thursday: Hippy Friends Having Friday: Blue
Attire School Sprit Rams Attire
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back in person, but what we can be
Oracle is a student
run newspaper that
grateful for from this experience is
writes to inform, to
to recognize the need to evolve or
educate, to entertain,
change so we can progress and. By
and to provide
looking forward to the next school
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year, we can expect a better
for our community
experience because we learned
and all Rochester
about what works with technology
High School
and what works with
students and staff.
how students continue
to find unique ways to
learn. I can relate to this
myself, since I had to
reflect and find creative
ways to make things
work in my classroom
or from my home. So
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school year? We are always trying to make authentic If you would like to
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