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Anonymous writer Once upon a time, there was a little girl who craved validation, not only from her friends or school but from her parents. The problem was that it seemed to never be enough, whatever she did in order to impress them, they always appeared to have been expecting more. So that’s what sheContinue reading “Validation”

Alexandre Magno Abro, a Brazilian singer known by his stage name “Chorão”, was an incredible songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Charlie Brown Jr.’s story is about struggle, perseverance, and faith. Chorão had a rough childhood, when he turned 11 years old his parents got divorced, and he began living on the street. With that, heContinue reading “Charlie Brown Jr.”

Brazilian folklore is the collection of various popular displays of Brazilian culture, in the form of legends, myths, games, typical foods, dances, and other practices that are passed on from generation to generation. One of the classic and best-known legends of Brazilian folklore is the story of the headless mule. The headless mule is aContinue reading “The Legend of the Headless Mule”

Heat kissing your skin, sand in your shoes, saltwater soaking your hair, samba playing in the background seemingly hugging your ears. Popular music critics, artists, historians, and social scientists regard samba as the most original or unique Brazilian musical genre. Whether or not samba is a national musical genre, its origin provides us with aContinue reading “The Origins Of Samba”

Ancient Egyptians, from 4000 BCE, started using makeup and were considered the first being to use cosmetics, such as a complex eye look. They would use it to represent a fashion and wealth statement. Despite the first records of makeup being from thousands of years ago, the types of beauty products we wear today areContinue reading “How the beauty world affect young girl’s life”

Since the school year started, so have the soccer and basketball seasons. In the past two weeks, our Varsity Giants have played against the Chapel Trojans, the PACA Warriors, and Graded Eagles in pursuit of the SPHSL.  On August 16th, Varsity Soccer Girls scored 3×1 against the Trojans. The boy’s games ended at 6×1 forContinue reading “Varsity Sports – August”

Folklore combines beliefs, customs, morels, and practices of distinct cultural groups. It also refers to myths, tales, and proverbs of old times in regard to a specific country. It also involves belief systems such as writes and rituals mostly about coupling, childbirth, initiation into adulthood, and ideas about the afterlife Folklore, in Brazil, did notContinue reading “Introduction to Folklore”

The world cup, a world tradition, in which every four years countries compete against each other to the prestiged title of winning the world-wide competition. This year has been no different from the others, with Qatar hosting this year’s cup, fans are running in from all around the world. But Brazil has an extra elementContinue reading “Threatened Tradition”