Archive: Special
Addiction: When a Ritual Becomes Habitual
By Ashley McBride When does a habit become an addiction? Is it when you nearly kill yourself from consuming more alcohol than the law should allow? Or is it when you cannot concentrate in school because you are too concerned with your next high behind the school bleachers? Or maybe...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 09:43 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nibbling to the Nub
By Adrieanna Crocker Have you ever wondered why people bite their nails? Nail biting is a symptom of an emotional disorder. It is an oral fixation due to a person being nervous, stressed out, or bored. Some pathogens live inside of the nail and when you bite your nails, they...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 10:11 AM ET | Comments (0)
Do You Shop 'Til You Drop?
By Amber A. Young How often do you go shopping? When you are not shopping do you think about the next time you will get to go shopping? For many teenagers, shopping is a regular activity, especially in hot spots such as Georgetown....
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 09:46 AM ET | Comments (0)
Can't Stop Eating
By Joseph Durant It's a fact that people eat every day. Food is necessary for energy, nutrition, and maybe even as a recreational snack every now and then. But it is necessary for a person to know when enough is enough. At McKinley, a Wire survey revealed that 100% of...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 09:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
Myspace Obsession
By Ashley McBride When you think of a serious addiction, the chances are MySpace doesn't top your list. However, teenagers being addicting to MySpace isn't unheard of. Though this is unconfirmed, the site was originally used to send SPAM to profiles on Friendster. Since then, MySpace as turned into the...
By Anna Kinsman | May 17, 2007; 09:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
Beware of Tube Blues
By Janayia James Americans spend an average of up to four hours a day watching TV. Watching TV is one of our most popular past times. It seems as if we spend as much time talking about it as we do watching it. But we never mention how much time...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 10:03 PM ET | Comments (0)
Pot Will Take Hold of You
By Dominique Young-Smith Weed, chronic, pot, and Mary Jane are only some of 200 terms for the mind altering drug marijuana. Marijuana can become addictive. It is the most frequently used drug in America. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), 95 million Americans over the age of...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 10:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
Students Hooked on Gambling Rush
By Alton Lucas "Who got the dice?" "Play tunk for the ones!" "Shoot something!" "Bet a dub on the game!" These are common phrases throughout the McKinley hallways. Our school is full of students who love the rush of gambling. Although some students say it is not an addiction, there...
By Anna Kinsman | May 13, 2007; 09:48 PM ET | Comments (0)
Discrimination Special
The Wire staff has investigated how discrimination and prejudice hurts people from all walks of life. We present to you this special investigation. We gathered statistics for these stories through an interdisciplinary project involving the Math and Social Studies Departments. The Wire staff designed the survey, Mr. Montgomery and Mr....
By Anna Kinsman | March 9, 2007; 11:39 AM ET | Comments (2)
Is It Really Discrimination?
Discrimination Special By Joseph R. Durant Some of us experience discrimination, while others are shielded from its grasp. It has drastically decreased since the 1950s, but it still exists. In our generation, discrimination is either exaggerated or dimmed out. Some of us think that discrimination is everywhere, while others quietly...
By Anna Kinsman | March 9, 2007; 11:31 AM ET | Comments (1)
Harder Road for Female Athletes in Traditionally Male Sports
Discrimination Special By Talaya Barno Even with all the achievements women have accomplished in the new millennium, there is a lot of backwards thinking from our male counterparts, especially in sports. "What exactly is a male sport? I don't think I have ever played a male sport," said Denae Price,...
By Anna Kinsman | March 9, 2007; 11:07 AM ET | Comments (1)
Old and New Stereotypes of Hispanics
Discrimination Special By Carlos Hernandez When you think about Latin Americans, construction workers and custodians would come to mind right? Well, that was in the past. Things have changed since then. Ever since the immigration debate started up again last year, different stereotypes have emerged. These stereotypes are those of...
By Anna Kinsman | March 9, 2007; 11:03 AM ET | Comments (0)
Black Males Still Take the Biggest Hit from Discrimination
Discrimination Special By Ashley McBride He wears baggy clothes so he must be a drug dealer, he's tall and buff so he must be an athlete, or he wears a white tank top so he must be a wife beater. "Stereotypes of a Black male misunderstood." This line from Notorious...
By Anna Kinsman | March 9, 2007; 10:46 AM ET | Comments (1)
Stop Discrimination Against Gays!
Discrimination Special By Adrieanna Crocker I was once homophobic because I was never exposed to homosexuals. Where I'm from homosexuals couldn't be open with their sexuality because they would get jumped or teased. It wasn't right, but that's how it was. Because I never befriended a gay person I was...
By Anna Kinsman | March 7, 2007; 11:22 AM ET | Comments (0)
MTV Portrays Female as Sex Objects
Discrimination Special By Karen Vanegas Have you heard beauty is more than just physical appearence? Well, has the music industry? I don't think so. Notice how most of the music playing now has lyrics and videos that talk about a girl physically, as if there were nothing more to her....
By Anna Kinsman | March 7, 2007; 11:07 AM ET | Comments (1)
Females Judged By Double Standard
Discrimination Special By Dominique Young-Smith There is a double standard between males and females when it comes to sex. People look down upon females for having more than one sexual partner, yet a male is praised for the same thing. This is due to how females have been viewed for...
By Anna Kinsman | March 7, 2007; 11:02 AM ET | Comments (0)
Economic Discrimination
Discrimination Special By D'Angelo Rucker When you discriminate against someone or dislike them because of the clothing brands that they wear, then you are engaging in economic discrimination. Economic discrimination is not a big problem at McKinley because of the uniform policy. The policy cuts down on the problem, but...
By Anna Kinsman | March 7, 2007; 10:53 AM ET | Comments (0)
Colorism: Black on Black Racism
Discrimination Special By Yasmine Saibou African-Americans have been victims of discrimination in America since slavery. It is now 2007, and we still face some of the problems our ancestors faced. African-Americans have long blamed whites for all their pain and suffering, but whites are not the only ones to blame....
By Anna Kinsman | March 7, 2007; 10:39 AM ET | Comments (0)
