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Entertainment

The Pop Culture Platform: Reality Check!  How Reality TV Affects Society

By. Akshara Karthik (’22) Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The Bachelor. Big Brother. These are just a few of the hundreds of Reality TV shows available for viewing today. We have all fallen prey to the hilariously intense catfights Reality TV shows offer, but what makes them so engaging?    Two of the most commonly perceived ideas about Reality TV and society is that viewers … Continue reading The Pop Culture Platform: Reality Check!  How Reality TV Affects Society

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Entertainment, News

Pizza + Pups

By Morgan Cook (’22) This week’s inspiring story takes us just a few states away, where in a pizzeria located in New York, staff have developed a unique idea for their pizza boxes. What’s the point of decorations or wasteful advertisements when you can use the hundreds and hundreds of cardboard packages to help get dogs at local shelters adopted? Amherst’s “Just Pizza and Wings … Continue reading Pizza + Pups

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News

2019-2020 Mock Trial Team

By: Yeon Woo Lee (‘21) The International Academy’s Mock Trial Teams competed at the regional competition at the Oakland County Courthouse on February 29th. Mock Trial is a competition where teams are divided into lawyers and witnesses. All the teams receive a court case and prepare an argument for the competition. At the courthouse, our school’s teams go against different schools and try to win … Continue reading 2019-2020 Mock Trial Team

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Features

Why US?

By Tasawwar Rahman (’22) It was the Thursday before winter break at Bloomfield Hills High School and the halls were brimming with excitement as students were ready for winter break. Then, horror struck when a false alarm alerted students of a possible active shooter situation and chaos ensued. What resulted was a 60+ officer federal, state, and local police response that made us all, once … Continue reading Why US?

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Columns

IA Law Review: Acclaimed Biographies: Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

By Vynateya Purimetla (’21) Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American justice to sit on the United States Supreme Court, and his dedication and accomplishments in the fight for civil rights continue to make him a symbol and inspiration to all Americans. His approach to practicing law was rooted deeply in his unwavering moral compass most accurately captured by his quote: “you do what you think … Continue reading IA Law Review: Acclaimed Biographies: Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)

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Columns

IA Law Review: Legal Legacies (Brown v. Board of Education’s Trailblazing Effect on the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

By Vynateya Purimetla (’21) The 1954 landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education led the way for the passage of following influential civil rights legislation and allowed African-Americans to “look confidently to the future” (Klarman 8). Without the progress and groundwork laid by Brown, laws such as Brown II, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1960, and the Equal … Continue reading IA Law Review: Legal Legacies (Brown v. Board of Education’s Trailblazing Effect on the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

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Features

The United Nations Human Rights Council: What it is, What They Do, and Why it Matters

By Rachel Rochford (’23) Similar to both aerospace engineering and the reason words are assigned genders (in languages other than English and the fibonacci sequence), the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) may just be something that you’ve heard of, have wondered about or vaguely remember learning the purpose of a long time ago. No matter which category you fall into, it helps to start … Continue reading The United Nations Human Rights Council: What it is, What They Do, and Why it Matters

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