Category: reviews
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Favorite Vacations
The beautiful view of the sunset over the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Zach Barnes)
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Is Crumbl Cookie Overrated?
The pink box with the Crumbl Cookie words and logo on top. My first time eating one — I thought it was average and not special. (Photo Courtesy of Abigail Crawford)
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Trying the Pocket Notebook
My Pocket Notebook, with the pink pen I use most often in it. I decorated the outside with stickers that I made. (Photo courtesy of Abigail Crawford)
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Real-Sports app review
Real-Sports is an up-and-coming sports app that seeks to revolutionize the way fans interact with other fans. Real-Sports seeks to revolutionize the way fans interact with each other through the use of social elements…
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Wendy’s Frosty Review
Fall is here and that means pumpkin spice everything. The popular fast food chain Wendy’s has announced that they will be creating something brand new that nobody else is doing. This fall, Wendy’s is…
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Senior night
Leesville Road High School has a senior night every year that’s celebrated during sports games. This year, senior night was celebrated during the varsity football game against Athens Drive, and the volleyball game against…
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Slow Pulp Yard Album Review
The official album cover for Yard, released on September 29, 2023. Each Slow Pulp album has a different and unique artwork, anywhere from block letters to geometric shapes. (Screen shared from Spotify)
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Blox Fruits
Blox Fruits is one of the most popular ROBLOX games ever created. The developers of Blox Fruits, Gamer Bot Inc, released the game in 2019. Since the initial release, the game has become a…
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Ultrapure album review
Briston Maroney Folk singer and songwriter Briston Maroney released his debut album Sunflower in 2021. Although his rise to fame was largely credited to his 2020 single “Freakin’ out on the interstate”, his career…
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For All The Dogs
After a two-week delay, Drake’s long awaited eighth studio album For All the Dogs dropped on Friday October 6. Consisting of a 23 song tracklist and clocking in at 84 minutes, the new album…
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Netflix’s One Piece
On August 31, 2023, Netflix released the long-awaited live action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s hit manga One Piece. Netflix’s One Piece released to critical acclaim, achieving an 86% critic rating on the Tomatometer and…
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Review of the Review of Coffee Similar Drinks
A fancy latte with A leaf shaped latte art I ordered. Ordered at a cafe in South Carolina, it’s not often that lattes with art are served in glass. (Photo courtesy of Abigail Crawford)
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Which social media platform is the best?
Most high school students are on social media. Over 90% of teenagers use social media, making up the majority of platforms. Students use social media to create or share user-generated content. Depending on the…
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From SOUR to GUTS: An Analysis of the Evolution of Olivia Rodrigo
On Friday, September 8, worldwide pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo released her highly anticipated sophomore album titled GUTS. The album came more than two years after her debut record SOUR. After SOUR gained worldwide popularity,…
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Sounds for Your Summer – Daryl Hall & John Oates’ Voices An Album Review
As the sun-drenched days of summer approach, there’s no better time to immerse oneself in the mesmerizing melodies of the legendary musical duo, Daryl Hall & John Oates. In their 1980 album Voices, the…
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Sounds for Your Summer – Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill, An Album Review
In 1972, Steely Dan released their debut studio album, Can’t Buy A Thrill, on the Motown label; it remains a masterpiece that seamlessly blends elements of rock, jazz, and pop into a cohesive and…
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Is Free People Movement The New Lululemon?
According to Google, Lululemon is a Canadian-American athletic apparel retailer. Many high school students, both male and female, are seen wearing Lululemon. It is often raved about because of its great quality and cute…
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Reminiscing Zoey 101
Zoey 101 is a popular TV show that came out in the year of 2005. Many students at Leesville share that Zoey 101 is their favorite childhood TV show to this day. (Photo Courtesy…
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What is the most effective study method?
As exam season is approaching, students are starting to study and/or are finishing AP exams. So I thought I would try different study methods to see which ones worked the best. I decided to…
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Shameless Review
Shameless is a dramedy based on siblings who live in a dysfunctional household. Fiona, age 21, takes the role as the mother of the household as she raises her five other siblings. Their father,…
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Album review: the record -boygenius
About boygenius The indie rock trio, boygenius, dropped their first album, titled the record, on March 31, 2023. The band, consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker, formed in 2018. They dropped…
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What is Twitch
Twitch is a live streaming platform used for content creators to stream video games. The app has become the top streaming platform with accumulating well over 31 million daily active users. On the app,…
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Super Mario Bros Movie Review
In The Super Mario Bros Movie, Mario and Luigi live in New York City working as plumbers. Mario is determined to prove that they will be able to make it as professionals. After finding…
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Overview
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is a first person shooter game where teams of five compete in game modes such as rescuing a hostage, defusing the bombs, or securing an assigned area. There are…
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The rise of Jynxzi
Jynxzi is a Twitch streamer who has been the most trending streamer within the past few months. He currently has 76,629 current active subscribers as of April 18, 2023. As of April 18, 2023,…
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Rating Kendrick Lamar’s Top Five Songs
Kendrick Lamar is an old-school rapper coming from Compton, California. After releasing his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city in 2012, Lamar caught the attention of Dr.Dre and quickly became well known. Then Lamar…
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Purple Hibiscus Book Review
Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She’s best known for her themes of politics,…
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Melanie Martinez: PORTALS Deep Dive
Melanie Martinez released her first album in 2015 Cry Baby reached 6th on Billboard during its first week and sold 41,000 units. The album consists of songs that have sexual, descriptive, and dramatic content.…
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Eat Your Young Album Review
Hozier is an Irish singer and songwriter who has been writing and creating music since he was fifteen years old. In 2013, his song “Take me to Church” put him on the music charts…
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Five Easy Hot Dogs Album Review
On January 20, 2023 Mac Demarco released his latest Album Five Easy Hot Dogs and the almost 35 minutes of instrumental tracks didn’t quite match the standards of most of his popular releases. Demarco…
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Rocket League Overview
Psyonix released Rocket League in 2015 to Xbox and Playstation consoles. According to nfhs.org, “Rocket League is a fantastical sport-based video game, developed by Psyonix (it’s “soccer with cars”). It features a competitive game…
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Book Review: Small Great Things
As a part of the Five Themes Research Project, in AP Human Geography, LRHS students are expected to pick a work of fiction or nonfiction to write an essay and create a physical presentation…
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Creed III Review
Creed III was made as a continuation of the Creed movie series. The movie was released on March 3, 2023, and has an 88% rotten tomato score since. The plot of Creed III is…
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Clash Royale Overview
Clash Royale is a mobile game known for its strategic playstyle and competitive feel. Clash Royale first released in 2016 and has nearly 600 million downloads across all mobile devices. The concept of the…
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Suicideboys Album Review
The awaited SHAMELESS $UICIDE album has been released. With the album only being out for less than a week, it took their fans by storm. “There are a couple of really good songs and…
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That 90s Show review
That 90s Show is a spin-off of the world-renowned show That 70s Show. It features the daughter of Eric and Donna Forman, Leia Forman, as well as Jay Kelso, who is the son of…
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Album Review of Beatopia
Beabadoobea is a rising Filipino-British artist. She’s written several well-received albums and extended plays. Beabadoobea is a hard-to-pronounce name, so I will be referring to her as Bea, the name she prefers to go…
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The Reality of Ginny & Georgia
This season picked up with the strained Miller family as Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her younger brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca) riding a motorcycle out of Wellsbury, where they live, in an effort to…
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Taking the PISA Test
Have you ever seen those little graphs on the news that compares the United States’ education to other countries’ education? Well, that’s what the PISA test is for: it’s to gauge how well the…
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Album Review: Midnights
Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, Midnights, came out at midnight today, October 21. The 13-track and 44-minute album received a 100/100 score from The Independent the day before its release, so I have…
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Pep Rally 2022
Leesville Road High School held its first pep rally since my freshman year. As a 14-year-old, fresh out of middle school, the homecoming week’s hype was unmatched. Between the pep rally, spirit week, the…
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The Simpsons: My Octopus and a Teacher
After the death of Marcia Wallace on October 25, 2013, The Simpsons retired her character of Edna Krabappel. She played a cynical, chain smoking fourth grade teacher from America’s longest running comedy. Bart Simpson…
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Jack Johnson: From Here to Now To You
Jack Johnson is an artist that you’ve heard whether you know it or not. Most people now know him as the writer of the “Curious George song.” A song that will turn the most…
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Review
Marvel Cinematic Universe released its 52nd film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, on May 6, 2022. Marvel Studios introduced Doctor Strange into the MCU in 2016, and his presence in Avengers: Infinity…
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What is Worldle?
Instead of guessing the word of the day, Worldle challenges the player to guess the country of the day. The game launched on January 30th 2022 by a French game developer. Two weeks later,…
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Review: A Must See
If you haven’t seen Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (EEAAO), you should, and soon. Everything, Everywhere arrived in studios to little fanfare on March 30. It didn’t get a ton of marketing, which makes…
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SpyxFamily Review
With shows like Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer, all having new seasons this year and new shows like Love of Kill, Aharen San Wa Hakarenai, and My Dress-Up Darling, coming out,…
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Disney+ has found its Percy Jackson
The wildly popular book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is returning with a new TV series adapted by Disney+. After a disappointing movie series produced by 20th Century Fox in 2010, the former…
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JJK 0 Movie Review
What is JJK? (Release dates etc.) Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) is a phenomenal animanga (anime and manga) originally created by Gege Akutami. Akutami released the first volume of the manga on December 3, 2019, which…
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The Batman Review
The Caped Crusader is back on the silver screen, and he’s better than ever. Matt Reeves’ The Batman has finally released in theaters, after years of hype, and it’s tough to figure out what…