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      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
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      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
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      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
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      • The Concept of One Individual
      • Police & Black Americans—The Battle for Civil Rights
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      • They Could've Made Anything, but They Chose This Book
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      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
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      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
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  • This Month
    • BALM Radio >
      • September 2025
      • October 2025
      • November 2025
      • February 2026
      • March 2026
      • April 2026
    • Op-Eds >
      • Words That Changed My Life: Part Two
      • Is Love Childish?
      • 5 Misconceptions of Islam
      • The Art of Passion
      • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
    • CREATIVE WRITING >
      • Chloropromazine Chapter 1
      • Deathbott Chapter 7
      • Apathy
      • Love is Not For People Like Me
      • Wow, I’m really going to college
      • Strength in Words
      • Invisible
      • The Pain That I Love
      • If He Loved Me
      • Penny
    • Cooking Corner >
      • A Sheet from My Tita's Recipe Book
    • Artist Corner >
      • Dream Sweet in Sea Major
      • Lamb
      • Dog.
      • When you have a bat, everything looks like a ball.
      • Deathbott Character Art
    • Media Reviews >
      • ULTRAKILL (Media Review)
      • Firebreak
      • Danganronpa Trial 3's: They Suck
      • Perfect Blue Review
    • Sports Panel >
      • Boys Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Swim: Senior Highlight
      • Girls Basketball: Senior Highlight
  • Featured Article
    • Bury Me At Home
  • Teacher's Corner
    • Teachers Corner: DeVaul
    • Teachers Corner: Ejzak: How to Combat chatGPT? Embrace the Same Anti-Authoritarian Teaching Practices We Should’ve Been Doing All Along
    • Teacher's Corner: Mr. Hazzard's Love Letter To Brooks
    • Teacher's Corner: Gordon
    • Teacher's Corner: Wilde
    • Teacher's Corner: David
    • Teacher's Corner: Ejzak
    • Teacher's Corner: Rago
  • Archive
    • 9.25 >
      • Two
      • Young and Pretty
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • Good Mother
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
    • 10.25 >
      • Ignorance Is PURE Bliss
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Petty Games
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
    • 11.25 >
      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
    • 1.26 >
      • The Concept of One Individual
      • Police & Black Americans—The Battle for Civil Rights
      • White Hair Braiders
      • The Dust Under My Bed
      • Popular (Wicked)
      • “Carpe Diem, Seize The Day.” - A Media Review On Dead Poets Society
      • They Could've Made Anything, but They Chose This Book
    • 2.26 >
      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
      • Sunflower
      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
    • 3.26