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      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
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      • Thunder
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MINALI BROSNAN
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TREY SHERROD
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LUCIA ALVAREZ 
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LARNE PATTERSON
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ISIS SHEPHARD
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ALEXANDREA SUGGS
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JONATHAN GLOVER
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Bitania Derege

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Kiarra Walker

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Dano Emery

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Juan Davalos

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Amiyah Allen

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Chidi Ireaja

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Khemmer denard

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Earnest Thomas

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Chase jones

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Peyton Henderson-howell 

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​Allyse Walker

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karla lopez

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Arie Bills

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​Harmony akpoh ​

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Salvador Cervantes

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kyndra clady

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AKIRA MEAD

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Pelumi atomori

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Chloe Gadison

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Sonja Wilberding

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Nina grice

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marilyn mccottrell

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ariadna torres

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  • This Month
    • BALM Radio >
      • September 2025
      • October 2025
      • November 2025
    • Op-Eds >
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
      • Every Season Has A Purpose
    • CREATIVE WRITING >
      • America’s Broken Mirror
      • 400 Lux
      • The boy who feels like Monday
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • How Fish Become Gods
      • How Fish Become Gods Pt.2
      • Colors of The Wind
      • Friends Forever Not
      • written
      • Why I Spend so Much Time on Rooftops
      • I am from trees and flowers in autumn
      • I WONDER
      • Deathbot Chapter 2: Mellow Rain
      • stolen whispers
      • Puppets in Suits
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Heartbreak is a massacre.
      • affliction
      • Sides
      • I Refuse To Cry
      • The Silent Wonders of Time
      • Why So Serious?
      • The Painful Wonders of Space
      • Ante Meridiem
    • Artist Corner >
      • How Fish Became Gods
      • D&D Compilation
    • Media Reviews >
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
  • Featured Article
    • An Age-Old Question
    • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
  • 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 >
      • In Another Universe
      • The Stars
      • Two
      • Europe Photos
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
      • Pretty in Pink
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Lampshade
      • Rose Garden
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • I'm Not a Writer: The Importance of Being Bad at Things
      • American Circus
      • Freedom Within The Soul
      • Watering Can
      • Are America’s Food Regulations Really Keeping Us Safe?
      • You!!
      • My Father's Son
      • Good Mother
      • Broken Mold
      • Young and Pretty
      • Pluto
      • Always.
      • A Talk About Illegals
      • Eyes
      • Woes of the Mediocre
      • Two Summers
      • "Are You Stupid?"
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
    • 10.25 >
      • Absense of August
      • Being fast is a disease
      • Why Won't You Listen To Me???
      • DayDreamer
      • The Nature of the Soul: A Brief Insight
      • Three of the LiB
      • I'm Not a Writer: Small Things to Live For in the Winter
      • Deltarune: The "Real" Reality
      • Perfectly Imperfect: Gilmore Girls Review
      • You Bring Out the Artist in Me
      • In Every Universe
      • We're All Racist
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • Alcoholism, Parasites, and Trauma in Weapons.
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • Back To The Beginning: The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 1 Review
      • Deathbot Chapter 1
      • Art fight Collection
      • 흑인들이 보낸 것입니다 (This Came From Black People)
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Petty Games
      • The Diary of A Poet
      • Hatchetfield Trilogy Review
      • Guitar Object Study
      • Thunder
      • Lost and Never Found
      • God Bless America
      • Eviscerated
      • Masked
      • Those Girls
      • Why I Follow Jesus
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Stolen Whispers
      • Blood
      • Class of 2013