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Who is the favorite to win the 2024 Ballon d’Or?
Dominick Scarpino The Ballon d’Or award is given annually to the best male and female soccer players of that year. The selection process is very tedious. First there is a shortlist of 30 players who are decided on by the France Football publication. Next, 100 journalists are selected and asked to rank their top 5…
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Faced Off: Here’s my Take
Taylor Goodyear Everyone loves a good debate. Since as long as we have existed, we have had opinions, and have liked to share them with others. Whether it’s the Thanksgiving dinner table or English 30H, debates are bound to happen. And 52 days after Kamala Harris announced her presidential campaign, she and Donald Trump met…
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Summer 2024 Pop Culture Recap
Summer 2024 was certainly a summer to remember. So many pop culture moments came through during this summer and they certainly are what is going to make it so memorable. Music There were many contenders for the title of “song of the summer” this year and that, mainly, has to do with the pop girls:…
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Female Celebrities Deserve Better
Idolizing celebrities isn’t necessarily harmful behavior. It’s normal to admire people who create the music we listen to and act in the movies we watch. However, admiring a celebrity doesn’t mean that we’re entitled to know everything about them. Celebrities often share portions of their personal lives with fans, usually via interviews or social media…
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Water: a key ingredient in the primordial soup theory
Human beings have been puzzling over what Earth without life looked like for a long time. Christians believe there was one all-powerful God that spoke creation into existence from nothing. Ancient Greeks theorized about a primordial being named Khaos, a dark void that is the anchor of reality between Earth and their hell, Tartarus. Ancient…
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Is ‘Shrek 2’ still good 20 years later? Yes it is
Charlie Garner Opinion Editor avg6206@psu.edu With “Shrek 2” being recently re-released in theaters to celebrate its 20th anniversary, I thought it was a very appropriate time to review this fan-favorite movie that so many people still watch and love today. “Shrek 2” takes place immediately after the events of the first movie, starting with Shrek…
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Reading with the Beacon: “Loveless”
Madison Meeks Editor-In-Chief mvm7037@psu.edu If you like books that have elements of self-discovery, college, friendship, and coming-of-age stories, then you should read “Loveless” by Alice Oseman. This novel takes place about a year after the start of Oseman’s previous novel “I Was Born For This” and takes place in the same universe as their other…
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