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Opinion: Taiwanese students need MORE hours at school, not fewer | Tricia Liao – Grade 12
Going to school is a process that everyone will experience in their life. In each country, the starting time and ending time of school is different, so students around the world stay at school for different amounts of hours. Some countries have longer school days, some have shorter ones. Due to this difference, students from […]
Death in literature: East vs. West | Minnie Chen – Grade 12
Death in novels often shows a writer’s relationship with death, and moreover, their life philosophy. Different countries’ cultures have greatly influenced writers’ interpretations of life and death, and makes them see the death as either something positive or passive. Death in Japanese literature Many Japanese novels use death to tell their story, like Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s […]
Why you should stop drinking bubble milk tea | Ethan Lin – Grade 8
Bubble tea is packed with sugar Sweetness of the tea can trigger an addiction Bubble tea is poisonous because of the plastic it generates People should stop drinking bubble milk tea. This sounds absurd, but it is the truth. Although bubble tea is affordable and delicious, it is like a drug; it is unhealthy, it’s […]
OpEd: Trump is dismantling the Western Alliance | Brian Tu – Grade 11
If the Western Alliance were to crumble, peace would die out with it No member of the Western Alliance would like to see a closer bond between America and Russia Trump doesn’t recognize the importance of NATO Trump’s recent meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki has generated outrage in the US and around […]
5 things Taiwan does better than the US | Brian Tu – Grade 10
People are no longer shocked to hear about gunmen shooting up US schools US healthcare is comparatively bad and inefficient The US has some of the highest poverty rates in the world With all the political in-fighting, corruption, and disappointment in literally every politician that has been going on for quite a few years, it […]
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