Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Orlando Weekend & Summer Activities That Won’t Break the Bank
by Sydnee Fox Doing things in Orlando can be kind of hard sometimes. It’s either hot, raining, or everything is just too expensive. To make things easier for you, here’s a list of inexpensive things to do in all types of weather. Florida can have beautiful weather during the summer; this is the perfect…
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March for All of Our Lives
by Zarai Travis-Batalla (Photo source: Thomas Yang, visual editor of THEPITTNEWS, 2018) With a 500k donation from Oprah, March for Our lives was one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam War. The outraged youth demanding change in gun legislation to reduce gun violence in the U.S, has caused a controversy. March for Our…
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Inside Look at Disrespect in High School
by Lucy Armstrong Today, it seems to many, that respect is expected to be given, but not returned. This is most often seen among peers, but as time passes and generations proceed to change, so do their manners and standards towards elders. Many students nowadays seem to think that mouthing off, not doing work,…
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Social Media and Its Obsession With Blame
by Heysha Garcia Melendez When an unfortunate event occurs, what is it that we see on the news? We see how many people died or a description of the person who caused the fault along with misleading titles. On the news, we see different people’s opinions giving you only one side of the same story.…
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Experience As a Vietnamese Student
by Minh Nguyen Did you know that Vietnam got a rank higher than the U.S in the PISA test? Based on the results of the international test released in 2015, Vietnam had the honor to place 17th with their overall score including math, science, and reading while U.S just placed at 36th with their overall…
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Why is Freedom’s Internet So Bad?
by Jayda Rodriguez Ever since Freedom High School went digital, we have been facing technological issues. Freedom High School is one of many high schools in Orange County Public Schools. OCPS is known for changing up the traditional education system by introducing technology into its curriculum. Many students who don’t attend technology-based schools may think that it’s…
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The Origins of St. Patrick’s Day
by Aine Moriarty For most people of today St. Patrick’s Day is that one day in March when everyone wears something green. For the smaller kids, there might be leprechauns, gold, and rainbows involved. But there’s more than that. There are traditions’ roots to consider, as well as the titular St. Patrick. St. Patrick was…
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Apple Home Pod: Is It Worth It?
by Eric Lopez Montilla Apple is one of the most popular companies of our era. It’s pretty shocking what they have accomplished over the years compared to other companies. It was kind of surprising how Apple hadn’t innovated an AI for homes like Alexa and Google Home. But of course, they caught up with that…
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HOW TO: Avoid Netflix For 10 Days Straight
by: Dianna Esguerra Spring break is upon us and even though most of you are going to be binge-watching Netflix all day and night (and I don’t blame you) I have some suggestions to give you if your body physically feels ill from the pizza you’ve scarfed down and you slowly feel your buttocks merging…
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Olympic Ice Events
by Adrianna Nouel Serrano Below I will show you some of the events happening in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The games are scheduled for Friday, February 9 at the Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, on Saturday 10th they will award the first PyeongChang 2018 gold medal. Ice hockey This tournament was held in France where only…
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