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Social Media; Harmful Yet Addicting

Social Media; Harmful Yet Addicting

Amber Perez, Impact Staff September 19, 2019

Every teenager is a member of one or more social media platforms. Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat or any other platform, social media forms an integral part of their lives. It's fun...

Mother and daughter bond

A Taste of the Garcia’s

Estefania Salinas, Staff Reporter September 18, 2019

Did you ever wonder that cooking brings the best memories with our loved ones? In the beginning, when I heard such a thing from my mother, I really did not put much thought into it. Me cooking? That’s...

Working in Retail Can Be Interesting

Working in Retail Can Be Interesting

Daniel Johnston, Impact Staff September 18, 2019

Working in retail just sucks sometimes. Customers ask too many stupid questions, coworkers are incompetent, or just don’t do what’s required of them. During the summer I have always worked a retail...

A Little ASMR to Brighten Your Day

A Little ASMR to Brighten Your Day

Francesca Simone, Impact Staff September 18, 2019
That satisfying tingle starts on the top of your head and ends up in the tips of your toes making your hair stand up, your skin get goosebumps, and your eyes roll back to a close.
Tears in Heaven

Tears in Heaven

Jillian Simmons, Impact Staff September 18, 2019

I came up with the name for this column from the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which is one of my favorite movies. It’s about erasing the memories of people from your brain, instead...

Who Can Stop the New England Patriots?

Who Can Stop the New England Patriots?

Michael Panteleo, Impact Staff September 18, 2019

Coming off their sixth Super Bowl win, the New England Patriots have somehow gotten better. Aside from having one of the best Quarterbacks, Head Coaches, along with a plethora of skilled players, the...

Pete Davidson Ruined Stand-Up for Me

Pete Davidson Ruined Stand-Up for Me

Alexis Lynch, Impact Staff September 18, 2019
I went to my first stand-up comedy show and ended up getting yelled at by no one other than, Pete Davidson.
Something Is...Off

Something Is…Off

Randi Rooney, Impact Staff September 18, 2019
Something is... off A pregnant woman wanders around the house, she is a little anxious and searching around the house. “Something is wrong... but what? Am I forgetting something?” The woman thinks to herself as she doubles checks everything in her bag. She makes sure all the oven knobs are off and checks the windows. She goes to the bathroom one last time and when she comes out; the feeling is gone.  It’s over. No more weird, off, bad feeling of something being wrong. She takes a deep breath and smiles at her husband, they leave the house to go to the hospital for an appointment.  It is a bit into their drive when they come upon it. The reason for the bad feeling that kept the woman in her house, wasting time for what seemed like an unknown reason. A major car accident, two cars involved, no cops there yet, no ambulance or firefighters.  It’s fresh and recent.  They continue to pass it and as they pull up to the hospital later, an ambulance passes them. The couple assumes it’s going to the accident.  Later, they found out an elderly couple in one car and a young woman in the other were all killed in the accident.  It is almost like some superpower that my mom, the pregnant woman from this story, just knew she couldn’t leave the house.  Is she psychic like mothers joke about? Did she get some weird secret message from God?    It’s that crazy sixth sense that some people just have, where we just know we shouldn’t go somewhere or shouldn’t do something until it feels safe or right.  We all have gut feelings that we can either listened to or not and deal with the outcome of that choice, but for some people, it’s like a memory just out of reach.  My family has a very weird history with the sixth sense, where the firstborn and the third born can sense these weird memory feelings and sometimes see or feel something that is not there.  My sister and uncle can see things like ghosts and could describe to you a full profile of what the ghost looked like.  My mom and I can only feel things and occasionally see ghosts.  My mom told me the story of how when I was born, they wanted to do a procedure, but my mom was VERY against it.  Absolutely not. Wasn’t happening. She pleaded that they don’t do it, they didn’t listen to her and tried to go through with it, anyway. The machine turned on for a second and then just broke. They tried the turn it off and on again, unplugging it and plugging it back in. Nothing. My mom swears that she saw her grandmother who died seven days before I was born, touch the machine and made it stop. She also has said she has felt her grandmother hold her hand in hard times. One of the weirdest things that have happened is when my mother was seven years old. My mom knew she would have me, she just knew I would be the first one. So, she did what most do, and she told her grandmother, she described me to my grandmother and my grandmother looked at my mom and said  “Sorry, but I won’t be alive then.”  My mom was furious.  How could she say that?  How could she know she would be dead before she met me? Nobody knows how or why some people have such an intense sixth sense, that they can predict their children’s birth order, a bad omen, or possibly their own death.  We just know that whatever is to come, we should listen to it and be on the alert. I have walked into rooms and immediately turned around and left.  My uncle once went to shake a person’s hand and felt such an overwhelming bad aura, that he just went “no” and walked away. I could walk into a place and just be like nope. I have woken up in the morning and felt so much fear of leaving that I have canceled plans or stalled them until I felt the feeling go away. My mom and I have looked at each other in the eyes and telepathically have told each other should go! The feeling of the sixth sense is so intense that you can’t ignore it, it is like trying to fight a wall sometimes that you can either wait it out for the wall to fall on its own or risk whatever it’s saving you from. 
We Move Forward.

We Move Forward.

Steven Keehner, Managing Editor September 15, 2019
Future I can't see, I'm trying to find my own two feet. I was leaning on something, I was leaning on nothing. Didn't know 'til I came.
Where Do We Go From Here?

Where Do We Go From Here?

Steven Keehner, Associate Editor May 21, 2019
It comes in waves and I'm pulled below. It's not subjective, it's clinical. Drown myself in the undertow of all my imbalanced chemicals. And the cycle comes full circle again.
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