Should social media, Including Backbone, Help In law enforcement? We all know what happened to Jill Meager. What some of you may not know is that social media played an integral role in solving her murder. Without the use of social media, Jill Masher’s case may have remained unsolved. Unfortunately, we usually associate social media […]

when I was four years old, my brother and I were searching for my birthmark. My sister had an obvious brown spot on her leg, my brother’s was somewhere on his back, but mine was not so prominent. Being three years older and so much wiser, my brother told me that only aliens don’t have […]

In the fading light, the old man looked at his son. “You think I’d lie to you? Son, all you need to wear a hat is attitude. And you got that. You think I’d tell you you looked good if you didn’t? You look real sharp. You don’t believe me?” – Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys […]

Child Parent by A. V., Old Orchard Beach, ME I’ve become a 17-year-old mother of two boys. I didn’t give birth to them or supply them with names yet now they’re mine, and I have no choice whether I want them or not. I worry when they cram their mouths with junk food. I gripe […]

I am a very powerful wizard, the most powerful one of the century. Well, at least I was when I was eight years old. But trust me, boy was I powerful! I conjured spells, articulated curses, and whizzed around the neighborhood on a magic broomstick. I did it all with a smile too, the type […]

Blackness surrounds me, I am losing breathe… Fast-forward to the beginning of the day. I was only five-years-old but I was ambitious. My family and I were on vacation and our destination had been a waterpark. Before our trip, I learned how to swim at a Drury Inn hotel, so I was ready for anything. […]

Most people find the hospital a cold, strange, and miserable building that smells of sanitizing materials and latex gloves. I see it as an educational gateway into medicine. When doing our internship with the high school health science course, we worked in the hospital with people from several different departments. When with one of the […]

Tolearn to think is to learn to question. Those who don’t question never trulythink for themselves. These are simple rules that have governed the advancementof science and human thought since the beginning of time. Advancements are madewhen thinkers question theories and introduce new ones. Unfortunately, it isoften the great and respected thinkers who end up […]

Throughout a person’s life they may encounter many hardships ranging from a drug addiction, the loss of a family member, or even something as simple as making a decision between a soup or salad before dinner. No matter the severity of the struggle or how it affects us, we all have the same choice as […]

1) In the current tax year, Gunther earned $125,000 from his job as a civil engineer. In addition, he received $30,000 of income from Activity A, and lost $40,000, and 20,000 from Activities B and C respectively. Activities A, B, and C are passive activities that Gunther acquired in the current year. What amount of […]