by Henry Boyer | Mar 17, 2021 | Variety
Three fundamental truths of the universe: The sky is blue, force equals mass times acceleration, and Portland is rainy. Aside from homelessness and the familiar smell of cannabis, rain is the most defining experience of this great city. And yet, if you look around the...
by The Franklin Post | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by The Franklin Post | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by Grace Curley | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
I would like to kindly ask death to stop paying unwelcome visits to Franklin High School. Last year it took Mr. Tran. I guess that wasn’t satisfying enough. Not hard enough on all of us. I’ve had to learn over the course of my life that death doesn’t play fair. But...
by Elizabeth Kirsch | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
I don’t understand, in a world where we try so desperately to make sense of things, how someone so alive becomes unalive. My therapist says there’s nothing I can do to make sense of this; my brain says, “challenge accepted” and I try to put it together like a puzzle...
by Lilli Rudine | Mar 17, 2021 | Post Pulse
Today I’m going to write a poem about bright lights. It will not be about what the candle flames are burning in order to make themselves brighter. It will not be about how the last few weeks make my arms numb and my heart clench tighter. But rather about the bright...
by The Franklin Post | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Anonymous- I didn’t know her personally, but I know a lot of people who were close to her. Seeing her words of wisdom being reposted by people close to her really showed how kind and inspiring she was, and how she impacted a lot of people. Seeing her poems and...
by Lucy Eckel, Ella Pulscak | Mar 17, 2021 | Variety
After eyeing up moss balls for quite some time now, we decided that it would be the perfect opportunity to invest in a loveable quarantine pet. Before we made our purchase, we had to do some research on what our futures were about to look like. Here’s what we found...
by Sadie Tresnit | Mar 17, 2021 | Forum
Last year in my English class, I read “There Is No Unmarked Woman” by Deborah Tannen. In this essay, she uses linguistics to explain how our society sees and judges men and women. Linguistically, unmarked is the standard for words, and marked refers to a word that has...
by Grace Curley | Mar 17, 2021 | Forum
As we approach April and spring, college admission decisions are flooding in. Some lucky seniors have already made their commitments to their respective institutions. But most of us, myself included, have not. From my first exposure to the world of college...
