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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: Normality

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 - by Jacob Hindman - Leave a Comment

Back in March, when our school closed because of the threat of COVID-19, I don’t think anyone knew how long we’d stay quarantined. I remember the teachers announcing our two-week …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: My Family

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 - by The Pirates Hook - Leave a Comment

By Genesis Smith-Lopez Life without family has been hard to adjust to. I went from seeing them multiple times a week to once a month.  My family is made up …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: Structure

September 11, 2020September 14, 2020 - by Emmer Rice - Leave a Comment

Quarantine has lasted for what feels like forever, and it’s affected every single person in the country differently. I’m lucky in that my life hasn’t changed too drastically over the …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: A senior year

September 8, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Ben Patton - Leave a Comment

Over the past few months, I’ve realized that I had been taking way too much for granted.  I thought that by now, I would have been driving into the senior …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: My Sister

September 4, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Elizabeth Williams - Leave a Comment

The biggest thing I had to live without during this pandemic was not being able to see my older sister, Kristina. She lives in Greenville and traveling down to Durham …

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Coronavirus / News

USPS faces Covid-19, election challenges

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 - by mdulliray - Leave a Comment

The postal service has been the main form of sending letters, packages, etc. for over 200 years. They have struggled to keep up with technology, but have managed to do …

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Coronavirus / Opinion / Sports

#LifeWithout: Sports

September 2, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Ethan Haine - Leave a Comment

On March 12, 2020 the sports world stopped almost completely. The night before, the NBA announced that they would be suspending play “until further notice”. Over the next couple days, …

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Coronavirus / News

#LifeWithout: Travel

September 1, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Dean Hunter - Leave a Comment

I’d never considered how important travelling is to my daily routine. I’m not talking about trips to the Caribbean or spending a week in Disneyland, but the basic, mundane travel …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#LifeWithout: Coffee shops

September 1, 2020September 10, 2020 - by evaflowe - Leave a Comment

Social distancing has taken a lot of personal comforts and experiences from everyone, and it can be difficult to adjust. One of the things I miss most is studying in …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#Coronabreak diaries: Admiring those who give

May 20, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Elizabeth Williams - Leave a Comment

My grandma, Sherry, she tells everyone that she is “fine” even through her most painful days.  She lives by that saying because she’s a woman who wants to spread love …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#Coronabreak Diaries: Stay-at-home is a privilege

May 15, 2020 - by Kaitlyn Busch - 1 Comment

Most of us have been sitting at home for over a month now. We’ve all become Zoom and Google Classroom experts, disabled the screen time feature on our phones because …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#Coronabreak diaries: boredom, fear and optimism

May 5, 2020May 15, 2020 - by jarekharris59 - Leave a Comment

Day 564 of quarantine. I haven’t seen the light of day in ages. The sounds of birds, the feel of a cool breeze, just the outside world in general, are …

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Coronavirus / Opinion

#Coronabreak diaries: The Prevalence of Ignorance in America

April 21, 2020May 15, 2020 - by Ben Patton - Leave a Comment

As I watch President Trump’s evening briefings, I hear a lot of nonsense about the US being the best, and how the administration has done everything ‘absolutely perfect’. What I …

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Coronavirus / Multimedia / News

The Pirates’ Podcast Episode 5: CORONAVIRUS!!!

February 19, 2020March 21, 2020 - by jarekharris59 - Leave a Comment
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Incase you missed them in our senior print edition, all of The Hook senior columns are now on our website: The Senior Issue is finally out 👀 Class of 2023 Print Edition is out now! Find senior superlatives, destinations, wills, spotlights and MORE! Pick up your copy today in room 148! (Part 2): More photos from the staff’s victory over the students in their game last week. See the full photo gallery on thepirateshook.com (Part 1): Photos from the staff’s 65-50 victory in the student vs. staff basketball game last week. Elizabeth Wagner is one of Riverside’s World Languages teachers. She teaches Spanish I and II at the standard level and is always accompanied by her best friend and service animal Claude. The men's volleyball team took a 20-18, 20-17 victory at lunch over the women's team in the @pirateathleticsmedia Spring Games volleyball team showdown! “If you are able to walk or bike to school at any age, it is better for the health of the kid, feelings of learned independence, students come to school better ready to learn because they’ve been moving their bodies, and getting their blood flowing,” said Bike Durham’s director, John Tallmadge. OPINION | Guest Column: You don’t get to be disgusted by my culture. Read this Riverside student’s perspective on disgust and how people view her food and culture:
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