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The History of Prom By: Andrea Pineda Many would say prom is the most anticipated event of senior year and while seniors at Bravo are getting ready to celebrate their last year of high school, many of them don’t know where and how prom originated. The first form of prom began in the late 19th century in the United States but it was originally an event for college students. This event was also known as debutante balls, which were “coming out” parties that served the purpose of introducing young women to society and help them find eligible men to marry. For the people who weren’t able to afford the debutante ball, more specifically women in middle class, a co-ed prom party would be held and untimely served the same function as a debutante ball. By the 1920s, prom was introduced to white schools and this is where students would learn how to behave with the opposite gender in hopes of meeting a partner they could marry. During this time, racism was very much alive so this excluded black people from ever attending. Prom wasn’t very popular until the 1950s, this is where girls began spending tons of money for prom and when guys were expected to invite girls with an extravagant prom proposal.Then in the 1960s and 70s, schools had become integrated but many began to held two separate proms, one from the white students and one for the black students. Many southern schools continued this until the 21st century and recently scrapped the idea of a segregated prom in 2014. Although prom has not always been what is known to be today, it continues to bring joy and excitement for students ready to graduate high school and begin their lives as adults. For many, prom is the day where students can enjoy themselves and have fun with their classmates one last time before they go their separate ways and venture out into the world.
Parent Conferences By Dante Merino Half of the spring/summer semester at Bravo went by and it was time for the semesterly parent conferences. Parent conferences took place on both wednesday march 20th and on thursday march 21st. Parents were able to have a 1 on 1 with the bravo teacher staff and had early access to the second progress reports. Bravo staff, teachers, and volunteers stayed after hours on these two evenings to ensure that the semesterly event went as smooth as possible. Teachers and staff members were compensated with an early dismissal friday that same week due to the extra hours they spent on school campus. The bravo community came together on behalf of the students’ academic progress once again for this 2019 school year. The conferences marked the end of the era for the senior class of 2019 because it was the last parent conferences that they would participate in their high school career. It’s a bitter-sweet feeling knowing that you are just around the corner from finishing the pilot of your life and are about to enter the berzerk wilderness that life has planned for you. Bravo also provided extra information about senior ring packages for any families/parents that were interested. Refreshments and concessions were sold by clubs and student groups throughout both days of parent conferences. Overall, teachers were more than happy to consult and chat with parents about students. The school ambience felt welcoming and very educational. Special thank you to all the staff members and teachers who stayed after school and worked hard to make it another successful set of parent conferences.
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New Zealand Shooting
WORLD NEWS
MARCH 2019
By: Diana Lopez
On March 15, 2019, two mosques were attacked by a terrorist. The attacks began at the Al Noor Mosque in the suburb of Riccarton at 1:40 pm, and continued at the Linwood Islamic Centre at about 1:55 pm. The massacre of 49 people in New Zealand on Friday highlights the contagious ways in which extreme right ideology and violence have spread in the 21st century; even to a country that had not experienced a mass shooting for more than two decades, and which is rarely associated with the extreme right. New Zealand may be thousands of miles from Europe or the United States, but videos of the killer show that he was deeply entrenched in the global far right, a man familiar with the iconography, in-jokes and shibboleths of different extremist groups from across Europe, Australia and North America, as well as a native of the extreme-right ecosystem online. Indeed, the manifesto was a Who’s Who of white supremacist killers. The author took inspiration from Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine African Americans in a church in South Carolina in 2015, as well as with Luca Traini, Anton Lundin Pettersson and Darren Osborne, all of whom carried out racist attacks in Europe in recent years. The killer’s ability to livestream the attack via his own social media channels, which led to the dissemination of the video and manifesto across YouTube, Facebook and several mainstream media outlets, also highlights how the far-right has harnessed the reach of major media and technology companies, even as it continues to spread its message through the dark corners of obscure internet sites. Until this month, neither the United States nor New Zealand had updated its national gun laws in more than two decades. While nearly 40,000 people die from firearms in America each year, New Zealand’s response to this month’s terrorist attack has some people asking how that country moved so quickly to change its laws. Seventy-two hours after the mosque attacks, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her cabinet had agreed to reform the country’s gun laws, which had largely been unchanged since 1992. The law is likely to provide some exemptions to the new restrictions, including gun use for professional pest control and international sporting competitions.
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Physicians Fight to Treat Drug Addiction By: Damian Marin
Physicians fight to treat addiction By Damian Marin According to The U.S. Surgeon General’s office “more than 20 million people have gone through addiction.” The nation’s drug overdose crisis has not decreased at all the past year so public health leaders have been pushing to get more physicians trained to help fight addiction. There aren’t enough physicians who specialize in treating addiction or doctors with clinical training who are certified in addiction medicine. Therefore, public health leaders have been pushing to get more physicians trained in treatment for addiction using substances like buprenorphine, which has been shown to help treat opioid overdoses and reduce the chance of death . The opioid epidemic has brought major attention to physicians to learn how treat addiction. And medical institutions across the country are creating fellowships for aspiring doctors who want to treat substance use disorder with the same precision and science as other diseases. There are over 60 programs offering physicians a year or two of post-graduate training in clinics and hospitals where they learn evidence-based approaches for treating addiction.
As summer approaches, mosquitoes carrying diseases are on the rise. NPR elucidates a study from a study published of the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases; The increasing temperatures enable mosquitoes to reach farther north and transmit diseases such as Dengue and Zika. https://www.google.com/search ?q=new+zealand+shooting&sa
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