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On February 6th, 2023 at 4:17am, Northwest Syria and Southeast Turkey experienced an intense earthquake that reached a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale. Vigorous aftershocks continued to disrupt the peace, with one aftershock reaching 6.3 on February 20th. Across the board there were at least 87,000 injuries, 47,000 buildings destroyed and over 47,000 deaths reported. As a result of this, 26 million people in Turkey and Syria were left in an anguished situation requiri

Chocolate- Chocolate people are very dependable, very golden retriever people. People who order chocolate ice cream are most likely the type to only rewatch tv shows because they already know what happens. New Girl is not the only show to exist. Rocky Road- My favorite type of people. If rocky road is your favorite ice cream, you are the definition of an ambivert. These are the types of people who just seem to fit perfectly into any group of people and are loved by all. Cooki

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language bot released in November of 2022 that can offer responses to a vast network of prompts. Its significance to students: ChatGPT answers pass plagiarism and AI-generated response detectors. AP English Literature and Composition teacher Ashley Fallon considers ChatGPT as an obstacle that will have to be adapted to in the classroom’s future. For educators, ChatGPT poses a problem in its potential, as students could write their acade

It is 2023, and you are the prodigal son returning home to your favorite hobby, reading, after you’d abandoned it. So much time has passed that you barely know where to start, but like a stroke of fate, you stumble upon a shelf labeled ‘Booktok’ at your local bookstore. If the entire internet liked the book so much it made it onto real store shelves, it must be good, you think. You purchase It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with this thought in mind, believing with all your

Beginning early February, the Tartan Shield has been creating biweekly palettable reports on school board meetings. Articles can be found in the News section of our website here. We hope these reports will inspire students involvement and public accountability present in these school board meetings. As delineated by the California School Boards Association (CSBA), a school board is a small group of locally elected officials intended to govern their district’s public schools.