The not so sweet prince by Furzan A

Like the horse, Prince, Tess has a high-class name, but lives a life of menial physical labor. Interestingly, Prince’s death occurs right after Tess dreams of ancient knights, having just heard the news that her family is from an aristocratic descent. Also, the horse is pierced by the forward-jutting piece of metal on a mail coach, which is just like a medieval joust. In an odd way, Tess’s dream of medieval glory comes true, and her horse dies a heroic death. Yet her dream of meeting a prince while she kills her own Prince, and with him her family’s only means of financial sustenance, is a tragic foreshadowing of her own story, because later in the novel Tess meets Alec who brings her both his lofty name, D'Urberville and, indirectly, her own death later.

The Sickness Problem by Dominic House

The past week I have been sick and have been forced to miss a couple days of school. When waking up in the morning my first thoughts are, " Oh God, now I have all this make-up work to do that I won't understand." Why is it that most teachers don't spend time helping their students whom miss days understand what they missed? "Read" is what they say. But do they not understand that textbooks tend to be confusing? Essentially, you're forced to go to school at the risk of getting those around you sick if you truly want to learn what you would have otherwise missed that day. Should it be the responsibility of the students to learn when they get sick? It's not their fault that an illness falls upon them. Its not to say that there are those out there who fake being but should it come at the expense of those who are? An initiative should take place in which teachers spend time in their prep period to teach those students what they missed. Is it too much to ask? Discovery to learn even when sick.