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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Elizabeth Franklin

Elizabeth Franklin, Opinions/A&E Editor

Pronouns: she/her

Grade: 11

Years on staff: 3

What was your favorite childhood TV show? Man, Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse got me through some of my darkest times.

What is your favorite book? Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry will always be a classic to me.

What motivates you? I'd say that the future motivates me. I might not be totally happy with the way things are right now, but the beauty of the future is that anything can happen. Sure, aliens could invade the planet in twenty years, but I also might be very successful and presented with lots of new, great opportunities and experiences in twenty years, too. But I won't know the limits unless I try my best, and I think that motivates me more than anything else.

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This photo illustration is inspired by the copious political attack ads plastered over all news and local stations in the St. Louis Metro area. These commercials exploit current event issues by using the biggest concerns to attract attention. Marijuana is one [concern] in Missouri because they’re having a ballot issue. Illegal immigration and cutting taxes are the ones that Republicans use. The whole ‘[Republicans] being very right-wing and autocratic’ is [an issue ad] that you would see the Democrats doing. They’re all over the place depending on what the hot-button issue is, social studies department chair Jeffrey Chazen said.

They can’t be trusted

Elizabeth Franklin, Opinions Editor
November 9, 2022
A picture of the Arch in downtown St. Louis. Officially opened in 1965, the Gateway Arch is St. Louis’s most well-known landmark and described as the “Gateway to the West.”

Beyond the statistics

Elizabeth Franklin, Opinions Editor
May 24, 2022
Freshman Sabrina Urdaneta and her friends pose in front of her house in Cuba. The house was where Urdaneta lived before she left for America, close to the city of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. “All of the walls were rusty and the tiles were falling off. The floor was dirty, but in Cuba - where I lived - my house was considered a really nice house which is crazy to think about, coming to the United States and seeing what a house here looks like,” Urdaneta said.

Año nuevo, vida nueva

Elizabeth Franklin, Staff Writer
January 21, 2022
After a year of closed curtains, the Theater Department looks to get creative with performing.

The show must go on

Elizabeth Franklin, Staff Writer
April 7, 2021
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