November Issue

   This holiday is an old one that originates from a mix of old Mesoamerican and European traditions, a blend of many different old celebrations. Some of those come from the old beliefs of how souls travelled to the afterlife, though its origins lead to how it is observed to this day.              Traditionally the Day of the Dead, Dìa de los Muertos in Spanish, is celebrated on the 1­st and 2nd of November, the main celebration being on the 2nd. While this still reigns true in most places today, some choose to celebrate on the 31st of October, or for only…

Time is not the same, Why am I pretending, To forget the pain, Would you even? . I see you everywhere, I cannot look at myself, For I hear your voice, Why did you leave me behind? . There is a bittersweet taste, In how things used to be, You left a space in my life,  It will forever be empty. . I knew your pain, Yet I could not imagine, How this cruel world,  Could take you from me, . Where did you go, Please tell me so, I cannot breathe, Without your presence here, . Burying my feelings,…

The original trilogy of The Hunger Games presented a deadly annual show in which twenty-four kids of the districts are forced to fight to the death by the game makers of the Capitol. This event is known as the Hunger Games. The last kid standing is allowed to go back to their district with love and money from the Capitol, although the games never really end, as seen later in the books. During the day where the kids are picked from the crowd, the Reaping day, of the 74th games, Katniss, the protagonist, sacrifices herself for her sister, which is…

Many of us, having lived in Canada all their lives, find the poppy to be inextricably linked to remembrance, notably of WWI military losses. We may be unfamiliar with its history, and even more unfamiliar with other flowers that serve the same purpose abroad. Poppies have started being worn and offered on October 25, and this will continue until Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day is on November 11; it commemorates the WWI armistice. The Commonwealth and the USA             The history of the poppy starts with poppy fields. Before the Great War, poppies did not grow much in the Flanders region.…