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Who Was the Best Boyfriend in Gilmore Girls?
All too often I find myself arguing with girls my age about who Rory Gilmore should’ve ended up with at the end of the hit early 2000s TV...
Skyla Clarke
Mar 29, 20249 min read
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How The Eras Tour Celebrates Girlhood
When I saw those men walking out with their big colourful flower-style parachutes and listened to the speakers blast “It’s been a long...
Skyla Clarke
Mar 18, 20246 min read
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A Mother’s Game: How Women are Capable of Balancing A Professional Sports Career as Well as Motherhood
International Women’s Day is a chance to celebrate the achievements of any woman, but one group tends to be forgotten
Skyla Clarke
Mar 4, 20246 min read
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The True Excitement Behind the New Zealand Warriors
Last year, New Zealanders got a new addition to their vocabulary, with the circulation of the phrase “Up the Wahs”. It didn’t really have...
Skyla Clarke
Feb 26, 20244 min read
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Sephora 10 Year Olds Are Wasting Their Childhoods
We have all seen the Tiktoks. Children no older than 12 ravaging through beauty stores, mixing products, destroying testers and being...
Skyla Clarke
Feb 10, 20245 min read
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How Lewis Hamilton's Move to Ferrari is Going to Change the Whole Grid
Friday morning sent shockwaves around the entire F1 world. After a relatively boring winter transfer period in football, the news that...
Skyla Clarke
Feb 4, 20248 min read
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How Does Anyone But You Compare to Other Rom-Coms of the 21st Century?
Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield has been stuck in my head since Boxing Day. It’s a good song, but given that it was released in 2004 its...
Skyla Clarke
Jan 19, 20244 min read
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How to Achieve Your Goals in 2024
The new year has begun, and I know all of you have probably created 2024 goals and resolutions, because “new year, new me” right? I am...
Skyla Clarke
Jan 4, 202410 min read
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Which Teams are Most Likely to Become Champions League Finalists?
The UEFA Champions League is arguably the most prestigious football league in the world, with only the best teams from each of Europe’s...
Skyla Clarke
Jan 2, 202413 min read
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Five Months
I was so excited when I got the call. But when I heard what he had to say the glowing expression on my face had soon faded away...
Anonymous
Nov 30, 20237 min read
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Goodnight
In loving memory of our best fur friends Fly free I think we both knew That this day would come, For nothing lives forever… And I tried...
Irene Chun
Oct 30, 20231 min read
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The Equality Issue with EAFC
We have all heard the story of the heroic female football player who grew up playing in a boys team, and is now a professional athlete...
Skyla Clarke
Oct 26, 20236 min read
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Aotearoa New Zealand, the Finest Society for Young People?
Read my article that was shortlisted for the Harbinger's Prize in 2023, featuring an interview with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.
Skyla Clarke
Sep 30, 20235 min read
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Succumb to the Darkness
They could feel their heart start to race as they stared into the mirror’s reflection… Because lurking in the back, they spotted out the...
Irene Chun
Aug 11, 20235 min read
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New Zealand Fashion Week
New Zealand fashion week… It’s coming up New Zealand's most anticipated fashion event of the year, NZ Fashion Week, is just around the...
Kayla Te Kani
Aug 2, 20232 min read
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THEY CAME IN PEACE
PROPERTY OF THE US. GOVERNMENT *ANY COPYRIGHT OR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION IS A FEDERAL CRIME **THIS DOCUMENT IS ONLY...
Libby Hayvice
Aug 2, 20235 min read
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Red Camellia
"Based on the fictional disease, Hanahaki Disease" Hurts. It hurts that I can’t feel anything. I feel numb and suffocated, as my body...
Irene Chun
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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La Vacanza
In the fashion world there's never a pause, staying ahead of the times is the only way to stay relevant in this industry, something well...
Kayla Te Kani
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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To Imagine A Spring Without You
Winter Luke pulled his coat around him a little tighter. The frigid cold sent a chill down his spine as breathed out cold air, stretching...
Anonymous
Jun 30, 202332 min read
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Love's Blossoming Agony
Mary Mary, quite contrary, How does your Hanahaki grow? With petals blooming, but inside you're gloom, And roses intertwined, the pain...
Irene Chun
Jun 21, 20231 min read
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