Bronwen Gerber The Corsair Why learn a foreign language when the whole world speaks English? Transmuted to the perspective of the Pensacola State College student, this question becomes “why take a foreign language when it is four credits and a lot of extra work?” It is true that as native English speakers, Americans are spoiled...
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The last blues party of the year
Isaiah Grant The Corsair Blues is a type of popular music originated in Mississippi by Black slaves. The slaves played and sang the blues to lament the hardships that went on in their lives. Of course, the genre would evolve into rock. Every year, on Labor Day weekend, the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds hosts a blues...
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DeLuna Fest 101
Josh Morton The Corsair It’s finally here! We’ve been hearing about it for months and the eagle has finally landed! DeLuna Fest will be celebrating its three-year-anniversary party on Pensacola Beach starting Friday and ending Sunday. Starting at 2 p.m. Friday, there will be six stages set up on Pensacola Beach and in the...
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A blast in Pensacola’s past with PSC professor Broxton
Bronwen Gerber The Corsair Last Saturday, along with a group of about thirty people, I went on a two-hour-long journey through Pensacola’s past. Our guide: Pensacola State College history Professor Randall Broxton. The walking tour, organized by the Jared Sparks Historical Society of Pensacola State College, began at the Fleming Fountain and took us around...
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They want me to come
Isaiah Grant The Corsair I like a girl named Paris; she is one of the most popular people on Earth. I read about her in books and sometimes see her on television. She likes me too and hopes that one day, I would fly across the Atlantic to come visit her. If I do come...
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Prep football, week 2
Isaiah Grant The Corsair Last week, I decided to attend a high school football game. Pine Forest is the closest school from where I live, and its football team happened to have a home game. In the previous week, the team was scheduled to play Stephenson (Ga.), but the game was postponed due to Hurricane Isaac....
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In this post-9/11 world
Brian McLellan The Corsair Before I begin this, I want to get something out of the way. I love this country. I have lived and breathed and bled that pride since the first day I was consciously able to follow politics — around age 5. To quote the “terrorist” named “V,” there’s something terribly wrong...
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Be Sure To…
Isaiah Grant The Corsair This is for all high school graduates who plan on attending an institute of higher learning. As soon as you are enrolled at a college or university, you must seize the moment and take care of your business to make the four years seem like a breeze and graduate with a...
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My Mid-June
Isaiah Grant The Corsair On the date I am writing this, June 19th, a Union general in Galveston, Texas made a declaration that all slaves in Texas were emancipated, or set free. Today, many African-Americans celebrate this incident as “Juneteenth”; Juneteenth is a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth and is observed in 40...
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Selfish Souls
Isaiah Grant The Corsair Say summertime is approaching and you decide to go job hunting to pay off your student loans, the rent, the car note, etc.; you land a job and you make good progress, becoming employee of the month, pleasing your customers, and earning a raise. Do you realize that you work, not...