By: Veronica Kogan I have had quite a few injuries in my time. Honestly, if there was an Olympic gold medal for “most injuries in a short amount of time,” it would be dangling around my neck. It all started in second grade. I was playing around at the top of my driveway when I realized that I had not yet irritated my older sister, … Continue reading Echo presents: Just Dance
By: Courtney Suber & Veronica Kogan These days everyone has an opinion on this weird and wild internet phenomenon coined as “cancel culture.” At a time in the early 2010’s this term was confined to Tumblr and Twitter, both flourishing social media platforms that boast a whopping 812 million when combined with one another. Through Tumblr and Twitter (as well as other social media sights) … Continue reading Opposing Viewpoints: Cancel Culture — The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By: Veronica Kogan School papers feel like Armageddon. You sit on your butt and put weight on. But if you cry out Out of stress and of doubt There’s still a blank sheet you must write on. ————————————————- Weekends make you so cynical. You think it’ll feel like sabbatical. You think that you’ll party And dress up like Barbie But you have APUSH papers and … Continue reading Echo Presents: Diary of a Stressed Student
By: Veronica Kogan Many think of J.S. Bach as just some boring, stuffy composer who lived three hundred years ago and should stay there. Well, they are quite mistaken. Bach lived during the Baroque period, a time of artistic drama and grandeur. At the same time, Lutheranism, the first Christian faith to break from the Catholic Church, had a great impact on Bach’s music, and … Continue reading Musicology Corner: J.S. Bach: His Dark Side
By: Veronica Kogan The first word that sprung to mind when reading this prompt was the same one I have been mulling over since quarantine began many months ago: division. Since people have had a lot more time on their hands to mull over political and social issues, division over issues has escalated tenfold to violent civilian eruptions. It’s gotten to the point that civil war does not … Continue reading Echo Presents: My Dream – Veronica Kogan
By: Veronica Kogan Let’s face it—do you really know what John Adams did for the birth of the U.S.? From my experience in history class, John Adams is a name you hear once or twice and forget shortly thereafter. I’ve always thought the main players in the birth of America were only George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton. “Hamilton” the musical made … Continue reading Films to Stream in Quarantine: John Adams: Only One Man
By: Veronica Kogan To all the film noir fanatics out there (I know there’s lots of you, you may just not know it yet), I’ve got your movie medicine. Its name: Laura. Who’s Laura, you say? We might never know…Perhaps that is part of the mystique of this suspenseful who-dunn-it dive into the 1940s. The plot begins with Detective Mark McPherson, who is investigating the … Continue reading Films to Stream in Quarantine: Laura: The Autopsy
By: Veronica Kogan Back in middle school, I had a friend named Maya. We were close friends but had completely different tastes in music—she was a One Directioner who played Disney Channel songs on repeat, while I was an ABBA, Louis Armstrong, and Rachmaninoff kind of gal. I was fine with our differences as long as she kept Justin Bieber’s “Baby” at a 3 mile … Continue reading Musicology Corner: Pop! Goes the Weasel: Classical Music Where You Least Expect It
