The Roar
QLS High School Writing Club
On Domestic Violence: Model Minority, Private Pain
*Written by Kanchan Naik, Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of The Roar *Content note: discussion of domestic violence. Forty-five-year-old Mamta Shah met her second husband at a student union in 2012, and they soon shared a cramped Houston apartment to begin their new life together. Shah had recently fled Nepal and an abusive marriage, gaining asylum […]
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Each time a woman
stands up for herself
without knowing it possibly,
without claiming it,
she stands up for all women.
- Maya Angelou
Eddie Valen Halen Tragically Passes away at 65
On October 6, 2020, Eddie Van Halen, the shredding legend himself, walked off the stage of life after 65 years of showing the world all that he can do. He fought a lengthy battle with throat cancer, and he tragically succumbed to it. Eddie Van Halen was born on January 26, 1955 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. […]
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