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Lifestyles

Nebraska celebrates 150th

Nebraska’s history
On March 1, 1867, Nebraska was granted statehood, but according to The US 50, which is a website that provides information about all 50 states with the help from US Governors’ Offices, State Departments of Tourism, Departments of Economics & Community Development, there is archaeological evidence of settlement that dates back much more than 150 years ago. More than 10,000 years ago Native Americans hunted big game in the area and the recorded history dates to the 1700s.

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Opinion

Social media: a new way to bully

Social media started as a way for friends, family, and loved ones to communicate with each other without having to pick up a phone. Billions of people have social accounts ranging in all ages from children to elderly people. What it’s slowly turned into is a place where people flaunt their lives, bully each other, or perform other careless and rude acts.

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Opinion

Don’t let the memes get you down

Internet trends are always changing. The best memes too evolve and are shared across both social media and real-life platforms.

A meme, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.” This could be anything from “salt bae” to Spongebob on the internet.

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