As everybody knows, October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The first thing to pop in one's head is the notorious pink ribbon. Eventually a plethora of these pink products litter the shelves of every store. Ranging from stationary to jewelry and even food, no product is safe from Susan G. Komen. Whilst the intentions are pure, people, and mostly their pocketbooks, are unfortunately being taken advantage of in this pastel fantasy. That pink ribbon isn't all that we think it is. Raising millions of dollars every year, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the largest...

Almost everyone has seen the boy with the oxygen tank walking down the hallway; well that is my brother. Myles Castillo, RHS junior, has been dealing with impaired breathing, ever since he was one year old. Myles contracted pneumonia and a virus that attacked his white blood cells and would not allow them produce the oxygen needed. The illness will affect the rest of his life. Myles was later hospitalized and put on a ventilator and a trake. A ventilator is a machine that makes your lungs breathe; it pushes air in and out, and a trake is a whole in your neck with a...