Jalen Gooch

Jalen Gooch, senior, loves writing and reading about the many diverse stories of people around the world. By being part of the Humanities Academy, he hopes to be able to help share the stories of people who often are unheard. Jalen loves to to get boba with friends and meet new people.

More of Jalen Gooch’s Work:

• Building Healthy Relationships: Quarantine – For my last piece in this series, I originally was planning on discussing a different type of relationship, but with the recent events that have unfolded within the past couple …
• Dear [insert class here] – Freshmen To the Freshmen of 2023, I’m sure this is not at all how you expected your first year of high school to end. While you are missing out on …
• Survival of The News Industry Remains Uncertain Under Coronavirus Crisis – The spreading of Coronavirus has impacted many aspects of our society. With the strict stay home order around the globe, I wonder how the news industry has been able to …
• Building Healthy Relationships: Strangers – This relationship can be the most ambiguous or is the relationship that we rarely know that we are a part of. Whether it is the people we pass in the …
• An Unexpected End to Senior Year – Anticipation has long been a beautiful hum in my heart for good things to come. Anticipation for summer vacation. Anticipation for holiday festivities and celebration. Anticipation for a reunion with …
• Building Healthy Relationships: Friends – From our earliest childhood friendships to new ones we make and build daily, our friends will always have an impact on our life. As high schoolers and adolescents, we are …
• The Economic Impact of COVID-19 – Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a devastating economic recession has come along for the ride. As of writing this, 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment. The United States has not …
• The Psychological Impact of Being Quarantined and How to Cope – Social distancing and quarantine are emotionally taxing situations for anyone. Spending an extended amount of time in quarantine and isolation can take a serious toll on one’s mental health, and …
• Passing the Time: Things to Do While Home Alone – With all of the chaos and turmoil that has happened over the past couple of days we all can agree: self-isolation is hard. It can be hard not having that …
• Spotlight Movie Review—Journalists Switch the Light On in Our Society – “We spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there’s a fair share of blame to go around.”  As this line from …