The importance of time capsules

By: Trump Vang

Think about a time when you were younger. Was it at home playing with toys? Being at school with your friends? Taking a late night walk? All of these things are brought back through your memories. Through the bad, the good and the strange they are a part of you and make you who you are today. It’s inevitable that you’ll forget events and things every once and a while; you’re not going to remember everything that happens in your life.

Now imagine that you wanted future generations to learn and know these important parts of your life. Imagine that you have to place your memories in a physical box to be locked away. Now this is what many call Time Capsules.

Time Capsules are essentially mini libraries of goods or information from the past. They don’t take much to make, with only a container with meaningful and relevant objects inside. They tell us a lot of information about the past and about how people lived, their cultures, social norms, etc. The information is limited but broad which makes it valuable.

Many may think of time capsules as boxes that you bury beneath the ground, though they can be, and mean much more than that. One example of this notion are the space crafts known as Voyager 1 & Voyager 2. These spacecraft are specially fitted with a gramophone record used to depict culture here on Earth to extraterrestrials. Anything from music to images and greetings are included on the spacecraft. As time capsules they show a time period of Earth and its own cultures and social norms.

Time Capsules can really be anything as long as they preserve the stories of those from the past. They are important to learn about the past and its path to who and where we are today. While history can be left out to wither, keeping it in preservation is integral. Time Capsules do an amazing job at this, preserving items until they can be maintained in a proper place, such as a museum. Without them, we wouldn’t have as much information in history as we do today; a lot of information is lost to time, and simply keeping it will perpetuate those important values. That is the importance of Time Capsules.

‘Snow Angel’ album review

By: Sophia Elmstrom

‘Snow Angel’ is Reneé Rapp’s debut album with only an EP out called ‘Everything to Everyone’. This album came out November 2023 and it is about 48 minutes long in total with 16 songs.

Reneé Rapp has recently gained a new level of popularity from the ‘Mean Girls’ remake which is a musical. Reneé was in ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway and was an actor before she started her singing career. She is very popular among many teens from this movie and a majority of her fans are also musical theater fans.

The 16 songs on this album are:

  1. Talk Too Much
  2. I Hate Boston
  3. Poison Poison
  4. Gemini Moon
  5. Snow Angel
  6. So What Now
  7. The Wedding Song
  8. Pretty Girls
  9. Tummy Hurts
  10. I Wish
  11. Willow
  12. 23
  13. Messy
  14. I Do
  15. Swim
  16. Tummy Hurts (feat. Coco Jones)

My two favorite songs on this album are “Talk Too Much” and “Messy”. The most popular songs on this album are “Poison Poison” which became popular because of TikTok and “Tummy Hurts” which also became popular because of TikTok.

All of the songs on this album are very good especially because of Reneé’s vocals and how great her voice sounds. She has a very powerful voice which sounds amazing in person and on the album and these vocals are mostly shown on the song “Snow Angel”.

The reason I love the song “Talk Too Much” is because I like the beat and the lyrics a lot. She has a point in the song where she starts talking a lot and I think it is clever to do that in a song called “Talk Too Much”. This song is about how she is scared that she talks too much and she is basically overthinking this relationship. I give this song a 10/10.

I also love the song “Messy” for some of the same reasons. This song is also about overthinking and how when she isn’t with this person all she thinks about is the relationship. I give this song a 9/10.

Overall, I really like this album and I believe that the vocals are amazing. I think that there are no bad songs on the album and I think she did a great job on ‘Snow Angel’. This album is full of a lot of upbeat and poppy songs and there aren’t many slow songs. I give this album an 8/10.