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Movie Industry Impacted by COVID-19

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The Coronavirus has negatively impacted many industries. Private corporations are struggling to maintain their business due to the effects of COVID-19. The global pandemic has caused many businesses, such as restaurants, grocery stores, shopping malls to close... More »

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Seniors’ Advice to Incoming IB Students

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Next year, sophomores will be starting their first year of IB and juniors are completing their final year of IB. Here are a few words of advice from the current AISG seniors and the graduating class of 2020! Gabriel K. shares his biggest advice when entering I... More »

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What’s The Deal With Local VS International Schools?

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As an extremely multi-cultured school, AISG has a lot of students from everywhere around the globe. However, there are still a majority of students that transferred from local schools around China. There are a lot of significant differences between local schoo... More »

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Seniors’ Thoughts on First Year of University

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With the exacerbating situation of COVID-19, many rising university freshmen are now facing a new dilemma: whether to defer their first year of university to avoid the risk of getting the coronavirus or take online classes. This article features thoughts of st... More »

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Meet Your New Executive Officers!

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During the final week of April, students and teachers were sent an email introducing us to the candidates who were running for the Executive Council. There were a total of nine candidates, so there was no doubt that this year’s Executive Council elections were... More »

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For the Better or the Worse? IB Changes 2022

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The International Baccalaureate Curriculum that we are familiar with is yet changing again to be applied in the year 2020 and to be first tested in 2022. The changes to the curriculum are not as significant as the changes that took place in 2019. It is surpris... More »

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Quarantined and Unmotivated To Work?

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Since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak has dominated the year of 2020, businesses have slowed and people have been unwillingly stuck in their homes or in foreign countries. In the midst of this pandemic, students can tend to be unmotivated to finish their a... More »

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Sayonara Seniors!

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It is no doubt that the global pandemic of the Coronavirus has been negatively impacting students’ academic and social lives. It is especially unfortunate for the seniors as their last semester of high school was spent separate from one another. Seniors had to... More »

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A Farewell from the Editors-in-Chief

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As the school year draws to a close, we would like to wish The Beacon’s two editors-in-chief, Abby P. and Gabriel K. good luck in the future and bid them a farewell from The Beacon after two years of them at the helm. They are graduating this year as a part of... More »

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Pass or Fail Option: Advantage or Disadvantage?

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Due to the exacerbating conditions of Coronavirus worldwide, AISG students have been undergoing online learning for the past 3 months. With less face-to-face lessons and lectures, students are having a hard time keeping up with all the content they are require... More »

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Zoom is Everywhere!

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As of today, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc among many countries’ healthcare systems, pushing hospitals all around the world to their limit. Many schools, such as our own, have moved to online learning as well, due to the pandemic. Zoom, an app created by Zoom Vid... More »