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        <news:name>Makena Brandon</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Echo Chamber of Our Classrooms: It&apos;s Time to Shatter the Silence</news:title>
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      <news:title>Change - A Social Commentary Poem</news:title>
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        <news:name>Makena Brandon</news:name>
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      <news:publication_date>2026-05-01T05:00:08.714Z</news:publication_date>
      <news:title>The loudest lions hunt the quietest prey, but the lion that speaks least often feeds the longest.</news:title>
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