As sorrowful family members mourned their tragic loss of their 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, one of the many victims of the Tuscon shooting in January, members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral only a few thousand feet away. Chanting and holding up signs saying, “You’re going to hell” at funerals, the group believes that the deaths of young children and deceased servicemen and women are God’s punishment for America’s leniency toward gays.

During her English class, junior Ailene Nguyen found herself participating in a heated discussion about Proposition 19, the ballot measure that would have made marijuana legal in California. The dispute grew as the students’ opinions clashed, and the situation may have seemed like a sort of intellectual battlefield, rather than an everyday classroom.

The recent release of the multi-billion dollar movie "Avatar" has become the highest grossing movie of all time but it has also sparked controversy from varied interest groups around the globe.

The blue men with golden stripes. The lush, beautiful, and green environment. It seems like the Na'vi's world in the movie is a paradise to be envied—especially since here on Earth, the innocent world is under fire for about every controversy there could be about a movie.