Oped
Joszef Schankey
May 20, 2009
Late work
Oped on Coles oped
There are many reasons to have a wrestling team. We have just moved into a new school and have many new opportunities. We could get the finances to get the equipment because the students could help raise some of the money to get the equipment.
A wrestling team would be a good team for many reasons but the main one is it will help out the students stay in shape for other sports and keep good grades. Some of the students don’t play basketball and the do nothing in the off season. Having a wrestling team would help those students stay in shape for all the other sports they play. It would also help them pursue better grades to be able to compete in the matches. They would keep all their grades passing. Which overall would help the schools grade average out substantially.
Another thing that a wrestling would help is by making our school a much for healthy and active place. The wrestling team would be in shape and need to eat more healthy food to stay in shape. They would eat more salads and healthy foods making our school less of a statistic for having obese students.
That’s what I think a wrestling team would do to help out our student body and high school. So keep having a wrestling at tongue river high school in the back of your mind.
Friday, May 22, 2009
rEvIeW
Review
Joszef Schankey
May 22, 2009
I think that having a student governmental system is very important in many high schools. This helps the students in many different ways. This is why we need it in our schools. I will review this year’s student council election.
This year was a very interesting year of speeches and candidates. Most of the students had speeches prepared but there were some that didn’t and it was quite funny watching them go up on stage and talk with nothing prepared. Such as Cole Jolovich. He had no speech prepared and just went up there and said I’m a good candidate and vote for me. It was quite funny for all the students seeing as everyone was laughing at his speech as he walked of the stage. Andrew orchard is another student who had nothing ready. He went up there and said, “I’m going to keep it short and sweet vote for me.” Every one enjoyed that.
Many other students had speeches prepared. They had many good facts and explained why they would be best for our high school. Almost all the juniors that ran had speeches and had many good reasons for them to be elected. The outcome of all this was Taylor Kerns for President, Andrew Orchard for Vice President, Ashley Linheart for secretary, and Sean Chalfont for Treasurer. This was an amusing election this year. I hope that the one next year will be the same. And I hope that everyone enjoyed it this year.
Joszef Schankey
May 22, 2009
I think that having a student governmental system is very important in many high schools. This helps the students in many different ways. This is why we need it in our schools. I will review this year’s student council election.
This year was a very interesting year of speeches and candidates. Most of the students had speeches prepared but there were some that didn’t and it was quite funny watching them go up on stage and talk with nothing prepared. Such as Cole Jolovich. He had no speech prepared and just went up there and said I’m a good candidate and vote for me. It was quite funny for all the students seeing as everyone was laughing at his speech as he walked of the stage. Andrew orchard is another student who had nothing ready. He went up there and said, “I’m going to keep it short and sweet vote for me.” Every one enjoyed that.
Many other students had speeches prepared. They had many good facts and explained why they would be best for our high school. Almost all the juniors that ran had speeches and had many good reasons for them to be elected. The outcome of all this was Taylor Kerns for President, Andrew Orchard for Vice President, Ashley Linheart for secretary, and Sean Chalfont for Treasurer. This was an amusing election this year. I hope that the one next year will be the same. And I hope that everyone enjoyed it this year.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
BoOk ReViEw
Book Review
Joszef Schankey
May 10, 2009
Ever felt picked on by bullies? Been pursued by a person with other motives in mind, like kissing you? Have you ever considered obtaining a dragon for a pet as a solution to all of your problems? Life presents Jeremy Thatcher with more pits than cherries in Bruce Colville’s Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Shop Book , another entry in his entertaining series of “Magic Shop” books re-released by Magic Carpet Books. Though the idea of a dragon as a solution to his problems was likely the last thing on Jeremy’s mind, when he’s offered a mysterious shimmering multicolored egg by the strange old man who runs a magic shop that appears where it shouldn’t be out of the fog for the paltry sum of 25 cents, who can blame him for taking advantage of the bargain?At the start of the book, Jeremy is having trouble getting a drawing he’s doing of a - what else - dragon to look right. He’s also not getting along well with his art teacher, Mr. Kravitz, who Jeremy thinks hates him, and he’s received an unwanted love letter from his classmate, Mary Lou Hutton. Of course, Mr. Kravitz reads the note to the entire class, greatly embarrassing Jeremy and he doesn’t mention the sender’s name, saying: “No need to embarrass the person who wrote this by reading her signature.” Could the reason he doesn’t reveal the sender’s name be, Jeremy wonders that “Mary Lou’s father was on the school board”?To make his day even worse, a couple of bullies harass him after school, the time when Mary Lou’s letter said she was going to kiss him. Howard Morton and Freddy the Frog Killer chase Jeremy to hold him down so that Mary Lou can kiss him. This is the point in this Goosebumps-like novel (and series) when things start getting strange, the fog builds up eerily quickly, and the small town of Blodgett’s Crossing seems somehow bigger than it ever has before. Jeremy thinks, while running, I’ve never seen this street before. He spots an old-fashioned shop with a sign in the window that says:
The mysterious old man with “long white hair” and wrinkled “walnut-colored skin” who runs the shop asks him what he wants there. One thing Jeremy spots as he looks around is a human skull labeled “The Skull of Truth” (it plays an important role in another book in this series called The Skull of Truth). What really catches his eye, however, is “a shining, multicolored ball almost the size of his fist.” He doesn’t know what it is but asks how much it costs because he thinks it looks cool. The man ends up selling it to Jeremy, though he tells him he doesn’t want it. Jeremy asks him what he means by saying he didn’t want it, and the man answers: “You don’t. It wants you.” The ball turns out to be a dragon’s egg, and to get it to hatch, Jeremy is supposed to expose it to the light of the moon on Midsummer’s Night and recite a poem:
Full moon’s light to wake the egg, Full moon’s light to hatch it; Midsummer Night will crack the world, But St. John’s Day will patch it.
This is just the beginning of the fun in Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Shop Book . One good thing about owning and raising the particular kind of dragon Jeremy has is that it’s invisible to most people. A bad thing, though, is that the one person Jeremy doesn’t want to be able to see it, Mary Lou Hutton, is the one who can. Also, dragons are cute and don’t eat much or take up much space when they’re small, but their appetites and size rapidly increase - and their menu can include small household pets. This can especially be a drawback when you have several other pets, as Jeremy does, and when your father is a veterinarian, like Jeremy’s. This book is recommended for anyone who likes fun, entertaining books involving elements of magic and fantasy, and for fans of the other books in the Magic Shop series.
Joszef Schankey
May 10, 2009
Ever felt picked on by bullies? Been pursued by a person with other motives in mind, like kissing you? Have you ever considered obtaining a dragon for a pet as a solution to all of your problems? Life presents Jeremy Thatcher with more pits than cherries in Bruce Colville’s Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Shop Book , another entry in his entertaining series of “Magic Shop” books re-released by Magic Carpet Books. Though the idea of a dragon as a solution to his problems was likely the last thing on Jeremy’s mind, when he’s offered a mysterious shimmering multicolored egg by the strange old man who runs a magic shop that appears where it shouldn’t be out of the fog for the paltry sum of 25 cents, who can blame him for taking advantage of the bargain?At the start of the book, Jeremy is having trouble getting a drawing he’s doing of a - what else - dragon to look right. He’s also not getting along well with his art teacher, Mr. Kravitz, who Jeremy thinks hates him, and he’s received an unwanted love letter from his classmate, Mary Lou Hutton. Of course, Mr. Kravitz reads the note to the entire class, greatly embarrassing Jeremy and he doesn’t mention the sender’s name, saying: “No need to embarrass the person who wrote this by reading her signature.” Could the reason he doesn’t reveal the sender’s name be, Jeremy wonders that “Mary Lou’s father was on the school board”?To make his day even worse, a couple of bullies harass him after school, the time when Mary Lou’s letter said she was going to kiss him. Howard Morton and Freddy the Frog Killer chase Jeremy to hold him down so that Mary Lou can kiss him. This is the point in this Goosebumps-like novel (and series) when things start getting strange, the fog builds up eerily quickly, and the small town of Blodgett’s Crossing seems somehow bigger than it ever has before. Jeremy thinks, while running, I’ve never seen this street before. He spots an old-fashioned shop with a sign in the window that says:
The mysterious old man with “long white hair” and wrinkled “walnut-colored skin” who runs the shop asks him what he wants there. One thing Jeremy spots as he looks around is a human skull labeled “The Skull of Truth” (it plays an important role in another book in this series called The Skull of Truth). What really catches his eye, however, is “a shining, multicolored ball almost the size of his fist.” He doesn’t know what it is but asks how much it costs because he thinks it looks cool. The man ends up selling it to Jeremy, though he tells him he doesn’t want it. Jeremy asks him what he means by saying he didn’t want it, and the man answers: “You don’t. It wants you.” The ball turns out to be a dragon’s egg, and to get it to hatch, Jeremy is supposed to expose it to the light of the moon on Midsummer’s Night and recite a poem:
Full moon’s light to wake the egg, Full moon’s light to hatch it; Midsummer Night will crack the world, But St. John’s Day will patch it.
This is just the beginning of the fun in Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher: A Magic Shop Book . One good thing about owning and raising the particular kind of dragon Jeremy has is that it’s invisible to most people. A bad thing, though, is that the one person Jeremy doesn’t want to be able to see it, Mary Lou Hutton, is the one who can. Also, dragons are cute and don’t eat much or take up much space when they’re small, but their appetites and size rapidly increase - and their menu can include small household pets. This can especially be a drawback when you have several other pets, as Jeremy does, and when your father is a veterinarian, like Jeremy’s. This book is recommended for anyone who likes fun, entertaining books involving elements of magic and fantasy, and for fans of the other books in the Magic Shop series.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
LaTe WoRk
Editorial
Joszef Schankey
May 19, 2009
I believe that in the new school we should have the same limitations and privileges we had in the old school. Well when we were in the old school we were allowed to have drinks, food and wear our coats in the class rooms. With us moving into the new school we have had our limits raise and privileges restrained. This is unjust.
I say that the students need to stand up to the teachers and get these rules changed. One way we can change the drink in class is for the whole school were to participate in a “revolt” they couldn’t expel all the students so they would have to cooperate with the students and modify some of the rules. This I believe would improve the attitude of many students in the school allowing the school to improve in grades.
Another way that the school and do to help out the students is to allow us to wear our coats. They say that we can’t wear coats because the school is climate controlled. They don’t turn the heaters on till seven o’clock so when we get there the school is cold during the winter. When we want to wear our coats to stay warm the teachers don’t allow us because it’s against the rules. To me that doesn’t make since to me. If someone is cold they should be able to put on a coat. Not everyone is going to feel the same; some people are colder than others.
The last thing they could do is allow us to have food in class. Most of the students in the school participate in sports and with the pathetic lunch they feed us we don’t have enough energy to finish out the day let alone practice sports after. So we should be aloud to have healthy snacks to help us out with our sports after school.
Those are the things that I think could be improved with the school and that need to be fixed with the new schools. I’m sure everyone in the school would agree with the facts that I have just stated.
Joszef Schankey
May 19, 2009
I believe that in the new school we should have the same limitations and privileges we had in the old school. Well when we were in the old school we were allowed to have drinks, food and wear our coats in the class rooms. With us moving into the new school we have had our limits raise and privileges restrained. This is unjust.
I say that the students need to stand up to the teachers and get these rules changed. One way we can change the drink in class is for the whole school were to participate in a “revolt” they couldn’t expel all the students so they would have to cooperate with the students and modify some of the rules. This I believe would improve the attitude of many students in the school allowing the school to improve in grades.
Another way that the school and do to help out the students is to allow us to wear our coats. They say that we can’t wear coats because the school is climate controlled. They don’t turn the heaters on till seven o’clock so when we get there the school is cold during the winter. When we want to wear our coats to stay warm the teachers don’t allow us because it’s against the rules. To me that doesn’t make since to me. If someone is cold they should be able to put on a coat. Not everyone is going to feel the same; some people are colder than others.
The last thing they could do is allow us to have food in class. Most of the students in the school participate in sports and with the pathetic lunch they feed us we don’t have enough energy to finish out the day let alone practice sports after. So we should be aloud to have healthy snacks to help us out with our sports after school.
Those are the things that I think could be improved with the school and that need to be fixed with the new schools. I’m sure everyone in the school would agree with the facts that I have just stated.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
lEdEs
Joszef Schankey
April 29, 2009
Ledes
Swine Flu
The levels of affected people in the United States have risen to 91 known cases. Earlier today a 22 month old died in Huston. The officials of the hospital said he came up to Huston get treatment when he died there.
Bombing
There were six car bombings in a 4 hour period. They killed 48 people and wounded at least 81 people. They were all in various neighborhoods in Afghanistan.
Michael Vicks contract offer
Michael Vick was offered a contract to play for the Albany firebirds. He was offered 200 $ a week and if he wins he gets a 50 $ bonus. This would suck because he was making millions in the NFL.
Oldest ever object spotted
Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the explosion, soon picking up infrared radiation, which travels more slowly than gamma rays. Berger waited for the visible light which he expected to come next.
April 29, 2009
Ledes
Swine Flu
The levels of affected people in the United States have risen to 91 known cases. Earlier today a 22 month old died in Huston. The officials of the hospital said he came up to Huston get treatment when he died there.
Bombing
There were six car bombings in a 4 hour period. They killed 48 people and wounded at least 81 people. They were all in various neighborhoods in Afghanistan.
Michael Vicks contract offer
Michael Vick was offered a contract to play for the Albany firebirds. He was offered 200 $ a week and if he wins he gets a 50 $ bonus. This would suck because he was making millions in the NFL.
Oldest ever object spotted
Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the explosion, soon picking up infrared radiation, which travels more slowly than gamma rays. Berger waited for the visible light which he expected to come next.
Friday, April 24, 2009
MoViE rEvIeW
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
This movie is an amazingly funny movie, but not for the younger generations. This movie is a great example of racism and misunderstanding. The movie starts where the first one left off. Harold just told the girl of his dreams that he loves her and she is now going to Amsterdam. Kumar talks Harold into going to Amsterdam to find her. So they head to the airport. When they get there an airport security guard tell Kumar, of Indian descent, that he’s been chosen for a random search. Then they get into a fight about being racist and the security was black so it made no sense. When he told the boss the boss let him off because he threatened a law suit. Let him off the hook. Later on there way to Amsterdam Harold had to use the restroom. After about a minute Kumar fallowed him in there. When he got in there he pulled out a bag of Mary Jane and a smokeless bong that he created himself. Harold didn’t want anything to do with what he was doing so he left. When he left he forgot to shut the door. An old lady looked back and saw him hitting the bong, and yelled terrorist. He came out and said “no it’s just a bong. When he did that everyone thought he said bomb and freaked out. Then an air force officer tackled him. When he did that he dropped the bond and it broke and all the smoke went out. A Fat guy then yelled deadly gas and freaked everyone even more. They got arrested and had to go talk to the head of national security’s substitute about the supposed terrorist attempt.
After the whole interrogation thing they sent them to Guantanamo Bay to serve there sentence because the sub was retarded. When they got there they were in a cell next to two other real terrorists. They started talking to them and asked them what they feed them there. They started laughing and said have you ever had a cock meat sandwich. They had never had that and asked them what that is. Then the guard came and said it time for lunch and the real terrorists started to laugh, but the guard went in there cell so the joke was on them. The started to freak out and was wandering why they got it and the new guys didn’t. Then he told them that they get Big Bob. Then they started to laugh and took the cock meat sandwich. Harold and Kumar were scared s&#t less when they saw what it was. So when big bob showed up they were out of it. They were saying that they would rather get beat up by him if they didn’t have to do it. Right when Big Bob was about to make them do it and the terrorists bit the other guard and escaped. Then when Big Bob went chasing after the other guys Harold and Kumar escaped, found a group of people traveling to America and hopped on board with them. I can’t tell you the rest that would ruin the movie.
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. That is why I recommend it any mature person seeking a hilarious comedy.
Friday, April 17, 2009
LeDeS 4
Transgender TrialIn Greeley, Colorado an 18 year old transgender female and a 32-year old gang member met online. And it ended in a homicide. He was charged with murder and bias-motivated crime. John Madden retiresThe legendary NFL broadcast John Madden is retiring. NBC announced the former coach’s retirement plans. He says he is done and 73 is old enough to retire. The Pirate OrdealCrew members of the Maersk Alabama, safely back in the United States after being attacked by pirates last week off Somalia, recounted their situation Thursday.Terrorism and kidnapping are the youth’s fears. Experts say young people fear a lot of what's in the news, from kidnappings to murders to salmonella. A study on 1,000 children and adolescents shows that they fear war and terrorist attacks the most.
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