It was such a busy week filled with finals and AP tests.
Nothing seemed exciting and most of the students all looked so tired and bored. Well, as for me, I was personally excited for an upcoming big event – my NYU Summer precollege!
I found this program accidentally while I was planing my summer. A page of NYU‘s summer school advertisement jumped out. I did some more research on it and then I found this journalism program summer precollege. And of course, I was totally attracted.
Recently in Chemistry, we’ve been focusing on the benefits and detriments of Hydraulic Fracturing. We started out the unit by watching the documentary by Josh Fox called “Gasland,” and finished the unit today with a debate.
The documentary, surprisingly, was actually very interesting. It follows Fox as he tours the country investigating the pros and cons of fracking, after receiving a notice from an oil company requesting the use of his land for fracking.
Fox speaks to numerous people. Some have been forced to sign non-dislosure agreements by gas companies. Others tell stories of how their tap water is so contaminated by chemicals, that it is able to be lit on fire.
Sitting in a daze
Surrounded by the haze
Like I’m rockin shades
Vampire bite.
She’s sucking my blood
Takin all my love
But never givin back.
I spit these stupid raps
I just want to sit back
Relax.
The years almost over
It’s like she pulled the wool
Over my eyes
Swat me away like flies
As the time goes by
Maybe she realize
She ain’t never gonna find
A guy like me
Never again
Love you more than friends but no.
Just kidding
What I meant was be friends
Nothing more than pretend
Fairy tail books
Ok, now here’s the hook.
(Insert hook here)
Well, I watched a lot of World’s Strongest Man videos over the past week. There were a lot of very impressive iron men lifting, benchpressing, squatting and so on. I’ve always wanted to possess that type of raw power.
Apparently, I need to be foreign.
Just ask Mariusz Pudzianowski, arguably the greatest World’s Strongest Man champion of all time, winning the competition five times.
Brace yourselves. This is a human man from Poland.
That’s a freakin’ guy.
Just wanted to show you guys an image of what a truly buff individual really looks like.
Girls, stop freaking out over guys with big arms and nice abs. This guy could kick the crap out of any of those tools.
Well, on a lazy Sunday, what better way to spend my time but watching a bunch of movies?
So let’s take movie role call.
I started with Happy Gilmore. Unfortunately, my Netflix wouldn’t let me watch it. So, that one was a bust.
So I ACTUALLY started with Coach Carter. Everyone should see that movie. It’s basketball and it’s awesome. That was great.
Then I ventured into the hockey genre, and watched Goon and Slap Shot. Goon reminds me a lot of me. It’s a hockey player that really doesn’t care about anyone. He fights, and that’s it. My temper matched his. Slap Shot is an interesting classic as well. Just more hockey and that’s that.
Then, I finished up the day with some Jackass and Nitro Circus. Doesn’t get much better than watching a few guys try and hurt themselves. It’s just awesome.
Anyway, let me continue my evening of Nitro Circus and maybe some other weird stuff.
There once was a very tired editor who would spend all day grading and posting blogs. By the end of the day she would look over so many blogs that her arms would get sore from grading.
Her exhaustion would show in her demeanor by the end of the day. She would drag her feet across the floor as she approached her car.
She would schlep herself home and open her computer to articles and blogs ready to be edited, and everyday she would stay up until they were all finished.
She never took breaks and always worked incredibly hard for her classes.
This editor is our editor-in-chief Aria Ellett.
Red never thought this day would come. He had been drafted. He had overheard the officers saying that this war was a lost cause and the draft was a death sentence. A soldier’s life wasn’t valued in this army.
He worked in basic training for a year becoming the most battle ready soldier in the military.
The time came for his first battle. The officers told him the future was at stake.
He approached his position and got in.
He was flung through the air at great speed.
He was honored in a way only the angriest of birds can.
3 Stars.
A hill awaits on the mountain top.
The sun beats strongly upon it.
However the rays will not last long.
Instead clouds appear from above destroying all life.
The wind was fierce, the trees shook.
Slowly day turned to night, the weather became as sharp as icicles.
The animals froze.
The leaves fell down.
The only good thing was the amount of Justice.
So, as I’m writing this, I’m finishing watching the excruciatingly long “Django Unchained“. Before this movie, I’ve been somewhat okay with Quentin Tarantino’s overly violent films, but this one is just absolutely ridiculous. However, the reason I didn’t like it wasn’t because the script was written by a five year old or because the acting was probably the worst I have ever seen, it was because of the unfathomably ultra-violent content.
Just watch this scene from Django Unchained and tell me if it doesn’t make you a little uneasy.
I can’t begin to imagine why anyone would be into movies like Django, Saw or any of the other modern movies that rely on violence to draw a crowd. Movies like Django are only memorable because you see gunfights where the blood rains down in the scene and makes it impossible to see what’s happening, or scenes where naked hillbillies get their junk blown off.
Hope.
Dreams.
Plays a tune that sends me to a new world.
It gives me freedom from my life.
It is Justice.
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