Horosopes

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Horoscopes are a guilty pleasure of mine, along with several million people out in the world, but why?

Everyone wants to know what’s going to happen in the future, what our love life will be like, what our job prospects are like. It’s the same reason that people go to psychics, the same reason they see fortune tellers. Do these stars determine what will happen to us in the future? Maybe, maybe not.

They are simply self-fullfilled prophesies. If we’re told that something is going to happen, unconsciously our mind will try to alter our reactions, our words, and our thinking to fulfill whatever story that was told. Anything can happen, really.

Only Here

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I, unlike many of my peers, have never been to public school.

I have never walked large halls, I have never seen a fellow classmate and not recognize him or her.

I went to a Montessori pre-school, and then went to Calmont School my kindergarten year.

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Rooney Come Back!

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Wayne Rooney has a tendency to get upset sometimes. For those who don’t know, Rooney is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United. He is known for his knack of scoring goals and his fiery attitude.

Wayne Rooney

But at this moment in time, he is scaring me. Rooney has played for the greatest team in the world, Manchester United, for a number of years now. He has been loved by the fans and by his teammates. But it seems as though he has decided that his home is no longer the place for him due to a recent row with his manager, Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Guy Fawkes Night

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Yes, it’s to early to be talking about the English celebration of Guy Fawkes Night, but surprisingly the celebrations have already begun.

“Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot”

The event is held primarily to celebrate the failure of the gunpowder plot.  The gunpowder plot took place in 17th century London. It consisted of a group of catholic conspirators planning to combust the House of Parliament, bringing down the English government and killing King James I.

The aim of the conspirators was not just to ruin the government but also to restore the country to Catholicism. Unluckily for them they were caught in the act and executed. The leader was said to be Guy Fawkes hence Guy Fawkes Night.

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The Mole People

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Whenever I get on the subway in New York, I immediately and nervously position myself in front of a window with a hope of observing Mole People.

These people are quite different from other homeless ones: they live in abandoned subway stations under major cities. Surprisingly, this population includes a mixture of lawyers, doctors, and other people of highly respected professions.

But just why would such affluent people join this society? This question lingered in my head for years. My current best answer relates to the madness of the big cities.

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Mutants

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The other day I was having a conversation with a friend or two while walking down the big hill to sports and it was pointed out how odd I am. As a ginger, I have blue eyes, and apparently that makes me rare.

As a child I’d always look as my parents as the people that created me, thus only having their traits. My dad had strawberry blonde hair and my mom had very dark, vibrant red hair, but I have an orangish tint in between. My mom had green eyes and my dad had grey eyes, but I have blue eyes. My my dad was 6’ft and my mom was 5’10, but I am 5’6. It never occured to me how odd my combination of traits were.

That makes me prefectly average when it comes to most everything but very strange when it comes to my eyes, hair, and skin. Here’s a statstic for it. 78.3% of red heads have green eyes. Hurray for be a mutant!

A.P.E.S. Goes Ape

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Last week the AP Environmental Science class took a 5 hour journey across to the Owens Valley. The trip was specifically meant to teach us about water and its own journey from the Owens Valley River into L.A.’s water system. We saw the river, we saw Mono Lake, we saw the aquaducts, but one thing that caught my eye out of all the things we learned was the relocation camp known to us as Manzanar.

In the early 40’s America was faced with yet another war which led to a nationwide paranoia. So, as a result we decided to avoid “danger” and contain all Japanese people – citizens and non-citizens of the U.S. – in one area (in several different states). It was a relocation camp. President Franklin D. Roosevelt argued that this “cleansing” was justified because the government  would go about establishing the evacuation using “the American way”. We all know that that was just a euphemism for “we won’t kill them”….(unless of course they don’t follow our rules). Three cheers for the American way!

In the end, a trip that started out as an informative, water discovery, week-long, field trip turned into a heart breaking, mind changing, discovery of ourselves and our history.  Thank you Mr. Wickenhaeuser and thank you Ms. Davis for that amazing – and amusing – camping trip.

A tourist in my own country.

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Today I have decided to become a tourist.

After the realization that I do not know my home country as well as I should, I have decided to get to know it better.  Becoming a tourist in my own country.

No this does not mean I am going to invest in a fanny back and Polaroid camera. It just means I am going to do those things that I have previously taken for granted, exploring the attractions that Britain takes pride in.

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Faith

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A new study suggests that Atheists, or somebody who does not believe in the existence of God, know much more about religion than people who are religious. The study says that this happens because atheists usually like to know more about religion, and why they do not believe.

But the greater reason is because once somebody starts to believe in religion, then they stop questioning their faith. This is a very dangerous concept because one cannot blindly follow a religion that they know nothing about.

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Beverley Knowles

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During the past week, many OVS students received a friend request from Beverley Knowels on Facebook. Some of the students added her as a friend, but some of them have questioned who she is, and they rejected her request.

Beverley Knowels stated that she is an alumni of OVS. However, some students have realized that there is no such a person in OVS history. In the boys dorm, we even had a dorm meeting about this issue. The faculty and student leaders  told students not to add her as a friend.

Some people think that the definition of “friends”  has changed a little bit since Facebook has become popular. People accept people they don’t really know. They accept their friend requests just because they both have mutual friends or they just want to have more friends on Facebook.

It is very dangerous to add someone who we don’t know on Facebook, because other people will know all our information. This is now a very serious problem for everyone who uses Facebook.