Thursday, May 27, 2010
Pregnant Woman Burglar?
In Harrison, Ohio, the police reported that a nine-month pregnant woman left her son in the car while she allegedly burglarized a home. The judge set her bond Thursday at $275,000 for 26 year old, Samantha Brewer. She was arrested on charges of burglary, and child endangerment. The age of her son is unknown.Brewer is accused of burgling six homes in Harrison in April and May. She also is charged with trying to break into four other homes. A message seeking comment left at the office of her attorney, Charles Isaly, wasn't immediately returned.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Art (Op. Ed. 1st article)
Which "speaks" more to you? 3-D art, like dancing, acting, sculptures, singing, etc. or 2-D art, like writing, drawing, painting, sketching, etc. To me, art is seeing life the way the artist sees it, and understanding it. In my mind, 3-D art speaks more. Seeing things in motion, like dancing and acting, give me a bit more insight into the artist's mind. Singing gives me words that make me think mor in-depth about whether or not they have a deeper meaning. It verbalizes what the artist is saying. Sculptures can give more info about what the artist intended us to see from it. 2-D art is just different. It's flat and still. Drawing, painting, sketching, and photography are all open to controversy because there is no words to back up exactly what the artist was thinking. I think that they leave too much space for people to clutter with their own thought about what it's supposed to say, rather than trying to figure out exactly what the artist intended. Writing is a bit different. The words are right there, telling you what's going on. So i would put writing in its own category . Maybe not even consider it art.
What would you consider writing? In my opinion, art is open for interpretation. But writing kind of tells you exactly what the author wants you to think. I suppose it depends what kind of writing you're talking about. Poetry is definetly art because it is open for inerpretation. You can think what you want about what the author means. But novels and non-fiction peices are informational and more to the point. So in my opinion, poetry is art, but other writing is not.
What could we define art as? Perhaps it is anything a person has created that is open to interpretation by the audience.
What would you consider writing? In my opinion, art is open for interpretation. But writing kind of tells you exactly what the author wants you to think. I suppose it depends what kind of writing you're talking about. Poetry is definetly art because it is open for inerpretation. You can think what you want about what the author means. But novels and non-fiction peices are informational and more to the point. So in my opinion, poetry is art, but other writing is not.
What could we define art as? Perhaps it is anything a person has created that is open to interpretation by the audience.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
2nd April Fools Article/3rd MP
Tree Crashes through New School Window!
Earlier this week in the library, there was an accident on N. DuPont Road, right outside our school. A light blue Sudan collided with a tree near Mr. Drakes science room. The tree subsequently fell into the science classroom. Luckily there was no one in the classroom at the time although some serious damage to the window was taken. All new windows will need to be put in Mr. Drake's room.
"Of course this would happen to me, right after I painted the room and made it look nice," Mr. Drake said, in an angry tone. Mr. Drake has been relocated to the old Adult School room upstairs until the damage is fixed. The science classes will be interesting without a lab to work in.
No one is happy about this damage, especially not Dean Rumschlag. "We just got new, expensive windows and now 4 of the are ruined because of an inattentive driver," says the Dean.
Hopefully the windows will be repaired soon. If not, the rest of this year in science will be quite an adventure. More updates on the windows will be published in the next issue.
Earlier this week in the library, there was an accident on N. DuPont Road, right outside our school. A light blue Sudan collided with a tree near Mr. Drakes science room. The tree subsequently fell into the science classroom. Luckily there was no one in the classroom at the time although some serious damage to the window was taken. All new windows will need to be put in Mr. Drake's room.
"Of course this would happen to me, right after I painted the room and made it look nice," Mr. Drake said, in an angry tone. Mr. Drake has been relocated to the old Adult School room upstairs until the damage is fixed. The science classes will be interesting without a lab to work in.
No one is happy about this damage, especially not Dean Rumschlag. "We just got new, expensive windows and now 4 of the are ruined because of an inattentive driver," says the Dean.
Hopefully the windows will be repaired soon. If not, the rest of this year in science will be quite an adventure. More updates on the windows will be published in the next issue.
Janitor's Go on Strike (1st april fools art/3rd mp)
This just in, the Cab Calloway janitors have gone on strike. They refuse to clean up any more messes or wipe down any more tables. After school, students have been accused of dropping trash and mainly gum wrappers on the hallway floors after the janitors leave. This creates a mess that the janitors have already cleaned up once that day but now have to clean up again the next morning.
“They leave their trash everywhere,” states one of the janitors, “one time in the boy’s bathroom there were bags of chips all over…there must have been like 50 of them!” The janitor’s are getting tired of cleaning up after everyone. Another janitor said, “We don’t want to lose our jobs, we’re simply doing this in order to teach kids a lesson about littering.”
Simply stated, they want us to live cleaner. Each day we here about the causes of global warming, littering appears in the list. Littering is one of the main causes of the ozone layer destruction, so the janitors think that if we trash the school, we’re doing the same things outside. They’re really just worried about the earth.
So kids, stop leaving your trash and gum everywhere throughout the school and throw it in a trashcan. There is at least one located in every classroom and even some in the hallways and lobby. Living cleaner benefits everyone-including you. So stop being lazy and drop your trash right in the trash can.
“They leave their trash everywhere,” states one of the janitors, “one time in the boy’s bathroom there were bags of chips all over…there must have been like 50 of them!” The janitor’s are getting tired of cleaning up after everyone. Another janitor said, “We don’t want to lose our jobs, we’re simply doing this in order to teach kids a lesson about littering.”
Simply stated, they want us to live cleaner. Each day we here about the causes of global warming, littering appears in the list. Littering is one of the main causes of the ozone layer destruction, so the janitors think that if we trash the school, we’re doing the same things outside. They’re really just worried about the earth.
So kids, stop leaving your trash and gum everywhere throughout the school and throw it in a trashcan. There is at least one located in every classroom and even some in the hallways and lobby. Living cleaner benefits everyone-including you. So stop being lazy and drop your trash right in the trash can.
3rd Arts Item. (Picture)
http://tinypic.com/r/o0c4k3/6
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
3rd Arts Item. (Picture)
http://tinypic.com/r/o0c4k3/6
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
this is a link to the picture that i took and edited of a fallen tree.
--3rd arts item/3rd MP
The Fear of Religious Persecution. (2nd arts article/3rd mp.)
Slender beams of accusation
enter this darkened hall
as I kneel,
always forlorn,
always alone,
frozen here,
waiting.
Tortured forms wrought in panes of glass
loom as dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
penetrating my darkened soul.
Terror on humanity's face.
I raise my head,
now submitting
to this uncaring
fate.
enter this darkened hall
as I kneel,
always forlorn,
always alone,
frozen here,
waiting.
Tortured forms wrought in panes of glass
loom as dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
penetrating my darkened soul.
Terror on humanity's face.
I raise my head,
now submitting
to this uncaring
fate.
Cab Is Such a Great School *(1st arts article/3rd mp)
We may have backwards dictionaries, as well as construction all year long, but at least our mascot isn’t a calculator! We share a building between three schools-Charter School of Wilmington, Cab High School and Cab Middle School. Charter Wilmington focuses on math and science as well as having sports teams. Their mascot is a calculator. Cab, on the other hand, hasn’t got a sports team because we focus on the arts, as you should know.
Our majors include vocal, visual arts, communication arts, drama, strings, band, and piano. What a great school. Full of kids with trip pants and black high-top shoes, our school is genuinely different. We don’t wear uniforms and when you show up to school with multicolored hair and a ridiculous neon outfit, people think you’re cool. At any school other than cab, we would all be outcasts and freaks.
Cab is full of talented people. Singers, dancers, musicians, artists and writers roam the halls every day. We’re witty and sarcastic with our humor and insults but you rarely see a brawl in the hallway. Our hilarious teachers keep things funky. Have you all met Mr. Mazz, Mr. Patton and Mr. Drake?
Without out fabulous staff and students, Cab wouldn’t be as great of a school. So keep in mind how lucky we all are to go to Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Our majors include vocal, visual arts, communication arts, drama, strings, band, and piano. What a great school. Full of kids with trip pants and black high-top shoes, our school is genuinely different. We don’t wear uniforms and when you show up to school with multicolored hair and a ridiculous neon outfit, people think you’re cool. At any school other than cab, we would all be outcasts and freaks.
Cab is full of talented people. Singers, dancers, musicians, artists and writers roam the halls every day. We’re witty and sarcastic with our humor and insults but you rarely see a brawl in the hallway. Our hilarious teachers keep things funky. Have you all met Mr. Mazz, Mr. Patton and Mr. Drake?
Without out fabulous staff and students, Cab wouldn’t be as great of a school. So keep in mind how lucky we all are to go to Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The "Fail Whale" (2nd article/3rd MP)
On Wednesday morning, January 20th, Twitter crashed. It was only down for about an hour and a half. While the site was down, users saw an extremely high volume of "whales." When Twitter crashes, the site owners have it set up to post a picture of what is appropriately names The "Fail Whale". It is simply a picture of a whale lifted slightly above the ocean with birds pullling it up via thin strings. The Fail Whale pops up whenever users try to access the site when it crashes. It has become an iconic symbol for Twitter and is a way for the site to embrace its crashing and shortcomings and turn them into a funny symbol. During the recent outage no data was lost. It was the first major outage since August when other social networking sites were also attacked and crashed. Twitter has been growing rapidly with it's number of users so the reliability needs to stay strong. "Reliability has been an ongoing project for Twitter as the service has scaled up to handle growing traffic," Rich Miller wrote. Benn Parr also said that recnet news about Haiti and the frantic status updates on that topic may have contributed to the site's crash. So next time you visit Twitter and see a "Fail Whale", you'll know that the site has crashed.
Pants On the Ground (1st Article/3rd MP)
In Boston, Massachusettes, the first set of American Idol auditions were held. This was the first set of the first round auditions in the 9th season of the show. American Idol is a singing talent show where people from around the country audition and move up through the round until eventually, 1 winner is picked. In the beginning of the process, the judges vote if the contestants go to Hollywood or not and if they progress from there. Once the number of contestants gets to a certain round, the audience members and people across America get to put in their votes on who should be the next American idol.
On January 12, 2010, the Atlanta auditions were aired. On this particular episode, a 62 year old man names General Larry Platt auditioned. One of the audition requirements states that you must be between the ages of 16 and 28. Larry was already too old to audition although the judges let him sing anyway. He performed his own original song, appropriately titled "Pants on the Ground". His performance became a viral hit, since the show was aired. The lyrics to the song go something like this:
"Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with you pants on the ground
Gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground
Call yourself a cool cat looking like a fool
Walking down town with yo pants on the ground
get it up!"
Platt was a civil rights activist in Atlannta, Georgia. In fact, September 4th, 2001 is designated as "Larry Platt Day" becuase he was honored for his civil rights movements. His goal with this song, "Pants on the Ground", was to reach out to African Americans that have come so far in society since the times of Rosa Parks and MLK. Platt is trying to point out that African Americans have finally gained respect in society and now they stereotypically walk around with, well, their pants dragging. Platt is saying that they need to honor their gained respect and pull up their pants, straighten their hat, and look appropriate.
On January 12, 2010, the Atlanta auditions were aired. On this particular episode, a 62 year old man names General Larry Platt auditioned. One of the audition requirements states that you must be between the ages of 16 and 28. Larry was already too old to audition although the judges let him sing anyway. He performed his own original song, appropriately titled "Pants on the Ground". His performance became a viral hit, since the show was aired. The lyrics to the song go something like this:
"Pants on the ground
Pants on the ground
Lookin’ like a fool with you pants on the ground
Gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways, pants hit the ground
Call yourself a cool cat looking like a fool
Walking down town with yo pants on the ground
get it up!"
Platt was a civil rights activist in Atlannta, Georgia. In fact, September 4th, 2001 is designated as "Larry Platt Day" becuase he was honored for his civil rights movements. His goal with this song, "Pants on the Ground", was to reach out to African Americans that have come so far in society since the times of Rosa Parks and MLK. Platt is trying to point out that African Americans have finally gained respect in society and now they stereotypically walk around with, well, their pants dragging. Platt is saying that they need to honor their gained respect and pull up their pants, straighten their hat, and look appropriate.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
My 1 page artist Spread
We’ve all seen her in the hallways, laughing and talking to her friends but do we really know Kira? I’m sure some of you do, but there’s always more to learn. For those of you who don’t know Kira, she is an 8th grader at our school, Cab Calloway. She’s a vocal major and a piano/opera minor. Although after school, she participates in photography club, as well. Kira is a very talented girl. She sings mezzo soprano, which means she is between a soprano and an alto. “I have a relatively large range,” she says, “I was trying to convince Mr. Lassman I was a tenor for a while, but that didn’t work out so well.” Kira has recorded about ten of her own songs, but has many more that are written and left un-recorded. She says she enjoys being a vocal major most of the time except that it gets kind of boring sometimes. She says she would like to be in Communication Arts as well, but she’d prefer to stay in vocal for the time being. Communication Arts is Kira’s second choice for majors in high school. Kira can write amazing poetry, also. So with he singing, piano-playing, poetry, and photography Kira fits in perfectly at Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Kira’s photography and poetry is what I remember her the most by. She has had a full display of ten of her photographs in the hallway that leads to the library from the lobby. My favorite picture from that display is one of two blue high-tops sitting on a black doorstep. The fall colors contrast nicely with the blue of the sneakers. “My favorite picture that I've taken is currently hanging in the window type-thing in the nurse's hallway. It's of the sky, and the school is framing the sky at the bottom,” says Kira, “ but it's a really great combination of construction and nice new windows, and it's a really good representation of Cab, I think, because it's old and new.” She takes all her pictures with two different cameras, a Nikon Coolpix and an older camera that was her dad’s, a Nikon D2. “My photography is pretty much just me saying ‘hey world, I wish you could see things the way I see them’,” Kira told me.
Her poetry has its own kind of feel to it. Most of her poems are dark or Goth-y but sometimes they involve love in a slightly twisted way. For as long as I’ve known Kira, she is always writing poetry in the middle of her classes and asking me to read them for her. In 7th grade, during science class, she wrote a poem that is untitled currently and it goes like this:
Emotions are just chemicals
Tumultuous and strange
So why is it that seeing you
Can do this to my brain?
My heart is beating faster now
It's racing in my chest
I don't want to turn from you and leave
I know it's for the best.
If feelings are all chemicals
That course throughout my head
Then why is it my mind is full
Of thoughts of you instead?
I know you'll wrap your arms around me
The next time i see you
You'll tell me that you love me and
I’ll say it isn't true
For by and by I've learned to just
Leave well enough alone
But the next time I get lonely
I might still pick up the phone
My heart still melts to butter when
I look into your eyes
But emotions are just chemicals
And chemicals are lies.
“My poems are also a lot about how I express myself, because if I just told everyone how I saw things then it wouldn't really be art,” is what Kira says. I completely agree with that statement. When I asked Kira why she writes she said that she sometimes gets into random moods that make her take photos and write for hours. She says she could write a good twenty pages of poetry in an hour if she felt like it.
Kira’s photography is well-planned but artistic as well. It’s expressive and abstract. Looking through her photo’s you might get mixed signals about what kind of photographer Kira is. Either way, though, you know that her photography is moving and can help you see things her way. Her poetry is amazing as well. It’s deep and intellectual. A lot of her poems really make me think about my views on certain topics.
Kira’s photography and poetry is what I remember her the most by. She has had a full display of ten of her photographs in the hallway that leads to the library from the lobby. My favorite picture from that display is one of two blue high-tops sitting on a black doorstep. The fall colors contrast nicely with the blue of the sneakers. “My favorite picture that I've taken is currently hanging in the window type-thing in the nurse's hallway. It's of the sky, and the school is framing the sky at the bottom,” says Kira, “ but it's a really great combination of construction and nice new windows, and it's a really good representation of Cab, I think, because it's old and new.” She takes all her pictures with two different cameras, a Nikon Coolpix and an older camera that was her dad’s, a Nikon D2. “My photography is pretty much just me saying ‘hey world, I wish you could see things the way I see them’,” Kira told me.
Her poetry has its own kind of feel to it. Most of her poems are dark or Goth-y but sometimes they involve love in a slightly twisted way. For as long as I’ve known Kira, she is always writing poetry in the middle of her classes and asking me to read them for her. In 7th grade, during science class, she wrote a poem that is untitled currently and it goes like this:
Emotions are just chemicals
Tumultuous and strange
So why is it that seeing you
Can do this to my brain?
My heart is beating faster now
It's racing in my chest
I don't want to turn from you and leave
I know it's for the best.
If feelings are all chemicals
That course throughout my head
Then why is it my mind is full
Of thoughts of you instead?
I know you'll wrap your arms around me
The next time i see you
You'll tell me that you love me and
I’ll say it isn't true
For by and by I've learned to just
Leave well enough alone
But the next time I get lonely
I might still pick up the phone
My heart still melts to butter when
I look into your eyes
But emotions are just chemicals
And chemicals are lies.
“My poems are also a lot about how I express myself, because if I just told everyone how I saw things then it wouldn't really be art,” is what Kira says. I completely agree with that statement. When I asked Kira why she writes she said that she sometimes gets into random moods that make her take photos and write for hours. She says she could write a good twenty pages of poetry in an hour if she felt like it.
Kira’s photography is well-planned but artistic as well. It’s expressive and abstract. Looking through her photo’s you might get mixed signals about what kind of photographer Kira is. Either way, though, you know that her photography is moving and can help you see things her way. Her poetry is amazing as well. It’s deep and intellectual. A lot of her poems really make me think about my views on certain topics.
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