There is a lot of discussion about the civil war in Syria right now. According to “CNN.com” The war started when the revolution in Tunisia announced the start of the “Arab Spring.” This caused violence in Daraa, Syria during March of 2011. “Infoplease.com” says that the casualty mark is over sixty thousand. That’s more than…
Mr. Laurenti
When Mr. Laurienti wasjust a young boy teaching wasn’t on his mind. He thought more about the art like acting. When he was in high school he was doing theater and hanging out with friend’s maybe shoot some baskets because in the apartment village that he grew up in it was centered around a basketball…
Meteorite Hits Russia!
Meteorite Rush On February 15, 2013 a meteorite lit up the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountain area. Russian citizens believed that it was judgment day. This event has impacted many people, by the injuries it has caused to people, the meteorite fragments that many people are scurrying to find, and where most people are…
Mr. Van Camp
This week, I sat down with my math teacher, Mr. Van Camp. I didn’t know very much about him other than he teaches math. So I sat down and asked him a few questions. The first few questions were about his teaching career. I found out that he has been teaching for about 32 years,…
Mr. Decker
Mr. Decker loved to play sports and build Legos as a child. He mainly rode bikes and wrestled when he was around the age of nine. His main hobby was to collect baseball and football cards, which he still has. When he was a teenager his favorite things to do were play sports, such as…
Mrs. Fromang
Mrs. Fromang is one of the coolest teachers I know. She has worked in the school district for 21 years. But that is not the half of it. She was also born in San Diego, California. She loves helping kid’s because she likes being able to work with students, watch them become successful, and meet…
Project Icarus
Project Icarus is a British planned spacecraft that will, on a much later date, send probes and Satellite to stars that are light-years away! This project is just now poking its head out of the planning and concept stage so it is unlikely we will see this craft in all of its glory until 2030…
Separation of church and State
Many years ago when this nation declared its independence from the British a declaration of independence was signed. After the war the basis for today’s modern government was in debate which eventually led to the signing of the Constitution of the United States of America. One of the keystones in the constitution is the separation…
Should the NASA Space Program be funded?
Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of a dying space enterprise, its 54 year mission, to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no man has gone before. It has been a long argued over subject, Should the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
The Great Debate: Gun control.
Recently as we look back at 2012 one has to notice all of the mass shootings: Aurora, Newtown, and the Oregon mall shooting, along with many more. Now one must ask oneself what are we going to do about these shootings. I believe that the answer is Gun laws. Although those two words have become…