Let Them Eat Cake
I work at a gymnastics and dance gym for kids. Along with teaching dance and gymnastics classes for all ages, we also hold birthday parties on Saturdays. I help with birthday parties- setting up the table and decorations, playing games with the kids, passing out cake and refilling juice, opening presents, etc. Whatever needs to be done behind the scenes, it is my job to do it. Read more…
Four Christmases: Bad all Four Times
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn
Four Christmases was a movie about Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) who were a couple that apparently despise Christmas and family. The couple was planning to go on a grand vacation to a much warmer climate when, unfortunately, their flight was canceled and they were forced to spend the holiday with their families.
This movie made a grand attempt to include humor and slapstick comedy, but it managed to fall flat time after time. I actually started to get annoyed and bored with the attempts at comedy.
It was extremely surprising to me how the movie had an outstanding cast including Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, and Robert Duvall and many other outstanding actors, but the material of the movie was sickening. The lack of plot and entertaining dialogue made the movie nearly unbearable to watch.
Four Christmases was roughly 82 minutes too long and seemed longer. I was finished with this movie after one Christmas, not after four.
I would recommend this movie to anyone that loves pointless, predictable and lifeless movies.
South Student does her part for the Salvation Army
Obnoxious, annoying, and generous. The bell ringers from the Salvation Army place themselves strategically at doors entering busy supermarkets, and other extremely packed public places. Older members of society are usually the ones we expect to see out ringing for loose change, but this year a student participated in this act of kindness.
“It’s really important to provide for those less fortunate than us,” said the South junior and Salvation Army participant, Sadie Newhouse.
Newhouse worked at the Fred Meyer’s at Abbott road on Saturday, ringing the bell for an hour. She came by this activity through Key Club, a group of students who put community service projects together.
Newhouse’s purpose for ringing the bell started off as a way to gain credit for the group, but when she saw a homeless man wander into Fred Meyer, her purpose drastically changed. Read more…
Forensics Class Collecting Toy Cars
A row of thirty miniature cars is lined up across the table: McDonald’s toy cars, Hot Wheels, you name it, all types and sizes – from a Matchbox car to a Tonka truck. This is not a toy store display, but the scene in Leesa Wingo’s forensics science class. And Wingo is looking for even more cars. She is collecting them for a forensic tire print analysis.
“It’s too cold for real tires on real cars,” said Wingo. Instead, students will use tempura paint and toy cars to make base line tire tracks. Then given three unknowns, students must identify the two most likely cars. Read more…
The Overachiever
The noise level in the room was deafening. It seemed like everyone in this sea of upperclassmen was talking instead of learning. Only one student seemed to be working. Her pencil moved in time with her thoughts. She seemed oblivious to the chaos around her. Papers flew as assignments were finished, only a small demonstration of junior Bryce O’Tierney’s drive for academic success.
Madagascar 2 Entertaining For All Ages
The animals are back - again!
Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Gloria the hippo, and Marty the zebra are all back again in “Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa” along with the penguins, and the lemur gang- King Julien, Maurice and Mort.
The movie starts with Alex as a child and follows his journey to the zoo in New York City. The rest of the introduction rehashes what happened in the first movie and ends with Alex, Melman, Gloria, and Marty along with King Julien and Maurice loading a plane, with the penguins acting as pilots, to return to New York City. But problems arise and the plane crashes on an animal reserve in Africa. With the plane in need of repair, the gang must learn how to survive in the wild.
Alex must prove himself to the lion pride in a battle. Melman has to find a way to stay alive without a doctor. Marty finds out that there are hundreds of zebras exactly like him and must find a way to be unique, and Gloria finds herself swept off her feet by a male hippo, “Moto-Moto.” Read more…
Solace Goes Sour
Daniel Craig is a younger, hipper Bond.
Like most film franchise reboots, 2006’s “Casino Royale” took James Bond down a darker path and started at the beginning of the character’s history, a tactic very similar to “Batman Begins.” Royale was met with great success, as was “Batman Begins.” Each respective film provided new actors for the Starbucks generation.
Previous Bond films were plagued with a tongue-in-cheek cheesiness, rendering viewers like myself to take it seriously. They seemed to be a serious of ridiculous action sequences that contributed nothing to the hazy idea producers called a plot.
Royale used action only when it was necessary, following true to the original Bond novel penned by Ian Flemming. Character development was beautiful, and James became a living and breathing person, not a superhero.
Quantum of Solace takes strides backwards for the series. The producer, Michael G. Wilson, arbitrarily decided to go with a plot he came up with by himself during the filming of Royale. The title of the movie also seemed to be an incredibly stupid decision. It was the title of a short story created by Flemming, but the plot of this excuse for a movie had nothing to do with it. Read more…
Decode
With the new soundtrack to “Twilight” out in stores, some songs appeal to listeners more than others. The one song that stood out to me was “Decode,” by Paramore.
The reason behind this choice was not necessarily the actual sound of the song, but rather the lyrics. This song was written to sound like something Bella, the female lead in the film, would say, write, or think. Certain parts of the song give the same vibe the book did. Read more…
Caught Between Two Worlds
A student walks into class five minutes late, coffee in hand. No one glances up and the teacher doesn’t miss a beat as the student pulls out “Meno,” a book by Plato, and joins the discussion of the philosophy book.
An hour and a half later the student enters G-hall, full of kids yelling down the hall and slamming lockers. A bell rings and instantly everyone is on the move, not wanting to receive a tardy, or worse, be caught after the bell without a hall pass.
This is the life of an Alaska Pacific University Early Honors student, caught between two totally different worlds: high school and college. The Early Honors program allows a student to finish high school and start college at the same time. Students can take classes at APU and their high school or just APU and still take part in extracurricular activities at their high school, such as sports and dances. Read more…
Consumer Economics Provides Students with Practical Information
Junior Lauren Pearce sat at a computer looking up the prices of cars and housing on Craig’s List. But Pearce was not looking to buy anything. Instead, she was participating in a consumer economics class assignment to determine the cost of living right after high school.
“It’s almost like applied economics and what to do with it,” said teacher Troy Christenson. Consumer econ is basically all the “practical information that is necessary to function in the adult world.”
This is Christenson’s first year teaching an economics class, and he thinks that consumer is the most practical of all the economics classes to take. “It teaches everything that should be common sense to the average adult,” said Christenson Read more…
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