The Supreme Court of the United States recently heard arguments on President Obama’s most distinguished accomplishment in domestic reform, the Affordable Care Act–also commonly known as “Obamacare.” The nine justices will be examining the constitutionality of the act–most importantly, the requirement for every American to be insured by 2014, or face a penalty. The law [...]
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Public teachers not to blame
The attacks so many heap upon public education and teachers is sickening for me to see. As a student at BRFHS, I see teachers put in countless hours to make sure I get a good education. So first, I’d like to humor everyone with some public education statistics in the United States: In 1635, the [...]
More stress over less study time
20 pages of AP US History notes, a 500-word article, a journal and a 10-line autobiography poem. It’s all due tomorrow and I work from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.I’ve been there, done that.I don’t have time to do half the homework, so I do it all half-heartedly. I stay up late doing my homework [...]
Corporatism in the pink ribbon
Pinkwasher: (pink’-wah-sher) noun. A company or organization that claims to care about breast cancer by promoting a pink ribbon product, but at the same time produces, manufactures and/or sells products that are linked to the disease. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Go to many major retailers, and you’ll find a pink product… somewhere. These [...]
Epic Mickey, Epic Win
So, I am not a super-gamer, but when I got Epic Mickey for my Wii over Christmas break, I knew instantly that it would be a fun review. Mickey Mouse is the most iconic Disney character since 1928, when Walt Disney released his first Mickey cartoons, “Plane Crazy” and the classic “Steamboat Willie.” The game [...]
Winterizing Your Car
With winter coming up fast, many people need to start thinking about preparing for the new road conditions. What you can do to help prepare your vehicle largely depends on what you drive. Ideally everyone would have some sort of four wheel drive car or truck with studded tires and a whole slew of other [...]
Top Five Books of All Time
As an avid bookworm, as well as one of the founding members of the Black River Falls High School Book Club (also known as Tuesdays With Cheri), I obviously read a lot of books. Below is a little list of my top five favorite books of all time. My hope is that you will find [...]
A Christmas Wish List for BRFHS
Black River Falls High School. While some people may look on this building with pride, I am sad to say that this group does not include me. I go to other schools from surrounding districts, or even just across the parking lot to the middle school, and I think, what happened? Now, this is NOT [...]
Dedication Review
“With each moment we write our story.” Featuring: Mandy Moore [A Walk to Remember and License To Wed], Tom Wilkinson[Duplicity and Valkyrie], Billy Crudup [Eat Pray Love ]. Dedication is a movie about a children’s story writer [Crudup, as Henry] who has just lost his best friend and fellow children’s story illustrator [Wilkinson, as Rudy] [...]
Top 10 Halloween Costumes
My Top 10: 1.) Witch* 2.) Vampire* 3.) Zombie* 4.) Ghost* 5.) Current Celebrity* 6.) Superhero 7.) Princess 8.) Knight 9.) Werewolf 10.) Sports Player? It is October, and therefore, many people are thinking of Halloween. The question, of course, is “Just what should I be for Halloween?” Some students at BRFHS may already have [...]
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