Thought Fox Blues by Keana Rose

I've been so tired baby
Oh I've been so tired baby
But I see my dreams are bigger than this feeling

I been living with this daily burden
Said I been living with this daily burden
But I see my dreams are bigger than this feeling

I got this weight pulling me under
Oh I got this weight pulling me under
But I can see my dreams are bigger than this feeling

I can't let this feeling overpower me
No, I can't let this feeling overpwer me
Cause I see my dreams are bigger than this feeling


Our team decided that tiredness was a great theme to describe the way we have been feeling lately. We all balance so much in our lives that it wears us out. Between high school, college, jobs, and a social life it feels like we are being pulled thinner and thinner each day.
The only thing keeping us going is our future.

The Red Shirt by Katie M

For centuries our society has treated women as inferior beings. Men have said women are not as strong, as intelligent, or as capable as them. Women have been the objects of desire and lust, adored simply due to their looks which of course, must be perfect. If a woman does not look at certain way; tall, thin, round hips, a nice bust, a beautiful face and voluminous hair, society tells us that men won't give us a second glance and we will go nowhere in life.
The stages of sexism have changed many times throughout history. For example, women possessed bascially no rights during the Victorian Era. At that time they were expected to be submissive to men, obedient and well mannered. They were not allowed to express any amount of sexuality and at all times had to be covered up in order to "protect them". In Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, the exceptionally terrible treatment of women at the time is apparent when Tess is raped and impregnated and rather than supporting and comforting the poor girl, society ostracizes her and treats her as though the assult and pregnancy were her fault.
Often today there are still several notions that women "asked for it" when they are raped. Recently I read a horrifying article about how it is often believed that girls who "dress scantily" or "act promisicuously" that means they had the rape coming. Completely untrue and disgusting, it greatly angered me to realize how close minded our society still is about respecting women.
Just earlier today our school witnessed what could have been a highly offensive event or a prank just taken way too seriously out of context.
During the rally several red t-shirts with two hands forming a diamond shape and "11" in the center were sold for $13. I was a bit annoyed, knowing what the shirts really mean, which is a reference to the female anatomy, but I just blew it to the side. Not much later on, security guards were wildly racing around campus, telling those wearing the shirts to turn them inside out because female teachers were offended by what the shirts meant. Ironically, most of those wearing the shirts were girls, many girls that I know don't even know what the sign means. The more I think about it now, the more it bothers me that someone would make this shirt, which not only looks stupid but blatantly disrespects women.
So what do you think? Is the t-shirt issue really that bad or do you think people are overreacting?
-Katie M

The not so sweet prince by Furzan A

Like the horse, Prince, Tess has a high-class name, but lives a life of menial physical labor. Interestingly, Prince’s death occurs right after Tess dreams of ancient knights, having just heard the news that her family is from an aristocratic descent. Also, the horse is pierced by the forward-jutting piece of metal on a mail coach, which is just like a medieval joust. In an odd way, Tess’s dream of medieval glory comes true, and her horse dies a heroic death. Yet her dream of meeting a prince while she kills her own Prince, and with him her family’s only means of financial sustenance, is a tragic foreshadowing of her own story, because later in the novel Tess meets Alec who brings her both his lofty name, D'Urberville and, indirectly, her own death later.

The Sickness Problem by Dominic House

The past week I have been sick and have been forced to miss a couple days of school. When waking up in the morning my first thoughts are, " Oh God, now I have all this make-up work to do that I won't understand." Why is it that most teachers don't spend time helping their students whom miss days understand what they missed? "Read" is what they say. But do they not understand that textbooks tend to be confusing? Essentially, you're forced to go to school at the risk of getting those around you sick if you truly want to learn what you would have otherwise missed that day. Should it be the responsibility of the students to learn when they get sick? It's not their fault that an illness falls upon them. Its not to say that there are those out there who fake being but should it come at the expense of those who are? An initiative should take place in which teachers spend time in their prep period to teach those students what they missed. Is it too much to ask? Discovery to learn even when sick.

Frankenstein Question Response

If I had to choose among ugly, angry, ignorant, guilty, extremely intelligent, or extremely attractive, I would least want to be guilty or feel guilty. If I was guilty of a crime, I would not know how to live the remaining years of my life without thinking about the crime. I live by the  motto "To get anywhere in life you must look to a brighter future, not the road you were on before. Always move forward not backwards." With the crime I committed, I always be dragged by it everywhere I go because it will forever be on my record. It will be harder to live a better life since the crime I committed made a huge psychological damage to myself and my family. Above all the choices given, I would least want to be guilty.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner fig lang

2 Key elements that the author uses are alliteration and personification. Alliteration, which is the repetition of consonant sounds in 2 or more neighboring words or syllables, helps add extra detail to the poem. One example of it is, "The faire breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free; we were the first that ever burst into the silent sea." It displays the Mariners memory which shows how important this event was. While personification, the giving something human like characteristics, is strongly used in givng the sun and other objects man like qualities. "The sun came up upon the left out of the sea came he! And he shown bright, and on the right went down into the sea" Displays the importance of the effect the sun had on the Mariner

Frakenstein

As Victor began his experiments he said "if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed" to justify to himself of the creation of the creature. It makes me wonder that was disturbing the tranquility of his domestic affections worth it because upon meeting his creation he became traumatized. Also those events he mentioned had catastrophes.In the process of  discovering America many Native Americans were killed and entire populations of Native Americans in Mexico and Peru were enslaved or killed. Those events were terrible and he used them to justify his experiments, i believe it foreshadows that his creation, the creature, will go on to haunt him and do terrible actions.