Chronicle Staff “ ...taking names”
Okay, so everyone has their personal list of pet peeves. I’ll share a few of my own pet peeves and the reasons I think I hate them. People who smoke: Obviously, a great deal of people smoke. I hate it! Ever since I was little, seeing people smoke disturbed me. I always feel like saying [...]
What would you attempt if you would never fail? This question was brought to me by one of the motivational posters that are typically overlooked. For some reason though, this one stood out to me. What would I do if I wouldn’t fail? Now, for teenagers I’m sure this would be a bigger deal than it [...]
What Do You Really Want? What do you want for dinner? What kind of car do you wish you had? What clothes do you want to wear today?…simple decisions, right? Well, let’s decide something harder. Imagine a crazy awesome ATM machine. This ATM machine will spew out whatever YOU want it to. Here’s the catch, [...]
The Cracked Chinese Jug by Carolyn Han Each morning Han Han fetched water for his village from the river. He placed a bamboo shoulder pole across his back and put the empty jugs on either side. When Han Han returned to the village, he had one and a half jugs of water. One clay jug had [...]
All of us know the classic Disney tale of Alice in Wonderland. Well Tim Burton took it upon himself to recreate this story with his own spin. Yes, it was weird. Extremely weird. But I’ll give you the low down. The story starts out somewhere in England with Alice and her family. It is filled [...]
You CAN Change the World The Apple Doesn’t Fall too Far… We all are faced with decisions as teenagers, especially in this generation. There are many good things in this world but there are also many vices that come along with them. Your life is built up around all of the choices you make. You [...]
Tip-off week’s fad was a recurring one; it was feeling sorry for yourself. Yeah, I’m not sure what happened there, people. Maybe it was all of us being kinda sick…or maybe it was just a universal bad week? Either way, last week was full of gloom and unspirited students. Optimism is very hard to find [...]
So, I’m sure you’ve heard of the new movie Avatar that was written and directed by James Cameron. Well, earlier this month, my boyfriend and I attended this movie at the Edward’s 21 theatre in Boise. But we not only watched this movie, we experienced it through 3D. This movie was above and beyond what [...]
Teens often feel that their opinions don’t matter because they’re too young or they “don’t know what they’re talking about.” These may be seemingly true to adults, but, for the most part, that’s just underestimating the teenager. We’re not claiming we know everything. We’re claiming we know enough. We have the basics; we just need [...]
Saturday Night Live…good times. This show has brought us so many different culture changes. Some of the sketches from this show are still remembered from the early eighties…some…not so much. That brings me to the FAD OF THE WEEK!!! This week, kids are running around with their hands encircling their eyes. When a kid does [...]