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March 14, 2009 at 4:00 am
· Filed under Music, Science, Society, Youth Culture, art, entertainment ·Tagged 80's, 90's, awards, beef, colors, competing, dancing, flamboyant, fresh prince of bel air, grammy, hip hop, jumping, mc hammer, Music, old school, old skool, rap, style, vanilla ice, videos, will smith, youtube
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March 14, 2009 at 3:06 am
· Filed under Society ·Tagged school, immigrants, mexican, mexico, generation, confusion, heritage, dancing, lifestyle america, ikea, martha stewart, culture lifestyle, racial, race, american, border, kanye
Commentary
By: Jose Montoya
Being a first generation immigrant, I often feel that people don’t see me for what I am. There are times I feel like I don’t belong. I am Mexican, I know I’m Mexican but I just don’t feel Mexican. When I’m at school people often tell me that I’m Mexican or that I act hella Mexican. When I think about being hella Mexican I think about Mexican dancing, and listening to Mexican music. When I go to Mexico it seems I’m the opposite of what they tell me I am at school. In Mexico, they say I’m an American and they always seem like they’re mad at me. They ask me questions about America, like why we spend so much money on clothes. They think I’m a show off and that I’m ignorant. I really don’t know why America does things, because I’m just another person living in America.
I love where I’m from and I love my culture but I’m living the American lifestyle. I feel that first generation kids are losing their culture because I know I am. My house doesn’t look like a typical Mexican house. It looks like a house straight out of Ikea or a Martha Stewart magazine. Spanish and the food I eat are the only reasons I still feel connected to my culture. Your culture is your roots and what you are, and very important to have. Living the American lifestyle is cool because you get to express yourself by the way you dress and you get to throw your own style in it, and you get to do what you want. As a Chicano I understand I am a Mexican and American. I represent my Mexican heritage while living my American lifestyle.
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February 28, 2009 at 3:05 am
· Filed under Education, Family, Relationships, Society ·Tagged 13, 15, Alfie, baby, birth, Chantelle, impregnated
News
By: Tony Shavers III
Photo: KellyB./ creative commons/ attribution
13 -year old Britain father Alfie Patten has impregnated 15-year old girlfriend Chantelle Steadman. She gave birth to a 7lb 3oz- girl named Maisie Roxanne. Patten said that he did not know how people would react to his situation but he wanted to have this baby anyway. According to the sun news, Alfie Patten said, “When my mom found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried how people would react.” While he is in a tough situation, he is determined to take care of this baby. “I didn’t know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good though and care for it.” Patten said. Alfie is showing this world that being a father doesn’t mean to get a girl pregnant, but also own up to the situation and do what is right. Chantelle Steadman said Alfie has been really good with their new born child “Alfie has been really good with her. He made the first bottle and then we took it in turns feeding her. He did the first bit with me. We didn’t need any help from mum.” She said.
Both the father and the mother are going to stay in school, to ensure that the family has a great future.While teenage pregnancy is a big issue in today’s society, Alfie and Chantelle are working towards making sure that their child had the best future ever.
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February 21, 2009 at 5:04 am
· Filed under Education, Music, Science, Youth Culture, art, entertainment ·Tagged Math, youth radio
2/20/09
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Today at youth radio we, the winter core class, were introduced to Cynthia Maxwell who works at Apple to create applications and specializes in sound development. During the presentation she mentioned that with every sound there’s a specific equation to make that tone. I’m only in the 11th grade and my favorite subject is math, but when she showed me what that equation looked like, I didn’t have a clue about what it meant. Luckily I was interested enough to ask if she could break it down and explain it to me after her presentation had ended. Another thing that she mentioned in the presentation was that she used to work for NASA, and for anyone that’s a pretty huge accomplishment. She inspired me to apply for mathematics in college, something I’d never even thought I would ever consider.
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February 21, 2009 at 4:40 am
· Filed under Family, Relationships, Society, Youth Culture ·Tagged Bloodline, Brothers, Family, friends, Sisters, Trust
By Esteban Olague
Commentary
What is the real definition of family? Is family a word that can be defined from the dictionary? Is that the real definition just because it’s in a dictionary? My definition of family is a group of people that you trust with your life, a group of people that have your back till the end and not the ones that just say, “Yea blood, I got yo back.” Most people that just say it don’t really mean it. Through out my life I’ve learned that people aren’t justified by their words or promises, and not by their ability to speak or what people think of them. People are only justified by their actions and defined by what they do in the worst situations. I have family that I don’t consider to be my bloodline; I refer to those people by their first names instead of calling them my uncle, auntie, or grandparent. My real family has always been there for me. I’m the only son with only one little sister, but I got 6 brothers and 2 other sisters, 2 dads, 2 moms, and only a few aunties and uncles. My 2nd pair of parents are my dad’s brother and his wife. My brothers and sisters mostly consist of people who started out as just my friends, but I believe that family doesn’t end by blood.
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February 21, 2009 at 4:07 am
· Filed under Animal Rights, Society
by: Esteban Olague
News
According to daily news.com a woman was attacked by a 200 pound chimpanzee in Connecticut. The victim’s name is Charla Nash who is actually a close friend to Sandy Herold, the owner of the chimpanzee. The 200 pound chimp, also known as Travis, has always been reported as a nice, gentle and calm animal, which makes the news of this gentle creature so surprising to those who actually knew Travis. During the encounter between Charla Nash and Travis, the owner, Sandy Herold made a 911 distress call that lasted 15 minutes where she repeatedly stated “Help, he’s attacking my friend, send someone with a gun, they need to shoot him!” As the call went on she described the attack as it happened. By the time police had arrived, Charla Nash was lying on the floor struggling for her life as police tried to subdue the 200 pound chimp. Police reports state that Travis the chimpanzee climbed into the patrol car and was shot in the front seat. Later as the police tried to identify Charla they said that her face was so badly beaten that they couldn’t tell if she was a man or woman. As of right now Charla is under professional care but is still hanging on to her life by a thread. After hearing this story and knowing how territorial apes are, I figured that maybe Charla got too close or did something to sandy that Travis wasn’t comfortable with. He did what every child does when they feel like their mother is in danger which is to protect her, and in this case sandy was probably like a mother to Travis.
photo: ucumari/ creative commons- attribution- non-commercial- no derivatiove works
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February 21, 2009 at 3:46 am
· Filed under Relationships, Society ·Tagged Men, Sex toy, Sexism, Women
News
By Sarah Hamik
On February 16, 2009, National Geographic stated that Susan Fiske proved that men see women more as objects rather than humans. Fiske, a psychologist at Princeton University, did an experiment with 21 heterosexual men in Chicago. She took pictures of headless women, half were clothed the others were in bikinis. Most of the men remembered the women in the bikinis even only seeing them for a tenth of a second, Proving that men see women as sex objects rather than humans. Fiske also states that if the experiment were done with women they would not dehumanize men as men do to women. Women tend to look for men with wealth or power. if a similar test were done with women and they had to choose between a guy standing next to a nice car or a man that is wearing torn up clothes, they would most likely pick the guy with the nice car. These days’ women tend to be more comfortable with their bodies, which is a good thing, but it can be too revealing sometimes. Women wear the bikinis for the attention and because they want to look good, leading men to see the outside rather than the inside.
Photo: rrho/creative commons/attribution-non commercial-share alike
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February 7, 2009 at 4:12 am
· Filed under Family, Health, Society ·Tagged Family, news, octuplets
By: Adrina “DRIZZLE” Scott
News
Photo: ElvisHuang- creative commons/ Atrribution- non-commercial- no derivative works
Nadya suleman a 33 year old mother gave birth to octuplets at a kaiser permanente bellflower medical center .being raised as an only child all her life she wanted a huge family. As an adult she went through a painful marriage at a young age. Even though she had four children while she was married she wanted more. So she got vitro- fertilization, the sperm was donated by a friend. On January 26, 2009 at the bellflower medical center, she gave birth to octuplets. While it was painful, she was having octuplets. She is very happy that she is living her life like its golden every day with spending her time with her wonderful family. Many people want to big families but fourteen children is just too much. There is so much to buy for them, with the an economic crises and all the job cuts fourteen children would just be too much to bear
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February 7, 2009 at 3:28 am
· Filed under Health, Relationships, Society, Youth Culture ·Tagged abuse, dating, teen, violence
Even though people don’t like to talk about it, teen dating violence is a bigger issue than most think. The first thing that comes to mind when i hear someone being abused is a man hurting a women. Although physical abuse is serious it’s not the only type. There’s physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, mental, and financial abuse. This happens a lot more than you might imagine. According to datingviolence.org, 30 to 50 percent of female high school students reported to have experienced teen dating violence. It’s commonly believed that women are the only one’s getting abused, but with all these different types males and females can be abusive. There are many types of teen violence and for a lot it isn’t easy to recoginze or prevent these horrible things from happeneing.
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No Wrestling Team In My High School
February 28, 2009 at 5:08 am · Filed under Educatiom, Health, Society, Sports, Youth Culture ·Tagged actions, athletes, better, Brothers, commentary, disappointed, found, graple, life, no, no sports in highschool, olympics, passion, physical, punch, skills, Sports, team, toss, tv, wrestle, wrestling
Head Dip
By Fernando Bustos
Commentary
I am passionate about wrestling. I remember watching it on TV and on the Olympics. By seeing these athletes toss and grapple each other I developed an interest in the sport. Since then I have started to wrestle with my brothers and then gotten yelled at by my mom for making too much noise in the house. I have always liked sports with physical contact I like using my body as a way to perform moves that seem impossible to do. It’s the rush and contact you get that gets me pumped up and ready to wrestle. I started out with wrestling in the 8th grade. When I came to high school I was so excited about getting onto the wrestling team, since I heard competition is more serious there and people are more committed to becoming better. I knew that that’s the place I wanted to be so that I could grow and become a better wrestler. Unfortunately when I talked to the director of athletics at our school I found out that we didn’t have a wrestling team, and we haven’t had one in a long time. I was disappointed that there was no team because I was really pumped up to start a higher level of sports where I would become a better wrestler.
My high school has not taken any actions to bring back the wrestling team. I think it’s really important to have a bigger variety of sports in high school since its one of the reasons why students are in involved in school. There are many students who have a passion for sports and use high school sports to become better and develop skills in life.
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