Photos by Casey Chapter participated with his sister freshman Arielle Kraus, their entire family braving the cold weather for the cause. Franco wears a tag representing the amount of money senator Marco Rubio receives from the NRA per student in the state of Florida. With 25 fatal school shootings since Columbine in , America is no stranger to the heartbreak that follows such incidents.
However, as time passes after each, media coverage, thoughts and prayers and the chance of preventative action all fade. The students of Never Again MSD hope to prevent the normalization of school shootings and hold lawmakers accountable for some form of action. The students of Coral Springs High School left class to form a giant heart on the football field to honor the victims, while students from West Boca High School walked 12 miles to Stoneman Douglas High School to protest and pay their respects.
At CCHS, students headed out to the football field and filled the stands, where they held signs, chanted and listened to fellow students deliver speeches in protest of gun violence. The walkout even made its way to other states, from Maryland to Arizona.
To me this movement means that. The students met with and asked questions of lawmakers of both parties, sharing their experience with them in hopes that they would support the Never Again MSD movement. Disappointed but not discouraged, many of the students travelled back home to attend the CNN Town Hall, held on Wednesday, February 21 p. By taking a nonpartisan approach, the students hope to gain support from people on both sides of the aisle for the common goal of preventing mass shootings.
Washington, D. With the march behind them, students around Broward County continue to show their support for the Never Again movement, holding voter registration drives and encouraging their peers to vote when the time comes. With midterm elections approaching in November, those seeking change hope to keep the momentum of the Never Again movement going through next fall and on into the future. TOP: Senior Joania Hernandez demands action during the nationwide school walkout in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.
Hundreds of students stand in the CCHS bleachers, wielding hand-painted signs and the inextinguishable anger of a often-silenced generation. A chant rises from the stands and shakes the field. In a society riddled with controversy and disagreement, the demonstration was a way for students to express their views that are so often dismissed as peripheral.
Though many students may feel that their opinions are treated as secondary to those of adults, society is evolving. More power is in the hands of the younger generation and politicians, celebrities and world leaders are being forced to listen. Despite what society may believe, any high schooler can make their voice known.
The simplest and sometimes most effective route is for a student to inform their peers about the cause. Social media campaigns and hashtags, such as on Twitter and Instagram, can rapidly gain popularity if executed correctly.
But sensitivity to online audiences and current issues is crucial for students to effectively raise awareness for a cause while avoiding miscommunication. In the absence of facial expressions and body language, online messages can quickly become misconstrued and subject to unwarranted. To prevent this, students should go over their messages with others before uploading to ensure the intended meaning remains clear across the barriers of text and screens.
Discussing an issue with club leaders can also accelerate plans for action. Previous projects of the NHS chapter include raising money for Puerto Ricans impacted by Hurricane Irma and promoting awareness for breast cancer. When proposing an event or fundraiser to any organization or club, one should educate club leaders of the issue at hand, its impact on the student body and potential solutions.
Though statistics can be awfully compelling for a student already invested in an issue, numbers can seem innocuous to those with no ties to the subject. For students to feel passionate about an issue, an emotional connection is necessary.
By relating a topic back to the student population, others will be more keen to learn about the topic, teach others and participate in a fight for change. In a world where communication is instantaneous, the potential for change is unlimited. Yet the power to make a difference lies in the strength of a voice. By creating a plan for action and sticking to it, students have the chance to make their battle cries momentous and deafening. Music has the power to touch the souls of those who listen.
It has the power to unite, and it can be meaningful in a way that no other form of art can. The tragic school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gave rise to a new generation of voters and a new wave of protests.
In support of this new wave of voters, some artists have released songs to directly benefit these protests. It takes meaningful music from popular musicals to create a new meaning for those who have.
The proceeds are being used to help students who experienced trauma to heal by expression through the arts Sun Sentinel. After losing a member of the band, Alex Schachter, and a member of the color guard, Gina Montalto, the Eagle. Regiment decided to go through with their previously planned trip.
The former CCHS student will donate the profits made from the lyrics video to efforts to enact change by the Stoneman Douglas community.
The amount of support that the Stoneman Douglas students have received in their efforts to promote gun reform makes a difference. Music, especially, provides an emotional connection, raises awareness and supports the political change that teenagers are trying to inspire. He will be competing in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando respectively. At Harvard Debate, he found himself speaking at quarterfinals. In the September issue of The Lariat, Joie Meyer shared her experience visiting China for the first time since she was adopted as an infant.
Now, with her senior year almost over, she has found her experience to have been useful in navigating her final year of college. Since being featured in the May issue of The Lariat, Riggott has continued to be deeply involved in the school community, trying to make Cooper City High School a better place for all students. She was elected as the Class of Vice President, adding onto her previous extracurricular activities yet never wavering in her dedication to all of them.
In the November issue of The Lariat, DECA president Matt Plonskier discussed his interest in economics and his love for traveling - both of which have only grown throughout the school year. His adventures across the globe continue to be defined by food, and his list has expanded to include authentic delicacies from the classic bagel in New York City to sausages and wienerschnitzel on a trip to Germany.
Earlier this year, Heidt expressed interest in pursuing machine learning in college as opposed to general computer science. However, his continued participation in building the cyberpunk video game has changed his view on what he may do as a career. Currently, computer science is still listed as my intended major… but I have been considering considering changing to computational media as my major as it contains a game studies focus.
These days, the Cohens are wearing just as much blue and orange as they wear Twintuition. With college just around the corner, however, their line is running out of time. When the two were featured, they were in the midst of their first basketball season at CCHS. Shortly after publishing, Dallas dropped 40 points against Monarch and Stranahan. His season highlight was scoring his 1, career point on senior night against Plantation. Dylan also found himself scoring 40 points, his career highlight, during the same game against Plantation.
However, though teachers devote each and every day to helping students as they navigate through life, their own journeys are often overlooked. English teacher Lisa Jones certainly did not become a teacher because she loved grading papers. I want them [students] to, if not to enjoy my class - because I. Cabrera, unlike Jones, graduated having studied communications and advertising before realizing that she wasn't in the right profession. Before connecting the dots, Cabrera had been working as a nanny in New York and took care of two children, one of whom had autism.
She was able to teach the child sign language, opening up the door for communication that was previously shut. For the first time, the boy was able to communicate with his family. Upon realizing her true calling, Cabrera went back to school to receive education credits, but having come from a long line of teachers, she was heavily warned against taking on the profession. Instead, Cabrera followed her heart and is merrily celebrating her tenth year of teaching.
Patterson has only been teaching for three years after having pursued a career as a journalist. Having been influenced by her own high school teachers, Patterson recalls how valued she felt walking into the classroom.
Instead of pursuing a job in the business field, she took the classes needed to become a real estate agent. Still unsatisfied, Wilfong began to substitute teach and liked it so much that she worked towards having her very own classroom. Upon receiving her teaching certificate, Wilfong took up her first teaching job at a middle school in Coral Springs but was surplused at the end of the year and reassigned to CCHS.
During her first few years at the school, Wilfong did not have her own classroom but instead had to switch between buildings for different periods.
That was until she asked to take on AP World History as the former teacher was retiring. I think that is really important and I want to be able to communicate that to my students. Walking into the Pembroke Pines location, the first thing that catches the eye is the minimalism of the restaurant. While the floors are speckled red and black, and the far walls along the back a striking red, a long plain white wall and several assortments of metal chairs and tables give the location a chilly atmosphere.
But ordering the mac and cheese is anything but an emotionally frigid experience. Add on a protein - woefully nonexistent. The bacon, pulled pork, chicken chicken strips, while not bad, or something else entirely were a far cry from fresh - and two veggie toppings, protein and tasted more like microwavable such as broccoli, scallions or pre-frozen nuggets.
The dish is and still gooey in the middle. It mixes sheer horror with issues that kids and parents face daily to result in a truly terrifying story that goes deeper than surface-level. John Krasinski, who wrote and directed the film, stars as the father of a family that has survived the introduction of blind but soundsensitive monsters that live to hunt. The movie is centered around the push-pull dynamic within the family as they try to remain silent to stay alive.
The film centers around the strong love within a family, focusing on the interdependence needed for survival and the extent one will go to protect their loved ones. Sacrifices are shown on both ends, parent and child, for the good of the group. They convey their fear, anxiety, despair and their love for each other not with powerful, impactful monologues but through legitimate facial expressions and mannerisms throughout the movie.
These moments happened very little in comparison to the amount of dead-silent scenes, but the effect of dead silence assisted in creating truly unexpected and effective jump scares. Krasinski went deeper than many horror films out there. Typically, horror movies exist to scare the viewers, especially with fictional monsters or paranormal activity and lack effective plot development, character development, themes and additional meaning that can be tied into the lives of the viewers.
To feel true terror in the cinema, the audience must be fully immersed in the story. Not only did it bring back great memories of the 80s for adults but it also included references that kids could understand as well. The answer: not so much. W h e n viewers are forced to recognize that there is a reference that they should be aware of, it detracts from the movie as a whole. Adding onto this is the fact that the majority of the characters.
The main protagonist Wade Watts is an irredeemable, self-absorbed person that the movie attempts at making audiences cheer for but ultimately fails in doing so. This probably has to do more with the writing and source material than Tye Sheridan, who played Watts, having played the role of the annoying jerk pretty well. Most of the other characters, like Watts, are as likeable as eating a rotten egg. The plot is also extremely mundane and predictable, which in turn hurts character development since the audience is not invested in the progression of the heroes that they should be interested in.
There are some positives to this bore of a movie. For one, the world of the OASIS, the virtual reality this movie takes place in, is amazing to look at. The amazing cinematography in the OASIS is capable of drawing audiences in despite the obvious drawbacks of the overall film. What it makes up in cinematography, it lacks in plot, character development and likability of the protagonists.
He is full of energy and is relentless every time you see ;. I can pass the ball well, I penetrate and kick it out to an open shooter or give a dump off pass to the bigs down low. I play very aggressive defensively, I always pressure the ball causing a lot of steals and deflections.
He is awaiting acceptance at Pines Charter High School. Graziani is definitely a prospect college coaches should be considering. Some schools may count him out due to his size, but at a certain point you have to accept his production and skill level are just something special and can translate to the next level. Tag s : Home Player Spotlights. HoopMIA Search. I also got the line a lot, I finished from the free throw line and from the field that game. He is full of energy and is relentless every time you see ; him play.
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