Bruce Springsteen is nice enough to use a raffle system to determine which of his fans get the best seats at his concerts- the ones so close to the stage that you can reach out and touch him. Extremely dedicated fans start waiting in line for their raffle tickets at two or three o’clock even [...]
An Article by Lena Blackmon and Isabella Blue The names of 42 students were drawn at random, but fret not; this wasn’t the Hunger Games. These students, Bella and I included were chosen to participate in UHS’ 2012 College Tour to Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University. We took a bus to from school [...]
Do you ever feel like just a fish? Just another fish in this endless sea of fish? Where can a unicorn die from a game of Park Bench? What is in the 10th circle of Hell? The answer lies on stage, with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. The show, produced and performed [...]
Two boys. One girl. The adventure of a lifetime. Blood Red Horse by K. M. Grant is a historical fiction novel starring the de Granville brothers Gavin and William, a fair maiden called Ellie, and a red horse named Hosanna. King Richard calls for a crusade to retake the Holy Land, and Gavin and Will [...]
It’s not often that I enjoy reading books assigned in English classes but J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was an exception. Our narrator is Holden Caulfield, a teenager from New York City who, to be frank, has got problems. Holden begins writing the story in a therapy institute in California and flashes back [...]
I’m Looking Through You is a memoir about being haunted in more ways than one. Jennifer Boylan describes her childhood living in a reputedly haunted house, having to experience creaking stairs, doors opening and closing of their own accord, and figures seen in the corner of one’s eye. But Boylan was also haunted by herself, [...]
Graph.tk is a very simple website with one goal, graphing equations. It’s very clean and simple interface makes it much easier to read than a graphing calculator. It also has the capability to zoom in and out, letting you see specific areas and the graph as a whole. Regular Zoomed out In the [...]
The year is 1974 and thousands of stunned New Yorkers are watching as a man walks precariously on a rope from one tower of the World Trade Center to the other. Using Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk as the true historical basis for his story, McCann then embarks on vivid imaginings of the lives of those [...]
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman is the nonfictional account of an author teaching a writing class at a juvenile detention center and the growth that both students and teacher gain from the experience. The book exposes the humanity in some of society’s most dehumanized people, the faults in the criminal justice system, and the thought [...]
http://www.quizmeonline.net/ is a user driven website that hosts a variety of study guides, flash cards, and quizzes covering many subjects. Signing up allows you to invite friends and communicate with them, but you can still use all the studying resources without signing up for anything. There are three main resources for students on the [...]