High School Musical

Vanessa Hudgens may be best known for her role in the hit Disney series High School Musical as Gabrielle Montez singing beside future star and fellow teen heart-throb Zac Efron. The warm reception and success of the original movie led to several sequels, catapulting the young starlet to fame and making Vanessa Hudgens a household name. Though after the completion of HSM, the starlet said goodbye to her Disney roots and left the company to pursue a career in film. The rising star would go on to…

Vinh Lee AP English July 19 2016 In Virginia Woolf’s excerpt from “Moments of Being,” she describes her adolescent years from her childhood when she would spend her summers in Cornwall, England. She uses many different kinds of language to convey and improve her memories as a child. In the excerpt she uses imagery and tone to help convey her memories with her family. Virginia Woolf uses specific events at the lake to explain her time with her father and how he gave her advice on being…

as Bill), to Danny DeVito (who played the evil theme park proprietor - Swackhammer), and of course to the the infamous Michael Jordan. I was so engorged in this sci-fi kids movie that I related almost everything to Michael Jordan and Space Jam. In school, I’d only buy Gatorade products, I’d constantly worry about what Bugs Bunny would think if I failed a test, or if switching from tennis to lacrosse was as detrimental to my career as Jordan making the 180 flip from basketball to baseball. To…

Every Spring Frontier High School puts on a Spring Musical. This year it was “All Shook Up,” a musical based off Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night,” all set to Elvis Presley songs. The cast consisted of eleven main characters and an ensemble. Everyone wanted to be apart of the show, but only twenty five students would be selected. Before Thanksgiving break, the students were given five songs they could sing for at auditions. All break the actors were practicing and researching the musical, so when…

A Meaningful Memory When you think of High School you think of big, tall, intimidating bullies and mean, beautiful, loud girls, for college it’s just about the same idea going through our minds. “It’s a whole new ball game” as many would say, including me. I’m all about hard work and dedication, usually that would be coming from a athlete who is very good and has a bright future in that sport, But i’m not one of them i’m the person that is described as always arriving early not doing the…

Yusef Lateef born on October 9, 1920, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Five years later he and his family packed up and moved to Detroit. In the vast musical environment in Detroit, he began to form some long lasting friendships with people such as Curtis Fuller, Kenny Burrell, and Lucky Thompson. Yusef became proficient at the tenor saxophone in high school and by the time he was eighteen he was touring with swings bands. Yusef was asked to join swing bands ran by two jazz masters Harley Toots and…

I have come to know that Nicholas has more than just one funny bone in his body. It’s either cracking corny jokes constantly, or being completely emotionless. But his jokes never fall short of making me laugh until I am crying. His intelligence in school is something I…

Like a river, high school has been a winding journey for me. Sometimes I am not sure what is around the bend. With each bend change happens within me when I allow it to. My mom once said, sometimes you have to give up to get up. The river started off nice, calm, and welcoming and then the water started to pick up the pace. I have changed as a person and have matured more through the raging waters and rapids than the calm of my freshmen year. Going into my Freshman year I had some high…

Waking up before the sun on the first day of high school, I pictured myself walking into heaven. No more jail-like school uniforms that I’ve been stuck with since kindergarten, overly handsome varsity athletes everywhere, popular cliques that all the dorks －like myself－looked up to, and freedom. Freedom from being treated like a baby. I was practically grown. At least that is what I thought; it was only the beginning. I felt as if I was living the dream, and then I actually stepped on campus.…

is not rare. Overcoming this feeling has helped me realize that cheerleading and musical performances are significant aspects of my identity, as well as some of my best memories of high school. Standing in the exquisite balcony of Carnegie Hall, the rotunda of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Museum, or the wings of a stage in Hershey Park could never prepare me for the rejection I routinely felt throughout high school. Being a male performer, I found myself feeling dismissed by the rest of my…