One Giant Leap

go or not? Many things factor in this debate, but the pros outnumber the cons. We have to go to State Festival because it would benefit the students as a unique learning experience and the Lee High School Band is evolving. Going to State Band Festival serves a unique learning experience for the students participating in band. Going to State is not only about achieving a division one rating, but it is about learning that we can achieve high goals or expectations that we set for ourselves. This is a new challenge that we have to face. If we continue with our routine of going to District Band Festival every year and not facing…

Giants, human creatures that are above 10ft tall, have been believed to exist for centuries. Despite knowledge of science, evolutionary discoveries, and the growing inquisitiveness and curiosity of people in our day compared to other centuries, there are those who believe that Giants existed once in the past. There is increasing advancement in archaeological and more discoveries have been made now than ever before. However, there has been no affirmed evidence that show that extremely tall and…

through time, or people stopped telling it. The culture later thought that their story was too far-fetched or the culture and it’s peoples died out and faded away. In Celtic culture, no known story has been known to survive, but there is a creation myth that has lasted through the ages. This myth begins by explaining that in the dawn of time there were no gods or humans, only the land and sea. It goes on to say that at one point the land and sea me and when they did a white mare was born,…

Jeff the zoo keeper, while he drops a gold coin into my tank. When he walks away, I slowly slide down from my perch that was up on top of the fake little rainbow, that they had given me for my tank. I didn’t like the rainbow that much, but I guess it will have to do. In my opinion the rainbows back home were the best. Colors mixed perfectly in the golden rays of the sunlight. The rainbow in my tank was the complete opposite. It had a glare from my warm yellow tank light and the colors were all…

In her poem entitled “Human Family,” Maya Angelou writes, “I've seen the wonders of the world/not yet one common man...but we are more alike, my friends,/than we are unalike...We are more alike, my friends,/than we are unalike.” Angelou is correct in saying people are often more alike than they think. One of the most common human characteristics is possessing the desire to feel accepted, which, in turn, forces most people to conform to society’s standards. University professor and…

I Kill Giants, a graphic novel by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura is about elementary-schooler Barbara Thornson, a cheeky, imaginative, and awkward girl, and how she deals with difficulties at home and school by escaping to a fantasy world where she claims to “kill giants” with her prized hammer Coveleski contained in her purse. Throughout the book, Barbara dons four sets of animal ears: bear, fox, bat and rabbit ears. While wearing the ears she shows certain qualities that the animal has and…

Rams last Saturday. Prescott displayed a good amount of poise, diagnosed blitzes, identified his hot reads, and worked the entire field to his outlets. The fourth-round pick connected with Dez Bryant on fades outside the numbers (an area where the elite receiver dominates), connected with underneath pesky to handle slot receiver Cole Beasley on slants, and kept his cool in the pocket knowing he was going to get hit by Rams defensive tackle Dominique Easley when he hooked up with Terrance…

Both stories share the same basic plot line of taking a journey home, while being interrupted numerous times by creatures like giants, witches, and other magical beings. Pen and Odysseus, the main characters of their stories, are also intellectuals, meaning that they are both incredibly knowledgeable. For example, Pen had remembered much of the information she learned from Then, when she had spent her time reading a multitude of ancient Greek myths as well as encyclopedias for pleasure. Odysseus…

written by Liang Heng. Heng shares his firsthand account of growing up in a very telling era in China. Not only does Heng take us through the milestone events of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but also through the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Rightist Campaign as well as the Socialist Education Campaign. Heng provides a look into these historical pillars in Chinese history in a way that the Golf and Overfield texts could only dream of. It’s a truly breathtaking…

“It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren 't they?” (“A Quote from Infidel”). I believe this quote really defines what the Cultural Revolution was all about because the Cultural Revolution started with one man with a vision to shape China’s future, and that man was Mao Zedong. He wanted to spread his ideologies across China and impose his beliefs. He paved the way for the…