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Friday, October 12th, 2012

13 Year Old Celeb Graduates High School

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/nolan-gould-modern-family_n_1959005.html “Modern Family” actor, Nolan Gould, recently graduated from high school…. at thirteen. On the show “Modern Family” Gould plays Luke who is supposed to have a lower IQ. In real life, his IQ is at 150.   I think this is newsworthy because Gould is apart of a very successful show on television. I […]

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Rough Draft

The Olympic “Fab 5”: How they Changed Gymnastics             When July 27th, 2012 rolled around, we all knew that the 30th Summer Olympics would captivate the world. Going in with high hopes, Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, Ali Raisman, Mckayla Maroney, and Kyla Ross were expected to do great. And they did just that. I know […]

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Two Gators Found with Tails and Head Gone

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/19728585/four-gator-carcasses-found-in-two-days   In Cape Coral, Fl on October 3rd, two alligators were found dead in a canal by a student walking home from his bus stop. Oddly though they both had no heads or tails attached. Earlier in the week in the same area two smaller gators were found dead as well. This is newsworthy […]

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Florida sends election departments list of 198 potential noncitizens; some may have illegally voted

This article is about how there may have been people who were not eligible to vote still got to vote. Recently officials figured out that thousands, mostly from the Miami-Dade County, have been voting illegally. Many of these people didn’t know that they were voting illegally. The article caught my eye because I’m from Florida […]

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

What’s Your Favorite Movie?

Preston Nibaur, a junior here at Morningside College, was asked today what his favorite movie was. When I approached him he was sitting in the Olsen Student Center using his computer. He looked at me with a confused look on his face and surprised that someone was approaching him. When I asked what his favorite […]

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

Bra Bandit

For this “newsworthy” article I looked at my hometown’s newspaper. I went through the list and this one caught my eye because I thought for sure that this couldn’t be newsworthy. I was right. More than forty bras were stolen from a local Victoria’s Secret. A worker told deputies that on September 17 she walked […]

Friday, September 14th, 2012

Grandview Park (final)

  Since I was a little kid, during the summer I would always be at Grand View Park. I would go there with my brother and my cousins and we would play baseball and all other sports. Also, every year we would go to Saturday in the Park and it would just be radiating with […]

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Problems with my Writing

The problems that I believe that I have with my writing is that sometimes I don’t have a clear point of view and I also veer off track. I also think that I try to write in my own voice too much so that messes up my writing as well. I need to work on […]

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

Grandview Park

Since I was a little kid, during the summer I would always be at Grand View Park. I would go there with my brother and my cousins and we would play baseball and all other sports. Also, every year we would go to Saturday in the Park and it would just be radiating with energy […]

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Hidden Tricks with Key Fobs

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/your-key-remote-can-also-roll-down-your-windows_n_1857673.html On the Huffington Post I stumbled across this article that seemed pretty interesting. The headline was “Bet You Didn’t Know Your Car Keys Could Do This.” So I clicked on it and right off the bat there is a highlighted section saying “The remotes can often lower a car’s window, allowing owners to start airing out the […]