Tag: highschool

  • Bye Bye Spidey: Spiderman Leaves The MCU

    Bye Bye Spidey: Spiderman Leaves The MCU

    Spider-Man is a character that everyone in the world knows about. Fans enjoy him, people enjoy the movies, and kids demand his merchandise. But Sony wants to take the rights that Marvel owns from using Spider-Man in their movies. You might wonder why this is an issue, but when Sony wants to take away Spider-Man in the middle of his story being told, fans will get angry.
    Back in February 2015, Disney, Marvel Studios and Sony announced a deal to share the Spider-Man film rights, leading to a new version of Spider-Man to be introduced and integrated for the Marvel cinematic universe. The deal allowed Sony to have final creative control over MCU films where Spider-Man is the main character, while Disney had full control over films with Spider-Man as a side character. It also stated that the character was allowed to be in five movies as part of the contract. I believe that Marvel misread the contract since they wanted to make five stand alone movies of Spider-Man, but Sony is including Spider-Man’s cameos for the Avengers as part of the five movie deal. Right now, Sony has offered to give Marvel 30% of Spider-Man rights and money that it makes from the films, but Venom from Sony’s Venom universe needs to be included in the MCU as well. It’s weird how Marvel owns this character, yet they’re fighting the rights to use it with another company. I believe that it shouldn’t even be an argument about who owns the character since Stan Lee of Marvel created him in the first place. But at the end of the day, we can say that money has a lot to do with it. It couldn’t be about anything else…that’s Hollywood baby.

    UPDATE:
    Spider-Man is reportedly back in the MCU after the studios, Sony and Marvel, reached a new deal to continue their partnership. The new deal sees Marvel Studios producing the next installment of Spider-Man’s cinematic franchise, with Kevin Feige taking a lead role in the production once more. Spider-Man will also appear in other MCU movies going forward as he has previously done.

  • Ain’t Nothing Wrong With Community College

    A concerning, disgustingly large amount of high schoolers scoff at the idea of community college. A few weeks ago, this one ignorant, ugly 12th grade boy named Peter (I can name him. He doesn’t go to this school, it’s fine) asked me what colleges I applied to. I told him I only applied to LBCC, and this absolute cretin responded, “Ugh. That’s so basic.” Another said, “Ew. Can’t imagine.”

    Four year universities are great for a number of reasons. It’s understandable why a lot of people want to go straight to a university. That’s cool; there’s nothing wrong with that. However, there’s also a myriad of benefits to attending a community college for two years then transferring, or just staying there the whole four years. It’s not as financially burdensome than most universities, and most employers don’t often weigh into account where you get your major, only what you major in and what experience you have.

    Some people might think the education is just inherently better at universities, but professors at community college can often be more focused on their teaching because the ones teaching at universities have all their obligations to the university, all the studies and research they have to conduct. Professors at community college can focus on their class more.

    There’s this stigma around community college, this idea that it’s just inferior to any four year university and a waste of time. A lot of it might have to do with pride. Some people might want to go try and attend a university just because it’s more difficult; they want to go to a college they had to work hard to get into, because that automatically makes it better. I’m positive not everybody thinks like this, but I’m sure there’s a good handful that do, which is unfortunate.

    Some people want to live the college life, get away from home and reside in a dorm for four years. That sounds fun, and I’m glad some people will get to enjoy all that, but is it really worth the extra thousands of dollars? People need to take these things into consideration and stop so easily dismissing community college, especially since LBCC will have free tuition for two years starting this fall 2019 semester.

  • Wrap It Up!

    I remember the last time I took sex education, it was in my seventh grade health class. I was surprised to find out in highschool that sex ed was not a required class. Sure, health is taught but not necessarily enforced. I was supposed to take a semester of health in biology freshman year, but it seems like my class barely skimmed over it.

    Recently, I was curious about the STD rates in America and I was shocked to find out how high the numbers were. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are more than 110 million STIs and various STDs among men and women in the US. Alaska, Mississippi, and Louisiana are the top three states in the nation harboring STD ridden fools. Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and HIV are some of the most prominent sexually transmitted diseases in America. In California specifically, the STD rates have increased 7% from 2017 to 2018. A staggering 218,728 cases of chlamydia alone, has been reported in California in the year of 2018. Not surprising, high schools are diseased cesspools of horny teenagers! 46% of American high school students have had sexual intercourse and potentially are at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and other STDs. Leading to,  1 in 4 teens contract a sexually transmitted disease every year.

    Back to sex education classes, I’m not quite sure why they aren’t a requirement. I feel like it is a necessity for teenagers to be educated about safe sex and the consequences that may come with it, due to the high rates. Surely STDs won’t go away, but it can be highly diminished amongst high schoolers if they knew more about the risks of unprotected and unsafe practices of sex.

  • PSA To Freshmen’s: Live A Little!

    It seems recently a lot of changes have been made in the 2018-2019 school year. This might seem a bit unfair to seniors, as they’ve been around a lot longer than the freshman. Incoming freshman experience the new changes for the first time, and have no prior knowledge about the previous years. Which is great, but for us seniors this is our last year and will be our first and last time to experience the new events and changes. The first ever homecoming happened this year, why was there not one since my freshman year? It also seems that school spirit has not been as alive this year as freshman seem to have an “I don’t care” attitude about most things.

    Seniors eagerly have been trying their best to be involved with games, dances, dress up days, and most school events. It seems as more incoming students come in year after year they seem to lose the motivation for school and school spirit. But hey, who am I to know? This is just what it seems on a bigger scale. It seems freshman are quick to call some things lame or not even give it a chance. And for the very few freshman that do participate and give things a chance, this is not at all for you. In fact, good for you being involved.

    As for the rest of you, what’s up? I just want to know why you act as if everything is too cool for you? Or as if you don’t have an interest in anything? Live a little.

  • Golf N’ Stuff

    The Long Beach Poly girls golf team had two matches in the past week. The first match took place on Tuesday, September 26 which Poly lost with a score of 213 – 264. The second match was Thursday, September 28 against Lakewood and Poly won with a score of 256 – 269. Both matches took place at Recreation Park.

    The girls prepared for their matches by practicing four days a week. During practice, they use the driving range to learn how to use all the clubs and when to use them. The girls also work on what is called their short game at the pitching green, and finally they go to the putting green to work on their putting. Besides that the girls have also had additional help this year.

    According to co-captain and junior Ellie Andrews, “For practices we also have a professional golfer helping us during our practices. His name is Dave Heinan.” Heinan has been helping the team since the season has started which is about a month ago.

    “Wilson has always been hard for us to beat because they are pretty much the best, but we have been getting better and Dave has really been a big help for becoming better and improving as a team,” Andrews stated.

    When asked about her opinion on how the team could improve other co-captain of the team and sophomore Hannah Vanwagner stated, “It is hard for everyone to have a good day all on the same day, so I think that consistency would help us to improve.”

    When asked about the disparity between their matches this week, Andrews said, “Wilson is the best in Moore league which makes them our toughest competition, but Lakewood we usually tend to beat every year.”