Jersey Shore Review

Julisa Avitia

Staff Writer

Jersey Shore is a Mtv show that has been on the air for six seasons, one each of the last six summers. Each season, eight roommates party, tan, and work in New Jersey, Miami, or Italy, depending on where the show producers wanted them to be.

Some of the roommates are Jenni, known as “Jwoww”, Nicole known as “Snooki”, Sammi known as “Sweetheart” and Mike known as “The Situation.” The other roommates are Vinny, Pauly D, Ronnie, and Deena.There was an old roommate that came out on season one and two, and her name was Angelina. She came out for two seasons and when she was gone the other roommates were glad. Each season they live in a different place; they are not from the Jersey Shore, they just party there during the summer.

Every summer there were conflicts between the roommates, and things changed every season. They got into arguments and fights and all this changed the way the roommates acted with one another.  In some of the seasons Ron and Sammi were in a relationship. which was on and off because they argued a lot. Jenni has a boyfriend who does not live in the house and every season they have a conflict, too.        
                                              
On season two, Snooki brought her best friend, Deena with her.  Everyone at the house got along with Deena. Snooki and Deena call themselves the two meatballs. They did everything together club, drink, smoke, dance, and etc., but things changed.

Before the roommates came back to Jersey for the last season there was a show called Jwoww and Snooki. It was about when Snooki and Jenni rented an apartment for themselves. Snooki told Jwoww she was getting married to her boyfriend because she was pregnant. Jwoww was surprised.  Snooki thought  Jenni wouldn’t want to move in with her, but she did. 

On the last season Snooki came to Jersey pregnant and it changed everything. She couldn’t go out clubbing or tanning. She couldn’t either drink or smoke. Deena felt disappointed when Snooki got pregnant since she wasn’t going to have her meatball to party with anymore. Snooki decided to move to an apartment on her own because she thought a pregnant lady wasn’t suppose to be in the house, around all the drama. When her roommates would go out clubbing she would spend her time with her fiance. Deena, Jenni, and Sammi threw Snooki a baby shower. She now has a baby boy named Lorenzo

Things have changed throughout the seasons with the roommates.  There were a lot of ups and downs in the house. Now, in the last season everything has changed. Mike is clean and Deena has finally fallen in love with her boyfriend Chris, and it’s really hard for her to be away from him she has also changed she is a different person. Jenni and her boyfriend, Roger are still together even though they argue sometimes and Sammi and Ronnie are back in relationship. It seems like the roommates have finally grown up.

Out of five stars I would give this show four stars. This show is funny, but it isn’t appropriate for little kids. This year’s season six was the last season for Jersey Shore.  You can still watch some new episodes from this season on Mtv. I really did like this show and I’ll miss the characters, even though they sometimes did inappropriate things. I found them funny. This was a good show to watch.

Works Cited

"Jersey Shore › Main." Jersey Shore (Season 6). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. http://www.mtv.com/shows/jersey_shore/season_6/series.jhtml

Platon, Adelle. "Mtv Cancels Jersey Shore." Vibe.com. Intermedia Vibe Holdings, 30 Aug. 2012. Web. 18 Oct. 2012

Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396

Cristian Gonzalez

Staff Writer

Besides playing games, my favorite hobby is cars. I enjoy them very much and I want to share my love of them with you, so I am proud to present this amazing popular muscle car, the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396.

The Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 was a popular car in its time before they stopped manufacturing them in 1977. This car had a 350 horse power turbo jet 396 V8 engine.  Though a V8 375 horse power cowl induction was available, only a few were sold at the time. The SS 454 LS-6 engine was made in October/November of 1969 and was sold on the market, but those engines were rare. The SS 454 LS-6 cubic inch V8 produced 360 horse power.

This car is a 2-door sports coupe with rear wheel drive and a 4-speed manual transmission. Within this car there is General Motor big block engine V8 with spark ignition, which is an air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber. This original car runs on gasoline, and includes a carburetor system that mixes air and fuel.  The tank holds up to 20 gallons.

Its change system is naturally aspirated, or in other words simple. The cylinder alignment is V8 with a compression ratio of 10.25:1. This engine goes from 0 to 60 mph in 6.1 sec, 1/4 mile in 13.7 sec at 103 miles per hour. It produces 420 pounds of torque, which is the force that pushes you back when you start driving, with 3200 rotations per minute which means that the crankshaft is turning and the pistons are moving up and down, both at 3200 times per minute. The car originally included Firestone f70’s wide oval rubber tires.

This is a very classic American muscle car, that any car collector would dream of having.

Works Cited

"1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, Cars, 2 Door - #733602 FindCars.com." 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, Cars, 2 Door - #733602 FindCars.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.findcars.com/a.php3?q=733602>.

"1962 Chevrolet Corvette." Classic Cars. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.corvettesandmusclecars.com/1962-Chevrolet-Corvette-North-Canton-Ohio-44720/3940596>.

"Check out Dealers and Their Pages Here." Muscle Car Club. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.musclecarclub.com/main.shtml>.

"Cars Never Die." Muscle Cars 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS396 Hardtop Coupe ~. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://carsneverdie.blogspot.com/2011/07/muscle-cars-1970-chevy-chevelle-ss396.html>.

  

"1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Ss-396 Sport Coupe." Ac Automobiles Catalog. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. <http://www.automobile-catalog.com/make/chevrolet_usa/chevelle_malibu_1gen/chevelle_malibu_1gen_2_hardtop_coupe_ss396/1969.html>.

Samhain

Ella Beebe
Staff Writer

Most people know it as Halloween, but to Wiccans and Druids it is a sabbat, or holiday, to honor the ancestors that came before them.  Samhain (pronounced “Sow-en”) is a fire festival first practiced by the Celtics. They believed that during Samhain the veil between our world and the next is the thinnest. Sunset on Samhain marks the Celtic new year.

During the feast of Samhain loved ones who have passed were invited to the feast and remembered by those who loved them.  During this time the children who were born in the last year were officially welcomed to the community. They also celebrated with traditional games.

They would also reflect on the last year and come to terms with it so they can move into the future. They believed their priests could predict the future because the veil between the two worlds was thin. They would dress in costumes of animal heads and skins.

When the festival was over the people would go back to their homes and light their fires. They not only lit their fires to warm themselves but to protect them from evil spirits, as well. So Samhain is known as a fire festival.

Modern Wiccans and Druids decorate their homes and altars with autumn leaves, pine cones, small pumpkins, and other symbols of the season. They perform the traditional rituals as accurately as possible, and celebrate this sacred sabbat either solitary (by themselves) or in a group, called a circle or a coven.

Works Cited

  Wiccan and Neopagan Festivals." Wiccan Holidays, Neopagan Festivals, Pagan Holidays, Pagan Festivals. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaganism/festivals.htm>.

Robinson, B. A. "HALLOWEEN: FROM AN WICCAN / NEOPAGAN PERSPECTIVE." HALLOWEEN: FROM AN WICCAN / NEOPAGAN PERSPECTIVE. N.p., 13 Oct. 1997. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_np>

Samhain. N.d. Photogragh http://craftychickscuppacoffee.blogspot.com/2010/10/samhain-witches-new-year.html, n.p.

Joe Biden

Kevin Sosa                                                                            

Staff Writer

  
Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council.

At the age of 29, he became one of the youngest people to be ever elected to the Senate of the United States. A couple of weeks after this honor, a tragedy happened to his family.  Biden’s wife, Nelia, and their one year old daughter, Naomi, were killed. Their two young sons were also injured in the car accident.  In 1977, he remarried a woman named Jill Jacobs.

As a senator from Delaware for 36 years, Biden established himself as a leader on some of our nation’s most important domestic and international challenges.
Joe Biden was elected as Vice President  when Barack Obama got elected as United States President in 2008.   As the 47th Vice President of the United States, Vice President Biden has continued to face important issues of the nation.

 Works Cited

"Vice President Joe Biden." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-biden>.   
 
Flickr. Yahoo!, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv>.

The Possession

By Julisa Avitia

Staff Writer

Movie Poster for The Possession

The Possession is a terrifying movie about a teenage girl named Em getting possessed. This movie is based on a true story.  Em’s parents, Clyde and Stephanie, are divorced.  She spends weekdays with her mom and some weekends with her dad she also, has a sister named Hannah. Em had bought an antique wooden box from a yard sale, she liked and which the previous owner gets ragdolled.The demon comes in the form of a dybbuk, which is an evil spirit out of a Jewish folklore.

Finally Em opens the box and begins to exhibit uncharacteristic, strange, as well as increasingly violent behaviors. Her dad sees that she is not acting as usual as the days go by and wants to find out what is happening to her. She acts strange since she has been overtaken by an apparition of a Jewish legend the dybbuk. This is an unspeakable evil and that devours its human host.

Her dad Clyde wants to trap the old spirit back into the box again. Clyde drives more than one hundred miles to New York to find the Jewish exorcist, Rabbi Tzadox and they after team up. Clyde wants to trace the origins of the box. The relationship between Em and her dad Clyde turns out to be good.

Out of 5 stars, I would give this film 5 stars. I think this movie is scary because it shows how people get possessed and you get to see what the demon looks like.  You also see how Em suffers while she is possessed. This movie is also interesting because you learn a little bit about the origins of the demon, as well as Jewish lore. I saw this movie the second day that it came out. I think people should watch this movie, I would recommend it.

Works Cited

Neuwirth, Aaron. The Possession. 2012. Photograph. Whysoblu.com. Aaron Neuwirth, 01 Sept. 2012. Web. 02 Oct. 2012.

President Obama

By Ella Beebe
Staff Writer

Barack Obama, Jr. was born on August 14, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He grew up in Hawaii then moved to Indonesia for a period of time, and  then moved back to Hawaii again. His mother’s name is Ann Dunham and his father is Barack Obama Sr. His parents married on February 2, 1961 and six months later President Obama was born. When President Obama was two his parents divorced. His father attended Harvard University and died in an accident in 1982 after only seeing President Obama once after the divorce. His mother remarried in 1966 and moved her family to Indonesia in 1967. There she had President Obama’s half sister, Maya Soetoro Ng.
   
When President Obama was ten his mother decided to send him to live with his grandparents in Hawaii. She later moved back with Maya. While President Obama lived with his grandparents he was enrolled in Punahou Academy and excelled in basketball. He graduated in 1979 as one of three black students in his entire class. Due to this, he became conscious of racism and would feel like something was wrong with him. He later saw that he was wrong.

After President Obama graduated, he studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. President Obama then transferred to Columbia University in New York. He graduated in 1985 with a degree in political science. He moved to Chicago in 1985 and worked in a community organizer group. He went to Harvard Law school in 1988 and in 1989 he met Michelle Robinson through her internship, they soon started dating. President Obama decided to move back to Chicago and be a civil rights lawyer. He also helped Bill Clinton with his 1992 campaign.

On October 3, 1992 President Obama and Michelle got married in Kenwood. Michelle had their first daughter, Malia, in 1998. In 2001 their second daughter, Sasha, was born.
President Obama first published his book, Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance in 1995. It is now published in ten languages.
In 1996 President Obama ran for Illinois state senator and won. As state senator he expanded the drafting of legislation on ethnic minorities for health care and early childhood education.

In 2000, President Obama was part of the U.S house of Representatives race. But he was unsuccessful. In 2004 he ran again and won. In 2001 he opposed Bush’s request to declare the Iraq war.

President Obama published another book in 2006. This book is titled The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

On January 20, 2009 President Obama was made the forty-fourth and first African-American president of the United States.

Works Cited

“Barack Obama Biography” Bio.com. A&E Networks Television,  2012. Web. 28 Sept. 2012 <http://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369?page=1>
Barak Obama. N.d. Photograph. Boomers Life. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.boomerslife.org/barack_obama_early_days_career_bio.htm>.

Mitt Romney, a Biography

By Renae Paraiso

Editor in Chief

Born on March 12, 1947 in the city of Detroit Michigan, Willard Mitt Romney is the son of former Michigan Governor George Romney. Though he was born in Detroit, Romney was raised in Bloomfield, Michigan. He attended the prestigious Cranbrook School before getting an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University. He then attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, receiving a degree in law and a Master of Business Administration degree, in 1975. In 1969, Romney married Ann Davies and they had five sons: Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig. A year before that, his father had run for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Mitt Romney

Before his presidential run, Romney worked in the management consulting firm, Brian and Company. Later on he founded Brim Capital in 1984. In the year 1994, he ran for a seat in the US Senate in Massachusetts, but was beaten by Ted Kennedy.  In 1999 he took over as president of the Salt Lake Organization  Committee. Two thousand two, he helped rescue the Winter Olympics from financial and ethical worries.

In 2003 Romney was elected as governor of Massachusetts. During his term, he oversaw the reduction of a $3 billion, deficit, and signed into law a new health care reform program that gave the residents of Massachusetts a practically universal health care. Once his term was finished, Romney declined a reelection, taking his bid for U.S. President in 2008 instead.

He made it past Super Tuesday, winning primaries in the states of Massachusetts, Alaska, Minnesota, Colorado, and Utah. But alas, Romney lost to U.S. Senator John McCain for the Republican nomination. However he still kept his options open for a possible future presidential run, maintaining many of his political staff and action committees, as he raised funds for other Republican candidates.

On June 2, 2011, Romney announced his official start for his 2012 campaign, taking in many standard Republican positions on taxes, economy, and the war on terrorists. His critics charged him with changing his position on other key issues like abortion, which he opposes, and the health care reform. Strangely enough, he publicly opposed President Obama’s health care reform program that was similar to the Massachusetts plan Romney supported in his term as governor.

From the start of the run, Romney emerged as a shoo-in for the Republican nomination and got a decisive victory in the primary with more than 39% of the votes. Far ahead of his competitors, which included Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman, his biggest competition was Rick Santorum. But Romney was able to secure a big lead in the number of delegates that were needed to seize the nomination.

On April 2012, Romney benefited from the competition narrowing when Santorum suspended his campaign. This left only two opponents: Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. However Gingrich threw in the towel in  May. With the nomination practically his, Romney and President Obama began their war of words in June.

President Obama’s campaign ran ads claiming that Romney was the head of Bain Capital until 2001, not 1999 as he had stated previously. At about the same time, reports on the news began circulating around the economy suppressing practices by Bain Capital. The reports had stated that Romney’s company had invested in businesses that relocated jobs overseas. Both this and the ads were a huge blow on Romney’s campaign. But in retaliation, his campaign sent out its own ads, which claimed Obama was more interested in helping his donors then the American people.

However in late July, Romney received negative attention while attending the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. During his stay, he had stated in an interview with NBC that London’s preparations for the upcoming Games were “disconcerting”. This outraged Londoners and viewers worldwide.

It was only hours after the interview had been broadcast that David Cameron reprimanded Romney’s remarks by stating; “We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities in the world. Of course its easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”

Later on, Romney retracted his earlier statement by saying, “I am very delighted with the prospects of a highly successful Olympic Games. What I have seen shows imagination, forethought, and a lot of organization, and [ I ] expect the Games to be successful.”

In early August, the criticism around his Games remake started to falter when Romney announced 42-year-old U.S. Representative, Paul Ryan as his running mate for Vice-President. Almost instantly after the announcement, ending the eight month-long coverage of potential Vice-President candidates for 2012, the media around Romney’s Campaign now focused on Ryan.

August 28, 2012, Romney officially became the Republican Party’s nominee, on the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention. Romney and Ryan received support from other Republican politicians, including his competitor in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, John McCain. On the second day of the convention, McCain said, “For four years, we have drifted away. People don’t want less of America, they want more. What they want to know is whether we still have faith... Mitt Romney has that faith and I trust him to lead us.”

But in retrospect, exactly how much faith should we give to one single person?

Works Cited

"Mitt Romney Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.biography.com/people/mitt-romney-241055?page=1>.

For Picture - "Why Mitt Romney Won't Apologize." PARADE.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Oct. 2012. <http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100221-why-mitt-romney-wont-apologize.html>.