Commentary
My
Experience at Upperville Colt and Horse Show
By Allison May (June 23,
2004)
My experience at Upperville
last
Thursday and Saturday was so much fun. Upperville is the oldest outside
horse show in America.
Commentary:
The
Present: The Best and
Worst
Of Times
By
Stephen
Twentyman (June 15, 2004)
The
nation has,
in the last few weeks, been gripped with a fever of nostalgia.Day
after day, the newspapers fall down at the feet of the late Ronald
Reagan;
gloom-and-doom businessmen and liberals pine away for the peaceful and
secure 1990s; departing seniors look wistfully at the bygone days
of T.J.’s
simple pleasures.
Commentary:
‘Why
Do Women Cause Men
By: Adrian Rumingan
(June 15, 2004)
I for
one do
not understand women. I do not like not understanding women, because I
don’t know what they are thinking, but truly, what man does?
Commentary
How
Will You Handle College?
By Rabita Aziz (June 11,
2004)
As an IBH English 11 student,
it
was hard to ignore the feelings of sympathy, sadness, and frustration
felt
by my fellow classmates over the past few weeks.
Commentary:
Subsequent
to September 11, 2001,
the United States
has been detaining over 600 people of Middle Eastern descent at
the GuantanamoBayDetentionCenter
in Cuba.
Commentary
The
U. S Future and Its Imminent Fall
By Luciano Umerez (May 21,
2004)
I urge you to finish reading
the
article, even if it is disturbing or you disagree.
The world in which I am going
to
raise my sons is going to be very different; by 2050 the U.S. as we
know
it is not going to exist.
Commentary
What
Are the French Doing?
By Camille Christophel (May
21,
2004)
(Christophel is a foreign
exchange
student from France.)
About three months ago in
France
a new law was approved by our government and its leader Jacques Chirac.
That law is called the "Law against any Religious Signs". The new law
says
that "no signs will be allowed at any grades in school or in public
areas
when they reveal a religion."
Commentary
Happy
Mother’s Day, Mom;
This
Year I Understand
By Jamie Dodson (May 8,
2004)
For me Mother’s Day has always
been
just like every other day. Sometimes I take a walk around the block
early
in the morning and try to find some nice flowers to pick out of a
random
neighbor’s yard.
Commentary:
Where
Are You
in
the High School Food Chain?
By Robby Clipper (April 19,
2004)
In nature there are two laws
that
determine everything; survival of the fittest and strength in numbers.
In nature the strong survive as do those with numbers. If one is
neither
strong nor in a "pack" they will inevitably die.
Commentary:
Election 2004
Kerry,
Bush: Best We Can Do?
By Sam Ehsani (April 19,
2004)
Though the elections are many
months
away, the mud slinging between John F. Kerry and George W. Bush has
already
begun, and voters are already turning away from the booths.
Commentary
Democracy:
Do it, Don’t Just See It
(Impressions
of
a teenager on "The World March against the War in Iraq"
By Luciano Umerez (April
19,
2004)
The demonstration, "The World
March
against the War in Iraq," happened on a sunny March 20th,
the
one-year anniversary since the war in Iraq started.
Commentary
My
Mother, the Car
By Wayne Neill (March 30,
2004)
I own an apple red VW Jetta.
The
world hates apple red VW Jettas. Apparently, only girls own red Jettas.
Commentary
What
is Driving Our Society?
We
Need to Exchange Celebrities for Heroes
By Luciano Umerez (March
18,
2004)
What is driving our society?
What
is the reason for things to be the way they are?
I am going to try to answer
these
questions to myself in this short commentary.
Commentary
Let’s
Eliminate Hurtful Speech
By Margaret Lipman (March
12,
2004)
I hear it every day, without
fail:
in the lunch line, throughout the hallways, inside classrooms littered
with signs proclaiming the importance of respect and tolerance.
Commentary
The
Kase for Kucinich
By Emir Parrotta (February
22,
2004)
How boring! If John Kerry wins
the
nomination, the election and its debates would be a dull chit-chat
between
a free-trader and a free-trader, a war-monger and a war-monger, a Skull
and Bones member and yet another. What a travesty.
Commentary
‘Ohmygod
I Hafta Go Shopping!’
By Rabita Aziz (February
10,
2004)
If only I had a nickel for
every
time I have heard a teenage girl say something like, "I’m sooo stressed
out! I need to go shopping!"
Commentary
Opening
Yourself Up to
Music’s
Astonishing Variety
By Haley Chrisco
(February
3, 2004)
I remember riding in our bright blue, Pontiac minivan with my mom and
singing at the top of my lungs to Steve Perry, Sade, Sarah McLaughlin
and
many others.
Commentary
The
Peace that is Fly-Fishing
By Jesse Tolliver (January
20,
2003)
Imagine yourself standing in a
cold,
clear mountain trout stream. Usually there is no one else around and
all
you hear are the songs of the birds and the soft clicks and gurgles of
the stream as it courses its way down the mountains.
Commentary
Tempus
Fugit: Enjoy What You’ve Got
By Stephen Twentyman
(January
13, 2004)
I have recently come to the
stunning
realization that I can’t write very well on computers at all. There’s
something
about the nagging blinking dash thing that destroys all the good
thoughts
that I’ve had all day.
Commentary
GM’s
Hallways: ‘Like a
Salmon
Swimming Upstream’
By Molly Slattery (January
12,
2004)
"GO ALREADY!" I caught myself
screaming
at the person in front of me. Of course, they couldn’t hear me, I was
shouting
silently in my mind, not out loud.
Commentary
Sometimes
Taking a Back
Seat
May Be Best Choice
By Spencer Patton (December
18,
2003)
It seems that in today’s
society
many people are so busy trying to head every organization, earn every
reward,
and be recognized for excellence in every area that they do not get to
really enjoy and benefit from what they are doing.
Commentary
Class
Officers: Is a Title Really Necessary?
By Arya Namboodiri
(December
11, 2003)
Recently, the Senior Class
Officers
faced a difficult problem when our class president had to relocate to
another
community with her family.
Lasso
Online Staff Members Share
Their
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
Arranged By Becky Roa and
Rabita
Aziz (November 22, 2003)
Commentary
Can’t
We All Just Get Along?
How High School Has Been
Reduced
To Basic Feudalism
By Omar Tanamly (November
21,
2003)
Seniors, juniors, sophomores,
freshmen,
it’s how it’s always been. A student’s rank and voice all depend upon
the
grade they are in.
