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Tripp sports dress code

Team. Definition a group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport. This is one way to describe us, but there are many others. No matter what, we girl soccer players are a team. How we show it is with spirit. Here at Tripp Middle School, the girls’ soccer team and girls’ […]

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Home schooling in the U.S.

Most kids in the U.S. wake up and get ready for school and wait outside for the bus. But, about 162,000 children in the U.S. stay right at home for their education. The top three reasons for home schooling are religious reasons, better learning for their children or because they believe that public schools have […]

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Water on distant planets

About 150 million light years away on a planet called HD 209458b, scientists found a necessary resource for life to live, water. Planet HD209458b is a gas-like planet, like Jupiter, in the constellation of Pegasus.Even though there was water, scientists could not find any presence of water in the planet’s atmosphere. Scientists say that the […]

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Free movie night at VCS “National Treasure”: Movie With A Purpose

In past articles I’ve referenced the Love 146 organization that deals in the aftercare of Child Sex Trafficking and Exploitation victims. Most of these victims are children from the ages of 5-18 both boys and girls. These children are usually deceived into believing that they are going to get a job in America that will […]

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Part three: My first day of school

When I arrived home from the Eiffel Tower, I unpacked my bags and wanted to go straight to bed. However, the European Cup was on that night, and apparently it’s quite a big deal to every single European. Mme. Lafont and the middle-aged German woman who was also staying there both huddled into my room […]

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“The Unborn”

On January 9, “The Unborn” premiered in theaters. It’s a PG-13 Horror/Suspense movie. So we got some of our friends together to go see it.“The Unborn” was about a college student who has a rather normal life, though her mom passed away a few years ago. At first, she has suspicious dreams about a young […]

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New York, New York

Over Thanksgiving break I visited New York City. I’d seen the movies where the streets are happy, I’d heard the songs that hundreds of people wrote and sung about how special New York was, and for the past couple months I’d been prepped for how different New York was. When asked to comment on New […]

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Only for a dime

Life is not a competition. It is a pursuit for happiness that circles its way around an enlarged Ven Diagram with the categories of good, bad and all of the miscellaneous that falls in between. Everything you complete in life is revolved around the sole purpose of ensuring a satisfying and brighter future. When that […]

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M.A.D. runs through “The Crucible”

The year is 1692, in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, and hysteria is running throughout the town. Women and men alike are being accused of witchcraft by a group of very imaginative young girls, and many will be hung for this supposed crime. For half a year or so, people are being accused of being […]

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“The Secret Life of Bees”

Is there anything more aggravating than being forced to read something that’s totally uninteresting and dull? I can never seem to find a good book that I actually want to read. When I picked up “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd, I had doubts, but was determined I wouldn’t give up on […]