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Zahid Sharif, a Junior in the Marketing & Management Academy, got an 8th place award in the Best Video Commercial competition at the 11th Annual Virtual Enterprise National Competition in Bakersfield, CA for business students.

By Olivia Guitron, Courier Staff Writer

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond the darkness and the days more gray each one than had had gone before […] Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years. They were moving south. There’d be no surviving another winter here”- The Road

The Road is truly a masterpiece. It is the story of a father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. They must go further south, to the coast in search of the “good guys” as they call them, and on their way they meet many misfortunes and casualties that can only happen when food is scarce and everyone is paranoid.

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By Olivia Guitron,
Courier Staff Writer

Marked is very much like the Twilight Saga, for all of those fans of vampires and bloodlust. This is a story of a girl named Zoey Redbird, who is physically Marked by a Vampyre on the forehead with the typical Vampyre mark of a crescent moon. Once marked, a person would have to move into the House of Night campus or suffer a horrible death. Becoming a Vampyre isn’t like Twilight because being marked has the same allure as being infected with the bubonic plague.

By Krislyn Perez, Courier Staff Writer

Baby Help is Marilyn Reynolds' sixth installment in the True-To-Life Series set in the fictional Hamilton High. The novel is about a teen mom named Melissa, a senior, and her baby girl, Cheyenne. Melissa loves her boyfriend and father to her baby, Rudy. She states that he is the most important thing to her, after Cheyenne, of course. So when Melissa starts learning about physical and mental abuse, she doesn't want to believe that these are the things that Rudy has done to her. Her thoughts are that Rudy doesn't hurt her all the time, only when he has been drinking. And he’s never hurt Cheyenne, so everything is okay.

Rudy is a very jealous guy; Melissa isn’t even able to have friends that are guys. She can kind of have friends that are girls, but Rudy is still made jealous by it. Melissa and Cheyenne live with Rudy and his mother, Irma. Irma is the type of wife that submits to everything the husband says and never stands up for himself. So naturally, this is how Irma expects Melissa to be as well.

From wikipedia:
Clarence Frank Birdseye II (December 9, 1886 – October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry.

Birdseye was born in Brooklyn in New York City. While a student at Amherst College, Birdseye worked as a field naturalist for the Unites States government in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana in order to help pay for his tuition. In the summers of 1910 and 1911, he captured several hundred small mammals and isolated several thousand ticks for research into the cause of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. His next field assignment, off and on from 1912 to 1915, was in Labrador, Canada, where he became further interested in food preservation by freezing, especially fast freezeing. He was taught by the Inuit how to ice fish under very thick ice. In -40°C weather, he discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly, and when thawed, tasted fresh. He recognized immediately that the frozen seafood sold in New York was of lower quality than the frozen fish of Labrador, and saw that applying this knowledge would be lucrative.

Learn more about Clarence Birdseye from www.birdseyefoods.com.