Alex’s Podcast
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Living In A Bilingual World
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By: Yara Hidalgo
It’s difficult to live in a world where at a very young age one starts to translate language services for the parents to be able to operate in society. Once the child begins learning how to speak, write and read English the parents depend on their children to translate conversations, letters, visits to [...]
Benchmarks!
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By: Yara Hidalgo
Many students think that the Benchmarks given to us aren’t accurate measures of student learning because for most subjects they test us on concepts we haven’t even learned. When I asked Libertad Carlos, a senior at LPS San Jose, what she thought about benchmarks she politely responded, “I don’t see the point of [...]
Substitute Teachers
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By: Kaelyne Rocca
Many teachers around the school have been absent for more than one day. This means that the school will need more and more substitute. On Dec. 3, 2007 the following teachers were absent here at LPS: Ms. McCarty, Mr. Garcia, Ms. Davis, and Ms. Stevens. Due to their absences, we did not have [...]
Sergio’s Assassination
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by Monica Plascencia
On Monday December 3, Sergio the leader from a famous Mexican group called K-Paz De La Sierra was killed. His body was found in Morelia, Michoacan. When they found him they said that his body had big signs of torture. Later on they found out that they had burned parts of his body, [...]
A New Start
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By Ashley Ornelas and An Nguyen
This season, our basketball team started it with a bang. They have a new coach, Jake, which is our principal’s son. He has been working with them and preparing them for future games for the past couple of weeks.
Rookie Adrian Peterson
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As of this moment, rookie Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings is sitting on top of the league with the most yards than anyone else. He is topping such players as Willie parker (Pittsburgh Steelers), LaDainian Tomlinson (San Diego Chargers) and Willis McGahee (Baltimore Ravens).
The Dream Act
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by Robert Truong
The Alien Minors Act (also called “The DREAM Act”) is a bill that has been introduced several times in the United States. This bill grants a citizenship for immigrant students and those wishing to join the US military. Basically, the Dream Act is a solution for someone looking for a legal status. It [...]
Past Possessions of Ozzy Fetch Up To $800,000
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Heavy metal rock star Ozzy Osbourne is selling his personal possessions to support his wife’s non-profit organization which supports colon cancer patients. Many items sold were often seen on there hit T.V. show, The Osbournes, documenting the family’s life such as their custom made pool table and dog bed given to Sharon by Elton John.
Giant Rat Found on Expedition
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Researchers on an expedition in the Foja Mountains of New Guinea discover a rather large rat, five times larger than the ones we are familiar with. The area is referred to as the “Lost World” because of its isolation from human civilization.
Chess Champion Will Not Run for President
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by S. Ferdin
The U.S. elections aren’t the only presidential race in the world that’s heating up. Russian candidates for the Russian presidency are also competing against each other. On December 13th, 2007, Garry Kasparov announced he will not run for president.
Just Cash or the Perfect Gift?!
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By: Libertad Carlos
It is fast, thoughtful, and easy! Clearly giving money in a Christmas card isn’t always the best gift. It shows that you didn’t go out of your way to buy them something they were wishing for. Although, that might not always be the reason why you give them money as a gift, most [...]
Boy Hurt and Man Killed from Oakland Shooting
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By Angelica Solis
Police and investigators say that the fatal shooting of a man and a boy hurt from the shooting are connected because they both have some gang overtones and other details they wouldn’t disclose. The victim was identified as Ernesto Jerez, 28 years old, who was shot Monday around 10:40 pm. He had died [...]
Bay Area Nutritionists VS Sugar-Filled Sodas
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By Angelica Solis
Since sodas can cause jitteriness, nervousness, upset stomach, headaches, difficulty concentrating/sleeping and increased in blood pressure and heart rate. Sodas also have a lot of caffeine (Caffeine is a drug from many plants it is also in tea, chocolate, coffee, and many sport drinks and even pain relievers).Some ingredients in a soda can [...]
Teacher Imprisoned Over Teddy Bear Name
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by Steven Ferdin
On November 28th, a teacher working at a Sudan high school was arrested for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, originally from Liverpool, England, was arrested for charges of insulting religion, and stirring up hatred.
Cheap Gift Ideas
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by Steven Ferdin
It’s a dilemma that I deal with every year, gifts to give without any money to spend. Fortunately, I’ve had many ideas to overcome this and rather than keeping them all to myself I have decided to create a list of all the cheap gift ideas that everyone can use.
How the Iraq War Affects Us
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by Noe Acevedo
The war in Iraq affects a lot of us. Either someone you know is on the battlefield, or you’re just aware of the war it always crosses your mind no matter what.
Scholarship Obstacles
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by Robert Truong
To get a scholarship, there will be three barriers that students have in front of them. First, you should participate in school clubs, sports, or any other organization. Second, you will need good grades so you can be noticed by any college! Lastly, you need to overcome yourself. This means that you will [...]
Quarterback Sentenced to 23 months
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This article has been taken down due to plagiarism on behalf of the student journalist. The Catalyst apologizes for this abuse of journalistic privilege and lack of professionalism.
Why is Jesus better than Santa Claus?
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This article has been taken down due to plagiarism on behalf of the student journalist. The Catalyst apologizes for this abuse of journalistic privilege and lack of professionalism.
Bombs in Iraq
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By An Nguyen
On December 5th, car bombs in Baghdad and three other northern Iraqi cities killed twenty people and injured sixty people.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was visiting Iraq because of the recent drop in violence. Just minutes before Mr. Gates held a press conference with Abdul Qader, the Iraqi defense minister a bomb [...]
Sports and Steroids
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By: Selina F. and Angelica S.
It all started during the 1988 Olympics when Canadian Ben Johnson was declined his gold medal due to the fact that his test results came back positive for steroids. Since then, problems with this drug have been related constantly with sports. It comes up in all sports ranging from baseball [...]
Mummified Dinosaur Discovered
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by Javier Chavez
On December 3rd, 2007 scientists discovered 63 million year old hadrosaur named Dakota with most of it’s tissue on most of it’s bones with most of it’s skin on. The dinosaur is already changing scientist’s theories on how ancient dinosaurs skin looked like and how fast they moved.
Late Arrival Policy Change
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by Wendy Muro
Teachers are tired of having students arrive late to school every morning because each time a student arrives late the learning environment gets disrupted. Due to so many students arriving late in the morning Mr. Poo, Dean of Students, decided to hold these students in the office.
The death of Sean Taylor
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by Javier Chavez
Twenty-four year old Sean Taylor, defensive back for the Washington Redskins, was murdered in his bed- room in the early morning of November, 26. The four suspects supposedly responsible for the murder of Sean Taylor are Charles Wardlow, 18, Jason Mitchell, 19, Venjah Hunte, 20, and Eric Rivera, 17, were the suspects of [...]
Volunteers contribute to stop the plague
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(Volunteers pitch in to stem epidemic from San Jose Mercury News)
On Saturday December 1st, some volunteers gathered in Downtown San Jose to commemorate World AIDS Day. Presently “an estimated 33 million people worldwide have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since 1998, more than 25 million have died.” (San Jose Mercury News: Volunteers pitch in [...]