Posted by: lazzara on: October 30, 2009
2000 years ago in todays Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Northern France, the celts would celebrate their new year on November 1st. They had believed that this day was the end of summer and the begining of a new dark and cold winter. They thought that the winter time was often associated with human death. [...]
Posted by: lrogersimg on: October 30, 2009
Oliver Wahlstrom is a nine-year-old forward who plays for the Portland junior Pirates, a Pee Wee team in Portland, Maine. He was playing in a one on one game against a goalie and he had the puck. He was sliding it back and forth down the floor and when he got close enough he flipped the puck on [...]
Posted by: cbizzle23 on: October 29, 2009
First quarter is over? Crazy how fast it went by. It is just the beginning of IMG. We are all worn out, exhausted and having a hard time keeping up. But recently I had a close friend of mine tell me that you only live once. I thought about this, honestly it is hard to [...]
Posted by: cbizzle23 on: October 29, 2009
Many of us soccer fans crowded around the TV on Monday afternoon to watch the World Cup soccer game. This game was intense from yellow cards to Spain playing a man down. Unlike many fans, IMG students know the USA national team on a first name basis. It was exciting to see some of our [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: October 28, 2009
Hana Hajjar, a cartoonist for an English-Language newspaper in Saudi Arabia, has gone against the social norm and has begun criticizing her native country’s social policies. Hajjar’s cartoons often center around her ideas of gender inequality in her homeland. Hana Hajjar has said “I think men have put women in an unfavorable position in this [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: October 28, 2009
There is an island building up in the pacific ocean made up of an uncountable plastic bottles. Plastic doesn’t biodegrade, so all the plastic that has ever been made–excepting the 5 or so percent that has been recycled–still exists somewhere. The issue centers around the fact that it costs about 100$ per ton of plastic [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: October 28, 2009
Everybody at school suspected that Charleeni Ferreira, a 10-year-old girl from Philadelphia, was being beaten or abused in her own household. Every time the subject of injuries was brought up to Charleeni’s parents, they often told contradicting stories that seemed to be pre-planned. Some of the most common stories included “She stabbed herself with [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: October 28, 2009
Some would classify him as the greatest tennis player ever. U.S. Open titles and Wimbledon matches won easily, Andre Agassi seemed to do no wrong in the eyes of the American people. A good lesson to be learned here is that what one appears to feel or the expression one gives off, could be far [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: October 28, 2009
On Sunday Baghdad had one of its worst suicide bombings since 2007. The two suicide bombers got through a few checkpoints before they detonated the bombs within one minute of each other. Over 155 people were killed and over 500 people were injured. The blasts severely damaged the Justice Ministry and provincial council complexes. A [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: October 28, 2009
The League Championship Series’ are now over and the biggest stage in baseball is now set for two teams. The World Series is beginning in the big apple. Tonight the New York Yankees take on the Philadelphia Phillies at the new Yankee Stadium. It is the first World series in the brand new billion dollar [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: October 28, 2009
Last night, I saw a couple of videos that said that Michael Jackson is alive. After his death people started making a lot of tests to understand his death. People say that Michael is alive. People say that they have seen Jackson after his death. Doctors say that no one can die of a heart attack [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: October 28, 2009
Diego Armando Maradona is arguably the greatest soccer player that has ever put on a pair of boots. He is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Maradona enters professional soccer at the age of 15. He was called to play with Argentina´s National team. Years later,in 1984, he was called to play in an European team, Barcelona. By 1986 At [...]
Posted by: antpile15 on: October 28, 2009
High school is an interesting place. In the classroom students find themselves doing their class work, socializing, or staring down the clock until their eyes bleed. Oh yes, high school… Where the young leaders of tomorrow prepare for their future. Everything, all their accomplishments, summed up and graded with a letter. What an amazing environment [...]
Posted by: devu91 on: October 28, 2009
When i first arrived in Florida at the end of August, I thought that training is this heat and humidity is absolutely ridiculous! It was extremely boiling, and within 30 minutes into training I felt like I was on the brink of passing out. I couldn’t even do half the amount of running that I [...]
Posted by: mwmbaseball23 on: October 28, 2009
Tony La Russa has signed a one-year contract to remain the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Mark McGwire will replace Hal McRae as the team’s hitting coach. La Russa’s contract is for one year and a mutual option for 2011. La Russa managed McGwire for the Oakland A’s and the Cardinals. La Russa has [...]
Posted by: mwmbaseball23 on: October 28, 2009
Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen has been named the 2009 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year by Baseball America, a baseball magazine. McCutchen is on the cover of the current edition of the magazine. McCutchen had a very good rookie season. He hit .286 with 26 doubles, 9 triples, 12 home runs, 54 rbis and [...]
Posted by: devu91 on: October 28, 2009
This Saturday, at 3pm, my soccer team at IMG is playing against South Carolina United. We have played them once before, at their venue, and now it is at our home ground. We beat them in the previous affair 2-1. However, we should still be careful about this game becaus ethey were a strong side. [...]
Posted by: joanna200 on: October 27, 2009
Bulimia is an eating disorder that is also known as binge eating. The most common form is vomiting, fasting, use of laxatives, diuretics and over exercising. People who have bulimia tend to binge eat and making sure that they get the food that they ate out of their system so they don’t gain weight. This [...]
Posted by: imgandrew99 on: October 27, 2009
Just in case you didn’t hear yet, we’re having a costume contest this Friday at school. Prizes will be awarded! It’s going to be a big thrill this weekend, all the candy and costumes. The best effects are still present in this holiday; the scare tactics, horror movies at night, and the fun of being [...]
Posted by: lazzara on: October 26, 2009
President Barak Obama announced today that the swine flu is now a National Emergency. This announcement was because of the number of increasing people who have become affected with the virus. But shipments of the H1N1 vaccine are not flowing like originally planned. Death numbers have reached nearly 1000 due to the virus. While [...]
Posted by: alsonkeeler on: October 26, 2009
All fifty comeback concerts Michael Jackson planned in London last summer, sold out in just few hours. The bigger question surrounding the death of Jackson, which occurred in June, is how the movie documenting his life will do in theaters. “Michael Jackson This is it,” is a chronicle of his concert preparations that stands as [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: October 26, 2009
The chinese is one of the oldest and the most complex cultures. China has been ruled by a lot of different emperors, so they have a lot of different cultures and Chinese characters. The very first Chinese character is the oracle bone script. It is the words that write on animal bone or turtle shell. And [...]
Posted by: dosikseo on: October 26, 2009
The last 8 teams in Europe is Russia, Portugal, Slovenia, Ireland, France, Greece, Bosnia, and Ukraine. These teams are in playoffs for 2010 World Cup. Russia is playing with Slovenia and Portugal is playing with Bosnia and Ukraine is playing with Greece. Also best match is between France and Ireland. Each team plays two games. One game [...]
Posted by: julialistennis on: October 24, 2009
So being the weird kid we all know I am, I thought I would share with you what I learned and found interesting during class on friday in Psychology with Mrs. Mayberry. We started learning about consciousness and our DREAMS! So, ill admit I have a pretty perverted mind and oh boy, for the life [...]
Posted by: aosborne01 on: October 24, 2009
The PGA Grand Slam of Golf was held in Bermuda on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. This is regarded as the hardest tournament to qualify for there are only 4 players but to get into the field you have had have won a major championship during the year. This year the players were Angel [...]
Posted by: sblank22 on: October 23, 2009
Authorities are looking for anyone who could possibly know the girl in the picture below. She was found in Manhattan 2 weeks ago. The girl claims that she has no recollection of her family, her home, or her name. “I just want to know who I am,” the girl says in a statement released by the New [...]
Posted by: jhill2010 on: October 23, 2009
Grammy Award winning artist Dewayne “lil Wayne” Carter was arrested in July of 2007 on a street corner with another man. The officer that arrested the two men said that they were smoking marijuana and Carter had .40 caliber pistol on him. With the charges, Carter could face is up to 15 years in prison. [...]
Posted by: georginasellyn on: October 23, 2009
A Northwest Airline jet carrying 144 passengers cruised 150 miles past its destination at 37,000 ft while on auto-pilot. The flight took off from San Diego and was scheduled to land in Minneapolis. However, it failed to land and all radio contact with air traffic control was lost. Everyone thought the plane had been hijacked [...]
Posted by: nici on: October 23, 2009
I saw this air multiplier fan on YouTube, and I didn’t believe it! But it is true! This fan is a bladeless fan, that is to say there is absolutely no blades! The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and amplify it [...]
Posted by: nataliebea on: October 23, 2009
Almost everyone at IMG/Pendleton knows what it is like to travel to tournaments. Sometimes it can just be a couple of days, but why do we find it so difficult? When we travel to tournaments, we have to make sure that we are fully prepared. A few days before we leave we have to get [...]
