Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
News Interviews
Jesse Gisenger
What different levels of athletes do you see working at buck?
-Working at Buck Hill has shown me a wide variety of levels and dedication a person puts forward to excel in their sport.
How dedicated are some people compared to others?
-Every day I see kids who can ski like the pros and adults experiencing the hills for the first time. Those adults are probably just learning for fun and don’t plan to go to the Olympics. The kids on the other hand might have that dream and that’s why they’re here.
Cassie Torbenson
How do you feel about that fact that Lindsey Vonn used to ski at Buck Hill?
-I think it is so cool that she grew up and got her training here at Buck Hill!
What do you think about her injuries during the Olympics?
-She doesn’t complain and it’s not her fault that is what everyone chooses to focus on instead of her accomplishments.
What does it mean to you that your training at the same place Vonn's career started?
-The fact that I’m training and racing in the same place Lindsey Vonn started out makes me believe anything is possible. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you can go as far as you want.
Debra Philips
Did you enjoy watching and how did you feel with Lindsey's performance this year?
-The few weeks they were on I was dedicated to watching and am very impressed with Lindsay Vonn’s performance.
Do you think she will come back in two years?
-I hope she can come back for the next games and fulfill her goal of three gold’s with no injuries!
What different levels of athletes do you see working at buck?
-Working at Buck Hill has shown me a wide variety of levels and dedication a person puts forward to excel in their sport.
How dedicated are some people compared to others?
-Every day I see kids who can ski like the pros and adults experiencing the hills for the first time. Those adults are probably just learning for fun and don’t plan to go to the Olympics. The kids on the other hand might have that dream and that’s why they’re here.
Cassie Torbenson
How do you feel about that fact that Lindsey Vonn used to ski at Buck Hill?
-I think it is so cool that she grew up and got her training here at Buck Hill!
What do you think about her injuries during the Olympics?
-She doesn’t complain and it’s not her fault that is what everyone chooses to focus on instead of her accomplishments.
What does it mean to you that your training at the same place Vonn's career started?
-The fact that I’m training and racing in the same place Lindsey Vonn started out makes me believe anything is possible. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you can go as far as you want.
Debra Philips
Did you enjoy watching and how did you feel with Lindsey's performance this year?
-The few weeks they were on I was dedicated to watching and am very impressed with Lindsay Vonn’s performance.
Do you think she will come back in two years?
-I hope she can come back for the next games and fulfill her goal of three gold’s with no injuries!
feature rough draft
Tim Burton has produced a lot of films in the past. They are all very unique in the odd almost weird way they are written and made. Walking and talking corpses, an eerie Willy Wanaka in charley and the chocolate factory, and now the mad hatter in Alice in wonderland. The mad hatter wasn’t the only character he put his creativity into thought. He used every bit of imagination he has to create not only the rolls in the movie but the world as well. From the second the movie starts he makes every setting as abstract as possible, and when Alice falls down the whole into wonderland the imagination only gets better.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum defiantly steel you’re heart from the start. Their innocence and adorable clueless expressions have you laughing even is the scene is serious. “They reminded me of little twin babies just waddling around with no clue in the world” my little sister Kaila said. “They were by far my favorite characters.”
I thought the Red Queen was very well done. Aside from insisting every other person head get cut off she wasn’t very cruel. While she was defiantly nothing like Glenda the good witch of the East, she wasn’t nearly as scary as the Ice Queen from Narnia. “I think it was because there was so much humor in everything she did or said” Ian an employee at the movie theatre told me. “The way she bossed people around was funny because it seemed like she was never taken seriously. The way she laughed at Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and made a friend with ‘Um’ from Umbrage all made her a little softer.” Now if you need a good bad guy to make a movie worth your while don’t be discouraged. She was still on a mission to have Alice killed and be the Queen so that she can be in control of the land. She makes the perfect enemy.
Ann Hathaway played the White Queen. She was the good guy who always talked like she was out of breath and never put her arms at her sides. They were always raised in the air. I do think the part was played well but at the same time maybe a little too exaggerated. She would come across as a wind up doll doing everything gracefully with no flaw. Then all of a sudden the wind up slowed down and ended with Ann gagging at something. It was obvious that it was intentional but did take away from the flow of the movie I thought. I did like the fact that she could not fight the Red Queen because killing is against her vows, yet she had no problem asking someone else to do it for her.
Alice was really something else. In the beginning of the movie you learn she is a little off beat from everyone else when she turns her corset into boots. She has a blunt honest charm you can’t help but admire. When she is purposed to in front of what was at least a hundred people by a man she did not want to marry she turned around and ran away following the rabbit without giving an answer. She then falls into the hole and travels to wonderland.
The Mad Hatter was my favorite character. Jonny Depp mastered the awkward and nuttiness of the roll. The way talked walked and acted all matched up perfectly to appear as someone who may have lost their mind. His eyes were also very mesmerizing as if he could get you to believe anything he wanted you to. The makeup used on him was incredible. The bright opposite colors really stood out. His orange hair stands on and shoots out from his head as if he were just electrocuted.
I went to see the movie with one of my close friends Livy and she couldn’t get over how the settings and animation resembled her own dreams as a little girl. “I feel like have fallen down that very same whole!” she said in the middle of the movie. Later she explained how the different objects placed randomly around Alice as she fell appeared the same way in her memories. “I saw a piano, a cat, a bed, and even an old lady when I used to have those dreams.” When she was younger her and her family lived out on a farm way up north in Minnesota. They were about five minutes on foot away from the nearest lake and just beyond it were small woods that only lasted about a mile or so down the road. “I remember going there and imagining it was a huge magical forest where all kinds of strange and impossible things happened. Sometimes I even had dreams about it, I lived in the forest and were friends with the creatures and fought that bad guys” she told me “that’s why the movie was so strange for me, I felt like I’d seen parts of it before and Alice and I think the same way.”
While her stories were very fun and interesting to hear I enjoyed the movie for a different reason. Unlike Livy who felt like she’d experienced it before I was introduced to this magical place where impossible things happened for the very first time. As you watch you find yourself slipping out of the real world, the theatre your sitting in and the people around you no longer exist and you’re in this whole new place where you shrink when you eat cake and grow when you drink water. I do believe a large part of this feeling came from the fact the movie was in 3D. There are some movies that are brought to life a hundred times better in 3D like Avatar. I haven’t seen that movie yet myself but I have heard 2D is nothing in comparison. Then there are movies like The Notebook or even Twilight that wouldn’t really be much different either way. Alice in Wonderland would be right in the middle. Some parts of it are fast and exciting and pop when others are calm and don’t even look 3D with the glasses on. I do think it was incredible in 3D and am even a little afraid I won’t enjoy it as much later when I watch it on DVD.
There is one thing about the movie that really stuck with me, a nice little message that really makes you aware of your thoughts. Alice says more than once in the movie “I sometimes have more than six impossible thoughts before breakfast.” Because of this she is described in the movie as an odd girl. Who doesn’t have impossible thoughts? We all do. Does that make us all a little odd? Yes, I think so. Sometimes I think about how the sky is blue. Nobody ever gives it a second thought because the sky is supposed to be blue, it is not abnormal. What if the sky was supposed to be purple? What if the Grass was supposed to be yellow? Imagine what the world would look like if that were the case. Then think about this, if the grass was yellow and the sky was purple it would make no difference to us because that would be how it’s supposed to be. That’s why I enjoyed this movie so much. It brings to life someone else’s impossible thoughts and helps you think up your own.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum defiantly steel you’re heart from the start. Their innocence and adorable clueless expressions have you laughing even is the scene is serious. “They reminded me of little twin babies just waddling around with no clue in the world” my little sister Kaila said. “They were by far my favorite characters.”
I thought the Red Queen was very well done. Aside from insisting every other person head get cut off she wasn’t very cruel. While she was defiantly nothing like Glenda the good witch of the East, she wasn’t nearly as scary as the Ice Queen from Narnia. “I think it was because there was so much humor in everything she did or said” Ian an employee at the movie theatre told me. “The way she bossed people around was funny because it seemed like she was never taken seriously. The way she laughed at Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and made a friend with ‘Um’ from Umbrage all made her a little softer.” Now if you need a good bad guy to make a movie worth your while don’t be discouraged. She was still on a mission to have Alice killed and be the Queen so that she can be in control of the land. She makes the perfect enemy.
Ann Hathaway played the White Queen. She was the good guy who always talked like she was out of breath and never put her arms at her sides. They were always raised in the air. I do think the part was played well but at the same time maybe a little too exaggerated. She would come across as a wind up doll doing everything gracefully with no flaw. Then all of a sudden the wind up slowed down and ended with Ann gagging at something. It was obvious that it was intentional but did take away from the flow of the movie I thought. I did like the fact that she could not fight the Red Queen because killing is against her vows, yet she had no problem asking someone else to do it for her.
Alice was really something else. In the beginning of the movie you learn she is a little off beat from everyone else when she turns her corset into boots. She has a blunt honest charm you can’t help but admire. When she is purposed to in front of what was at least a hundred people by a man she did not want to marry she turned around and ran away following the rabbit without giving an answer. She then falls into the hole and travels to wonderland.
The Mad Hatter was my favorite character. Jonny Depp mastered the awkward and nuttiness of the roll. The way talked walked and acted all matched up perfectly to appear as someone who may have lost their mind. His eyes were also very mesmerizing as if he could get you to believe anything he wanted you to. The makeup used on him was incredible. The bright opposite colors really stood out. His orange hair stands on and shoots out from his head as if he were just electrocuted.
I went to see the movie with one of my close friends Livy and she couldn’t get over how the settings and animation resembled her own dreams as a little girl. “I feel like have fallen down that very same whole!” she said in the middle of the movie. Later she explained how the different objects placed randomly around Alice as she fell appeared the same way in her memories. “I saw a piano, a cat, a bed, and even an old lady when I used to have those dreams.” When she was younger her and her family lived out on a farm way up north in Minnesota. They were about five minutes on foot away from the nearest lake and just beyond it were small woods that only lasted about a mile or so down the road. “I remember going there and imagining it was a huge magical forest where all kinds of strange and impossible things happened. Sometimes I even had dreams about it, I lived in the forest and were friends with the creatures and fought that bad guys” she told me “that’s why the movie was so strange for me, I felt like I’d seen parts of it before and Alice and I think the same way.”
While her stories were very fun and interesting to hear I enjoyed the movie for a different reason. Unlike Livy who felt like she’d experienced it before I was introduced to this magical place where impossible things happened for the very first time. As you watch you find yourself slipping out of the real world, the theatre your sitting in and the people around you no longer exist and you’re in this whole new place where you shrink when you eat cake and grow when you drink water. I do believe a large part of this feeling came from the fact the movie was in 3D. There are some movies that are brought to life a hundred times better in 3D like Avatar. I haven’t seen that movie yet myself but I have heard 2D is nothing in comparison. Then there are movies like The Notebook or even Twilight that wouldn’t really be much different either way. Alice in Wonderland would be right in the middle. Some parts of it are fast and exciting and pop when others are calm and don’t even look 3D with the glasses on. I do think it was incredible in 3D and am even a little afraid I won’t enjoy it as much later when I watch it on DVD.
There is one thing about the movie that really stuck with me, a nice little message that really makes you aware of your thoughts. Alice says more than once in the movie “I sometimes have more than six impossible thoughts before breakfast.” Because of this she is described in the movie as an odd girl. Who doesn’t have impossible thoughts? We all do. Does that make us all a little odd? Yes, I think so. Sometimes I think about how the sky is blue. Nobody ever gives it a second thought because the sky is supposed to be blue, it is not abnormal. What if the sky was supposed to be purple? What if the Grass was supposed to be yellow? Imagine what the world would look like if that were the case. Then think about this, if the grass was yellow and the sky was purple it would make no difference to us because that would be how it’s supposed to be. That’s why I enjoyed this movie so much. It brings to life someone else’s impossible thoughts and helps you think up your own.
news rough draft
This year the 2010 winter Olympic Games were held in Vancouver. Many athletes from all over the world have been taking home medals and USA representative Lindsey Vann brought home the gold for woman’s downhill alpine skiing. Learning to ski at Buck Hill in Burnsville Minnesota, being an Olympic athlete has always been a dream of Vonn’s. This event will forever be a highlight in her life.
Lindsey Vonn was the oldest of five children. She started skiing at the age of two. Her first carving and gliding happened on the 300-vertical-foot runs at Buck Hill, a "bump" equipped only with a tow rope, near her childhood home in suburban St. Paul, Minn.
“Working at Buck Hill has shown me a wide variety of levels and dedication a person puts forward to excel in their sport” Jesse Gisenger, a Buck Hill employee says. “Every day I see kids who can ski like the pros and adults experiencing the hills for the first time. Those adults are probably just learning for fun and don’t plan to go to the Olympics. The kids on the other hand might have that dream and that’s why they’re here.”
Under the guidance of Coach Erich Sailer, she was encouraged at an early age to find her own technique and to learn how to ski fast. She showed her talent on the local level that when she was 10. “I think it is so cool that she grew up and got her training here at Buck Hill!” Says Cassie Torbenson, a sophomore at Eastview High School and a member of Eastview's alpine ski team. “The fact that I’m training and racing in the same place Lindsey Vonn started out makes me believe anything is possible. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you can go as far as you want.”
The Vonn family picked up and moved to Vail, Colo., so that she could ski on world-class slopes. The move seemed to pay off early on, as she became the first U.S. female to win the prestigious Trofeo Topolino youth competition in Italy, and she won three Junior World Championships medals and two U.S. titles as a teenager.
She started out strong by capturing the blue riband downhill title and then took bronze in the super-G. Now Lindsey has made her mark in the Olympics. Completing in woman’s downhill and slalom in one day she did win the Gold medal for downhill.
Coming into the Vancouver Games, Vonn was determined to win three gold's. Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Games ended when she crashed out of the slalom, but the American insisted she met her expectations and would go home happy.
The extent of Vonn’s injuries have caused some people to clam she is whining and blowing them out of proportion. Cassie Torbenson thinks that the media is the cause for her break from skiing being such a big deal in the eyes of the public, “She doesn’t complain and it’s not her fault that is what everyone chooses to focus on instead of her accomplishments” she said.
Vonn, who is chasing a third overall World Cup title and has already won several world championship crowns, insisted she would leave happy despite missing out on three possible podium finishes.
All in all the 2010 Olympics were an exceptional experience for Vonn and all the participating athletes.
“The few weeks they were on I was dedicated to watching and am very impressed with Lindsay Vonn’s performance” says Debra Philips an Olympic game fan. “I hope she can come back for the next games and fulfill her goal of three gold’s with no injuries!”
Lindsey Vonn was the oldest of five children. She started skiing at the age of two. Her first carving and gliding happened on the 300-vertical-foot runs at Buck Hill, a "bump" equipped only with a tow rope, near her childhood home in suburban St. Paul, Minn.
“Working at Buck Hill has shown me a wide variety of levels and dedication a person puts forward to excel in their sport” Jesse Gisenger, a Buck Hill employee says. “Every day I see kids who can ski like the pros and adults experiencing the hills for the first time. Those adults are probably just learning for fun and don’t plan to go to the Olympics. The kids on the other hand might have that dream and that’s why they’re here.”
Under the guidance of Coach Erich Sailer, she was encouraged at an early age to find her own technique and to learn how to ski fast. She showed her talent on the local level that when she was 10. “I think it is so cool that she grew up and got her training here at Buck Hill!” Says Cassie Torbenson, a sophomore at Eastview High School and a member of Eastview's alpine ski team. “The fact that I’m training and racing in the same place Lindsey Vonn started out makes me believe anything is possible. It doesn’t matter where you come from, you can go as far as you want.”
The Vonn family picked up and moved to Vail, Colo., so that she could ski on world-class slopes. The move seemed to pay off early on, as she became the first U.S. female to win the prestigious Trofeo Topolino youth competition in Italy, and she won three Junior World Championships medals and two U.S. titles as a teenager.
She started out strong by capturing the blue riband downhill title and then took bronze in the super-G. Now Lindsey has made her mark in the Olympics. Completing in woman’s downhill and slalom in one day she did win the Gold medal for downhill.
Coming into the Vancouver Games, Vonn was determined to win three gold's. Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Games ended when she crashed out of the slalom, but the American insisted she met her expectations and would go home happy.
The extent of Vonn’s injuries have caused some people to clam she is whining and blowing them out of proportion. Cassie Torbenson thinks that the media is the cause for her break from skiing being such a big deal in the eyes of the public, “She doesn’t complain and it’s not her fault that is what everyone chooses to focus on instead of her accomplishments” she said.
Vonn, who is chasing a third overall World Cup title and has already won several world championship crowns, insisted she would leave happy despite missing out on three possible podium finishes.
All in all the 2010 Olympics were an exceptional experience for Vonn and all the participating athletes.
“The few weeks they were on I was dedicated to watching and am very impressed with Lindsay Vonn’s performance” says Debra Philips an Olympic game fan. “I hope she can come back for the next games and fulfill her goal of three gold’s with no injuries!”
Editorial-Parking lot gate-Final draft
Since the beginning of the school year my mother has driven me to school every day because we share a car. This whole time we have had two different ways to get into the student parking lot. You could pull into the teacher parking lot and then go right to the student lot or just go up to the stop light and turn there.
Recently, option one was eliminated because the school closed the gate separating the two lots. Our school and community are both affected strongly by the gate being closed between the upper and lower doors of Eastview. Although it is a problem for the students, people who have nothing to do with the school are affected as well.
The closing of the gate affects all traffic in this part of Apple Valley. Traffic affects what time people get to work or school. It can be a very frustrating thing for people with places to be in the morning. Even more so if the place you need to be is Eastview. Eastview is located in a spot right in the middle of where many people live and have to go by or around it on their way to work in the morning. When cars are backed up from everyone trying to get into school, people going other places add up to the traffic and then everyone is stuck.
I hadn’t noticed this until the gate change. Up to this point my mom has had no trouble in the mornings. We would get held up at some stop lights and behind a small occasional line for the parking lot but that was minor and hardly noticeable.
Now people sit through about thee red light at the same stop light in the morning. This is because the cars are so backed up trying to get into the school there is nowhere for the cars to go when the light turns green. As you can imagine this is very frustrating.
The way this simple traffic jam affects people is endless. Adults begin to be late for work daily. Students are late for school, getting a tardy to first hour way to often to be over looked. So can these problems be fixed by re-opening the gate? I think it’s worth a try. Whatever the reason for closing the gate, it could not be a bigger issue then the one that is now affecting our whole community.
Recently, option one was eliminated because the school closed the gate separating the two lots. Our school and community are both affected strongly by the gate being closed between the upper and lower doors of Eastview. Although it is a problem for the students, people who have nothing to do with the school are affected as well.
The closing of the gate affects all traffic in this part of Apple Valley. Traffic affects what time people get to work or school. It can be a very frustrating thing for people with places to be in the morning. Even more so if the place you need to be is Eastview. Eastview is located in a spot right in the middle of where many people live and have to go by or around it on their way to work in the morning. When cars are backed up from everyone trying to get into school, people going other places add up to the traffic and then everyone is stuck.
I hadn’t noticed this until the gate change. Up to this point my mom has had no trouble in the mornings. We would get held up at some stop lights and behind a small occasional line for the parking lot but that was minor and hardly noticeable.
Now people sit through about thee red light at the same stop light in the morning. This is because the cars are so backed up trying to get into the school there is nowhere for the cars to go when the light turns green. As you can imagine this is very frustrating.
The way this simple traffic jam affects people is endless. Adults begin to be late for work daily. Students are late for school, getting a tardy to first hour way to often to be over looked. So can these problems be fixed by re-opening the gate? I think it’s worth a try. Whatever the reason for closing the gate, it could not be a bigger issue then the one that is now affecting our whole community.
Peer edit questions for Lucas Gansmoe
1. Is there a clear point of view? (position)
Yes. It says he thinks Minnesota should have funding for films.
2. Does the Op-Ed state the problem and solution simply?
Pretty much.
3. Does the piece address the counter arguments?
Yes, he did that very well.
4. Is the Op-Ed interesting?
Yes.
5. Are the paragraphs organized logically?
Yes, but the word Minnesota is used to much, maybe try the state or something to change it up a bit.
6. Does each paragraph develop an idea to support the thesis?
Yes.
7. Is the writing clear?
Yes, the writing is clear.
Yes. It says he thinks Minnesota should have funding for films.
2. Does the Op-Ed state the problem and solution simply?
Pretty much.
3. Does the piece address the counter arguments?
Yes, he did that very well.
4. Is the Op-Ed interesting?
Yes.
5. Are the paragraphs organized logically?
Yes, but the word Minnesota is used to much, maybe try the state or something to change it up a bit.
6. Does each paragraph develop an idea to support the thesis?
Yes.
7. Is the writing clear?
Yes, the writing is clear.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Editorial on parking lot gate
Closing the gate
Since the beginning of the school year my mother has driven me to school every day because we share a car. This whole time we have had two different ways to get into the student parking lot. You could pull into the teacher parking lot and then go right to the student lot or just go up to the stop light and turn there.
Recently, option one was eliminated because the school closed the gate separating the two lots. Our school and community are both affected strongly by the gate being closed between the upper and lower doors of Eastview. Although it is a problem for the students, people who have nothing to do with the school are affected as well.
The closing of the gate affects all traffic in this part of Apple Valley. Traffic affects what time people get to work or school. It can be a very frustrating thing for people with places to be in the morning. Even more so if the place you need to be is Eastview. Eastview is located in a spot right in the middle of where many people live and have to go by or around it on their way to work in the morning. When cars are backed up from everyone trying to get into school, people going other places add up to the traffic and then everyone is stuck.
I hadn’t noticed this until the gate change. Up to this point my mom has had no trouble in the mornings. We would get held up at some stop lights and behind a small occasional line for the parking lot but that was minor and hardly noticeable.
Now people sit through about thee red light at the same stop light in the morning. This is because the cars are so backed up trying to get into the school there is nowhere for the cars to go when the light turns green. As you can imagine this is very frustrating.
The way this simple traffic jam affects people is endless. Adults begin to be late for work daily. Students are late for school, getting a tardy to first hour way to often to be over looked. So can these problems be fixed by re-opening the gate? I think it’s worth a try. Whatever the reason for closing the gate, it could not be a bigger issue then the one that is now affecting our whole community.
-Karli Hellam
Since the beginning of the school year my mother has driven me to school every day because we share a car. This whole time we have had two different ways to get into the student parking lot. You could pull into the teacher parking lot and then go right to the student lot or just go up to the stop light and turn there.
Recently, option one was eliminated because the school closed the gate separating the two lots. Our school and community are both affected strongly by the gate being closed between the upper and lower doors of Eastview. Although it is a problem for the students, people who have nothing to do with the school are affected as well.
The closing of the gate affects all traffic in this part of Apple Valley. Traffic affects what time people get to work or school. It can be a very frustrating thing for people with places to be in the morning. Even more so if the place you need to be is Eastview. Eastview is located in a spot right in the middle of where many people live and have to go by or around it on their way to work in the morning. When cars are backed up from everyone trying to get into school, people going other places add up to the traffic and then everyone is stuck.
I hadn’t noticed this until the gate change. Up to this point my mom has had no trouble in the mornings. We would get held up at some stop lights and behind a small occasional line for the parking lot but that was minor and hardly noticeable.
Now people sit through about thee red light at the same stop light in the morning. This is because the cars are so backed up trying to get into the school there is nowhere for the cars to go when the light turns green. As you can imagine this is very frustrating.
The way this simple traffic jam affects people is endless. Adults begin to be late for work daily. Students are late for school, getting a tardy to first hour way to often to be over looked. So can these problems be fixed by re-opening the gate? I think it’s worth a try. Whatever the reason for closing the gate, it could not be a bigger issue then the one that is now affecting our whole community.
-Karli Hellam
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