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Finals are pointless, they only stress students out, and make them unhappy. Teachers also don’t understand that we have more then one class, they pile reviews and finals on us like crazy. Almost every student stresses about finals, except for the ones that don’t care about their grades. Every semester, students have to take 6 finals, one for every class, that’s 12 finals a year. Students have enough stress on them, and finals just seem to make matters worse for them. As a student,I would know how hard it is to prepare everything for finals, and to figure out how much time to spend studying on every final, its hectic. Some students don’t have a good memory and to sometimes take a final on everything you learned the whole year is hard, it’s also hard to cram everything in to your brain the night before your final. Most teachers allow their students to use some type of review sheet on their final but most of the time, the things put on the review aren’t even on the actual final. Sometimes it feels like the teachers are setting you up for failure by forcing you to do all these things in order to recieve your grade.

Other schools make their students take finals but some schools don’t, the other schools that don’t have a waiver. The schools that have waivers normally make their students take finals if they’ve missed more then 2 days, or had more then 3 tardies, or have a C or lower in the class. Woodhaven High School forces students to take finals because they want to better prepare them for college, but we’re still in high school and some of us stress enough about going to college, so why make it worse on us by making us take finals? It’s understandable that teachers and the school want to see what they’re students have learned but sometimes the finals aren’t on everything that we remember learning. We have to cram things that we don’t even remember in to our heads and that just makes our situation harder, finals shouldn’t be a mandatory thing, they should be waivered. If finals were waivered, students might come to school more, there would be less tardies, and better grades, therefore, the school should change its mind about making their students take finals.

     
The Woodhaven Community celebrated the Relay for Life on June 6. This event raises awareness for cancer victims, survivor or people still currently battling the illness. The Relay for Life is run by the American Cancer Society.

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One person can make a difference. This is demonstrated with the start of the Relay for Life, which began in Tacoma, Washington. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma surgeon, wanted to increase the income of his local American Cancer Society office and to show support for all of his patients who had battled cancer. He decided to personally raise money for the fight by doing something he enjoyed – running marathons.

                                                                                     
     
In May 1985, Dr. Klatt spent 24 hours following the track at Baker Stadium at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. He ran for more than 83 miles. That first year, nearly 300 of Dr. Klatt’s friends, family, and patients watched as he ran and walked the course. Throughout the night, friends donated $25 to run or walk with Dr. Klatt for 30 minutes. His efforts raised $27,000 to fight cancer.

     Over the next few months, he pulled together a small committee to plan the first team relay event, known as the City of Destiny Classic 24-Hour Run Against Cancer.

     In 1986, with the help of Pat Flynn – now known as the “Mother of Relay” – 19 teams took part in the first team Relay event on the track at the Stadium Bowl and raised $33,000. An indescribable spirit prevailed at the track and in the tents that dotted the infield.

     Woodhaven held the Relay for life at Civic Center Park from 10 a.m. Saturday morning to 10 a.m. Sunday morning. 43 teams registered to walk raising $85,211.83. More than 696 people attended the event.

     Teams included: Wesie’s Warriors of Odette Chiropractic, ($9,131.00) Odette Chiropractic, ($7,834.00) Bookin’ Babes Battling Cancer, ($7,739.00) Anthony’s Amigos, ($5,024.00) and Daybreak Salon and Spa. ($4,614.50)

     After nightfall, Luminaria bags lit up the walkway showing memories of those who have passed from cancer or have survived the battle. Participants viewed the lit up bags that were made by the family’s of those who have faced cancer.
     

     Overall, the Woodhaven Relay for Life was a huge success, exceeding most people’s expectations. Next years Relay will be even bigger and better.

Okay,  we all know that senior pranks are supposed to be memorable and that everyone should see them.  This year’s sucked.  Our 2009 seniors decided to block the parking lots with old dirty tires.  Needless to say, it was quickly dismantled.  Funny right?  Not.  It was gone by six a.m. according to some teachers that were here at that time.  No student got to see it or laugh at it.  My opinion is that we needed something exciting that would last.  Something that is taken apart in minutes won’t cut it.

So most of you guys have seen High School Stories, Pranks, and Controversies.  You must have seen all the failed pranks and all the great pranks.  Why not use the great ones?  For example, 300 mice released into the school or hundreds of water cups sitting in the hallway.  What about a couple hundred bouncy balls tossed against the walls.  I can think of lots of pranks that are better than toilet paper and tires.  One of the most memorable pranks from that show was when some students dismantled a junk car and whelded it around the flagpole.  They took the time to avoid touching the car to the pole so no violations could be made against them.
Creativity is the key word here.  Think out of the box.  I believe all seniors want to be remembered.  Each class year wants to be known.  A class prank is the best and entertaining way to go down in the history books and in everyones memory.  Your best year is your senior year.  So before you finish off twelve years of school and homework and teachers, make it remembered.  Figure out something great and put it into action.  No one even knew what had happened this morning in front of the school and it definitely won’t be remembered.  I personally would want my class year, 2010 to be thought of every time someone mentions school pranks.  Come on, pranks are one of the most fun parts of your senior year!

Think up some ideas for class of 2010 and try them out.  Haha, just don’t do anything that’ll stop you from walking.

A few moths ago are school was attacked!!!

Are school was attacked with a nasty virus. It started off on one computer and then it spread like wile fire. It was jumping for computer to computer on our schools network. The virus updates its self for a big list of sites that’s changed daily. The virus was called conficker. They are saying the worm uses a combination of advanced malware techniques which has made it difficult to counter, and has since spread rapidly into what is now believed to be the largest computer worm infection since the 2003. The virus also attacked different countries as well as ours. It attacked the French Navy computer network on the 15 of January 2009. The first case of Conficker was known about in November of last year. I think it is funny that are school did nothing to prepare for this worm. All the school had to do is install the windows update form October. The worm can put its self on to USB drives and infect any computer that come in contact with that USB drive. There are five know types of this worm. The first type is Conficker A, it has no self defense. It infects NetBIOS and also updates self to Conficker B, C or D. The second type is Conficker B it has a defense of blocks DNS lookups and disables Microsoft AutoUpdate. It infects NetBIOS, Removable media and it also updates self to Conficker C or D. The third is Conficker C which dose for the most part the same at Conficker B. The fourth is Conficker D it its self dose not infect any systems the other types are the ones the put this one on the computer. This Blocks DNS lookups, Disables Safe Mode, Disables AutoUpdate, Kills anti-malware and updates self to Conficker E. If you done know yet but this worm is not too nice. The final type is Conficker E this one was first know on April 7, it infects NetBIOS. Patches MS08-067 to open reinfection backdoor in Server service (we do not like worms opening back doors). This type of the worm protects its self by blocks DNS lookups, disables AutoUpdate, and Kills anti-malware. The end action is Downloads and installs malware payload (Waledac spambot and SpyProtect 2009 scareware) and then removes self on 3 May 2009 (Does not remove accompanying copy of W32.Downadup.C)
There is some info about the worm that our school was hit with.

Everyone is talking about the new virus that is going around. The virus is Novel influenza A its also known as Swine Flu. This Flu came from Mexico over one hundred and fifty cases we found out about and researched. They didn’t have the treatment that we have. They sat in there homes and just thought that they could wait it out like it was some flu that would just pass but that’s not the case.
There are people all over the United States getting this horrible flu now and they think they are just sick and not getting help or they just done know that they have is so if your feeling weird of get any of the symptoms like fever out of no where, coughing, runny nose or stuffy nose, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue or tiredness, or using the bathroom a lot and vomiting.
For kids they have different symptoms like fast or trouble breathing its really hard for them, different skin color, vomiting, not wanting to wake up from sleeping, not wanting to be held because they are irritable, and get a fever or cough. It is ten times worse for kids and our elders to get swine flu there body’s cant handle the symptoms.
They have finely got kits for all states to use to check for this flu. If you think you have it or may get it or someone if your family who has it you should get tested because you can catch this virus easily. All you do is have to walk by someone, be around someone when they sneeze or cough or shake someone’s had that sneezes or coughs. They could not know they have it and give it to you just like the normal flu you can also catch it just by talking to someone.
There are about 7,927 cases in the U.S.. Here are all the states and how many cases are found in each. Texas is the one with the most but still there are people dieing everywhere from this flu. Alabama 67, Arkansas 12, Arizona 532, California 553, Colorado 68, Connecticut 102, Delaware 108, Florida 139, Georgia 28, Georgia 28, Hawaii 44, Idaho 11, Illinois 927, Indiana 120, Iowa 71, Kansas 34, Kentucky 38, Louisiana 86, Maine 9, Maryland 44, Massachusetts 286, Michigan 178, Minnesota 44, Mississippi 8, Missouri 24, Montana 152, Nebraska 35, Nevada 50, New Hampshire 27, New Jersey 29, New Mexico 97, New York 456, North Carolina 13, North Dakota 6, Ohio 15, Oklahoma 64, Oregon 120, Pennsylvania 95, Rhode Island 11, South Carolina 39, South Dakota 4, Tennessee 95, Texas 1358, Utah 122, Vermont 2, Virginia 25, Washington 575, Washington, D.C. 14 and last is Wisconsin 1130.

Although some people take it to the extreme others keep it inside, letting it build up. In my experience I had been getting called names and getting hurt by people, and I never do nothing about it. When I do something about it and tell someone, they don’t want to do nothing about it. When I go tell my parents, they go to the principal and tell them what’s been happening to me and they don’t do nothing. I have been dealing with this kind of stuff that’s been happening to me for my whole life. The things that happen to me when kids bully me is they call me really bad names, they decide to hold out there foot and trip me. Also kids would not let me sit on the bus, they would push me off the seat and I would have to sit on the floor. The reason why I want to talk about this is because I want to know why people have to bully other people and they didn’t do nothing to them. I want to tell you this because I read this article about these two kids that are bullies other kids. This happen in Colorado and the school name is Columbine High School. What this is about is about these two high school students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebod, which are bullies that killed 12 students and a teacher. As well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. These two students took it out their frustration on their peers. This was happening on Tuesday, April 20, 1999. This started at 11: 19 a.m. to 12:08 p.m. What I what to tell you what bullying is it is happens when someone huts or scare another person on purpose and the person being bullied has a hard time defending him or herself. The kind of things that a bullied can do is teasing people in a mean way and punching, shoving and other acts that hurt people physically and emotionally. This is the reason why I wanted to write about bulling.

By: Sarah Angel

I remember the good old days when it was just me, my brother Imran, and my three cousins Usman, Hannah and Fatima.  We were in the prime of our lives, living it up, having fun like eight and nine year olds should.  We had none of the important matters in life to worry about like high school and college and work.  All we had were our favorite cartoon shows, barbies, and dragonball z action figures.  After seven or so years, we’ve grown up a lot and have had many new additions to the family, a new generation of kids.  After us came fifteen others, two of which are my brothers, Umair and Adil.  Over the years, good accomplishments have been made, for example, my cousin Fatima now attends the University of Michigan in Dearborn.  My brother Imran will be graduating this year, also attending U-M, and my cousin Usman and I will become seniors next year.  Now that we are grown and have other matters to attend to, I guess the next generation of kids will pick up where we left our childhood at and continue to have fun and stay kids, and to abide by the rules and traditions we followed, and still follow today,  such as respecting our parents, but the oldest of the kids are a lot different and more mature than we were when we were their age.  They like to do things that they think are “cool”, and what are these things you may ask, I’ll tell you, talking on their cell phones and texting.  What could a twelve year old possibly need a phone for?  Although they have things like cell phones and PS3’s and Xbox 360’s,  they’re all still pretty good kids.

What is love? And is it really true? Women dream of their Prince Charming to come and sweep them off their feet, while men search of love of their life that sets their heart on fire.  But, does that really happen? They say love is to be eternally happy. But who exactly is “they” And I cant help but wonder if ”they” themselves have truely been in love. I say to love is to devote your time to the boy downt he road, and then be dumped. five months wasted! I say to love is to be artificially  shown affection, and When it is at its best, vanishes as quickely as it came. I  say love is to feel the joy of victory  by winning the eye of guy you like, and then feeling the agony of defeat when he is taken away by some other pretti girl; forever! I say love is to pretend expose your most precious expression, your innocense, and to have  it stripped away from you like the youth from the old. all that left is a torn soul. I say to love is to become someone that you arent.   You never jumped before when the phone rang. You never painted your nails or wore skirts, and now look at you. You used to be true and ordiginal, but now, I say love is to be changed permanetly. Once that first glance, the first affectionate touch, and the first kiss occur, you want it, no; you need to have it all the time. You become a monster whose hunger can’t be fed, and you are crushed when the only thing you need never calls you back and just walks away. most things are that are bad or harmful in this world, we become afraid of. We try to form a “safety blanket” or laws to protect us, but what about love? It hurts too doesn’t it? should we lock ourselves up inside and never show volnerability? and So I suppose that to love, well, quite simpley to love is to be happy sad, angry, frusterated and mad.

So I think I’ve put this blog off long enough. I was suppose to do this months ago, to be exact March 18th was when I was supposed to do this but I just kept pushing it off cause I’m probably one of the worst procrastinators you’ll ever meet but I think what I’ve been going through lately is just the perfect topic for this blog. Strep Throat

What is Strep Throat you might be asking? Well its a bacterial infection in the throat and in the tonsils. Where the throat gets irritated and inflamed causing a sudden sever sore throat.

Now let me be the first to tell you that this strep throat is one of the most horrible things I’ve ever experienced and I’ve been through this ALOT. The first time I ever had Strep throat was when I was around 12 my doctor thought I had Mono which is known as the “kissing disease” but can really be caught by any close contact with someone else like sharing drinks or something and it has the same symptoms as strep throat. I wasn’t liking this regardless of what it was because I’ve been a little chubby one since I was little, fat face and all and I don’t like not being able to eat or forcing myself to eat and being in pain the whole time. Ok I’m getting off subject so back to the doctors so I’m sitting in there and they stick these two enlarged q-tip looking things in my throat and I cough and they take that mucus looking stuff and put it in a bag then my doctors gone and the nurse comes in with two needles and an extra nurse. Now I’m not afraid of needles but ,well you should’ve seen them . So they make me take my pants down and they start rubbing my thighs and using alcohol swipes and rubbing them on my thighs and nurse 1 says it’ll be better for you if we do this at the same time cause its going to sting. So my dad is holding my hand and I’m looking at him confused cause I really wasn’t expecting anything that painful and she counted back from 3..2..1 and OUCHOMGSHH I swear to you that was one of the worst pains I’ve ever felt it pinched, tingled, stung, burned anything and everything you could use to describe happened and they didn’t stop through the tears and my shrieks they just kept going till all the liquid was in my leg then they finally stopped and they put these little circle bandages on and smiled at me like everything was ok, she stupid nurses. I couldn’t even walk after that, literally my dad had to carry me to the car.
If that wasn’t bad enough a year later then that I got strep throat again they put me on huge antibiotics that I swear were bigger than my baby toe. And nothing worked so I went to the doctor , with the whole gang this time and they referred me to Children’s Hospital in Detroit. So off we went and I had to wait forever and when they finally saw me it was this kid that I swore looked like a senior in high school. And the plan was to take a needle and stick it in the back of m mouth. I swear I’m not joking they were dead serious and I really wish they weren’t. So they spray some stuff in the back of my mouth to numb it but it felt like they only got my tongue then he took a needle and forced his way to the back where he tore off some innocent skin on his way to the back poked and just started suctioning things out all I saw falling in the tub in front of me was blood and white stuff it was so disgusting and so painful, like there was honestly no point in numbing my mouth because I felt absolutely everything. This went on for about 20 minutes, 20 minutes of horrible pain. When it was finally over I kept coughing up blood , it was so bad. But I felt completely better the next day.

I’m kind of upset cause I wanted to talk about the strep throat that I’m dealing with now and how when I missed those days of school and how I missed all of Mayos jokes that I’m never gonna get a chance to hear again cause of stupid strep.

but I’m well over 300 words so I’ll stop.

So I’ve dated a few guys but the most recent relationship only lasted a little over a month.I dated this guy twice before and dumped him both times after less than a week. Now what I noticed is that at the beginning he was obsessive, constantly called, and was pretty much up my butt 24/7, so of course I got sick of it and broke it off. That was a year ago, and this year we started talking again, only this time was the complete opposite of last time. He came over late and only for a couple hours and hardly ever called. It would seem like that would make me break up with him, but NO! Instead I became more attracted to him than ever before.

Why did this happen is my question? I did my research and here is the psychological answer to it:

They call it mind games. It works both ways, with men and women, young or old, the games dont stop sometimes not even after marriage. The problem is we all have issues with rejection, when we feel rejected by someone, we are naturally drawn to them even more so. Men do it for power and control in the relationship, they make the womans emotions completely unstable so they wait by the phone all night just so they can get screwed when he doesn’t call. Guys think if you keep a girl strung along and thinking that any moment she may be dropped, her mind will be occupied by constantly thinking about that guy and she wont stray.

Now I’m not saying girls don’t play games, but they do it in a different way. Fortunately I swing both ways so im not biased in any way. Women will flirt, and come on to you with absolutely no intention of dating you or getting involved. Women do this because they want to feel attractive because they arent confident with themselves, the same problem alot of men have only demonstrated in completely different ways. Another thing women do that most men dont is play hard to get, even if a woman actually does want you, she will try to stay in control and test you by seeing how hard you will try to get with her, in other words, to make you whipped.

Women also try to see how much they can get away with, with men, such as making them spend alot of money on dates, restricting sex, flirting with other men right in front of you, showing up late or not at all, and throwing tantrums. However these are really easy ways to lose a guy if he knows how to stand up for himself, so there are limits.

Now my second question was how can we turn this around?

Basically after reading these stories and articles I’ve learned you can ignore them the way they do to you, or you can grow a backbone and break up with them. For me I chose the second choice and broke up with my boyfriend, I realized if a man really loves you and wants you he wont play these games.