By JAKE MOKRIS
Teen Takeover staff
With the relatively recent advent of online movie rental programs, the movie-renting business has moved into the 21st century. Through these rental programs, families can rent movies at home and potentially never go to a rental store again.
By OLIVIA FRANK
Teen Takeover staff
A little over a week ago, televangelist Pat Robertson made some controversial statements about Israeli leader Ariel Sharon’s health. He stated that Sharon’s stroke was “punishment for dividing God’s land.� I am not a religious person, but I believe that I would be just as offended even if I were.
By Jake Mokris
Teen Takeover staff
In my experience, dogs are not always man’s best friends. I have had more than one bad encounter with dogs: Since I jog around my neighborhood, dogs frequently bark at me and sometimes chase me. Recently, I started running on a different course because of the dogs that live at certain houses along one road. I do not have a fear of dogs in and of themselves, but I do have to be wary of dogs while I run.
A family might think that its dog is gentle and restrained, but that cannot be completely ascertained. Even if it is well behaved indoors, the family dog has the potential to become aggressive when a stranger runs by on the sidewalk.
By Jake Mokris
Teen Takeover staff
Joe Paterno is 79. He has been coaching football for 40 years. His team just won the Orange Bowl, finishing the season as third in the country. Coach Paterno has been rather cranky lately, and he made some crude comments on Florida State player A. J. Nicholson’s alleged sexual misconduct.
Because of all this, many people claim that Joe Paterno should retire. But are these good reasons for him to retire?
By Nathan A. Wingert
Teen Takeover staff
First, he said Dover would have a catastrophe because of the intelligent design case. Then, he said that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was God's wrath for “dividing the Holy land.� He is Pat Robertson, the infamous televangelist. What’s next, Pat? Every high-schooler who fails is failing because it’s God’s wrath?
By JAKE MOKRIS
Teen Takeover staff
To many people, the presidency is a sort of dream job. The job does have a certain allure: The president occupies the highest office in the United States, and he is one of the most important and most famous people in the country. His salary is relatively large. Almost every time elementary school students are assigned an essay on their choice for their future occupations, one of the students wants to be the president. Much commotion and discussion surrounds the election of new presidents, and the president is highly honored by all Americans.
Actually, that last sentence is not entirely true.
By ANTONIA HERNANDEZ
Teen Takeover staff
For the past four years, President George Walker Bush has enacted the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. Though many are not aware of what this act does, it has affected many of us, without our knowing.
