Martin Luther King Jr

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Youtube Kids Youtube loopholes; exploiting kids. Editorial Staff Martin Luther King Jr. Content Editor Why do we celebrate him? Anne Ryan Design Editor Ayannah Mabry Plowing Through Your Paycheck Writing Team Lucca Ricci The truth about car insurance. Elena McSweeny Sarah Ereio Dylan Pugh Andrew Zucker How To Get Noticed Catharina Le Are you an athlete interested in go- Mariana Perez Allie Sarff ing to college for sports. Austin Mann Avery Boyd Bella Pieroni Design Team The Guardians and The Legend Andoh War On Truth Julia Knipfer Times magazine named Rachel Hankins Coco Peiqing journalists as the person Kaylee Greene of the year, these people Abigail Waldren were called The Guard- Cornelio Soto Jade Forte ians. We’ve decided to Gabbi Gualtieri emulate the the cover in Coco Peiqing our issue. Ella Reither Designer: Peiqing Ren Writer: Annie Ryan

There seems to be a constant bias in journalism today. CNN leans liberal while Fox leans conservative. As a result, “fake news” has become a prevalent term of our society. The reality of what goes on in the world doesn’t seem to be reported as an un- biased report. Journalism gets a bad rap, but we can’t give up on it just yet. Without journalists working to uncover the truth and bring atrocities and injustices to our attention how can we ex- pect anything to change?

It was once stated, “Journalism is the fourth branch of government.” Journalism is the only way for the public to fully understand what happens inside the walls of the White House and the tragedies and injustices going on in the Middle East. Despite the “fake news” complaints, there are journalists out there that are working really hard to get to the root of the issues from a neutral stand- point and discover change. For these reasons, Time Mag- azine’s annual “person of the year” is four journalists this year. Time Magazine developed the “Person of the Year” back in 1927. Originally starting as “Man of the Year”, the idea was highlight the individual who influenced history the most - whether for positive or negative reasons. The founders of Time, Henry Luce and Briton Haddon were strong believers in the motto that history is shaped by extraordinary men and women. Today Time has grown and developed and it has become the Time Person of the Year. Each year Time’s December magazine has the face of the person(s) who made an impact that year. Time magazine made a precise effort to show the reality and importance of journalism in the 2018 Time Person of the Year. It was also be the first time a few deceased people made the cover of Time Magazine.

The four journalists, dubbed “The Guardians” were a group of journalists who have been heralded for their journalism work. These four journalists have been collectively named person of the year but they are only four of a march larger group of infly- encial journalists.This group of journalists covers media world wide. Lives were threatened when covering Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and even five staffers died from old coverage about an angry gunman. The entire group has either been killed or is currently behind bars. “‘For taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and for speaking out, the Guardians’ are the Person of the Year,’ Time editor Ed Felsenthal wrote.” These are the journalists doing the dirty work. These are the people that will keep journalism alive because they were willing to fight, they were willing to die for it. Felsenthal added, “It is very rare that a person’s influence grows so immensely in death.”

The influence of the Guardians is one that gives us hope as a school, a city, a state, a nation, and a world. There is still greatness in what seems to be a world of trouble. There is still hope that we, as a people, will grow in knowledge and in wisdom in pursuit of peace. Martin Luther King Jr.

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character…,”-Martin Luther King Jr., 1963. This social activist’s dream has become a reality right before “To celebrate the man of cour- his eyes as he paved the way for equality in Ameri- age, the man that held the ca. Since 1990, MLK Day has been celebrated the mirror to our faces, the man third Monday of January. that put his life in danger, that Let’s start off with this: What does the average per- sacrificed his life to make it a better nation.” He also goes son know about Martin Luther King Jr.? Well, let’s on to say that King simply see...we get off school, he was important, and he asked us to be better. had a dream. Most of us know the basics, but that’s - Steve Ulry not all. Martin Luther King Junior was a huge part of the Civil Rights Movement. The biggest reason we celebrate MLK Day is to reflect on the past and how it influences the present. “He paved the way for equality in the United States inspired by Christian beliefs and nonviolence.” He grasped attention from America from the 1950s to 1968 when he died. He was assassinated, standing on a balcony in Tennessee. According to Stanford, “News of King’s assassination prompted “In a time today that can be major outbreaks of racial violence, result- divided and hostile...it is i important to remember his ing in more than 40 deaths nationwide.” teaching and love.” He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1964. - Mike McGoldrick King traveled all throughout the U.S. spreading his thoughts about racial equality making America simply rethink and open their eyes. Written by: Mariana PerezFlores Designed by: Legend Andoh YouTubeKIDS

Child Exploitation on Youtube Kids 100,000 views

The Quill 1M subscribers YouTube Kids Isn’t as Innocent as it Seems?

On February 23, 2015, Google released YouTube Kids, an app carefully designed to create a safe online space where children could enjoy their favorite YouTube channels and videos without disturbances. Youtube Kids was the safer alternative to YouTube, parents could easily leave their children unattended while busy. However, Youtube nor Youtube Kids could keep from the plague of millions of videos and channels that produced malicious content targeted towards children. “Many of these disturbing videos contained graphic images of gore, violence, and a sexually suggestive objective.”

These videos were able to pass through YouTube’s algorithms without issue. The reason for this? YouTube’s algorithms based passable videos off of titles or captions. The creators of these videos applied key words and phrases like, “surprise”, “review”, “cartoon”, “fun”, and “colorful” to their titles and tagged them as such. To further their attempt, titles and thumbnails relied on famous children’s characters to draw kids in, you’d often see Elsa, Minnie, Mickey, and Paw Patrol adorning the covers. Kids have and still do fall victim to these traps, reports of angered parents and the media caught the attention of many, including YouTube. So tell me, why hasn’t Youtube or any major company whose characters were used in these “kids” videos gone to the fullest extent to restrict them?

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One reason may be the amount of revenue due to billions of views on videos packed with ads, another might be the general free promotion of kids characters on tons of YouTube videos. It is especially difficult to rid of all these videos because of their clever methods to pass off as child friendly and because computerized algorithms can’t really identify them as unsuitable for children. Ultimately, the reasons may not matter as much as the ways in which we could prevent this exploitation.

“A simple prevention method is to flag and report the video as inappropriate.”

For parents, it would be advised to create a unique playlist with videos that have been reviewed by the parent or guardian for the child to watch. Restricted Mode may alleviate generally mature material from your Youtube account, by opening the account icon and going to settings, one can enable Restricted Mode by clicking on it.

YouTube itself to prevent this issue is taking steps forward by having actual people review videos to authorize them as acceptable for YouTube or not, though ultimately it will be very difficult to keep children safe from these videos, it is important to take action now.

Recommended GEN Z: A DECREASING WORKFORCE Designer: Cornelio Soto Today only 16 percent of the workforce in food Writer: Bella Pieroni and only 14 percent of the workforce in retail is BEFORE taken up by the Gen Z. The Gen Z is Generation Z, the generation of people born from the end of the 25% 20% 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. The Gen Z Food Retail has had a significant decline in the amount that this generation works as compared to the other generations before it.

Before the Gen Z generation, teenagers accounted for about 25 percent of the food workforce and 20 percent of retail. There are many theories as to why the Gen Z generation has decreased the amount of teens working today. The most popular theories include too many school NOW activities, too much homework and an increase in 16% 14% foreign workers coming to do the jobs traditionally Food Retail filled by younger people. Therefore, the Gen Z generation has lost their drive to get a job.

But there is one theory about why teens in 2018 are losing their drive to work that is taking the world by storm, school. In today’s society, school has taken up most of teens time. “Teens also lose their will to work because during the school year, they have too much homework, school activities and just wanting to spend time with their friends.” The one time of the year that teens in 2018 might have a job is during the summer. Although, most teens today still don’t get a job over the summer because they work so hard during school for most of the year and even their little time off still have some work to do. High school students today are still doing some school work over their summer “break” because of schools reintroduction to summer homework.

It’s not all the school’s fault though, because teens in 2018 cram their schedules to the brim with other things besides school work like their extracurricular activities. In today’s world, but also depending on the sport, it is typical to travel for tournaments and games that are one or two hours away or even out of state! This can cause a lot of stress on the teens as well as their families. There are even some people that play school and travel teams of one sport during the same season! Those select few have very busy lives due to school, travel team, school team and even other clubs. Teens are stressed enough with school and all other extracurricular activities like sports. maybe half of the time (today’s high schoolers). Due to the lack of teenagers lookig for employment, many employers are hiring Due to the fact that their are all of these students from other countries and keeping older theories out in the world and the fact that teens Americans employed past the typical retirement involved in the workforce is still declining, shows age. And because these groups can work almost that some of these theories are correct. anytime, it makes finding jobs for American students with limited availabilty especially difficult. Because of their availability, the employer is more likely to chose someone who is more available then someone who can only work March for life

More than 100,000 people joined together on January 18th, 2019 in Washington D.C. to protest the great injustice of abortion.

Written and designed by: Ella Reither One of the most incredible parts of the March for Life is that ev- ery indiviual was marching for the same reason. People attend the march because of moral values, religious beliefs, or because they support the end of abortion due to science. Regardless of their rea- soning, everyone just wants innocent lives to stop being taken. Many protests throughout the United States also attracts counter-protesters, and some- times the protests even result in violence. It was inspiring to see the vast amount of people at The March for Life and notice that no one is counter-protesting abortion.

During the March for Life the only individual protesting for something besides and end to abortion was someone speaking against the Church and its’ priests (photo to the right). In response, many clergy members who were marching started praying the rosary to over- power the voice of the one man (photo be- low). The March for Life is one of the most peaceful demonstrations because everyone there is determined to show that life is worth protecting, enjoying, and loving. RIOT

YouTube Rewind, a tradition that YouTube started in 2012, recapped the entire year showing the biggest trends and most popular YouTubers during that time in one video. The 2012 YouTube Rewind quickly gained popularity and has 1.3 million likes today. Six years later, YouTube Re- wind 2018 was uploaded on December 6, gaining over 2 million dislikes in one day. A few days later, it had over 8 million dislikes. By the end of year, YouTube Rewind 2018 became the most disliked video on YouTube.

YouTube debuted on February 14th, 2005. No one at the time would have guessed this simple plat- form of just uploading videos would turn into the #1 place for people to watch videos of any kind; funny, news stories, vlogs, or educational. YouTube was a place where people could be openly creative in a video format. For the first time amateur and professional directors alike had a place where they could post their creations for the whole world to see. Prior to YouTube, no one could have imagined getting famous from just doing silly lip sync videos. People like Nigahiga (Ryan Higa) or Smosh made it clear in some of their per- sonal vlogs and interviews that they would have never guessed a silly lip sync video would set off their YouTube careers. In 2011, many children, teens, and young adults would go on YouTube to watch their favorite You- Tubers such as Nigahiga, Smosh, Tobuscus, or Pewdiepie. They loved watching them doing creative, original, and funny skits. Other videos that people would watch were gaming videos, where you could watch a YouTuber play Minecraft or a drama with or roasting another YouTuber. horror game for hours. Most YouTubers acknowledge this plague YouTube gained in reputation and popular- that is happening. Some even want to quit, ity, more and more people started to join the but can’t seem to find another career after YouTuber community. As the community grew, years on YouTube. The audience also sees so did the competition for viewership and rel- this problem too, and miss the times where ev- evance. It was a difficult battle to try and keep ery YouTuber was doing their own thing and their audience and fans intact so they could still being friendly and supportive of one another. make a living doing YouTube. Both creators and viewers don’t want people Sadly, this mindset worked- for a time. Now, to try and exploit YouTube and make it a place most channels that were big on creativity and where people who want to be internet famous originality have started to die out. Channels like can gain popularity and money. Tobuscus, who used to be one of the biggest A good reputation of this battle would be channels, even #1 for several years, could get the competition for the most subscribed You- millions of views just from singing a song about Tube channel; T-Series v.s PewDiePie. Both swinging a sword. Now he only averages half have an unbelievable amount of subscribers, of those views. A channel like Captainsparklez, with both channels hitting over 80 million sub- who mostly played and made Minecraft videos, scribers in early 2019. T-Series is a Indian also had a huge following. He even appeared music production company that posts music in a popular Minecraft game “Story Mode”. videos, trailers, and other mass media. Many Today, one of his videos may only get 50 to people have contributed to the campaign for 90,000 views. PewDiePie to stay number 1, not wanting an But for those who loved YouTube for its cre- acropetal company like T-Series to take over ativity and originality, there are still some chan- the number 1 seat. The people want an actual nels that are trying to be authentic. For exam- YouTuber to stay number 1, a single man who ple, Ryan Higa (Nigahiga) or RHPC still does has been building his own channel for almost funny and original skits, music videos, and other 9 years, rather than a company that has hun- projects that they enjoy doing. dreds of people working for it. But the YouTube community cannot return to The few latest YouTube Rewinds have its original state when only one or two channels gained a bad reputation because the videos are still being original. There are still channels don’t really represent the community or give on YouTube that are more popular and take the back to the viewers. One of the reasons why easy way out. They do the most popular thing YouTube Rewind 2018 was the most disliked like everybody else, including slime videos, “try video on YouTube. not to…” challenges, and even starting fake Subscribe PewDiePie.

Written by: Catherina Le Designed by: Abigail Waldren The Quill How to get noticed What do athletes use to get exposed

Have you ever wondered you to go to tournament watch you play during the how to go to the top colleges in such as the Peach Jam and high school season. If D1? What are the main apps for other big tournaments that you’re serious about playing athletes to use to get exposed college coaches can come college basketball or any to college scouts? Well, we all and watch you play. At these college sport you need know the app that everyone uses tournaments, you play against to use these apps to get which is Hudl. Hudl allows you the best competition and and college coaches to look at to edit clips of you from games improve how you play and if you and become the best and put them all together to form you’re fortunate enough the player you can be. a season highlight. Once you big time college coaches will have done this, you can post it to come talk to you and come social media which allows college scouts to look at your Highlights then contact you. Another app called the NCSA allows you to send letters to college coaches and can see where you match up with colleges going all the way from DIII to D1. Colleges can also write back to you and might ask for your schedule or for your highlights from past years. This app connects with Hudl because you can put your Hudl highlights and coaches will watch them when they search up athletes like guards or bigs, whichever that coach needs that year. Another way to get exposed is from AAU tournaments that college coaches are allowed to attend. The main circuit to get on is the EYBL which allows Written by: Austin Mann Designed by: Kaylee Greene A Sweet Tradition

Looking for a sweet and delicious treat that will satisfy all of your tastebuds?

Then look no further to this decade long decided about six years ago or so to try raising funds tradition of the Mother’s Club Bake Sale!! The with bake sales, which have proven to be a huge suc- Mother’s Club Bake Sale originally started out cess! I asked my daughter, at the time, what students as a way to raise money for scholarships. Not liked for bake sales. She suggested cake pops. I hon- only does the bake sale still raise money for estly had no idea what a cake pop was.” these scholarships, but they also are famous for She experimented quite a lot “with recipes and ra- many yummy treats. tios until I came up with the perfect ratio of cake to One of these scrumptious treats is the fa- frosting. And she was right, the students loved them. mous cake pop. Peggy Griffith, who is one of We have sold over 5000+ cake pops since starting our the teachers at DeSales and is also one of the bake sales began. In October, we had a cake shop members of the Mother’s Club, has shared the workshop to teach the new bakers how to make cake process of how to make the famed cake pops. pops, so the tradition would continue!” First, they “bake a cake, crumble it and mix And the number of cake pops sold will only con- with about 1 cup of frosting. Then roll into small tinue increase throughout the years because nobody balls and freeze to set. Next, they dip a stick can turn down a homemade cake pop! The Mother’s into melted chocolate and push into each ball. Club Bake Sale is one of kind. They raise money for a They freeze and refrigerate again and then dip good cause while also selling treats that are out of this each chilled ball into more melted chocolate, world! then decorate with sprinkles.” This process even If you haven’t yet this year, stop by the bake sale sounds delicious! You are surely in for a yummy and buy a treat! On February 5th, March 5th, and May treat when you buy a cake pop! 1st, the bake sale will return to continue their great Another member of the Mother’s Club is Di- cause while selling their delicious, mouthwatering ane Omlor. She also has more insight as to the treats. beginnings of the Mother’s Club Bake Sales. “We brainstormed ideas to generate income and “We have sold over 5000+ cake pops since starting our bake sales.”

Written by: Elena McSweeny Designed by: Rachel Hankins Plowing through your paycheck How expensive really is your ticket to drive? As children, there are many things we just couldn’t do; Since insurance companies are private and they one of which is drive a car. This right is saved for those use these statistics to charge people different rates, who are mature enough to operate a vehicle capable of they’re legally allowed to charge men more than women going well over a hundred miles per hour. on their insurance because the chances of getting in Now that a lot of us are fifteen and a half or older, we a car accident are higher. So far, only one state has are deemed mature enough to drive a car legally, if we banned this, but since they’re private companies, they’re so choose. To own a car and actually get to drive it in allowed to. While these companies are not allowed to most states, you need the dreaded car insurance that you charge more by race, they certainly charge more by always hear Jake and Flo talking about. gender. Car insurance is legally required in most states and those that do not (with an exception of New Hampshire “Men under the age of 25 pay an average of 10% more per where they just have you pay for medical bills and year for car insurance than do women in the same age property damage involved) you have to pay a bond to the bracket” - The Zebra government ranging from $20,000-40,000. Those that do not require it are: Arizona, Virginia, New Hampshire, While they may charge more for certain people, Mississippi and Texas. Is it most or all? Find out and if some insurance agencies will give you a discount if you don’t have it, you’ll get in legal trouble. You can get you have a high grade average. If you have at least a your license suspended, fined, have your car towed, 3.0 or more average, you’re most likely eligible for a or even have your car registration suspended. As high discounted price on that insurance. You can get up to schoolers who drive themselves places, you’ll probably 25% off of your premiums. Along with that, you’re car want the cheapest car insurance you can get so you can type and age can change your insurance. Sports cars keep on driving that sweet 2006 Honda Civic. have higher rates, along with electric cars and theft Car insurance companies, mostly private prone cars. Electric cars are more expensive overall companies, don’t offer “equal opportunity” rates. They because they are costly to buy, make, and repair because can charge different people different prices for different of their batteries. things based on the statistics they find relevant; better So, to get the lowest rates possible, you’ll want grades, the age of the car, the age of the driver and to be over the age of 25, be a female, live in a safe your gender. It’s a general concept that students are bad neighborhood, get good grades, and drive safe, drivers, while this may not be true for everyone. combustion cars. Personally, I think the best route would be getting a driving tracker like the Snapshot that “the risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among Progressive offers. It tracks your driving specifically so 16-19-year-olds than any other age group, teen drivers ages their statistics don’t apply to you. If you’re a really safe 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers ages driver and have never had an issue while driving ever, 20 and older to be in a fatal car crash” - The CDC. you might want to try it or a similar product because it can save you and your parents a lot of money. So, if you’re a student, you’ll have higher insurance rates than an adult because you’re more dangerous and a riskier investment for them.