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Category: School Life
Shriver Beat 5/23
Mr. Shriver has been privileged to go on four trips with select students throughout his more recent years teaching at the high school, traveling to Puerto Rico twice, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. He will add Iceland in the coming weeks, but this wasn’t a trip he had in mind for a while. “I hadn’t planned…
Matt’s Sports Wrap Up Beat #5… The Final Beat
Since this is my final sports beat ever as a student at Avonworth it’s time to speak the truth about Pittsburgh sports. I’ve learned that the Pirates weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were since in my first two years in high school they made the playoffs. Also that the Steelers can’t win important…
Ryan’s Metal Beat #5: Avenged Sevenfold Goes Even More Progressive
Avenged Sevenfold goes an extra step towards progressive metal. This song is the 8th track off of their 7th studio album The Stage. It’s entitled “Higher” and it’s related to a fail NASA launch test. It’s mainly sung, however, about the aftermath. The first verse, to me, best explains the lyrical topic in specifics. …
A Question of Survival – Day 1 of 5
Years ago, Avonworth students Anders Ove and Joe Engelmeier began heatedly debating about a vital choice that they hypothetically would have to make in a certain life-or-death situation. Word of this debacle spread to other students who took a stance on the issue, ultimately taking one of two sides. According to Ove, “this choice essentially…
Shriver Beat 5/17
Throughout your freshman year at Avonworth High School, whether you’re in honors or not, you share a common enemy that awaits you at the end of the year: your Biology Keystone Test. As the year begins to wind down, finals and keystone prep begin to flood the halls, nervous students telling their colleagues about their…
The Auditorium Beat day 3
Wednesday May 17: Today I have decided to take it safely. Using my super secret ninja skills I successfully avoided detection. I went back and forth between the back of the auditorium and inside at the entrance. I seemed to have gotten there before the rest but I was not so easy on believing the…
Shriver Beat 5/16
Scott Shriver, Biology teacher, has been a part of the Avonworth team for 32 years is retiring by the end of this 2017 year. Although he bids Avonworth High School goodbye, in order to keep his time at our small high school alive, I have decided to make him the center of my beat for…
Ryan’s Metal Beat #4: Are We Living in a Simulation?
Are we living in a simulation? No one knows for sure. However, Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh track of their most recent album takes on the subject of the simulation hypothesis, which is a theory that explains that our human lives that we live in is only a computed simulation. This song is apply named “Simulation”, and…
Ryan’s Metal Beat #3: M. Shadows Wants to Know Where the Angels Die
It seems like M. Shadows wants to know where the angels die. Welcome to Ryan’s Metal Reviews, and today’s review is another song from Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh album The Stage. This particular song takes on a different subject matter. Written in Drop D Tuning and mostly credited by vocalist M. Shadows and lead guitarist Synyster…