by fennvoice | Mar 28, 2023 | Class of 2027, Poetry
~Andrew Bates, Class of 2027
The titans win in the AFC, off to the Super Bowl they go
Fighting their way through injury, hail and snow
Against the mighty rams, What do the titans have to show?
The ram’s defense was as hard as stone
That crazy February day
Until the third quarter
When it began to sway.
The score-16-23
My team was sadly losing
The game scraped up many elbows and knees
But none of us titans were leaving.
Even though I caught the throw,
And had the end zone in in sight,
Jones tackled like a hawk to a crow,
And left us titans way down low.
So goes the tale of that Super Bowl in ‘99.
It was like a terrible crime.
The glory of winning was stolen from us
And the culprits away with no fine.
by fennvoice | Mar 28, 2023 | Class of 2027, Journal
~Henry VerHage, Class of 2027
I woke up at 7:00 this morning and something felt weird but I couldn’t quite place my finger on it.
Wed, Jan 11, 2023*
“Hmm,” I thought to myself. Anyway I just went back to my normal morning routine; change into the dress code, brush teeth, get my bag ready, have breakfast and go outside to wait for the bus.
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by fennvoice | Mar 28, 2023 | Class of 2027
~Andrew Bates, Class of 2028
Sadness
Is A remorseful word
Pain and death
linger throughout the letters
An everlasting fight
against the world
no hope
You can’t win
But that’s not true
Your brain says
You will lose
I say
You can beat…
Sadness
by fennvoice | Mar 1, 2023 | Class of 2024
~Cedric Lin, Class of 2024
Traumatic situations can often transform the dynamics of a family. The memoir, Night, takes place in 1941 and tells the story of 15 year old Elie Wiesel who grows up in the small village of Sighet in Hungary. As his story progresses, he conveys how quickly the Nazis “dehumanized” the Jewish people. He retells his story of his life in Auschwitz, the largest of the concentration camps the Nazis used in an attempt to kill all of Europe’s Jews. Throughout his memoir, Wiesel describes how his own family dynamics changed as a result of their trauma in the Concentration Camp, as well as that of other families. Elie shines a light on how when placed in traumatic situations, families are sometimes torn apart, and family roles are reversed.
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by fennvoice | Mar 1, 2023 | Class of 2024, Literature
~Joe Galante, Class of 2024
Sometimes, certain experiences cause people to alter their ideas about what is valuable or important in life. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie exemplifies how the cruel experiences in the camps change his ideas about what he values and what he believes is unimportant. Walking with Elie, we observe how he slowly starts to question his religion and his religious beliefs that he once considered a core value in his life. Elie not only lets go of his religious beliefs, but he also starts to question his family’s importance in his life and how he slowly grows more distant from them.
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