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Here’s a famous example of a well established news magazine, Time, using photo editing on its June 27, 1994 cover. As you can see, the magazine manipulated O.J. Simpson’s mug shot by darkening it to appear more ominous. His face appears “darker, blurrier, and unshaven.” Even the black glow around the cover makes it look haunted. In contrast, Newsweek used the same photo for its
By Meglin Bodner It is amazing how many long hours of challenging work are put into the spring musical even before the acting starts. Preparation for Aida begins in January and ends in March. That is three months creating props and costumes to use on opening night and the following performances! Construction was done by parent volunteers, both men and women, and two students.
by Editor-in-Chief Marisa Kaplita This past Tuesday on February 14th during period six 15 BHSers battled it out on the stage; Aria Jones, Henry Jin, Ben Shao, Christina Smith, Chrissy Beaulac, Kaity Robbins, Pompeo Mazella, Brianna DeNegris, Jennifer Lassen, Rachel Hanchuruck, Michelle Caron, Meglin Bodner, Jenny Flynn, Bryanna Willaby, and Ziqi Wang were all participators of the Poetry Out Loud Competition. For this competition all the students picked a poem from a list on this website: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ ranging from different writers, lengths and
Looking for a movie to snuggle up and watch this February 14th? Well, our staff has picked out the best ones for you! Valentines Date Out The Vow is a perfect movie made for Valentines Day couples looking for something romantic with a little twist to traditional love stories. Then end the date with a drive over to Friendly’s and order one Fribble and two
by Editor In Chief Marisa Kaplita Ryan Cosgrove, also known as Wally the Clown, has added another name to the list: Santa Claus. Ryan started dressing as Santa to entertain all the children of Branford and bring a little Christmas to the town. Ryan started volunteering as a Clown for church events back when he was twelve, and over the years he has watched his
Mrs. Craig has made new use of the after Christmas clearance sales, but what use is tinsel to a Precalc class? The class had created a HUMAN UNIT CIRCLE; a unit circle is basically a circle split by different degrees to create right triangles. They used this arrangement of Christmas left overs to review their material for the midterm and practice working out different problems. This was only one of different
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