In Chicago, Illinois, the Robert Morris University Illinois has a gaming team. You can get a scholarship to play video games. That’s right. You can get a scholarship to play video games for the Robert Morris University Illinois. Derek Michaeu played baseball and ruined his shoulder as a pitcher. He then came back and wanted to play catcher until he blew out one of his knees. After that, he was offered a scholarship at RMU for their eSports gaming program. He said he told his mom and she thought it was a scam. RMU gives out 35 scholarships to play video games in their top of the line gaming lab with all of their sponsors in the industry. Gaming is a big industry. Last year the Staples center in Los Angeles sold out for the League of Legends championship.

The author of this article was not biased. My classmate Xavier’s opinion on this article is,” I think it’s awesome. It would be so much fun to play video games for your school. It is still weird.”

(Please read “Into the Woods” before reading this)

After the attack outside they brought the stranger inside next to the fire, and made him tea and mac and cheese. After that they reloaded their guns and relaxed with a nice fresh pair of clothes and mac and cheese next to the fire. They all fell asleep more tired than ever.
After a wonderful rest the four men, not including the stranger got up and got Cookie Crisps with a nice side of chocolate milk. They entered the living room to see the stranger awake and dazed.

“Hey, sleeping beauty is awake! The name’s Jackson, call me Jack,” said Jack.

“Where am I?” asked the stranger.

“We rescued you, you must’ve heard our signal on the radio you were being attacked by a horde of zombies just outside the cabin,” replied Charles.

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David and Jack threw their bags into the back of Jack’s brand new pickup truck and raced off. After getting up to speeds of 95 MPH and drifting around corners they made it safely in under 15 minutes to Charles’s house. They ran into the house to see Charles packed up and ready to go. “You’re late,” said Charles. “Whatever. We are here now,” snarled David. After Charles threw his stuff in the truck they took off from Salt Lake City to the base of the Rockie Mountains. “Alright, we need to go to my cabin which has an underground prepper space,” said Jack. “And that’s at the base of the mountain?” asked David. “Yes. It goes underground and under part of the mountain,” answered Jack. “Sweet! We will survive the zombie apocalypse for sure! Is the area around the house covered with foliage?” asked David excitedly. “Yes we will survive for a while, but for now shut your trap and relax. We have a long ride from and we don’t want to hear you yap,” yelled Jack.

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On November 24, 2014 the Federal Detention Center held a Father Daughter dance. The inmates returned their prison jump suits and in return got nice dress suits for 2 hours. All of the girls coming to dance with their fathers were scanned to make sure nothing illegal was coming into the prison. After that they were taken to see their fathers and dance with them. They had cake, socialized with their fathers and had a great time. They were so surprised at how much they’d grown from the last time they’d seen them. All of them were convicted of something and are all within a few months to a few years of getting out of prison.

This author didn’t have an opinion. I think that this was a good thing to do because the inmates can’t have thanksgiving dinner or any other holiday celebrations with them so it was good for the exposure. My classmate Toby’s opinion follows, “I think it was really cool that they held this. They should hold more of these, there is no reason not to. I hope it is successful in the other locations. It is better to do this so you can talk to them face to face not phone to phone through the little glass window.”

Federal Prison in Miami hosts dance for inmates and their daughters

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, saved the world from WWIII during the Cuban Missile Crisis; but do you know his brother, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy? RFK was born into a wealthy and political family. He helped his brother JFK campaign and after he was elected as U.S. Attorney general and he resigned after JFK was murdered in 1963. Robert Kennedy was shot and killed in 1968.

RFK was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on November 20, 1925. The Fitzgerald – Kennedy family consisted of RFK, his three brothers, and his five sisters. The family moved to the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1940 because RFK’s father was the ambassador for the United Kingdom. RFK later attended the University of Virginia Law School and Harvard University. He got married to Ethel Skakel and had 11 children, his youngest daughter, Rory was born six months after his death.

Robert Kennedy’s goal was to give equal rights to African-Americans, and he helped by removing the Jim Crow laws, his main accomplishment. The repeal of those laws ended segregation of waiting rooms, water fountains, and restrooms in interstate bus stations. His work inspired others to get more active for equality for black people, and that was eventually reached. Robert F. Kennedy campaigned for presidency because the desire to stop segregation and make more changes.

On June 6, 1968 he was assassinated in Los Angeles by a Palestinian man named Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan was angry because RFK always backed Israel during conflicts. His work affects us today by not having segregated water fountains, waiting rooms, and bathrooms at interstate bus stops.

The NFL is considering putting an NFL team in London, England. The NFL already does three games a year in London but are considering putting a team there, and possible hosting a Super Bowl there. The NFL would increase profits and the city, London, would as well. In 2013, two games were held there earning a profit of $52 million and if they switched to four games per season they would add an extra $42 million to that $52 million profit, putting them at a $94 million profit. If a team was put there, they would make a profit of $252 million per season, and the city alone would have a $165 million profit. If the Super Bowl was held there, there would be a conflict in finding a good time in America and Britain. I think that it would be pretty cool, Football is beginning to expand more and more. I would like to the sport expand even farther by the time I’m an adult.

My teacher Mr. Bautista said, “It would be kind of confusing if there was a team there because of the time difference and their used to Futbol, which we call Soccer.” The author of this article is unbiased.

An NFL team could have home-field advantage in London

Once there were two scientists named John and Paul. They were actually astronomy experts, anyway they were using their super powerful telescope to scan the sky. Paul was sleeping, and John was checking the sky for a few more minutes before he decided to go to sleep. All of sudden he had spotted something that looked like another planet. John decided to throw a pen at Paul to wake him up. “Paul, wake up!” Paul quickly scrambled to his feet after he fell off the table he slept on during his break. Half asleep Paul answered John, “What do you want John?” “ Come look at what I found,” replied John. Paul ran to the middle of the dome where John was at. “What did you find?” asked Paul. “Wake up Paul! I found another planet for crying out loud!” As Paul walked over to the observation area John began to zoom in. What they saw was a smaller version of earth is what it looked like.

It was a few years after the planet was spotted when Paul called John. During their conversation Paul explained to John that he applied for a grant from NASA to send an unmanned rover to the planet. The grant had been accepted and NASA said they would send a rover out in about a year.

The rover had to be sent a very long way away to the planet that had been discovered.  As soon as the rover landed, the two men were ready to control it. It had a camera on it so that the men could see where it was going and if possible observe life on the planet. After driving through the forest, Paul was driving when he came upon a weird shape with a weird plastery looking texture. He came closer to see it had a human shape with long lanky arms and legs. On the way to get closer to the alien life form, it suddenly turned towards the rover. It’s big bright yellow eyes on it’s large head stared down the rover. The ET life form sprinted off, across the water! John and Paul looked at each other then back at the camera screen. The camera screen was starting to lose video, when all of a sudden the screen went black. They did whatever they could to get video feed back up, nothing worked. To this day nobody knows what really happened to John and Paul after they mysteriously disappeared after telling their story to friends, family, and media.

Dear Ms. Christensen,

My name is Jake Fritzges, I was born on February 14, 2001. I am here to learn and go off to a good college (USC or Ohio State) so I can get a great job. My hopes and dreams are to become a pro athlete or help people who are less fortunate. I’m good at baseball, football, and I’m okay at basketball. I struggle with focusing at a home and at school. You can help me meet my goals by helping me focus at school.

My family likes to go camping in the desert and on the beaches of Mexico. My mom is 5’4” with red hair and she worked at SeaWorld for 29 years (she now works at Sharp Healthcare). My dad has gray/brown hair and he’s 6’1”. He’s worked for Phoenix Water Management for 6 years, and before that his parents owned a trucking company. My sister is a little shorter than me, she’s 16 and a junior at PLHS. My little brother is 11 years old and 5’5” with golden red hair like myself. When he was 1 year and 9 months he was diagnosed with leukemia. He was in remission 2 years later. In 2011 he’d been in remission for 5 years so he was considered a survivor. I like to chill out when I’m not in school.

Your Student,
Jake Fritzges

“You’re going to be okay! Jake wake up, open your eyes, respond any way you can!” I wasn’t very sure of where I was or what was happening. I opened my eyes to what looked like the inside of an ambulance. “He’s awake!” I guess I was in an ambulance. Different kinds of medicines were all around the interior. I didn’t know at all what was happening. The people in the ambulance were wearing burgundy hazmat suits with personal breathing supplies. Everyone in the ambulance was shaking around because of the erratic driving to get to the hospital. I was beginning to go in and out of consciousness; eventually after a few minutes, I blacked out.

I finally woke up in a hospital room where there were a bunch of machines beeping, and an IV going into me. One of the nurses realized I had woke up and came to talk to me about why I was at the hospital. She gave me some very painful news, “Jake” she began speaking nervously, “you have contracted Ebola and you had passed out due to a very very high fever.” After that I was in shock as she quietly walked out of the room in her hazmat suit. I just wanted to be alone after that. I had began to think of how many classmates, family members, and friends I had given this dreadful disease to. It was very very scary thought of giving all your loved ones a terrible disease that could begin to spread all over the U.S.

After a few days, the doctors said that I was only about a two to three weeks away from getting released from the hospital if my condition continued to look better week by week. The doctors were saying how remarkable my recovery was from almost death to looking healthier than ever. I was watching TV one night and believe it or not, I was the second main subject. The first main subject, 13 year-old San Diegan Jake Fritzges infected five of his classmates with Ebola. I broke down after I saw that news. It was horrifying.

My five classmates that contracted the virus were put in the hospital after they were put on 21 day isolation and got symptoms. They saw symptoms 2-3 days after I was put in the hospital. I guess no one wanted to tell me so I wouldn’t be more stressed than I already was. After I got the news I was a little more kind of sad.

It was three weeks later when I was released and I had become immune to this strand of the virus. My parents then told me after being released, that all of my classmates who contracted it were also immune to the virus because they had all survived. After that I had become more interested in science and cells.