Future fears

September 25, 2019

By Deonna Jones
LifeAtStart.com reporter

I have many fears in life and some of them I have overcome, but most of them I’m pretty much still dealing with. The main one has to be my fear of what happens after high school. My whole life has been directed up until now, and I don’t have any control over my decisions, meaning that when the adults stop controlling what I do and how I do it. When they take the control away from me, every problem I come across is like a huge question mark. Even a simple thing such as waking up for school, is getting harder because I don’t have my mom breathing down my neck about being to school on time. All of this has me thinking about how life will treat me after I’m done and graduated from high school.

My whole life I’ve been sheltered, so I never really knew a lot about responsibility and it shows now that I’m a young adult. I still feel the need to depend on my parents and older peers for everything which is why I’m so afraid of leaving for college and being alone, but if I don’t leave I feel like I won’t grow up. How will I prepare myself to grow up if everyday I’m being directed on what to do? For example, I have to arrive at school everyday, told how to do this, and how not to do this. Although this gives me a great guide on following rules or deal with the consequence, it doesn’t give many chances for freedom which is what I need to bump my own head and learn from my mistakes.

I’ve been spending most of my time researching how people live after high school and most say they’re basically forced by going to college and leaving their parents’ home, and living on their own. My understanding is that maybe that’s not always the best choice seeing how my generation is living today. After taking the time out to write this article, I think I’ve found the best plan for me. I will be taking some time off to travel, and hopefully this will help me come to a conclusion on how I want to spend the rest of my life and I’m hoping that this will help me define who I really am. I may be all over the place, but I’m not truly done finding out who I really am or what I really want to do. I guess what I’m trying to say is life after high school is going to be changing and it’s my choice to decide if it’s going to be for better or worse.

Great end to my senior year

Nyk Miller

May 16, 2019

Dear Sixth Hour Family,

It’s been an amazing journey. The hardest thing about leaving is knowing I will never find another class like this. I’ll never find a class with so many amazing moments. No class will ever be as funny, as inspiring, and as mood lifting as this one.

This class will never understand how much it has meant to me, how much it has helped me. I know when I look back to high school this is a time I will never forget. For all of the bad days, this class offered a smile. For all the good days, this class made them even better.

I may not be extremely sad about leaving high school, But I will be sad about leaving this family behind. I’ve had a lot of incredible teachers, but only a few have actually inspired me to come back to visit, Mrs Mandley being one of them.

I wish I could say more but, it’s more of a feeling. I wish all of you the best of luck after this, especially the seniors, and lucky to the ones who have Journalism II next year. I’ve really appreciated you all, and I have to say, it’s a damn good end to my high school career.

Comatose prologue

Kiddoo Ensley

Mary Mandley

May 15, 2019

By Camay Hall
LifeAtStart.com reporter

Nathaniel couldn’t take it anymore. He was suffering and drowning in what we can only assume was pain. He was done, tired, and exhausted. The only thing that understood him was the bottle of Bourbon sitting in between his thighs and the scattered pills across the dashboard.

Because of the puffiness in his face, you could barely recognize him. The red nose, chapped lips that lost their pinkish color, redness in and around his eyes. Even his skin once golden tan, now pale as snow and his hair once quiff with a bit a life, now messy and dead.

“All I can do is run…” he whispered to himself. Without hesitation, he pressed down onto the pedal and sped off into the night. Driving and driving till he couldn’t see a soul, or that is what his drunken mind thought. His eyelids grew heavy and heavy, but he was determined to leave the city he grew up in, where all his mistakes and pain reside. It wasn’t because of him, he had no control over the situation, but the one he loved most had to pay the price.

If you are wondering how he got to this moment, it took his corrupted family, and a girl he fell madly in love with who died in his arms to break him mentally.

The end of an era

Mary Mandley

May 1, 2019

By Kylee Day
LifeAtStart.com reporter

On Friday, April 26th, 2019, I watched Avengers: Endgame, then on Saturday, I watched it again. Each time was rather… interesting both inside and outside of the theater. The first time around, we, quite unfortunately, got to the theater right on time and the lines for concessions were so long, we thought they were the ticket lines. We were still like 15 minutes early, though, and the theater wasn’t ready so we were told to wait in a line outside of the theater, then after sitting in the line for a few minutes, they told us to go in the theater, but not to sit because they still weren’t ready to seat and we were causing a fire hazard in the hallway… so they thought it best to bring the fire hazard to the theater.

Anyway, I already kind of knew that I should write a no-spoiler review about this movie before even watching it, yet I still wasn’t sure if I should because while you can usually find me watching and re-watching all different types of movies, I’m no expert on them. I don’t know what the heck a ‘Cult Classic’ is or what even makes something a ‘Cult Classic’ and I haven’t even watched every MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) movie there is. So really, I’m not even qualified to write this, yet I still will because I liked it and want to talk about it.

So, here’s your no-spoiler, inexperienced, most likely no good analysis from your least favorite journalist:

Avengers: Endgame was surprisingly (but at the same time, not surprising at all) more tear worthy than Avengers: Infinity War. Now, with that being said, I think without Infinity War, it wouldn’t be as tear-jerkingly sad as it was, it would be sad, just not as sad. I think what was really amazingly well done in Endgame is how there were so many parallels to other scenes in the MCU, from all different kinds of movies. It brings you back to movies like Captain America: The First Avenger and Iron Man so effortlessly, with scenes referencing some of the most iconic ones from these movies and many others as well. I like to think they did that on purpose, this being the last movie with every Avenger in it, the Russo brothers must’ve thought it would be just perfect if they left little fragments of the movies leading up to last as more of a tribute rather than a goodbye. These were the moments that made me cry the most and made me realize that this is the last Avengers movie, this really is the end of an era.

The visuals were just amazing in most scenes and I really applaud the cast and crew for really just making it feel like a comic book, which sounds odd, but it’s almost like that’s how a superhero movie is supposed to feel. Now, I did not like some of the CGI because you would think that with such a big movie they’d be able to make it look just a little bit better, but some of it just looked super fake and almost as bad as Bruce Banner in the Hulkbuster in Infinity War.

With the Captain Marvel movie being released earlier this year, and it being based on the fact Carol Danvers has always been told that she couldn’t do something because she is a girl, and then she went on and did it anyway. Then seeing all the amazing scenes in Endgame, it really just made the girl power aspect of the movie feel natural.

Another thing I loved about this movie is how it really focused on the original Avengers. The original characters are the ones we most likely will not see in future movies and even if we do, maybe a few cameos.

I also think it’s safe to say that Spiderman’s “I don’t wanna go,” scene is not the saddest in the MCU anymore. I can now pinpoint at least three that happen in Endgame that are just so much more crying worthy, it’s now bumped down to around the fifth or fourth spot in that category.

Overall, there were some things I loved and some things I hated about this movie (most things I loved), but these movies will always hold a special place in my heart even as they come to a full stop and I learn to love other movies. These will always make me cry and laugh and just overall be great movies (excluding Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, and The Incredible Hulk, of course).

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