Trust - A firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.
Everyone may know someone in a relationship, but it may not always be as easy as it seems. Some may be full of lies and misunderstanding, others willbe full of love and trust. All relationships have complications, some may be worse than others. For example, in a relationship one person may have a smart mouth and make sarcastic comments. These remarks could hurt the others' feelings, and in return strain the relationship. Arguments can be detrimental to the relationship. But this isn't the case for all. Friendship before a relationship is a good start to building trust and a bond. Acceptance is key to a lengthy relationship. Once you accept the person you want to be with, the rest will fall into place. Instead of quitting after a "bump in the road", it's good to try to work things out. Honesty is another important aspect of a relationship, because without honesty you don't have anything For those who don't want a relationship, it may be best to stay single, or to just have close friends to prevent hurting anyone or being hurt. Self love is the best love before getting in a relationship. You have to love yourself for who you are before you can love anyone else. Overall, you aren't obligated to be in a relationship - it is all up to you. Love takes time and it is something you don't have to rush into! Shay'la Moore, Nytaziya Wishop, Simone Henry Sophomores
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Liberal Opinion on Trump*** This post originally appeared in The New Yorker by David Remnick who has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992.
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety. There are, inevitably, miseries to come: an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court; an emboldened right-wing Congress; a President whose disdain for women and minorities, civil liberties and scientific fact, to say nothing of simple decency, has been repeatedly demonstrated. Trump is vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader who will not only set markets tumbling but will strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak, and, above all, the many varieties of Other whom he has so deeply insulted. The African-American Other. The Hispanic Other. The female Other. The Jewish and Muslim Other. The most hopeful way to look at this grievous event—and it’s a stretch—is that this election and the years to follow will be a test of the strength, or the fragility, of American institutions. It will be a test of our seriousness and resolve. Early on Election Day, the polls held out cause for concern, but they provided sufficiently promising news for Democrats in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, and even Florida that there was every reason to think about celebrating the fulfillment of Seneca Falls, the election of the first woman to the White House. Potential victories in states like Georgia disappeared, little more than a week ago, with the F.B.I. director’s heedless and damaging letter to Congress about reopening his investigation and the reappearance of damaging buzzwords like “e-mails,” “Anthony Weiner,” and “fifteen-year-old girl.” But the odds were still with Hillary Clinton. All along, Trump seemed like a twisted caricature of every rotten reflex of the radical right. That he has prevailed, that he has won this election, is a crushing blow to the spirit; it is an event that will likely cast the country into a period of economic, political, and social uncertainty that we cannot yet imagine. That the electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world of vanity, hate, arrogance, untruth, and recklessness, his disdain for democratic norms, is a fact that will lead, inevitably, to all manner of national decline and suffering. In the coming days, commentators will attempt to normalize this event. They will try to soothe their readers and viewers with thoughts about the “innate wisdom” and “essential decency” of the American people. They will downplay the virulence of the nationalism displayed, the cruel decision to elevate a man who rides in a gold-plated airliner but who has staked his claim with the populist rhetoric of blood and soil. George Orwell, the most fearless of commentators, was right to point out that public opinion is no more innately wise than humans are innately kind. People can behave foolishly, recklessly, self-destructively in the aggregate just as they can individually. Sometimes all they require is a leader of cunning, a demagogue who reads the waves of resentment and rides them to a popular victory. “The point is that the relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion,” Orwell wrote in his essay “Freedom of the Park.” “The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.” Trump ran his campaign sensing the feeling of dispossession and anxiety among millions of voters—white voters, in the main. And many of those voters—not all, but many—followed Trump because they saw that this slick performer, once a relative cipher when it came to politics, a marginal self-promoting buffoon in the jokescape of eighties and nineties New York, was more than willing to assume their resentments, their fury, their sense of a new world that conspired against their interests. That he was a billionaire of low repute did not dissuade them any more than pro-Brexit voters in Britain were dissuaded by the cynicism of Boris Johnson and so many others. The Democratic electorate might have taken comfort in the fact that the nation had recovered substantially, if unevenly, from the Great Recession in many ways—unemployment is down to 4.9 per cent—but it led them, it led us, to grossly underestimate reality. The Democratic electorate also believed that, with the election of an African-American President and the rise of marriage equality and other such markers, the culture wars were coming to a close. Trump began his campaign declaring Mexican immigrants to be “rapists”; he closed it with an anti-Semitic ad evoking “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; his own behavior made a mockery of the dignity of women and women’s bodies. And, when criticized for any of it, he batted it all away as “political correctness.” Surely such a cruel and retrograde figure could succeed among some voters, but how could he win? Surely, Breitbart News, a site of vile conspiracies, could not become for millions a source of news and mainstream opinion. And yet Trump, who may have set out on his campaign merely as a branding exercise, sooner or later recognized that he could embody and manipulate these dark forces. The fact that “traditional” Republicans, from George H. W. Bush to Mitt Romney, announced their distaste for Trump only seemed to deepen his emotional support. The commentators, in their attempt to normalize this tragedy, will also find ways to discount the bumbling and destructive behavior of the F.B.I., the malign interference of Russian intelligence, the free pass—the hours of uninterrupted, unmediated coverage of his rallies—provided to Trump by cable television, particularly in the early months of his campaign. We will be asked to count on the stability of American institutions, the tendency of even the most radical politicians to rein themselves in when admitted to office. Liberals will be admonished as smug, disconnected from suffering, as if so many Democratic voters were unacquainted with poverty, struggle, and misfortune. There is no reason to believe this palaver. There is no reason to believe that Trump and his band of associates—Chris Christie, Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Pence, and, yes, Paul Ryan—are in any mood to govern as Republicans within the traditional boundaries of decency. Trump was not elected on a platform of decency, fairness, moderation, compromise, and the rule of law; he was elected, in the main, on a platform of resentment. Fascism is not our future—it cannot be; we cannot allow it to be so—but this is surely the way fascism can begin. Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate but a resilient, intelligent, and competent leader, who never overcame her image among millions of voters as untrustworthy and entitled. Some of this was the result of her ingrown instinct for suspicion, developed over the years after one bogus “scandal” after another. And yet, somehow, no matter how long and committed her earnest public service, she was less trusted than Trump, a flim-flam man who cheated his customers, investors, and contractors; a hollow man whose countless statements and behavior reflect a human being of dismal qualities—greedy, mendacious, and bigoted. His level of egotism is rarely exhibited outside of a clinical environment. For eight years, the country has lived with Barack Obama as its President. Too often, we tried to diminish the racism and resentment that bubbled under the cyber-surface. But the information loop had been shattered. On Facebook, articles in the traditional, fact-based press look the same as articles from the conspiratorial alt-right media. Spokesmen for the unspeakable now have access to huge audiences. This was the cauldron, with so much misogynistic language, that helped to demean and destroy Clinton. The alt-right press was the purveyor of constant lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories that Trump used as the oxygen of his campaign. Steve Bannon, a pivotal figure at Breitbart, was his propagandist and campaign manager. It is all a dismal picture. Late last night, as the results were coming in from the last states, a friend called me full of sadness, full of anxiety about conflict, about war. Why not leave the country? But despair is no answer. To combat authoritarianism, to call out lies, to struggle honorably and fiercely in the name of American ideals—that is what is left to do. That is all there is to do. GOP Opinion of Clinton*** Source: FOX News, Story by Joseph Weber
Hillary Clinton, on the final Saturday of the 2016 presidential race, relied on a legion of surrogates and A-list entertainers to help make closing arguments, while Republican rival Donald Trump reveled again in the status of his outsider, go-it-alone campaign. “We don't need Jay-Z to fill up arenas,” Trump said in Tampa, Florida, the first of his four rallies Saturday, three days before Election Day. “We do it the old-fashioned way, folks. We fill them up because you love what we're saying and you want to make America great again.” Trump -- estranged from much of the Washington establishment that he’s vowed to dismantle if elected -- was on the campaign trail alone Saturday with the exception of vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence. The Indiana GOP governor and former congressman has been a steady, reliable running mate for the unpredictable Trump, holding together the Republicans’ conservative base, even on the worst days of Trump’s 18-month campaign. Pence, in fact, campaigned Saturday in Wisconsin with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who vowed in early October that he would no longer campaign for Trump, after the release of a 2005 audiotape in which Trump is heard bragging about kissing and fondling women without their consent. “When Donald Trump says he’s going to repeal ObamaCare, we are ready. We are willing, and we are able,” the Wisconsin congressman and leader of the Republican-controlled House said at rally with Pence in Mukwonago, Wis. “I voted for Donald Trump and every Republican I saw on the ballot,” offered Ryan, among the Republicans who appear to have put party unity above their differences with Trump, as the race tightens and appears potentially winnable for the GOP. Fox News confirmed Saturday that Ryan told reporters earlier in the day that he would have campaigned with Trump in the state this weekend, but the event was cancellled. A Fox News poll released Friday shows Trump now trailing Clinton 43-to-45 percent, while the nominees remain within a few percentage points of each other in Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and a few other battleground states that will decide the race. Early-voting results from some of the those states show Clinton appearing to have a slight lead in Florida and with Hispanic voters, including those in Nevada. However, early voting among African-Americans, who have in recent decades voted consistently for Democrats, appears down compared to their record numbers when they helped elect President Obama, the country’s first black president, in 2008 and 2012. Early, in-person voting in North Carolina ended Saturday. Clinton headlined two battleground-state rallies Saturday and again relied on star power to help her with younger voters. She began with an outdoor rally in South Florida to appeal to the region’s large black and immigrant population -- including Cubans, Columbians and other Latinos. And she will close with a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with recording artist Katy Perry. “In case you didn’t notice last night, I got to say I was with Jay Z and Beyonce,” Clinton said at the Florida rally, which was ended by rain after about five minutes. “It was the most extraordinary show. When a famous entertainer tells you I want to support you and do a show, it’s such a gift.” Clinton is expected to be joined Sunday by NBA star LeBron James in Cleveland, Ohio, where Jay Z and Beyonce performed. Meanwhile, Obama will return to Florida to help his former secretary of state, who if elected would be the country’s first female president. Trump on Saturday slammed the Clinton campaign for letting Jay Z rap a profanity-laced song at the Friday night rally. “He used every word in the book. Can you imagine if I said that?” Trump, whom the Clinton campaign and others have criticized for using racially and otherwise insensitive language, said in Tampa. “That shows you the phoniness of politicians, the whole system. … In three days, we are going to win Florida. We are going to win the White House.” Clinton has been the front-runner from the start of the race against first-time candidate Trump. The race, like others in recent presidential election cycles, will be decided by the handful of so-called battleground states, in which voters could go for the Democratic or Republican nominee, with the remaining 50 or so states solidly Democratic or Republican. Trump on Saturday was also in battleground North Carolina before heading to Nevada and Colorado. He announced in Tampa that he would visit liberal-leaning Minnesota before the polls close Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden held two rallies for Clinton in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Clinton running-mate Virginia Gov. Tim Kane hosts three events in Florida, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will rally for Clinton in Iowa. Southside Senior Caleb Carawan is an all around cool dude. His optimistic and chill attitude combined with his lightheartedly humorous and bubbly personality make him a pretty swell person. On top of that, he can play pretty much any stringed instrument that doesn't require a bow. To quote Caleb himself "If it needs a bow I'm done for".
Matthew Pitt conducted an anonymous poll of students and teachers at Southside to see which way their vote would swing on November 8. ***Not all students and teachers are represented. TRUMP: 43 votes CLINTON: 53 votes OTHER: 56 votes PREFER NOT TO SAY: 67 votes We will find out on November 8th! If you are 18 and over, register and go vote!!!! It is your American right!So honestly to me both Hillary and Trump have some good points and bad points but really?
Are we to rely on the words and trust of our candidates that are running for president? I mostly feel like action is needed, not just words. What I realize is that people are afraid of "action". Afraid of taking that risk. You know, decision making to me is one of the hardest skills. Think about the person who's in office right now you know we need to appreciate the risks our president and pasts presidents have done for us. Scariest thing to me is running a country! Making decisions for your own country? Your mentality has to be strong because I'm pretty sure if not, things would be insane. Running a country is stressful. You see them go from this in 4 years to worn out. They try their best for us. Ya'll act like the president knows everything and knows what to do all the time. They don't. They don't. They don't. Its like we only remember the most negative things of people and what they have done, they also have done good things too. Ahsha Keys - Junior 25. Chucky 24. The Devil's Rejects 23. Dead Snow 22. Carrie 21. Cabin Fever 20. The Crazies 19 Last House On The Left 18. Scream 17. Evil Dead 16. 28 Days Later 15. The Hills Have Eyes 14. House Of A 1,000 Corpses 13. Friday The 13th 12. Saw 11. It 10. Dawn Of The Dead 9. The Grudge 8. Poltergeist 7. Nightmare On Elm Street 6. Conjuring 5. The Amityville Horror (Original) 4. Halloween 3. Night Of The Living Dead 2. The Exorcist 1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Do you agree with our list? Let us know in the comments below!
Ciera and Chyna Juniors 1. Dressing as an animal such as a cat is iconic for all ages!2. Dressing as a superhero or villain is a popular choice with many characters to choose from!3. Feel like going a step father with make-up? Pop Art and other make-ups are great ideas!4. Gather the whole gang to solve a mystery this Halloween!5. For horror fans there are several costume ideas of characters such as Chucky, Jigsaw, Jason, or even one of the 13 Ghosts. (It is suggested not to go as Stephen King's 'It')6. The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride are great Tim Burton classics to give a whirl this Halloween.7. Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf go as a great good and bad duo.Ciera Long. Junior |
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