March 2018 14

 

Music Genre Spotlight By Kaicie Boeglin

Characteristics of deathcore can be blast beats, down tuned guitars, growled lyrics, breakdowns and then metal riffs and tuning. Low growls and deep shrieks may not be every listeners perfect tune, but these vocalists deserve some credit. It takes talent and practice to be able to control your vocal cords in such a way that one would be able to manipulate their voice in varying octaves.

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Battling the Bullying Problem by Joshua Tavares

Every day more students are affected by bullying. Intervening in bullying and not just being a bystander can help the cause drastically. What will you do to bring this to an end? Will you just watch as this problem never gets better, or do something about it and make a difference? Be brave just like Hunter Canis and others who will make the world a better and kinder place.

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Music and the Brain: How Musical Training Can Help One’s Learning Abilities By Lily Mancini

Coordination and auditory discrimination skills can be increased through playing an instrument. Music requires many factors to play one note, including hand eye coordination to the instrument, reading the sheet swiftly and correctly, hearing what the note sounds like and should sound like in pitch and tone to the rest of the band, and being able to change that sound through the mouth or hand in exact timing. Over time, this builds tremendous reading and listening skills as well as coordination.

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Why Don’t We See Teens Reading As Much as We used to? By McKenzie Murphy

“It’s very likely that teenagers, attached to screens of one sort or another, read more words than they ever have in the past. But they often read scraps, excerpts, articles, parts of articles, messages, pieces of information from everywhere and from nowhere,” Denby writes.

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