Connections

How to play:

• Find 4 groups of 4 words

• Each group contains 4 words that are connected by category

For Example:

Pocket / Wallet / Purse / Bank → Places to put your money in. 

Snow / Base / Foul / Winners → ____ Ball.

• The categories of each group will be more complex, it will not be something like “Adjectives”, “Words”, “4-Letter Words”, or “Contains a vowel”.

• Each category varies in difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard.  

• Click on 4 words and hit “submit” to see if it is a category.

• Feel free to reset the game if you lose. Have fun!

Created by: William Espiritu 10th

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School Update

This Week's Features!

Knocking on wood, seeing a black cat, spilling salt, and walking under ladders are just some of the many superstitions. Superstitions are defined as “a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation." They have been around for generations and have been passed on for years. For example, the first time I spilled salt at dinner, my mom immediately made me pinch some and throw it over my shoulder, something she learned from her mom as well.  

Although superstitions have had a bad reputation since the dawn of time, they are actually pretty beneficial. They have more advantages than disadvantages.  

With testing season coming up, it has me and many others finding ourselves purposely avoiding superstitions or creating some of our own. SBAC, a state test that seems like it can define your whole life, is one of the many worries I have had about this year. Henceforth, to prepare for the test, I have tried my luck with positive superstitions of rubbing my necklace four (my personal lucky number) times and wishing for a passing grade on a fallen eyelash. To some, there are easier and more straightforward ways of preparing for the test with a guaranteed passing grade, like simply studying, but with how much power superstitions hold over fate, is that really necessary? I would rather avoid all ladders, cats, mirrors, and umbrellas than have to open Khan Academy or do any practice homework. 

In this upcoming testing season, you now have another way to "study." Adding to the pressure of studying for AP exams, finals, and SBAC tests, you can now study with a new way of believing superstitions. These superstitions can be bad or they can be good, but you now have a certified way of passing all your tests this upcoming semester (knock on wood!).

Are you interested in background art? Or craft-making? Are you interested in theatrical acting? Maybe costume design! Well, we’ve got the club for you! KSJC’s students are re-introducing the theater club to the school and making it just as fun as ever.  

One of the ways we’re doing this is by introducing more games and strategies to help you improve your acting skills. Expect many improv games and tongue twisters; learn to bounce back from mistakes when you mess up on stage. We will teach you how to speak with emotion as well as study your characters to help you understand how to stay in character even as you make mistakes. Although memorizing a bunch of lines sounds difficult, there are many strategies to help you remember, and you can always rehearse it during club hours. 

And for the crew, there are many things for you to do as well! These include painting background sets, making props, articulating costumes, learning how to manage the lights, and helping out with sound effects. The crew can also join in on the improv games, help other cast members rehearse, and learn a lot about the technical side of theater. 

We’ve already chosen the play that we’re planning to present to you all, which is Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman." Though this play is a bit more on the serious side, if you’re interested, it’s about a bunch of flashbacks and references to a salesman’s life before he dies. The story contains themes of the American dream, suicide, and some familial issues and is a classic among many other plays. 

Here is a form you can fill out if you’re interested in joining: 

https://forms.gle/jP3uz7BS2mLdgqun9

 We hope to see you next year! 

Current World

“...to bring rain on the uninhabited land and on the desert where no man lives, to satisfy the barren and desolate ground, and to make the seeds of grass sprout?” (Job 38:25–27, Amplified Bible), Many speculate if what is said in the Bible is true, as how can a dessert get rain, and if more future properties will come true. When Dubai, a country located directly in the Arabian Desert, which on average only receives 3.73 inches of rain every year, received more than 5 inches (2 years worth) of rain on April 17, 2024, that left many of their malls, roads, and infrastructure flooded, and that also caused a few deaths to be confirmed due to the massive flooding. Dubai’s massive rainfall caused many problems for Dubai's citizens, as their homes have been washed away. Driving on the roads is not ideal as, due to the massive flooding, their cars would sink. This unusual event poses a question to a lot of people: What is the real cause of Dubai’s flooding?

Online, the battle about whether cloud seeding or greenhouse warming has caused discontent. Many have shared and argued their opinions on the real cause of Dubai’s recent massive flooding, but as of now, scientists and weather forecasters have confirmed that the cause of the flooding is due to the large amount of moisture that has been building up in the atmosphere due to the warm seas, which eventually falls as rain over the Arabian Peninsula (greenhouse warming). Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, states, “Did cloud seeding play a role? Likely no… But how about climate change? Likely yes!”. To understand the Rebuttals side we have to first understand what cloud seeding is which is essentially a method scientists do that is putting tiny particles of nuclei into the atmosphere that attach to the clouds that after a cloud seeding takes place create snowflakes that eventually grow and fall on earth increasing precipitation,  Danie Swain counteracts this argument again by stating that “it's unlikely that a cloud seeding operation would move forward given the well-forecast intense rainfall”, while Meteorologist Ryan Maue, former chief scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agrees with Swain and gave a definitive answer that “If that occurred with cloud seeding, they'd have water all the time," he said. "When it comes to controlling individual rain storms, we are not anywhere close to that. And if we were capable of doing that, I think we would be capable of solving many more difficult problems than creating a rain shower over Dubai.

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