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Valentina Gonzalez

Valentina Gonzalez, Reporter

Valentina Gonzalez is a sophomore at NC. She was in Journalism 1 for her first semester of freshman year, and then later joined The Chant’s staff in the second semester. She loves to write, which is what brought her to the newspaper staff. In her free time, she loves spending time with friends, listening to music, and watching movies and series. Gonzalez loves the artistic value of life (specifically dramatic arts) and hopes to either pursue a career in acting, writing, directing or a career in criminal justice. 

 

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With Thanksgiving around the corner, several people struggle to find ways to show thanks. Fortunately, simple methods exist to show appreciation for those who constantly support one another. Thanksgiving conveniently functions as the perfect holiday to demonstrate gratitude to those who deserve it, particularly in creative, fun and thoughtful ways.

Ways to show gratitude 

November 24, 2022
Household pets require strict attention and care in order to live a happy life. Unfortunately, multiple pet owners do not grant their pets their proper needs, refusing to care for them as a whole. Pets deserve the proper care the same way humans do. Pet stores and owners can and should adequately ensure the happiness of their innocent pets just wanting love.

The truth behind adopting pets

November 4, 2022
Halloween remains an intensely celebrated holiday all over the world. While people continue to celebrate it, multiple do not know the true history of Halloween, its origins and how it spread and became celebrated throughout the world. As exciting as the holiday feels, its history remains equally interesting.

The history behind Halloween

October 31, 2022
Multiple factors contribute to the decision of the superior season between winter and summer. Winter attracts people who adore celebrating the holiday season, free time and cold weather. Summer compels people who enjoy performing activities in the heat and free time filled with adventure and friends.

Winter vs summer

November 1, 2022
While teachers attempt to engage students in their lessons, certain rules established for learners remain unnecessary and in several cases, dramatic. Students may not find it critical to follow ridiculous rules school boards and teachers enforce. Arbitrary rules over chewing gum, hoods or the choice to stand for the pledge of allegiance can lead to problems nationwide.

Irrelevancy in school rules

October 31, 2022
When searching for methods for self-expression, people overlook multiple underrated ways and outlets. Even though verbally expressing feelings, thoughts and emotions to a peer or a professional may appear popular and efficient, it does not help those who do not want to particularly share their thoughts with another person.

Do it the write way: expression through art

October 21, 2022
While most teens do not feel they lack an attention span to watch a school movie, interesting movie recommendations for them to watch outside of school may change their lives and thought processes. A specific film may influence a teenager to try or do something new. For example, a film may change a viewer’s dream job to something related to the plot of the movie. Movies possess multiple outlets to the real world and may better a viewers life.

Magnetic movies to watch as a teenager

October 5, 2022
School supposedly prepares students for the real world. However, the “real world” that schools put in students’ brains, means so much more than what schools think or teach. Schools should contain more interesting aspects in their curriculum in order to brighten students’ visions of the future, as well as add multiple engaging activities to an otherwise boring school day.

Student motivation turning south

September 16, 2022
These books contain captivating storylines that will not bore readers or cause them to want to stop reading halfway through. Mandatory books students read in school feel constant and outdated. Schools and teachers should allow students to pick their own books for independent projects to help them engage and learn about the types of genres they enjoy. If one attempts to look, they could find a book that sparks their interest.

Three books that inspire students to read

September 7, 2022
How dreams and aspirations lead to success

How dreams and aspirations lead to success

May 18, 2022
The Greenhouse Gang’s plant sale ends tomorrow, May 7th at 2:00 p.m. Students, staff and family members may buy fresh plants with their families for preparation for Mothers day, as the plants make for a great Mother’s day gift.

Greenhouse Gang plant sale nears its end

May 6, 2022
Jennifer Leslie, Jonny Owens and Sydney Hilliard led the success of the winter guard team this past season. Several of the members of the team will march this fall in order to continue their high school careers with the color guard team. Seniors who exemplified the qualities that directors expected of their members left the team because their high school careers came to an end. The guard’s past section leader, Payton Norris and other alumni such as Miche Hines kept the team strong and displayed an example for the underclassmen to look up to.

NC color guard: starting the season strong

May 4, 2022
With less than a month left for the NC seniors, the school gifted seniors crowns to take home and decorate for next weeks college spirit and crown day. Next Friday, seniors should wear their college attire and their decorated crown to show their dedication for their next chapter. “We’re all excited to decorate our crowns and wear our college attire. Hopefully everyones crowns look different to show the different colleges we’re all going to,” senior Daniel Gomez said.

Senior Crowns

April 22, 2022
While the cost of recycling may seem more expensive in the long run, it truly benefits the planet in multiple ways and also helps citizens. “Recycling is the easiest thing to do. Sometimes you dont even have to pay to recycle. You can keep a bin for recycling and once a week, you can go to your local recycling center and recycle all of the materials there,” freshman David Achamaja said.

Use, do not abuse

April 20, 2022
Celebrities remain the topic of conversation for a multitude of people since they act as a leader, or someone to look up to. Fans of celebrities typically recognize the struggles they deal with and try their best to be respectful whether online or on the occasion of meeting the celebrity. “The first time I ever met a celebrity, I got really nervous. I didn’t want to disturb them or get in their way, so I never approached them. I regret it to this day but Im glad that I didnt disrupt their private time,” freshman Katie Divis said.

Celebrity Corruption

April 15, 2022
Along with students who become the subject of bullying at school, there remains a multitude of bullied students who may not realize bullying is occurring. Potentially, students may become the subject of bullying by a teacher, but choose not to report anything because they feel as though no one would side with them, which may remain. “There was a girl I had a class with. She said the teacher constantly got on her. His job is to correct students, so thats why I think no one said anything about it, but he directed most of his comments only to her. She later told me that she felt he was targeting her but she didnt say anything to other teachers because she felt like they wouldnt believe her and also it would cause more problems,” freshman Coleman Powers said.

Troubling teachers

April 14, 2022
School graduates all over the world currently benefit from the education they received in core classes in school. Multiple students who prioritize their core classes rather than art stem from their parents successful track during their time in school. “My dad is an engineer at a really high-tech company in Atlanta. My mom is a health scientist at the US Department of Health and Human Services also in Atlanta. They raised me very well and explained the way of the world to me when I was very young. Now, I am a magnet student at North Cobb taking some AP classes as well. I would definitely say my parents are the reason why I am currently successful in school today,” Freshman Marissa Grier said.

Smarts before arts

March 31, 2022
Today in homeroom, students received the paper format of their official courses and requests for next year. If students choose to change a course, they can submit requests to change them until tonight at 11:59 p.m. “This year I was able to have a wider selection of classes since I will be returning as a sophomore. Last year, for freshman year, there were such a limited number of courses that we could choose from. I was really excited this year but I had to make a change request because one of my most wanted classes was listed as an alternative,” said freshman Katie Divis

Requested course transcripts delivered

March 18, 2022
Substance abuse remains one of the most controversial topics today. Non Substance abusers tend to verbalize different opinions on people who are substance abusers. Shows like “Skins”, “Euphoria”, “Degrassi”, etc. claim substance abuse as one of their main ideas, which sometimes leads viewers basing what they think on the show itself or even the characters in the show and whether or not they like them. “If someone did hard drugs that lead them to be addicted, then it would be noticeable cause on most shows, everyone can tell how hard substances ruin your life,” said Freshman Josie Barszcz.

No sustenance in substances

March 11, 2022
People frequently only consider child abuse as abuse if violent. Most do not know that child abuse comes in different forms from different types of people. Child abuse varies in types like verbal, sexual, physical, emotional and more. “Honestly when I was younger I thought that the only ‘abuse’ was physical. Thats what they always taught me in school. I never really realized that there were so many types of it until I watched some shows and movies. I wish I knew more about abuse when I was little because I feel like I would have been able to recognize some signs in my friends,” freshman Jack McKain said.

Recognizing signs of child abuse

March 11, 2022
The NC varsity soccer teams played their tenth game of the season against the Marietta Blue Devils Friday, March 4 with the girls winning (6-1) and the boys losing (1-7). The girls displayed impressive cooperation amongst themselves and demonstrated their talent on the field. Playing her last season on the team, Columbus State University commit Kenna Armitage (#11) savored her time on the field. “We’ll be missing her, for sure. She’s a really nice person, and we wish her the best going on in soccer and life in general. I can say that Kenna maintained a level of positivity that the team needed,” freshman Mackenzie Johnson (#21) said.

North Cobb soccer senior night

March 11, 2022
NC hosts senior night tonight for our soccer teams. The teams, especially seniors, have been working extra hard to impress their families during their games. During or in-between the games tonight, our school will honor the seniors by announcing them in some way and having most players walk down the field with their family members. “We’ve been working really hard for senior night and we’re really excited. I know some of the players families who usually don’t stay for the whole game are coming and they can’t wait to watch the games. We’re all just really excited to compete. Especially since this night is kinda meant and named after us,” senior soccer player Jordan Karim said.

Soccer senior night

March 4, 2022
Administration gave out soda and chips today during lunch for students who got A’s and B’s as final grades for the first semester of the 2021-2022 school year. During advisement today, homeroom teachers handed out honor roll passes to passing A and B students from first semester. They then met Mr. Bell in the cafeteria during their lunch period to pick up a quick snack as a reward for achieving honor roll. “I was a little confused with why my teacher was stressing about passing out those slips in the last minute of class, I didnt even read the pass when I got it. By the time I saw everyone posting about it, I was in the lunchroom and didnt even know what was going on. I got a Sprite and Dorritos from Mr. Bell,” freshman Kaylee Thomas said.

Students rewarded for making honor roll

February 11, 2022
Administration gave out soda and chips today during lunch for students who got A’s and B’s as final grades for the first semester of the 2021-2022 school year. During advisement today, homeroom teachers handed out honor roll passes to passing A and B students from first semester. They then met Mr. Bell in the cafeteria during their lunch period to pick up a quick snack as a reward for achieving honor roll. “I was a little confused with why my teacher was stressing about passing out those slips in the last minute of class, I didnt even read the pass when I got it. By the time I saw everyone posting about it, I was in the lunchroom and didnt even know what was going on. I got a Sprite and Dorritos from Mr. Bell,” freshman Kaylee Thomas said.

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Bullying remains one of the extreme causes of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Insults may stick with one depending on how severe an insult. Considering how you are speaking to someone and what could come off as offensive in a conversation always exhibits importance. “You never look good trying to make someone else look bad for your own benefit. Being rude to someone because of your personal opinion of them based on your own judgment is never okay,” freshman MaKenzie Johnson said.

Casual conversation: casual bullying

February 8, 2022
A fake and non-supportive friend to someone in any community may poorly impact many for a while. If one fakes support for a community, it causes a ripple effect once the supposed support comes out. Faking support leads people to rethink the qualities of a person and potentially lead to mistrust.

Allies in disguise

February 3, 2022
As Tik Tok gains more and more users due to attention and recognition, the users of the app soon find out about Tiktok “stars”. Giving attention to stars leads to the recognition of these stars, which led the Hype House to earn its own Netflix Series. Every time a scandal happens inside the house and it manages to become publicized, viewers find themselves wanting to know more about the scandal.

Netflix releases new series, “Hype House”

January 21, 2022
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