Posted on May 27th, 2008 by jwilsterman
A class on blogging sounds…. interesting. The first day of blogging destroyed my expectations, I remember myself imaging sitting in a class distinctly based on computers and an indirect form of journalism. I was expecting to learn the basics of internet journalism and the usefulness of a blog. This was obviously not going to be [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by jwilsterman
If you saw a person commit a robbery, who would you call? If you saw someone kill another person who would you call? If you were trapped in your own house by a group of four kidnappers and managed to reach the phone to make a single call, who would that call try and reach? [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by jwilsterman
Start stocking up on water, because the next time you go to buy it at the store, or the pump, it may not be such a bargain. There is new research being done, mostly by accident, which is looking towards saltwater as the solution to the successor of fossil fuels. An inventor recently stumbled [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by jwilsterman
http://www.esquire.com/features/essential-skills-0508?src=rss
Who’s to say what I should be able to do or not? Well on second thought this is not a half bad list. What is provided here is a short compellation of the essential skills to survive in the world as a male of the human species. What more could us guys ask for? [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by jwilsterman
Is there no better way? Twenty-two teams of four plus various faculty and their offspring descend upon the weather hardened Tabor Academy track. For many it is there first time seeing the track, unaware until this moment the possessed one or a team to go along with it. Today these one hundred or so [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by jwilsterman
A quick recap for those who were not there or have forgotten; a young man in Indonesia is infected with rampant growths, and warts, what is later labeled by the media as “bark-like” developments, and his appendages are transformed into “tree-like” limbs, the man himself is labeled the “Tree-man”. Fast forward a little more [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by jwilsterman
This past week Tabor Academy hosted its tri-annual revisit days; three closely scheduled days in which accepted students tour Tabor in hopes they choose to attend Tabor over one of the others schools they were likely accepted at. During these days it is implemental to Tabors Success that the school as a whole puts on [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by jwilsterman
Imagine in a not to distant future, next time you realize your driving close to empty you pull up to a gas station. Instead of pumping your tank full of fossil fuels you’re using algae oils. This may be a closer future than you believe. In less than 10 years cars and anything else [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by jwilsterman
The Olympics, at time for the world to join together put aside their differences and compete at the utmost level in various sports and competitions. This event held every two years, switches between the winter and summers games, finding a new home city every opening ceremony. We now find out selves in the summer of [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by jwilsterman
Get the entire school together, put them on an assortment of busses (a topic we will cover later), drive into providence RI, watch a 3 hour performance of Richard III, and repeat the first steps in reverse. What could go wrong? Surprisingly not much. What has come to be almost tradition at Tabor, every [...]
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