THE JAGUAR JOURNAL Volume 3, issue 2 November, 2009

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in this issue: in the shops . . . 3 sports . . . 11 activities . . . 18 in the lunchroom . . . 20 commentary . . . 22 literary corner . . . 31

IN THE

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Cosmetology is one of the mul-tiple trades in SCVTHS. Cos-metology is the study of Cos-metics. You learn styling, hair cutting, hair coloring, facials, manicures, pedicures and many other interesting things. I feel that this is a strong and in-fluential program because the environment helps and prepares you for the real world. It also gives you a future to look toward if col-lage is not an option for you.

One of the best parts of the cosmetology program is our teacher, Ms. Janet Coleman. Ms. Coleman is strong woman, and a won-derful teacher. She helps us out and doesn‟t stop until she is sure that we understand. And aside

from that she teaches us life lessons. One of the many is that we should respect, love, and cherish ourselves. And carry ourselves in a way that is classy and attractive.

in the shops . . .

In Cosmetology by Celita Evans

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Cosmetology at votech is an amazing thing to do and you get a lot of it. You may gravi-tate towards a career in the sa-lon industry if you have a de-sire to express yourself crea-tively and thrive in a fast-paced work environment. Those who have a natural ability to care

for people tend to excel in the field of cosmetology. Other traits that is important to a sa-lon professional to have a positive attitude, and the ability to be self motivated. When you come to high school for it, you start off young and once you graduate you can work in a salon and not have to worry about going threw it in college. You have many great experiences going into this field, for example many great field trips to New York once a year and the Emiliani show. You learn great things at them, and learn new things. They teach you everything you need and you always have fun. If you love doing hair, nails and even skin associated things you really should join and have a great experience

in the shops . . .

Cosmetology by Danielle Gierloff

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Every year the dance department at Vo-tech takes the dancers to a Na-tional High School Dance festival. The festival offers amaz-ing opportunities for the dancers such as, exploring different dance styles, getting the opportunity to work with really well known dancers, and audition-ing for scholarships to summer programs, and colleges. It‟s also a place where dancers from all over can come to sup-port each other, by bringing dif-ferent pieces that they‟ve worked on to perform at a show case. Every year the fes-tival is held at a different arts school in the U. S, this year it will be held at New World

Dance School of the Arts, in Miami Florida.

The dancers have also been coming up with different ideas to raise money for the trip since it is pretty pricey this year. It would be really amazing if at differ-

ent fundraisers, or shows, the school came out to support us. The first fundraiser that we are going to do is standing outside different stores, and busi-nesses asking for donations. Showing your support means a lot, and the littlest bit helps. This is an amazing opportunity for all of the dancers, so with any opportunity you get please show your support.

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6th Annual National High School Dance Festival by Samantha Miller

Image source: nhsdf.org

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Wonder if we'll be allowed to attend the 2010 New York auto show at the Jacob Javits cen-ter. As of right now SCVTHS has cancelled all trips to New York, Why you ask; suppos-edly it's for the terrorist threats. But here‟s my question why this year? September 11th happened in 2001 and we were still allowed to go to this car show until now!

In my personal opinion I be-lieve that there was a little bit more of a reason than just the whole terrorist threats. Be-cause if they were so con-cerned about that, all the NY trips would have been can-celled long ago. So what else is it? Was it to save money? Or is there another reason? I‟m sure all of the students would like to know the reason

behind the cancellation of all these trips because it's not just the car show. There's many trips in NY that will be can-celled and who will be suffer-ing you may ask, all of the stu-dents that look forward to these trips every year.

in the shops . . .

by Dylan Page

image source: carbodydesign.com

image source: www.theautochannel.com

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All generation has its own rites and rituals, but they all share the desire to seperate them-selves from their predecessors and create something distinc-tive. L.A. natives were never going to ghost-ride the whip, that‟s a Bay Area thing. The “Crank That” dance and “Stanky Leg” were cool, but that was the Dirty South‟s thing. And no one wanted to rock khakis and oversized white tees anymore. I mean, you‟re really going to gang-bang?

This is when the new dancing craze, Jerkin, hit the main stage. Jerkin, which was started in L.A., was evolved version of the break-dance move the Roger Rabbit. This is done by kids wearing skinny

fluorescent jeans and usually rocking some skate shoes. When Ben J and Legacy saw this dance and the music made for it they were inspired. They wondered why this dance hadn‟t hit the main stage yet, so they produced the song “You‟re a Jerk”.

As soon as this song dropped, jerkin‟ became a dancing fad. This influenced many other jer-kin‟ artists to produce songs, like Cold Flamez‟s “Miss Me Kiss Me”. Jerkin‟ is a dance that is here to stay. It is the dance of the 90‟s babies; it‟s the dance of our generation. Jerkin‟ is more than just a craze, like the “Stanky Leg” or the “Soulja Boy”. Jerkin‟ is a whole different style of dancing and it‟s not going anywhere.

by Neal Doshi

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Art is some-thing that I believe is very mov-ing. I love art because it can say so much about the artist that created the piece. Whether it‟s a drawing, painting, sculpture or photography, art is incredible in every way. Like the old say-ing goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I find that to be very true because without having a word on the paper it can give off as many ideas and feelings as the artist or audi-ence wants to see.

I‟ve been getting more and

more into photography lately be-cause I feel that there‟s so much you can do with a photo. Just a picture you take can give off a certain feel and by just tweak-

ing a few things in Photoshop you can give it a whole new vibe. I‟m in commercial art and it gives me some of the tech-niques and knowledge that can take your art to the next level. I would recommend my shop to anyone whose very interested in art.

Music is also a form of art and

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ART by: Jess Johnson

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SPORTS

I can‟t go on enough about how much I love music. I play guitar and enjoy just about every genre of music you can find. Creating music is just like drawing a picture. You give your song whatever feel you think fits your mood at the time and the listener can under-stand that. When I‟m feeling angry or upset I tend to listen to loud angry music like metal and hardcore music. I feel like it releases some tension and makes me feel better. Listen-ing to a song you really like when you‟re feeling down makes you feel less alone in whatever situation you‟re in. So if you‟re ever feeling down, bored, or you just feel out of place; draw or paint something that matches your mood and just see what happens with it. Listening to a song where someone sings about some-thing similar to how you feel will also make a difference. Art is my life and I‟ll continue to do what I love.

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It‟s the second year that Som-erset County Vocational and Technical High School has a girl‟s J.V soccer team. The first season was finished as 3 wins, 7 loses, and 2 ties. It was a very good season con-sidering it was a new team. Yes, they lost 7 games but played very hard at every one of them. Everybody knows that to have a good team you have to be able to work to-gether, and for a new team, not knowing anybody‟s skills, or ever working together to ac-complished something it worked out pretty good. The team faced a couple of diffi-culty‟s losing their goalie dur-ing the season, and at the be-ginning of the season losing one of their players. Regard-less the team made knew

friends, learned to work to-gether, and enjoyed every sin-gle minute of every game.

Soccer season ‟09 was one win, five loses, and two ties; this season the team didn‟t have many games. The teams were divided, some games weren‟t so great others re-gardless of winning or losing, the team gave it their best. It was a very exciting season, the team lost a couple of play-ers and but also gain a couple of new ones.

Sometimes it‟s hard starting off new, I forming a team and then getting certain individuals to work together as a team was a task Coach O‟Neil phased. It was hard at first, getting people to sign up, hav-ing try outs, also getting very

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Soccer season „09 by: Maria Corrales

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different people to work to-gether. This goes to show that if you want something you can accomplish it. I remember freshman year Mr. O‟Neil was going around getting girls to sign up and talking to them about having a soccer team. And now junior year and we‟ve had two soccer seasons al-ready; Coach O‟Neil wanted this and he accomplished it.

Next year we‟ll have a varsity girls soccer team, the team will be losing four players that are seniors this year. But hopefully the team will gain new talented players. It‟s not just a soccer team at the end of the season you learn to love each other as a family; you earn respect for one another, make develop new friendships and experi-ence the excitement of soccer.

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Well all the sports teams in vo-tech are doing so badly this year. The boy‟s soccer team this year is not really showing their skills this year. They could be better but I think they really don‟t care or they really don‟t try. The head coach Mike Mcclain is doing the best he can; he is a really good coach. He is also the boy‟s baseball coach.

The boy‟s baseball team was really good last year. Let‟s see if they can have two great sea-sons in a row. There are so many good people on the baseball. I really think vo-tech should get a football team. If we get a football team there would be so many people that would want t o play. Football is a great sport, it is really easy to learn and really fun to play.

The girl‟s soccer team from what I know is doing ok. They always put up a good fight against their opposite team. The girl‟s softball team was not that good last year. Maybe this year the girls will have a better season. Hopefully they will have more girls try out this year. The basketball team last year was on the roll. They had a great season. They won most of their games. Maybe this year they can go all the way.

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SPORTS by: Justin Babich

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SCVTHS offers a variety of sport clubs, the most impor-tant ones are Soccer, Basket-ball and baseball. There are different seasons for every sport, Soccer is played at the end of the summer and begin-ning of fall, Basket ball is the fall and the winter and base-ball is at the start of the sum-mer. I myself have played soc-cer and baseball I‟m better at soccer and I also enjoy it more, This year I am trying out for basketball because I think I can do a good effort and maybe make the team. I‟m a starter forward, this position is usually for the leader of the team and the one that is sup-posed to score or set up peo-ple to score. In soccer the two things that matter the most is scoring and keeping the other team from scoring and also to play fair. Right now Soccer season is ending and basket-ball is about to begin so If you like staying fit, doing sports or

just having fun I would recom-mend singing up for some of the sports clubs, you will never now until you try it out. Aside from that there is also fitness club or weightlifting, here you do a lot of cardio and lift weights if you are thinking about joining it would be a good idea for getting fit. There is also golf club, bowling club and ski club, all these activi-ties are afterschool and it‟s a perfect opportunities to hang out with friends and have fun. I think it‟s good for the school to have clubs because stu-dents need to exercise and stay fit and you do not do enough in gym class. For all these activities there is paper work to hand in so before you get to play you have to hand in all your paper work, so don‟t forget. You can get information sometimes from the morning announcements or go directly to the coaches.

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Sport Clubs by: David Villafane

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This year has been exciting in gym class. To begin, we be-gan our year hearing that we would have gym uniforms. Everyone complained at first, but once we received them no one complained anymore. They are white shirts, with “scvths gym class” logo on them. They also have blue on the sleeves and around the neck. Anyways, back to gym class we began playing soccer which is very popular amongst the student body. After the 2 weeks of soccer was up, we went on to football. We started playing two hand touches but then we switched to flag to make the game fairer. In the upcoming weeks, “we will switch things up”, says gym teacher Patricia Lough-ney. We will be playing more indoor games along with an 8 day fitness test. Starting the

second marking period, we will start to break the classes apart and some students will go to health class. This should make for a fun year in gym class.

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In Gym Class by: Brian Silverman

Source: tatsandtags.com

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The 2009 season for the soc-cer players at SCVTS was plain horrible. The boy‟s team went 0-17 this awful 09 sea-son. They suffered so many losses only because of the lost of seniors last year. Coach Mike will have to step

up his game and improve the skill level of his soccer players for next year if he wishes to win a game next year. I strongly believe that the 2010 season will be better. The re-turning team will be better out-fitted to win the games they

will have to win. I‟m looking forward to a 10-7 season next year, I have no un-certainties in my mind that the team will do no less than that. The girl‟s soc-cer team went 1-5-2, the team was only able to play eight games due to the horrible weather during the season, but they at least got one win. O‟Neil will also have to work his girls a bit harder in order to start win-ning more games for next season.

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The 2009 season for the soc-cer players at SCVTS was plain horrible. The boy‟s team went 0-17 this awful 09 sea-son. They suffered so many losses only because of the lost of seniors last year. Coach Mike will have to step up his game and improve the skill level of his soccer players for next year if he wishes to win a game next year. I strongly believe that the 2010 season will be better. The re-turning team will be better out-fitted to win the games they will have to win. I‟m looking forward to a 10-7 season next year, I have no uncertainties in my mind that the team will do no less than that. The girl‟s soccer team went 1-5-2, the team was only able to play eight games due to the horri-ble weather during the sea-son, but they at least got one win. O‟Neil will also have to work his girls a bit harder in order to start winning more games for next season.

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Soccer in SCVTS by:

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One of the many clubs offered at SCVTHS Is the ski club. Ski Clubs are very popular in many schools and are a good way for kids to get out and have fun with their friends. Many people think clubs or ex-tracurricular activities at school are for nerds, and peo-ple that have no life, but peo-ple tend to think differently about ski and snowboard clubs. Last year SCVTHS‟ ski club was a big hit. We had the bus filled on al-most every trip, and Al-most every-body that went last year are going to par-ticipate again this year. We went on about

eight trips and most people never missed one. Personally I Think it is a great thing to do, even if you are brand new at skiing or snowboarding. I my-self will continue to do ski club until I graduate, and will rec-ommend it to my friends or anybody interested in joining it.

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Ski Club by: Tim Zoda

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Source: www.itraveldays.com

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To say the least our lunches aren‟t exactly the greatest and are defiantly not worth 2.75 because all we get is a carton of a drink and a piece of dried out bad food. There are probably countless write up in the office for students leaving and going to get l lunch this problem would not occur if we just had better food if you ask any-one of the kids at our school that get written up for leaving during lunch there honest answer would just be the want a real lunch instead of just a snack that isn‟t even good.

I think we can solve this problem by ether getting better lunches or just let the students go to lunch where ever they want as long as there back by the time they have to be. Its really not that big of a deal to let the students go to lunch and if they don‟t come back you can just write them up for a cut. But that is a decision that the administrators have to make and they really should make one or this problem might get worse and worse.

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Lunch-room by: Nick Forgetta

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds: Af-ter removing all that sticky pumpkin pulp from the seeds, throw them into a bowl and combine with olive oil and salt. For a spicy kick: add paprika and chili powder. For more fla-vors: add cinnamon and nut-meg (but keep the salt). Once seasoned, spread the seeds on a baking sheet and roast them at 350 °F for about 15 minutes.

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies: These little dessert hamburg-ers are such a crowd pleaser. If you want to make friends: serve these. Originally an Amish treat, whoopie pies are now appearing in bakeries all over. This version involves two cakey pumpkin cookies made with three whole cups of pumpkin puree, cloves, ginger, and cinnamon, which get sandwiched with cream cheese frosting.

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes: You start with a boxed cake mix then along comes multiple sticks of butter, pow-dered sugar, four eggs, and a brick of cream cheese. You really have to try this at least once.

Pumpkin Olive Oil Bread: One of the best uses of pump-kin purée is this recipe for pumpkin bread. It uses deli-cately flavored olive oil and plenty of warm winter spices for a truly exceptional flavor and texture.

Pumpkin Turkey Chili: Sub-stantial and versatile, chili is a wonder-food. In this version, the pumpkin bulks up the mix-ture and adds a sweet, earthy undertone fairly uncommon in healthier chilies. We also added green chilies, red kid-ney beans, cumin, cayenne pepper, and a handful of cilan-tro at the end. A dash of cinna-mon or a few teaspoons of co-coa powder wouldn't hurt ei-ther.

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5 Pumpkin Foods You Need to Try! by: Chauna Green

Tired of plain pumpkin

pie?…………try these!

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I don‟t hate school but it‟s not exactly a love situation. I like being in school it fills part of my day up, gives me a reason to come out of my house dur-ing the winter, and it is basi-cally better than staying at home all day or working. One of the things that I do like about school is the fact that you meet people, and you kind off hang with your friends. One the down side you have to go to classes and do work. Even though I get bored of work inside the school it‟s probably true that I will need it for my future. The work you do in school basically gives you the building blocks for life. You learn to be responsible, get things done in time, make friends, and choose from wrong and right. Once we get out into the real world we are basically on our own, but thanks to the 12 years of

school you have some type of idea of how things work I the real world. I personally think that if I was-n‟t in school id be somewhere doing something pointless and living paycheck to paycheck. We should really take school seriously because it sets up our future.

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School by: Carlos Vela

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As you may know a very important election is coming up for New Jer-sey, we have to choose who we want to be our next governor. There are three candidates this year Corzine, Christie and Daggett. Corzine is democ-ratic, Christie is republican and Daggett is independent. On the subject of education Corzine says that he wants to improve education and he wants to keep education a top priority. Christie says that funding education is useless because “change won‟t come with more money”. Daggett states “this is not just a finan-cial issue and educational is-sue, it is a moral issue. What-ever works best for each stu-dent should be utilized.” That‟s just one issue that the candidates are discussing.

They are also discussing taxes, businesses and more. In my opinion Corzine should-n‟t get another try at being our governor. New Jersey needs a change and that change is ei-ther Daggett or Christie. This election has gotten pretty in-tense with all of the commer-cials attacking each other about things that have hap-pened in the past that they are bringing back up so they can show the public who they really are. I think that this elec-tion is going to be a hard deci-sion and it could benefit us or it could hurt us.

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Who Will You Vote For? by: Laura Macaro

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source: nj.com

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For all you trout fisherman-- or people who enjoy having fun catching big trout out of the nearby streams and rivers, such as the Black River in nearby Clinton, or locally, in Hillsborough where the South Branch River is located, NJ Fish and Wildlife has been busy! On October 14 2009 they stocked over 21,000 fish from rainbow trout to brown trout and brook trout. The av-erage size of the trout is 12-22 inches and about 3-5 pounds. Holy Schmoley those are some big fish! One of my favorite spots for trout fishing is the Black River. It is a nice walk through nature and also the fishing is phe-nomenal. They stocked a nice big 25 inch rainbow trout on October 14 2009, and so far no one has caught it. The dates of stocking are on the web site of

http://njfishandwildlife.com/ there, you can find all the stocking dates and regulations for trout fishing, hunting, salt-water fishing etc. For fly fishermen, a size 20 pheasant tail nymph river bug would the very thing to catch a lunker! Also use a size 14 green caddis fly which also at-tracts the monster fish. For hours of fun and the excite-ment of hooking into a mon-ster, fly fishing can‟t be beat; Trust this correspondent on that.

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The Avid Angler by: Marc Pasternak

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This past week I saw Inven-tion of a lie. It was a god awful movie and was a complete waste of my time. It starred Ricky Gervais the comedian and actress Jennifer Garner. The movie is about a parallel universe in which it is impossi-ble to tell a lie. One day Ricky‟s character was fired from his job and was going to the bank to withdraw money when he somehow lied about how much money he had in his account. From then on out he tells lies to everyone

and becomes rich and fa-mous. He goes back to his job one day and gets it back be-cause he wrote a new movie and it was great. He ended up being the best movie writer ever. Even with all this success the girl he loves still doesn‟t love him back and he goes into a state of depression. At the end of the movie though she real-izes she loves him and they end up happy together. They have a child together and only Ricky and his son are the only people in the world that can lie. All together this movie was horrible. It was a waist of 2 hours of my life and if I could go back in time I would never go see it.

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Movie Review by: Tyler Santora

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Teachers have a hard time un-derstanding why kids feel the need to leave lunch, or any other class, to go out into the woods to smoke a cigarette. The problem is cigarettes are addictive and kids can‟t wait until the end of the day to have one. So what‟s the an-swer to this problem? Is it posting security guards around the school going to solve the problem? Or writing up students for being caught with cigarettes? No the an-swer is a smoking lounge. The school has tried write ups and posting security guards around the school and it has yet to stop kids from smoking. Students now have to leave lunch, missing their chance to eat, run around the school to find a teacher-free area and have their cigarette. No mat-ter what hassle you try to put them through, a kid who

smokes is going to find a way to smoke. So instead of trying to stop the problem, just try to contain it. By making the area next to the lunchroom a smok-ing zone, students will have a place to go, still be able to eat, and the security guards can focus on more important things. image source: tv.ku.edu

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Smoking on Campus by: Adam Januse

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All you action sport watchers out there should tune into channels like Fuel TV and get into the creative are of BMX (bicycle moto cross). Bmx is a definite way to have fun. BMX is now in the Olympics and the worlds best riders compete for the win. All the time, competi-tions are happening where money, clothes, and free parts are given away to people that compete. You can pick from many types of styles such as Street, Park, Vert, Racing, and Flatland. For those who like to cruise around and find their own ob-sticles to ride on, Street BMX is obviously for you. People that like smooth, custom built ramps that you could never imagine, Park BMX sounds good. Vert BMX is for those that just like to ride a massive half pipe, they‟ll enjoy Vert BMX. Racing is just for those

who like motor cross racing but not the huge 500 foot jumps. And Flatland BMX is for people that have an amaz-ing sense of balance and tim-ing. No matter what style of BMX you do, you have to be confident in yourself and push yourself to be number one.

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BMX by: Raymond Straszewski

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image source: www.future10.com

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The Honda TRX450r ATV was intro-

duced to the world in 2004 along with

other 450r models such as Yamahas, Su-

zuki’s, Kawasaki’s, and Can-Am. The

Honda TRX450r started the legacy with is

more powerful and efficient 449cc carbu-

reted engine which was putting out the

most horsepower and torque out of all the

450r’s. The TRX was an unstoppable su-

per power in the MX(motocross) industry

and definitely delivered on the race track,

and single handedly won every race.

Honda’s suspension wasn’t the best in the

industry but it made up for it with its un-

stoppable power band. Yamaha’s

YFZ450r was known to have the best han-

dling and suspension in the business and

was always right behind Honda in the

races. Honda’s handling and suspension

capabilities came in second behind Ya-

maha’s.

As the ATV industry

took a turn for the better

by introducing fuel in-

jected motors for their

race bikes to better them-

selves on the race track

and trails. Yamaha, Su-

zuki, and Kawasaki have

fuel injected 450cc race

quads but Honda and Can

-Am decided to stay with

carbureted models.

Honda’s carbureted en-

gines are still dominating

the race world as the fast-

est 450cc quad that’s why

they never switched to fuel

injected but it is in the works that in 2011

Honda will make the change. Hondas

700cc TRX700xx quad is the only Honda

race bike with fuel injection where all the

other ATV companies have fuel injection

on all of their race models. Fuel injection

is a more efficient fuel delivery system

then carbureted because it enables you to

start up and go without having the bike

warm up, also eliminates bogging under

load at high RPM’s, and better fuel deliv-

ery for instant and more constant power.

The only advantage with carbureted en-

gines is that they’re a lot easier and sim-

ple to work on and fix. The revolution is

here with fuel injection and the Honda

TRX450r has conquered it once again. Let

the legacy live on in Honda Racing Com-

pany (HRC).

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Honda TRX450r Specifics by: Kevin Klimas

image source: www.pmspolaris.com

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Have you ever felt like it was a waste of time to try? Every time you want to say something you shut your

mouth and smile. Have you ever felt the need to cry with them but just look

in their eyes Smile and say that they are going to be fine?

Have you ever just wanted to run away with them and NEVER come back? WHY DON’T YOU,

Because you really love that person. Because they mean the world to you.

Or just because you care about them so much and you just don’t want to see them hurt anymore?...

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Stephanie Diaz

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Confused angry violent, The few words she once was!

She used to fight all the time and she used to get real “tight” She never understood or wanted to understand what people

told her and why that told her those things. She used to think her life was a dream

and NONE of this was really happening! The only thing is that it‟s a reoccurring nightmare…

She had to grow up way too fast… 2 was the new 4

4 was the new 8… and so on. She always had to do for others before she did for herself.

Always had to take of everybody else, No room nor time left for her care or even comfort!

Then when things finally get better its hard to figure out if she was 14 or 28.

Regardless she didn‟t know how to act. Mentally she was already 14 numerically

she was supposed to be 7. So time came to move on…

Torn apart because of a habit that can't be fixed, That cant be altered!

16 or 32. Now you tell me why she has to be grown!?!

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Stephanie Diaz

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The long nights awake and all the excuses

Dealing with the heartbreak and throbbing bruises. I try and live life like a fairytale… but truth is I‟m not even close

to a Cinderella story. I just want to get up and bail, I want to get out from

under this wet umbrella. The air I breathe is being taken by hate, hardly any left for me to take a breath.

I feel like bait, getting closer and closer to death! Always confused and NEVER well kept! I just feel abused over used and trapped!

I am a 16 year old female stuck with a mind frame of an older woman.

So now you tell me, why do the long nights seem longer... And my life seems to ponder?

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Stephanie Diaz

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Out Of the Kindness of Your Heart…….. Have you ever tried to help someone in need

who was very rebellious? Someone who you didn‟t even know?

Someone who you see everyday walking into school lonely waiting in one corner for the 7:42 bell ring?

Does it ever bother you? Do you ever wonder if there might be something that

you could do to help them? Answer is: there‟s always something you can do.

You make eye contact every single morning, never missing a day until finally you make the first attempt to walk over.

She stands there nervously as you approach with a face that you will never forget, a face that says so much

but so little at the same time. The approach was unsuccessful.

You sit back and wonder what you could of did better…………

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Christina Santana

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This edition of The Jaguar Journal was written and published by the 2009-2010 Junior class at the Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School.