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CORPUS VOICEISSUE NO. 1TERM 1 2016
S T U D E N T - R U N P U B L I C A T I O N
PUTIN: THE MANBEHIND THE MYTH
HOW TOBECOME
FAMOUS INSIX EASY
STEPS...
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Welcome to the first issue of Corpus Voice for 2016.
If you are bored of studying (or bored of procrastinating on Facebook instead of studying),
why not read an article or two? There's plenty here to enjoy.
Some of my personal favourites include a compelling argument about why schools should
avoid going entirely digital (pg 2), and a (satirical) piece promising to make you famous (pg
5) - but to those of you chasing fame, keep the words of Marilyn Monroe in mind, “Fame is
a fickle place to be, and that’s no place to live.”
Also be sure to check out page 6 to devour the true story behind Russian leader, Vladimir
Putin. You'll learn a lot, I promise. There are also a number of terrific reviews and other
articles to discover within.
The content within has been produced by dedicated students from all years. When reading,
please appreciate the time and perspiration that went into every article, from the writing to
editing, through to layout and publishing.
I hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as I did putting it together,
Vicky Hebbs (12ME)
Editor, Corpus Voice
Send all your feedback, comments and complaints to
Which is more effective?
TabletsWe happen to be alive in this era of technology’s ascending future where the education system finds themselves asking this question: Are textbooks still necessary? A very good question, which sparks a hint of controversy. The answer is simple; yes, we do.
Back in the stone age when the ol’ pen and paper was the only thing students knew, everyone did just fine; discoveries were being made, as Isaac Newton’s law of conservational energy was created with pen and paper. Einstein could come to the conclusion that e=mc2, and he wrote on paper with a pen! Sure, it was somewhat cumbersome however worthwhile to obtain the results that they did! I doubt they ever wondered to themselves, “Will there ever be a more expensive yet slightly more compact way of storing information?”
One in six 10-14 year olds wear glasses to improve their sight when reading in Australia. This supports the statement that increased time with eyes behind a screen is very bad for your eyes, especially all day with minimal breaks! Optometrists suggest that every 20 minutes children should have a 5 minute break from technology, however this is certainly not going to happen in classrooms, as time is precious and cannot be wasted. Thus, in order to save children’s eyes and also money, textbooks should most certainly still be used.
TextbooksBy Tiana Inman, 9XA
The latest iPad costs $750+. That’s not including the extra $40 or so for applications! A textbook costs less than $50. Not only are textbooks worthwhile for mathematics, but studies have shown that children pick up faster through writing things down on pen and paper, rather than on a keyboard. This is an easily relatable thing as a I, a student, who uses both textbooks and laptops, can say that I process information faster when I write it down inside a book versus a computer.
In spite of the fact that some families have a tight budget, textbooks allow easy-access and can be kept almost pristine for hundreds of years in the form of a book, where the books can be passed down from
generation to generation without the need to buy another one, whereas online subscriptions expire within a year or two, and computers are outdated by the next generation almost annually. What about if you wanted your younger son/daughter to use the same book to save money? You would have to keep buying the same subscription every year, as well as a newer laptop to run this. You can’t go downloading games or music on your textbook, but maybe that is best, because laptops can offer distractions to young learners; there is a barricade between the teacher and the student, which is the lid of a laptop. Behind the lid hides games, music and things that kids aren’t supposed to do in school time! When using textbooks, the students have no choice but to do their work efficiently and learn.
Admitting to the education system that tablets and laptops have outdated textbooks isn’t necessarily a bad question; it is inevitable to happen. In 10, maybe 20 years from now, textbooks would have become
extinct, but I think that for the benefit of teachers, students and parents, textbooks should be kept around for a bit longer! Not only will it save the school and parents lots of money, it will also allow a longer
concentration span, which benefits teachers, it will save children’s eyesight, and it will more or less make students appreciate the ‘old fashion’ way of doing things.
Franklin Pierce Adams’ words, “Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year” can be considered by every human being when it comes to exercise.
Mums do it, dads do it, kids do it, you do it, your neighbour does it – almost everyone does it. We all know how to exercise, but do we know what actually happens in the brain, and its impact on how people feel when we do it?
There have been many studies to show that exercise can change a persons’ psychology. Similarly to drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines, exercise has been reported to increase the production of mood-boosting chemicals called
neurotransmitters in the body. These neurotransmitters influence our feelings, behaviours, and in turn lives. Contrary to the effect of illicit drugs, studies on exercise suggest that it can be used to help people suffering with mental illnesses, especially depression.
A ten-week experiment in 1984 by Lisa McCann and David Holmes on mildly depressed college students saw a significant decrease in the depression of participants who underwent regular aerobic exercise compared to participants who had relaxation periods and control group. On a self-measured depression scale, scores of students who exercised regularly in this time plummeted from 15 to 3 while,
in stark contrast, those who didn’t dropped from 15 to 12 on the scale. The study showed that exercise helped with significantly with lowering depression levels.
More recently, a study by Cooney and colleagues in 2013 concluded that exercise is a cheaper, more natural form of therapy for many mental illnesses in consideration and analysis of previous experiments.
So if you’re ever feeling sad for any reason, perhaps go for a run or join a sporting team, and if you already exercise regularly, keep up the good work!
IS EXERCISE A DRUG?Kenith Png 11SA
VLADIMIR: THE MAN, THE
MYTH, THE LEGEND
Alexander di Rosso, 11PAAs world leaders go, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is pretty brilliant. Unusual and a bit
scary, yes, but very good at what he does. He’s been Forbes magazine’s World’s Most
Powerful Person for the past three years straight. He’s far ahead of Obama, Angela
Merkel, and even legends like Tony Abbott or Donald Trump. On top of that, his personal
wealth is rumoured to be somewhere in the US $70 billion range, which would also make
him one of the wealthiest people on earth.
So what makes him tick? Frankly I’ve got no idea. I’m not even going to try. This isn’t
really a biography, just a collection of strange things about the Russian President.
Vladimir Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second city.
The Putin family was about as Soviet as you could get. His father worked in a tram
factory, his mother was a cleaner, and his grandfather was one of Stalin’s personal chefs
for a few years. Putin stated “we were a very ordinary family. A cook, after all, is a cook.”
They lived in a grubby innercity communal apartment with no hot water and rats in the
stairwell. In Soviet Russia this was pretty much luxury accommodation.
Putin's primary school teacher remembered him as intelligent but said that "if people hurt
him ... he reacted immediately ... he would fight like a cat suddenly with arms and legs
and teeth."
The young Putin probably took up judo for this reason and has held a black belt since the
seventies, as he recently reminded us with his 90minute instructional film Let's Learn
Judo with Vladimir Putin. He left Leningrad State University in 1975 with a degree in
international law and fluent German. Finally, he was a fan of various spy films that starred
suave Russian versions of James Bond.
He became a lieutenantcolonel and was described by his superiors as having "stunted
emotions" and "a lowered sense of danger." If you can think of something more sinister
than an emotionless Russian colonel please let me know, because I can't. The only role
he would land in a Bond film is the villain.
If Putin really was as unfeeling as his bosses suggested, then he was wasted. They sent
him to the city of Dresden in what was then Communist East Germany. We don't know
exactly what he did there but it probably involved following Western tourists and recruiting
disgruntled uni students to the KGB. Former members of his department "estimate that
they spent threequarters of their time writing reports."
Basically, despite what he might claim now, Putin was a very, very long way from being
James Bond, or a Bond villain, or anything interesting at all. And all those reports went to
waste anyway, because when the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989 he and his
colleagues had to spend all night burning them.
By this stage the Soviet Union was in freefall, with fighting in the streets and whole regions
breaking away every other month. In 1991 half the government attempted to overthrow the
other half.
Lieutenant Colonel Putin decided it was time to resign.
Right, storytime ends here. That's because Putin entered business, or local government, or
crime, or possibly all three. I don't really understand what he did in the nineties and I
definitely can't explain it. What we do know is that, to the surprise of almost everyone who
knew him, he was appointed acting President of the Russian Federation. That was on the
night of the 31st December 1999. Later he became President, then Prime Minister, and
now he's President again. One way or another, Vladimir Putin has run Russia for the whole
of this millennium.
His reign has been brutal. All those who oppose him, or look like they might oppose him,
are assassinated or arrested or mysteriously disappear. If they're too far away for that to
happen then they get locked out of their own servers, which are then destroyed. And so
on. Remember what his primary school teacher said about Putin reacting immediately to
those who hurt him? That's what he's been doing for the past sixteen years. If anyone gets
in his way they are destroyed. Whether he has any real aims beyond staying in power is
unclear, but I'm not going to go there.
What about another, more cheerful side of Putin? His public image. The tough, macho,
outdoorsy guy that's presented to the media. His feats are many. Aside from the
aforementioned judo, he's driven a racing car, gone to the bottom of the world's deepest
lake, flown a fighter jet at an airshow, and shot tracking darts into tigers, whales and polar
bears for research purposes.
A less successful environmental project of his was to lead endangered Siberian cranes on
their annual migration by flying ahead of them in a motorised hang glider. A few of the birds
followed him for a bit but then returned to land. Putin apparently blamed this on strong
winds.
Another stunt that didn't quite go to plan was riding a HarleyDavidson with the Night Wolves
motorcycle club in Sevastopol. The club is apparently Putin's favourite (I mean, every world
leader should have a favourite group of criminals) and may even have fought as proRussian
militia in the Ukraine. While the ride itself was a success, Putin was later blacklisted in
Finland due to his association with outlaw bikies.
Despite his stunted emotions, Putin has also shown a softer side by singing and playing the
piano at charity concerts. His Chief of Staff said of this "some people are saying he wants to
be the next Frank Sinatra, but Vladimir has a unique style that surpasses Frank and will
make him much bigger on a global scale." There's literally nothing I can say to improve on
that.
I'm coming up on my word limit but there's one last thing that I've got to mention: Superputin,
Man Like Any Other. It's a comicbook series that stars the man himself as a martial arts
action hero who travels Russia fighting terrorists and zombies with the help of a bearsuit
wearing sidekick who looks a lot like Putin's current deputy, Prime Minister Medvedev. Look
it up. It's only available in Russian but that doesn't really matter.
To be honest, that's quite a good way to sum up Vladimir Putin. Almost none of what he
does makes sense to us. Sometimes it's exciting and sometimes it's just scary, but he's
always interesting. And ultimately, unless you're one of the rival world leaders I mentioned
earlier, that's what we see him as. A source of entertainment. Brilliant entertainment, the kind
you really can't make up.
HOW TO BE A QUITTERBY VICKY HEBBS
Book Basics
Books. Who doesn't love them? They are a source of
knowledge and education. Books are put into different
categories known as "genres", such as fantasy, mystery, thrill,
adventure, education, history, information and science. We
gain a lot of information about the world and the things
around us. Books can either be fiction or non fiction. Fiction
means the story is unreal, imaginary such as, fairy tales,
mystery, thrill, adventure and fantasy. Non fiction means the
story is real and is meant to help us such as science,
information, history and education.
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Little Literature
The smallest book in the Welsh National Library is Old King Cole. It measures 1mm x 1mm and the pages can only be turned with a needle.
Future Fiction
It is predicted that within three years, 75% of books will be sold online and only 25% in brick and mortar bookstores.
Novel Generation
The first novel written on a typewriter is said to be Mark Twain's Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
NOVEL NEWS By Annalise Fernandez
There are many ways of reading, not just in literature. You have poetry, newspapers and magazines. There are many famous people who write for the good of having a reference to knowledge, such as William Shakespeare, John Webster and M.H. Abrams. There are also many famous authors of fairy tales such as Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Books are written not just for kids but for adults and young adults too. Now days, most of the books that are created have their own movies too. People around the world argue saying that the movies are better than the book. And a new theory was introduced as "the book was better than the movie".
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Moral Story
Think before you judge
A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call asap, changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor.
On seeing him, the father yelled, “Why did you take all this time to come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have any sense of responsibility?”
The doctor smiled and said, “I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came as fast as I could after receiving the call and now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work”.
“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies while waiting for doctor than what will you do??” said the father angrily. The doctor smiled again and replied, “We will do our best by God’s grace and you should also pray for your son’s healthy life”.
“Giving advises when we’re not concerned is so easy” Murmured the father.
The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, “Thank goodness! your son is saved!” And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running by saying, “If you have any questions, ask the nurse”.
“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state” Commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left. The nurse answered, tears coming down her face, “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was at the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery. And now that he saved your son’s life, he left running to finish his son’s burial.”
Moral: Never judge anyone because you never know how their life is and what they’re
going through.
Books, books, books - Everyone loves books!
(everyone worth knowing, anyway…)
our most loved childhood books hold meanings and feelings that can take us back in time and
evoke emotions like nothing else can… and who better to chat to about great books than an
english teacher? so here are a few of mrs carpenter’s childhood reads - but can you guess
which one is her absolute favourite?
Pools of Darkness
Malory Towers
The Magical Far Away Tree
The lion, the witch & the wardrobe
The chronicles of Narnia
Water Ship Down
The Hobbit
The Famous Five
the Secret seven
If you think you know mrs carpenter’s favourite, email [email protected] and you could score a prize!
Brooklyn tells the story of young Irish immigrant, Eilis Lacey, who leaves Ireland to seek a better life in Brooklyn, New York. This is not, contrary to the impression given in the trailer, solely a love story, but is more an exploration of home-sickness. A beloved priest tells Eilis “homesick-ness is an illness - it is awful for a while, and then it passes onto the next person.” This is true for her, who experiences such a terrible bout of homesickness she miserably traipses her way through her first days in New York. However, the Eilis eventually thrives in her job in a depart-ment store, starts further education, gains a social life and most, importantly for her, meets Tony. He is a loving if a little awkward young Italian-American plumber. Despite their cultural differ-ences, Eilis and Tony fall deeply in love.
There are countless vivid comic scenes, such as when Eilis fails to realise that no one else is eat-ing dinner on the ship to America because there are turbulent Atlantic waters ahead — she is duly punished for this with a night of violent vomit-ing. To add insult to injury, she is locked out of the bathroom by her cruel cabin neighbours,
which leads to an entertaining solution. Witty Irish humour also permeates the film, most no-tably from Julie Waters’ boarding house manager “Mrs Keogh” as well as the wry humour of Eilis herself. I also found the cinematography and scenery enchanting.
Fans of this film may be interested to know the BBC are currently producing a TV version of Brooklyn, with Julie Walters due to reprise the role Mrs Keogh.
My Rating: 3.5/5 Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 IMDb: 7.5/10
The Martian is an amazing, thrilling and incred-ible movie directed by Ridley Scott. It is about a NASA astronaut and Botanist named Mark Wat-ney (Matt Damon) whose mission is to go ex-plore and research Mars with five other NASA astronauts named Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chas-tain), Beth Johansen (Kate Mara), Rick Martinez (Michael Peña), Chris Beck (Sebastian Stan) and Alex Vogel (Aksel Hennie). During a dangerous sand storm, Mark gets hit by a flying debris and is presumed dead so he is left behind by his crew on Mars alone. When Mark wakes up, he has to learn how to survive on his own with only what's left behind, as well as to try and contact the NASA to bring him home which could take sev-eral months. A research mission on Mars has
now turned into a survival mission. Surviving Mars is something that no man has done before.
My Rating: 4.5/5 Rotten Tomatoes: 7.8/10 IMDb: 8.1/10
The Martian
Movie Reviews: ‘Brooklyn’ & ‘The Martian’
Brooklyn
Adriana Romeo, Year 7
Vicky Hebbs
The Ultimate Horror Game: Five Nights at Freddy’s
review by Deanna Clancey-Martin, Year 7
Five Night's at Freddy’s Five Nights at Freddy's is an indie horror game created by Scott Cawthon. You play as the night guard, checking lights and cameras, and slamming doors shut. The objective of the game is to survive five nights of jumps scares and mental trauma. Then there are five animatronics: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy, who are created for children at an old, creepy pizzeria. By day, they sing songs and entertain children. By night, they haunt the halls of the pizzeria, attempting to kill the night watchman and stuff him inside of a Fazbear suit.
Game Mechanics: How to playYour character is positioned in an office, filled with t.v monitors. There is a door either side of you, with two buttons saying "DOOR" and "LIGHT". You can look either side of you and click to light button to look at the blind spots outside of your doors. The blind spots are the areas that the cameras can't see. If an animatronic appears, click the door button to close the door and prevent them from entering. If an animatronic enters your office, you will be unable to close the door they appeared at or check the light. Flicking up the camera will last you a short time before the animatronic gives you a jump-scare. You can use the arrow keys or the mouse to switch between cameras. If the camera feed is static, it means that the animatronics are moving. Be mindful of where they are at all times. If you can't find an animatronic, it means that they're either at your door or in your office.
CharactersFreddy: The leader of the band of animatronics. He is a brown bear wearing a black top hat and tie, and holding a microphone. (Freddy looses his mic when he leaves the show stage) Freddy becomes active on night three, meaning that all animatronics are active. Freddy usually comes to your office and enters through to right door. Freddy has a laugh track that he plays when he becomes active that is actually a slowed down version of a little girl crying. Freddy also has a Golden counterpart called Golden Freddy, as deemed by the community.
Bonnie: The Guitarist in Freddy and Friends' Band. He is a purple bunny who wears a red bow tie and a red guitar. (Like Freddy, Bonnie loses his guitar when he leaves the show stage.) Bonnie is one of two animatronics who is always active for the five nights. Bonnie appears in the door way of the left door. Bonnie has a wheezy breathing sound that plays when he gets in your office when your camera is up. This sound helps support the 5 missing children theory that suggests that the 5 missing children that we are told about in the game where killed and stuffed into the animatronic's suits.
Chica: The backup singer in Freddy and Friends' Band. Chica is a yellow chicken, commonly mistaken as a duck, who wears a bib with the words "let's eat!" in pink printed on it and holds a pink cupcake that can also be found in your office. (Again, Chica, like Bonnie and Freddy, looses her cupcake when she leaves the stage.) Chica is the
other animatronic that is active since night one. Chica, like Freddy, appears in the door, but is only visible through to window. Chica also has the wheezy breathing sound when she has entered your office. Chica also has a glitch (it may have been fixed but, sadly, probably not) that makes her jump-scare continue for longer if you flick the camera up and down.
Foxy: Foxy is a pirate in pirate's cove who has been left behind (he is no longer useful as a pirate…)Foxy is a red fox with tears in his suit, revealing his endoskeleton, who has a silver hook on his right paw and a eye patch over his left eye. Foxy becomes fully active on night 2, but can become active on night one on the mobile version. Foxy can't be seen from the door or window. Foxy can only be seen through video feed and can't be stopped if you see him running down the hall, unless you immediately flick down the monitor and close the door. Foxy has a different attack pattern to the other animatronics. Foxy gradually comes out of pirate cove and dashes down the left hallway. He then leans in and proceedes to scream and give the night guard a heart attack. Foxy has a secret Easter egg that randomly activates during any of the nights. If you flick up the monitor, you can hear a kind of singing that gets louder the closer you get to pirate's cove.
The Final ReviewFive Nights at Freddy's is quite an interesting concept for a horror game. The idea of lifeless animatronic husks possessed by the angered spirits of the five missing children is quite a fascinating speculation, to say the least. I personally like to believe dream theory. Dream theory is a dream that suggests that all of the main 4 games are just a dream. The gameplay of FNaF isn't like any I've seen before in a horror game, and makes the game both fun and also challenging. The first five nights are difficult enough, but then there's night 6 and night seven (which is the custom night.) I barely passed night six, but I was absolutely destroyed by night 7. It's not impossible, as proved by many people, which is a reason I still keep trying to beat it. Sadly, I am yet to succeed, however…
I only have one complaint about FNaF - The New Game button. When you first look at the menu, you are faced with two options. They are New Game and Continue: Night 1. After completing night 5 on my iPad, I was crying tears of joy. I took a break and went back to play and hit the new game button by mistake instead of ‘continue’. This has happened to other people, as shown by Markiplier in FNaC (Five Night's at Candy's). I think it would be better if there was a larger gap between the two buttons, but it may just be me and my fat fingers! I love Five Nights at Freddy's and everything about it, so I'm rating it 5/5.
Snapshot: What junk foods do Corpus students love most?!
I carefully selected 43 lucky year 7 students to discover what their favourite junk food was: out of pavlova, ice cream, apple crumble, pizza and chocolate.
The final results were… Strangely, chocolate came a sad last, pavlova and apple crumble drew for 4th place, ice cream came 2nd and… dun dun dun… PIZZA was the favourite food of the 43 Year 7s! So that explains the long canteen queue on Thursdays…
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