Intelligentsia: Mr. Wass's Social Studies Blog

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Here is a new type of blog post that will hopefully interest many people. This has a deeper meaning than just the words on the paper. What do you think that this song really has to say? Below are the words and a link to the song to help you out. If this one goes [...]

 I am awakening the silent screams
Lingering restfully in your dreams
Waiting to spring
Take the chance
To twist our minds into a violent trance
Shouting
Doubting
Peace and security
The darkness shall depart
From our aching, empty hearts
Cannot they bear it any longer?
No they must be freed
From the devil’s greed
Here they come
Beware! Beware!
The screams have awoken
To play at the fair

This past weekend a Catholic church in Clayton, Georgia burned down. It was still undergoing construction, but the first service was to be held on Easter morning. The authorities suspect arson but so far have no evidence to prove their suspicions. This church was the only of it’s denomination. A question that has circulated the [...]

I am sure that many of you have heard about the woman whose pet chimpanzee mauled her friend. On February 16, Charla Nash was brutally attacked by Travis, a 200 lb. chimpanzee. Sandra Herold, the owner of Travis, had asked Ms. Nash to entice Travis back to her house, after he had left the house [...]

On Friday March, 6th on the third floor of the A&T history was made at Rabun Gap. The 8th grade hosted a symposium that included all of their hard work that they had published throughout the year. Sparked from an idea that Mr. Wass, Mrs. Loder, or Ms. Peeden had, or maybe an idea together [...]

We just wanted to know what kinds of music you listen to. If you don’t see the genre you generally listen to comment add it in a comment. Do you think people know whats in they’re music? Do you listen to popular music or odd ball music? Let us know!
 
Rap (Lil Wayne)
 
Hip hop (Jay Z)
 
R&B [...]

“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that [...]

Music surrounds us wherever we go. Some times people listen to some types of music because they are told it is “cool”, other people listen to the music that they want to listen to. No matter how you choose the music you listen to, the music itself almost always reflects the person listening to it. [...]