Rodriguez High School
January 2010
Dancing through life
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Del Toro twins find outlet for their creative side By Alantae Breggs (’11) There is a long line of creativity that moves through our campus that we don’t know about. RHS has a wide range of musicians, artists, dancers, singers and many other students who possess great talents. Among them are Alysha and Ariana Del Toro. These twin sisters started competitive dancing at a young age with Dance Direction, before they were invited to become members of The Lisa Clark Dancers, where they began studying jazz, tap, ballet, modern, and several other styles of dance. The different styles of dancing captured them so powerfully that they were convinced that they, too, would grow up to be influential dancers. Alysha says she loves dancing; it became her niche. She has no plans to stop. Ariana said she loves when she learns a piece of choreography that she connects to, which is why she thinks she started dancing in the first place, and why she loves it. The seniors get a tremendous amount of support and inspiration from their mom, family, and friends, they said. “It takes an athlete to dance, but it takes an artist to be a dancer,” Ariana says. Alysha’s favorite parts about dance are being exposed to new styles, meeting new instructors, and new challenges. She prefers hip-hop and jazz styles of dance. Ariana developed admiration as a lyrical and contemporary dancer when she was commended by an instructor, who said she danced with her heart.
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Alysha and Ariana, 17, are passionate about their work as dancers. They said dancing represents their creative outlet and is the only thing that really pushes them. One of the their biggest challenges is trying to balance school and dance, and to keep progressing in both areas. Both are honor roll students. While the girls struggle some to find their own individuality, they do share the same hobbies. Besides dance, they both enjoy snowboarding, wakeboarding, and drawing. Alysha loves doing anything artistic in her
spare time. As for Ariana, she wants to improve her wakeboarding and snowboarding skills. They have hopes to attend Saint Mary’s College and eventually enter into the medical field. The future holds endless possibilities. They strive to keep improving not only as students and dancers, but as artists. “Always give feeling to everything you do and never half a-- anything,” Alysha says.
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a site anyone can look at is setting yourself up. I don’t do sexting, but if a couple has trust in their relationship and you know your boyfriend wouldn’t share the photo with anybody, then there’s no problem in doing it.” “You just want to make your boyfriend happy. When he asked me for the photo, I felt a little weird cause it was something I never did before. Once he receives one photo, he’s going to want another one,” says a freshman who asked to be left anonymous. Teenagers also send teasing, flirtatious text messages that are not always nude.
“I didn't show my face in it, and I wasn't naked. It’s like, once you give into any little thing, it’s just another little piece of innocence he's taken away from you. Now-a-days, girls don't even care about their morals.” Sending and receiving suggestive photos has become a huge issue in society, especially with criminals. Vacaville CHP officer Braulio Mendieta has been arresting criminals for many years now. Regardless, “almost all of the criminals CHP officers have dealt with had some sort of child pornography in their cell phone.”
He shares that California has not really hit the issue because we are more of a liberal state, “unlike Vermont and Ohio, which are more conservative states. They have already introduced legislation towards sexting.” “As a CHP officer I would advise teenagers the dangers in sexting and how no matter what your age is, it’s a bad judgment.” Despite feeling under pressure sometimes, teens may not always think about what can happen if they get caught. Depending on the way you look at the situation, there can be many consequences to sexing.
Twin sisters dancing away
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Sexting causes teen-age controversy By Brittany Hernandez (’11)
“Send me a sexy picture” is, in fact, a commonly used text message teenagers receive now-a-days. Sexting is sending erotic messages via texts or emails with sexually explicit words or photos. This is a new trend teenagers have been easily influenced to follow. What do RHS students have to say about sexting? Senior Shalamar Jamerson believes there is nothing wrong with sexting unless you’re doing it over MySpace. She said, “Exploiting your pictures over