TeenView Magazine Oct 2018

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NEW CONTACT RULES

Make the Pledge

PARK THE PHONE Emerald City

DANCEFESTOPIA

AUGUST 2018

HALLOWEEN FASHION

ARE YOU IN VIEW

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t has been a little over three years that we have published our TEENVIEW magazine in the Wichita and surrounding areas. Yet, I am not sure many of you know exactly what this publication means, and I think it is important that you do.

HOPELESSNESS Some years ago, as I tried to empower a group of young people at the local Boys and Girls Club, I noticed that I was starting to become ineffective. I regrouped and began to offer up some of my best presentations that would inspire a nation; yet, these few students were not moved. After a while, I stopped with the presentation (feeling a bit insecure in my ability to teach) and flat out asked the students, “What’s going on?”. They responded, “Mr. Murphy, we like you and appreciate what you are doing. We just don’t believe that what you are saying is possible for us.”

I’ll never forget that day. In fact, I thought about it for a long time. These kids “are” hopeless.

There is nothing I can say that can move them from this state. Hopelessness eats away at your will, conceals your dreams and smothers your passion... For the young, it steals the possibilities of the future. I knew that my purpose in “Nourishing My Brother” would be fulfilled in restoring hope to a hopeless generation.

So after some thought and a great deal of prayer, it occurred to me that if the students could somehow touch their dream, then they would see it possible to obtain. Our youth needed to realize that their lives are significant, and that their views matter… and so was “birthed,” The TEENVIEW Magazine! Producing a magazine would allow them to meet people, attend events, research careers and experience opportunities that they could, otherwise, only dream. They could write about them for their peers to also learn from their experiences. It was a great idea! The students had a sense of restored hope as we worked to make this project happen. The only challenge was that I didn’t know how to produce a magazine by myself. It was no surprise that it took us a whole year to get the first one out, and then, another year for the second one.

GIFTS WITHIN After a while and with little community support, we shelved the TEENVIEW project. We worked to put on events to try and raise money which turned out to be a BIG Fail! For those of you who may remember, Unity Ball/ Day 26 in 2009! Time went on and some of the original TEENVIEW Members said that we should “bring the magazine back.” It was 2012 when we partnered with MindFire Academy to do a summer program. We took about 10 kids and trained them to use Mac computers, taught them Illustrator and Photo Shop. None of the students had ever worked with computers on this level. They helped design the first magazine in September 2012. In November, we produced another magazine. We decided to produce a monthly magazine in January of 2013.

The students are trained to not only write the articles, but, they even work on the layout, take pictures, work the website and even produce a TV show. We remind them that they have the “Gifts Within” to accomplish whatever their heart’s desire.

Every year, students “graduate out” and new ones come in. We have clubs in surrounding schools and reach about 103 students in our network directly. Some students have gone on to receive big college scholarships, better jobs and unique opportunities because of their involvement with TEENVIEW Magazine.

It is my goal to increase our effectiveness and reach students from Junior High through college. I hope to give them stronger skills in media arts, financial literacy, business etiquette (“soft skills”) and career development.

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Every time we produce a magazine, you can be confident that we are restoring hope to young people and giving them a platform of endless possibilities!

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CONTENTS

features PARK THE PHONE TeenView is running a campaign through the month of October to encourage everyone to not drive and be distracted with their phone.

Pages 4 - 5 DANCEFESTOPIA 2018 Music was in the air, this year at Dancefestopia, a music festival in the Kansas City Area. Check out some of the pictures TVM captured.

Pages 6 - 7 HALLOWEEN FASHION It is the time of the year where you can be whomever you would like, here are some tips to have fashionable Halloween.

Pages 8 - 9 NFL NEW CONTACT RULE One of the controversial new rules is the contact rules to Quarterbacks in the NFL. Check out what we think about the rule.

Pages 14 - 15 RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2: PREVIEW Many of us have waited patiently for a new edition of Red Dead Redemption. We have great news; October 26th, the wait is over.

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about us Issue 54 October 2018

The TEENVIEW Magazine is a publication designed “for teens, by teens, from a teen’s point of view”. It offers a platform for teens to connect with other teens on issues that are relevant to them. Teens are also able to gain “real-world” experience as they report on various topics and assist with the design and lay-out.

Participants learn various computer programs, photography, general to creative writing and many other skills as a result of their involvement with the TEENVIEW Initiative. Moreover, participants are afforded great opportunities, such as meeting and interacting with influential people. TEENVIEW Magazine is a sub-program of the Youth Educational Empowerment Program (YEEP), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that specializes in teaching financial education to youth, ages birth to 24 years, with a special emphasis in low-income communities.

THE STATS •

64% of all road accidents in the United States involve a cell phone

• 421,000 people are injured per year, by a driver that was distracted while driving • Over 330,000 accidents caused by texting lead to severe injuries, per year • 1 out of every 4 accidents in the US are caused by texting and driving • Texting and driving is 6 times more likely to get you in an accident than drunk driving (you should never drink and drive) • It takes an average of three seconds after a driver’s mind is taken off the road for any road accident to occur • Reading a text message while driving successfully distracts a driver for a minimum of five seconds each time • Every day, 11 teenagers die because they were texting while driving.

• 94% of teenagers understand the consequences of texting and driving, but 35% of them admitted that they do it anyway • Teen drivers have a 400% higher chance of being in a car crash when texting while driving than adults.

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F DANCEFESTOPIA 2018

Emerald City

written by: Kyle Holly

or the past four years in September Teenview has had the opportunity to travel to Kansas City, MO to cover one of the hottest music festivals in the Midwest; Dancefestopia.

Dancefestopia is a four day ultimate Dance Music Festival featuring over 100 well known DJ’s. This year was a completely new experience, location, and theme but with the same friendly vibes. Dancefestopia is a home of happiness, love, and celebration in the name of music. Everyone is friendly and you can be yourself.

This year Dancefestopia had a “ Wizard of Oz” theme called ‘Emerald City’ The location for Emerald City is just south of Kansas City on the Kansas side literally just a few miles before you get into the Missouri border. This was the first time the festival has ever been here and from a festival point of view, the location is great. The location of the festival is about an hour away from any major city. So if you decide not to camp at the festival expect a long 30-minute drive to the closest hotel on a single one lane highway, or an even longer hour long drive to actual Kansas City. Since we didn’t camp out we left the festival at 2 o’clock in the morning and it was an exhausting drive. Not to mention food options are very limited at 2 in the morning.

There were three stages this year the Pyramid Mountain Stage located near the camping area, the Lollipop Stage located near the main stage and finally the Emerald City Main Stage. The main stage is where all the headliners performed.

Dancefestopia is a real treat to look forward to every year and this year was no different If you have time between acts they have amazing food trucks ranging from BBQ,

Asian,and Mexican food. There are also many vendors selling different merchandise such as T-shirts, hats, artwork and more.

If you’ve never been to a music festival before and always wanted to experience the amazing vibes, Dancefestopia is an amazing music festival to start out with. Stay for one day, the weekend, or camp out all 4 days. You will meet new friends and have an amazing time.

To check out the amazing lineup this year and to get tickets for next years event check out dancefestopia.com. Also head over to youtube.com/teenviewmagazine to look at past Dancefestopia AFTERMOVIES. That will also be the location for the highlight reel being created from this year’s festival.

NORTHEAST MAGNET 2018 FALL HOMECOMING Northeast Magnet first homecoming of 2018 was fun, but it could’ve been better. I really didn’t like the DJ they had, so I thought the music he played was whack for the most part. But the people there looked amazing. Here are some of the pictures of the amazing dresses i saw.

Homecoming Proposal Nightmare, Turns into Homecoming Dream GAMER REVIEW

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With Homecoming season here, everyone is preparing ways to ask their dates out. Although, not everything goes as planned, especially for a boy in Louisiana.

pictures taken & written by: ShiAnn Hicks Northeast Magnet

A young man asked a girl out in public to be his date and was rejected in front of everyone. The crowd who saw laughed at him and to make matters worse, they even stepped on his poster when he was leaving humiliated.

The Monday after the proposal 13 girls, including cheerleaders, proposed to him and asked him to go to the Homecoming dance with them.

The young man was very happy when they asked him and said that it made him feel like one of the popular kids in school.

He has a lot of thinking to do. I would hate to have to deny 13 proposals, after getting rejected once.

written by: Samara Murphy - Maize High

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HALLOWEEN FASHION H

alloween is almost here. This is an exciting time to dress up however you’d like, within limits of course. This isn’t a time to culture appropriate, please! Now, with that out of the way let’s talk about exciting Halloween costumes you might see this year.

I love the classic Halloween costumes such as witches, ghosts, Frankenstein’s, and zombies. I enjoy seeing people’s creativity come out with simple Halloween costumes. But let’s talk about some newer costumes you might see this year. Black Panther costumes will be fairly popular.

From T’Challa, to Shuri to any Wakandian these costumes will be huge. There will most likely be a couple of Thanos’ walking around. He played a huge role in this last Avengers movie and his costume will be a hit among children and adults. Of course there will be other Avenger costumes but I have a feeling Thanos will be a hit. We have seen The Incredibles costumes years before but they might make a comeback since the second movie came out this year. Basically any newer TV show or movie might make a debut as a costume this year.

Costumes don’t necessarily have to be a specific costume you go out and buy. DIY costumes give you a chance to be creative. You might have everything you need right in your closet. Dressing up as your favorite TV character can sometimes be done really well with what you already own.

Have a pair of overalls, red shirt, and red hat? Boom! You are Mario. How about jeans and a yellow shirt? A minion! Rip up some jeans and a white t shirt, Hulk! A couple more because I’m having too much fun with this. An oversized pink sweatshirt and purple leggings. Boo from Monsters Inc! And lastly, striped shirt, jeans, and a red hat, black rimmed glasses and you are Where’s Waldo. These are only a few examples of endless possibilities.

Of course there are many oldie but goodie costumes I do enjoy seeing every year but I also love seeing what new costumes people come up with to go along with current events. Halloween truly is the time to be whatever you want to be. It’s the one night to be someone different and have fun and let loose. Trick or treating might be a thing of the past but you will never outgrow dressing up.

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NEW CONTACT RULES IN THE NFL R

oughing the Passer Rule Ruining Football Over the years the NFL rules committee has done its best to keep unnecessary risk out of football a lot of that has resulted in making it harder for the defense to make plays. Whether it be the Tuck rule or Targeting rules. Defensive players are being forced to protect the offensive player when they are coming full speed trying to take a grown man to the ground. Asking the players to pay attention to how they are tackling is one thing but making them take care of the player they are tackling while they are falling, that is a little bit too much to ask of anybody.

This rule is getting ridiculous in my opinion the NFL is trying to baby the offensive players and making them almost untouchable. This year the rule has gone to a new level of unreasonable this year defensive players are not allowed under any circumstance to lead into a tackle with their helmet. That’s not just head to head, the wording is as follows according to USA Today sports website, “Contact does not have to be to an opponent’s head or neck area – lowering the head and initiating contact to an opponent’s torso, hips, and lower body, is also a foul. Violations of the rule will be easier to see and officiate when they occur in open space – as opposed to close line play – but this rule applies anywhere on the field at any time.​” I can think of many prime examples as to why this rule is unreasonable.

Firstly this is how teams are taught to force ball carriers to fumble the ball. In an interview, Pete Carol did back in his Seahawks first Super Bowl appearance where the “Legion of Boom” led the league in

forced fumbles he said the key to his defense is coaching that they say to get the crown of the helmet on a ball carriers arm and 9 times out of 10 they will fumble the ball. Teams have adopted this philosophy since then with a majority of tackles being made by getting their head across the ball carrier’s body and aiming the crown of their helmet on the arm.

This technique has resulted in many tackles being missed or made but hitting a different part of the player with the crown of the helmet. It just allows defensive players to come through and make a more powerful hit. Players are always wanting to get the hardest hit and put players on their backs without the ability for players to reach forward and get more yardage if you are looking face up you are not able to travel as fast through the air. This rule, in theory, isn’t a bad one it does do a little bit of protecting the defender, however, refs have made calls against players that did not make any contact with their helmet but since the play happens so fast they throw the flag and refs are not going to take the time to go back and look to see if it is a real penalty they are just going to do it and move along.

Another rule change that has made it practically impossible to be a defensive player in the NFL has been made specifically to protect quarterbacks.

This time Aaron Rodgers is the poster boy for the rule change. Note: Aaron Rodgers actually has an interesting viewpoint about the protection quarterbacks are getting. Defensive players are no longer allowed to follow through sacking a quarterback to the ground and apply their full body weight on to the quarterback. Let me explain if you are trying to sack

the quarterback you are supposed to put the other teams’ quarterback on the ground without landing on top of him. For anyone who has ever played football or seen a sack on the quarterback, or even just knows anything about motion and physics you would know that it is practically impossible. A person moving at full speed cannot just suddenly stop and change direction especially if they are diving at the quarterback. The recommended way to know perform a sack on the quarterback is for a defensive player to get his hands or wrap the QB up and yank him down to the side. This is far more dangerous than being hit. This exact form of tackling is why players like Ben Roethlisberger have had ankle injuries they are being spun down of dragged down sideways and getting their feet caught or tangled up and then still being landed on by either their own players or other defenders that have tripped or something and then still getting hurt.

Look football is football it’s a tough physical game that is going to involve injuries no matter how you play it, I once had a friend break his leg in flag football, the game we love so much is getting harder and harder to play because we are so worried about the well being of the players.

Players back one hundred years ago were literally dying on the football field, and people still cheered it on.

The point I’m trying to make is these player’s know the risk of what they are doing to their bodies and their lives, injuries are part of the game and if you try to prevent one from happening you are just going to end up making two others more frequent.

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CULTURE Dirty Napkin

Girls Like You Maroon 5 written by: Kyle Holly

Buffalo Wings & Rings Ever since the last Hooters Restaurant closed its doors earlier this year, I’ve been on a never-ending search for a replacement. Buffalo Wings and Rings located at 2636 N Greenwich Rd may be that suitable replacement but at a cost.

The atmosphere is quite similar to Buffalo Wild Wings with multiple televisions airing current sports games or any sports in general. We decided to dine in on a Sunday and the parking lot was packed. The inside of the restaurant is not as big as you would think so I can see this place filling up with sports fans fast especially on game days. They do have an easy Togo order area by the bar so if you don’t want to dine in you can easily get your food and leave.

We decided to order a mixture of appetizers and our main meals. The menu is simple and very easy to read. For our appetizer, we decided to get the “Ranchero Tots”, which are simply large bacon and cheese stuffed tater tots topped with very fresh jalapeños, cilantro, and chipotle ranch. The tots were delicious but the only complaint that I can say is the picture in the menu showed a lot more tots than what we received. There are only enough to share among two people, not a whole table.

Next our main dishes. Our first dish was the Buffalo Chicken Club. It comes with the chicken fried or grilled. We decided to get the fried and it came topped with Applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato and our choice of dressing ranch or bleu cheese (more on the bleu cheese in a minute). The sandwich was all white meat chicken and was tossed in buffalo hot sauce.

The sandwich was nothing special than any normal chicken club but was very good.

Our second dish we decided to get is what this restaurant is named after, buffalo wings with a side of onion rings. For this review, we decided to go with 15 boneless wings. What makes Buffalo Wings and Rings different than other buffalo wings restaurants is the way you order your wings. Most restaurants have their flavors with a mixture of sauces and rubs and depending on what flavor you get that’s how spicy your wings will be. What sets this restaurant apart from the competition is you get to choose your style of wing; grilled, tenders, boneless and traditional wings. You then pick the flavor

Mona Lisa of wing you want, flavors can range from BBQ, garlic parmesan, and a variety of dry seasonings. The final step is you get to pick your “heat tolerance”, that’s right you can make any flavor, regardless of the flavor you pick, mild, medium, hot, extra hot or, Atomic. So if you want a sweet, tangy and hot flavor go for Teriyaki and make it hot.

Now onto the dipping sauces they offer. Ranch and bleu cheese…my go-to dipping sauce is ranch, but let me say this now, Buffalo Wings and Rings offers the best bleu cheese dip I have ever had in my life. I’m not a fan of bleu cheese but this bleu cheese is creamy, cool and homemade. It is delicious and I totally recommend for everyone to try it.

The food is great but at about a $1 a wing the price really adds up. They do offer 89 cent wings on Tuesday which is kind of a deal but when other restaurants offer their wings at a cheaper price, you are not saving that much.

The boneless wings are larger than your average boneless chicken wing which was a great surprise! The meat is all white meat chicken and the flavors taste great. The side of Onion Rings we order strangely tasted like cheese puffs. They were good but I just could not get past that taste and I probably would not order them in the future.

With everything, we order our total came to about $42, which also surprised me. I was expecting to pay a lot but not $42 for two people. You can go to other wing restaurants around the area order an appetizer with two main meals and get everything under $40.

The service was nice, the televisions were not too loud, it’s a new building so everything still looked clean. Our experience at Buffalo wings and Rings was great. We plan on coming back, we just have to be ready to spend some money when we go. Any restaurant where I need to take a ToGo box home is a good day.

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et’s get this out of the way right now, Venom should have been an R rated film.

Sony played it safe and made it PG-13 because they wanted as many people seeing this film as possible. But for someone like the anti-hero Venom, he should be allowed to swear a lot more and actually show some heads getting bitten off.

Venom, directed by Ruben Fleischer, the same director that directed the amazing movie Zombieland, takes a different approach on the popular anti-hero. This movie changes the original origin story from the comics by taking out the relationship to Spider-Man and makes the alien symbiote more of a body snatcher looking for the perfectly matched human host in order to survive.

The story is not what makes this a so-so film, its the fact that the film doesn’t know if it wants to be an action comedy film or a film about an antihero that takes itself too seriously.

The film lacks any real pacing that we are accustomed to from other comic book hero movies. Once the movie finally gets going and finds its groove, the credits are already rolling.

The plot is about reporter Eddie Brock, played

by Tom Hardy, investigating the science corporation called The Life Foundation for a story. The Life Foundation is seen killing test subjects in the name of science. When Eddie Brock decides to do some self-investigating he ends up getting exposed to an oozing alien symbiote creature that, naturally, turns out to be a perfect match. This merging gives Eddie enhanced strength and resilience superpowers but in return also turns him into someone crazy such as a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type character as he talks back in forth with the symbiote inside his body. As crazy as that sounds Hardy at least manages to deliver the movie’s moments of humor as Eddie grapples with his talkative bodysnatcher companion.

written by : Kyle Holly

The villain Carlton Drake, played by Riz Ahmed, is the Life Foundation’s founder and boss of the whole organization that is running the test operations with the symbiotes. This villain proves to be just as forgettable as you have come to expect from a comic book movie.

The love interest Anne, played by Michelle Williams, doesn’t tell a good story and makes the audience not interested in their relationship. If she got replaced in a future movie, no one would really care. The film does not pick up until Venom actually makes an appearance, before then it is a pretty boring film. The ending Symbiote battle is less than amazing with murky lighting bad camera angles and messy CGI. It’s hard to tell who is fighting who and what is happening at times during the climactic battle.

You can tell Tom Hardy enjoys the character, but with the limitations of a PG-13 film they can only do so much. Venom is not a bad movie at all but it’s also not the best comic book movie either. It would have been nice to see this film included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the hopes to see Tom Holland’s spider man going toe to toe with Tom Hardy’s Venom, but with the way Sony Marvel movies are, I doubt we will see that anytime soon.

I believe people had high hopes for this movie and were expecting a real anti-hero, that’s how this movie was promoted. Instead, moviegoers and comic book fans alike got a bland so-so superhero movie based off a popular SpiderMan villain. Without spoiling anything, yes there is a post-credits scene and an after credits scene. So stay for that, Sony obviously has plans for this character with more films to come.

FINAL SCORE: D+

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RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 : PREVIEW

ed Dead Redemption, the game that told the incredible story of John Marston an exgang member that was tasked by the federal government to track his former friends and turn them in.

Now Rockstar has revived their 2010 blockbuster game with a prequel in Red Dead Redemption 2.

given major improvements with ground tackles, better counters and more control over how you hit the other person.

Gameplay has been radically improved, Rockstar has opened the influence you can have in the open world in major ways. The ability to talk to people has been added to the game in several different ways you can engage in conversation, start fights, defuse situations you don’t necessarily want to get into, and even talk your way out of trouble with the law or verbally threaten witnesses into silence. Fighting has also been

Hunting has new levels to it as well in the game you are a part of Dutch’s notorious Van der Linde Gang that is on the run from the ever-changing civilized world. The gang moves from spot to spot where they set up a major campsite. This campsite needs food, and money so hunting becomes less for sport and more for the well being of your family. This game takes on the quickly growing gameplay ideology that the choices you make and the paths you take will affect how people act towards you in the world.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is set to release on October 26th and we at Teenview Magazine can’t wait. Be looking out for our review

by Ace’s Team’s Tylon next month.

The RDR2 map takes us further North this time and far up into more mountainous plains while still being partially in the Great Plains and Tall Trees areas that we remember from This time around we will be following the original game. The map covers a a new story that of Arthur Morgan. wide variety of terrains all the way This game is probably the most from treacherous mountain trails to the flat fields of the Great Plains, and highly anticipated game of 2018 not just due to it’s previously established from the swampy muggy Bayou all greatness piggybacking off of the the way to the dry desolate deserts, original game’s success but that this there is truly every type of weather is going to be the biggest open world and terrain imaginable for you to map that Rockstar has ever created. explore.

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• 1 OUT OF EVERY 5 TEENS have abused prescription drugs.

• ONLY 50% got them free from friends or family.

Only use n o i t p i r c s e pr d e b i r c s e r drugs p to you!