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The War in
Iraq |
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FASHION REPORT:
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"Begun in 1994 with a
small group of teen writers in Bristol,
Connecticut, The Tattoo has grown
into a widely respected online teen
newspaper with writers from around the
world. The site is filled with articles
on every topic of interest to teenagers.
A great window into the adolescent world
and worldview."
- Center For Parent/Youth
Understanding (2006) |
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Voting, for real
There is a gap, for many, in
becoming politically aware and exercising your
legal right to vote.
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Louisa McIndoe |
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Anti-gay bigotry hurts everyone
Gay. Fag. Homo. The most
common words said at my school are not kind and
intelligent. -
Kiernan Majerus-Collins |
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Spreading peace, one ink blot at a time
There’s a word we’re hearing a
lot in media coverage: peace. But what is it? -
Madeline Slaughter |
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Rally for peace, not war
The “War on Terror” is a phrase that,
unfortunately, is heard all too often. We are in
the midst of a war – a war on terrorism. What
can our respective governments do? How can
anyone possibly put an end to millions of
innocent people living in fear? How long do we
have to wait before yet another ‘terrorist
threat’ is made?Whenever I hear about a new
threat made on society, not only do I cringe but
a cold shiver races down my spine.-
Rebecca Baylis |
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Where is this 'free speech' you promised us?
Teenagers find it terribly frustrating to voice
their opinions, only to have them put down, or
even worse, suppressed, because they’re at odds
with an older generation who were taught that
homosexuality is an anomaly rather than a
natural occurrence.-
Louisa McIndoe |
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Protest peacefully against anti-Muslim cartoons
- Edrees Kakar |
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Remember Rosa Parks |
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Sitting on The Bus |
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Making Detroit proud |
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We are all Rosa Parks |
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My double decker bus |
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Bombers killed hope |
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Carrying on in London |
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War starts at home |
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Carnage in London |
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Don't forget Africa |
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War comes to London |
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Pope's legacy |
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Take bird flu seriously |
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Irish smoking ban |
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Sports and America |
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A dark chapter in history
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Betrayal and confusion |
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Shocking pictures |
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Bush's illegal war |
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Can Nader win? |
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Bush's war 'sickening' |
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Support our troops |
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A plea to the Irish |
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Drunken celebrities |
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McDonalds |
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Biased journalism |
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U.S. policy creates hate |
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Bus bombs |
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German shootings |
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Killed on the job |
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No religion |
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Nation |
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Bush may have set the stage for future GOP
success |
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Ballooning Barry bombs |
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When school is your home |
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'Eye for an eye' |
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Bored with USA |
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Flip-flopping liars
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Rockers aim at Bush
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The
next prom king |
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Putting Sept. 11 behind |
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In
God we trust? |
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That's Texas |
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The
prom |
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Diversity in English texts |
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Soap
operas |
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Bristol |
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Preparing for exams |
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Sucking fun out of summer |
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Freshman confusion |
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Mission impossible: the rhetoric at Eastern High
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Read Zach Brokenrope's
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The Tattoo
is "a huge thing and I think it’s going to get huger."
-- Will Hughes, American
International College professor
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Winner of 17
first-place awards from the Connecticut Society of
Professional Journalists since 1998; 34 National Gold
Key awards from the National Newspaper Association and
the Quill and Scroll Society since 1997; 54 Scholastic
Press Forum awards since 1999; and the Suburban
Newspapers Association's award for Best Young People's
Coverage in both 2002 and 2005, as well as its feature
writing award in 2007; along with a Distinguished
Service Award from the Connecticut Committee for Youth
Suicide Prevention in 1997.
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“It is
particularly impressive that the Bristol high schoolers
who work on The Tattoo
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consistently win awards, year after year, in competition
with professional journalists.”
-- Joanne Nesti, a co-anchor on NBC’s
Channel 30 in Hartford |
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Deadly twister
leaves Iowa teen homeless
A tornado
“sounds like a freight train is running over
your house,” said 16-year-old Krista Kannegieter,
who huddled with her parents in the basement of
their home while the storm raged overhead.
-- By Beth Pond
Wreck-less
driving
The parents of two teens killed
in a high speed wreck last summer are using
their own sorrowful experience to try to stop
other young drivers from taking the same deadly
risks.
-- By Rachel Glogowski
Suicide bomber
rips apart my city
The rain of sadness dropped in Peshawar last
week when a suicide bomber struck a busy market
across town from where I live. Twenty seven
people were killed in the carnage and many more
seriously injured at the scene, where body parts
were scattered in a business hub of Peshawar, a
city in the northwest part of Pakistan, near the
border with Afghanistan.
-- By Edrees Kakar |
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A newsman's
struggle to survive war injuries
Within days of waking from his
36-day coma, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff found
himself at a loss for words – literally.
Woodruff, the victim of a roadside bomb while on
assignment for ABC in Iraq, said that out of all
his ailments, he finds his memory loss the most
frustrating.
-- By Rachel Glogowski and Beth Pond |
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Journalism suffers a blow
in Indiana
When high school sophomore Megan
Chase wrote a column for her Indiana school
newspaper calling for tolerance of homosexuals,
she didn’t think it would be big deal.
-- By Zach Brokenrope
Meeting the yeti
on Disney's Everest coaster
Since the highly anticipated opening last spring
of the Expedition Everest rollercoaster,
Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park has been
attracting a wider variety of visitors, and now
thrill-seekers are among them.
-- By Sean Soltys |
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God Bless you, Mr.
Vonnegut
“Everyone should have
the experience of reading his books once in a
lifetime,” said Thea Condaxis, of Calais,
Vermont.
-- By Beth Pond |
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Gifts that keep
on giving
-- By Beth Pond |
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Radio days:
looking back on a life in Bristol
-- By Rachel Glogowski |
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Immigrants in school,
through an educator's eyes
-- By Taylor Isenhour |
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Mystery surrounds
dead ducks at Bristol Eastern |
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Lieberman fights
anti-war surge in Connecticut |
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World Cup 2006
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Tucson students rally for immigrants
Thousands
of Arizona youth demonstrated peacefully last
week against a proposed crackdown on illegal
immigrants – and many walked out of their
schools to take part in the protests.
-- By Alkhansa el-Bedawi |
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Police seek shelter 'mom' in baby's death
 
Ana Lara said recently she sees herself as “a
single mother” to the 24 children from troubled
backgrounds who lived with her in a shelter she
started because she wanted to help them avoid
the abuse she experienced growing up on the
streets.
Some of
the older children said this month they chose to
live in Lara’s small, average-looking home to
escape bad situations in their own families.
Now, though, Lara is sought by
police after a 7-month-old baby died under
mysterious circumstances in her shelter.
Neighbors told police that Lara fled in a van
with the other children.--
By Oscar Ramirez |
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Bye Bye Birdie coming soon to Bristol
Eastern
-- By Rachel Glogowski |
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Bands to battle at teen day
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English youth visit Bristol
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Company thinks outside the box
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Getting paid for playing around
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El
Salvador teachers
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Hurricane Wilma |
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Conceiving birth control clock
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Terryville teen pens books on high school life
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Surviving a killer quake in Pakistan
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El
Salvador survives triple threat
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At
14, she worked in a Bristol clock factory
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Hello! Ban lifted
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Harmony day appeals to all
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Three deaths in Minnesota
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Trying to bring tolerance to Terryville
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Soldier stunned at hometown school shooting
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Teacher leads anti-death penalty fight
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Leaving an ancient school
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Principal's cell phone hang-ups anger students
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Iraq War protesters feel lucky
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Terryville High classes shedding students |
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Fighting hunger with a Second Harvest
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ESPN enters digital world
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Student-run play gets new direction
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On
the first baseline at the World Series
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Urban Dream capsule
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When school is your home
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Afghan soccer team wins hearts
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The
real children of the corn
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Teacher's days are numbered |
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The
slippery process of closing school |
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Girls describe loneliness, desperation |
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Depressed teens can get help |
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Art
impresses teens |
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Reporting from the war in Iraq |
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Skatepark is due this fall |
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A
haven for gamers |
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Teens torn on war |
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Central students walk out to protest war |
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Blue sky and empty space |
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Teens want skatepark close to home |
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Bike peddlers on move |
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Miss Yellow-Yellow: Love at first flap |
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Mystic Aquarium is more than cute penguins |
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Teen mayor rules |
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Restoring an old house for a new teen shelter |
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Teens do home work |
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Powder and cream at Buddhist New Year's |
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New
rule: late to class is same as skipping |
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Will Bristol Eastern pass the test? |
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There's no debate: Irish are best |
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No
argument between friends on Team USA |
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War
clouds gather as Pakistani youths worry |
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Singapore teen dies in ESPN competition |
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Principal says students are 'pigs' |
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Lieberman raps school violence |
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Memo details school response to threats |
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Girls just wanna play ball |
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Chicago teens trash test |
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New
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