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The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

Stoppable finds pride in ditching the system

Stoppable finds pride in ditching the system

By Joe Nolan June 3, 2013

High school? I have no regrets. I just wish I did everything differently. Supposedly the four years of our lives where we “find ourselves” and become an “individual” and make our own “decisions”...

Car companies like Lexus are going overboard by adding "special features."

Cars of the future should take a lesson from iPhones

By Joe Nolan, Senior Writer May 1, 2013

The world caught a glimpse of what the future holds for the auto industry when Bill Ford laid out his vision for the Ford Motor Company at the Mobile World Congress in March 2012. He may have been speaking...

Education reform needed to compete

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor February 28, 2013

In the midst of the Space Race of the 1950s, the US was startled to find itself playing catch-up with the USSR for the title of world’s greatest superpower. When the Soviets launched Sputnik into space,...

Test schedule only leads to more stress

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor December 20, 2012

CHS has now studied and tested for three months under the new school policy that dictates the days each department can test. With ample time to see how it works, it is clear that the well-intentioned administrative...

Parties in the USA (Romney)

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor November 7, 2012

Health care Mitt Romney will strike down Obamacare because it was forced on people who don’t share its principles. The Supreme Court didn’t even support the full bill, but a modified version that...

Don't balk at Cathy, just 'eat more chikin'

Don’t balk at Cathy, just ‘eat more chikin’

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor October 1, 2012

When the "news" came out that Chick-fil-A supported the traditional definition of marriage, dissenting CHS students biting into the restaurant chain’s iconic chicken sandwich found themselves in a dilemma...

Flipped classes would increase achievement

Flipped classes would increase achievement

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor May 25, 2012

At the height of the Information Age, we have at our fingertips what is perhaps humanity’s greatest invention: the Internet. This technology reduces all kinds of human feats, from the rapid spread of...

‘Hunger Games’ not unlike college process

‘Hunger Games’ not unlike college process

By Joe Nolan, Opinions Editor May 2, 2012

  As parents and teachers sat down at movie theaters to see what all the fuss was about, they were nothing short of appalled at the scenes forced into their heads by the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’...

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