Blogging

Do you know something that is very entertaining? Very, very, very entertaining? Well, I will tell you exactly what is very entertaining. Something that is very entertaining is blogging. Yes, blogging. Exactly what I am doing right now. Blogging. Typing on the computer to upload it onto the internet for all and anyone to read if they so chose to and if they so want to and if they have a desire to read it at all. Blogging. Blogging is just so entertaining. I mean it is so much fun it is so crazy how much some people might enjoy blogging. I am however not one of those people. I do not really enjoy blogging. I do not really want to blog. However, I have to blog. Oh well. I can not really get around not blogging. I am therefore blogging and trying to make the best of it, but some people like blogging and they really enjoy blogging so you might too so try blogging if you want.

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State Finals

Tonight is the night! It is the state finals for Iowa High School Football, Class Four A, also denoted AAAA, or 4A, or written four a, or Four A, or FOUR A, or any other way of writing or describing four a. Kickoff is tonight at seven o six pm, (also written as 7:06 pm). The date of the game is Monday, November twenty fifth of twenty fifteen, or two thousand fifteen. That is the year. It is the twenty fifteen, or two thousand fifteen, state finals. The game is played in Cedar Falls. It is played in the UNI Dome, which is the football field and stadium for the University of Northern Iowa, thus UNI, so it is the University of Northern Iowa Dome, so it is the UNI Dome. It is scheduled to begin, as already stated, at seven o six pm, so that is when the kickoff is supposed to be. That should hold true, too. That is because the game before this game is scheduled to start at around two pm, so that kickoff will be around two pm. That means that that game should be well done and over by the time the four a state final game is scheduled to begin with kickoff. The game is Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School, the Cedar Rapids Kennedy Cougars, or the JFK Cougars, or even the Cougs, are taking on Dowling Catholic. It should be a lot of fun. Carpool up to the game with a few friends, that is always a lot of fun. Go cheer on your school, or the school that you want to win, with your friends. Go cheer in the student section. That is always a great time.

The game is to be played in the UNI Dome. It was supposed to be played last Friday night on Friday November twentieth of twenty fifteen (or two thousand fifteen for the year). However, it was canceled and delayed until today on Monday. That is because of the giant storm of snow, or the giant snow storm, that passed through on Friday night, starting at around three pm on Friday November 20 of twenty fifteen. Some areas in the areas from around Cedar Rapids and Cedar Falls, Iowa, all the way to Chicago got anywhere up to a whole foot of snow-that is a whole twelve inches! That is a lot of snow! Especially for November! I think that it had set some records in some places. It was a lot of snow.

So the game is being played tonight, at seven o six kickoff, instead of Friday because of the snow storm. If you go it should be a good way to entertain yourself. Go cheer on the Kennedy Cougars and have fun!

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Reading

Entertainment. The definition of entertainment, according to Dictionary Reference is a noun and it is “the act of entertaining; agreeable occupation for the mind; diversion; amusement”. It is also “something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, especially a performance of some kind;” or “hospitable provision for the needs and wants of guests;” ”a divertingly adventurous, comic, or picaresque novel.” Yet another definition is “maintenance in service.” The definition of entertaining, used in the first definition and the most popular and most common definition, is “to hold the attention of pleasantly or agreeably; divert; amuse.” Or “To have as a guest; provide food, lodging, etc., for; show hospitality to.” Or “To admit into the mind; consider.” Or “To hold in the mind; harbor; cherish.” Or “to maintain or keep up.” Or “To give admittance or reception to; receive.” Arguably, the first definition of both entertainment as well as entertaining are the ones that apply most often to us. I am going to talk about that here today in this here blog.

Entertainment is very entertaining for people, and they enjoy their entertainment and they enjoy being entertained. There are a lot of ways to be entertained. I have already talked about a great many in previous blogs. Some are movies. There are many movies out there. There are comedies, which make you laugh, and some people are very much entertained by that. There are also action movies. Some people are entertained with watching that. There are thriller movies, which entertain even more people. There are also horror movies, which will scare people, and some people find that very entertaining. There are also dramas, which some people find entertaining, as well as romance movies. Science fiction and fantasy movies also entertain many people. Some people very much enjoy documentaries, about something that really happened or something informative. Other people like sports movies. There are many movies out there that are very entertaining, and different people find different movies entertaining.

Books also entertain people. There are generally the same genres for books, but there are arguably more book genres than there are movie genres. There are mysteries, horrors, comedies, suspenseful books, adventure books, young adult books, adult fiction books, children books, and there are a lot of nonfiction books. Nonfiction books cover a wide array of topics. Actually, there is probably a nonfiction book or any type of book for that matter covering any topic that you could think of. Think of something-think of anything. Anything at all. Odds are very, extremely high that there is some book written about it. All you would have to do is locate and find the book, and then find a way to get it into your possession. Whether that is buying the book or renting it from a library or borrowing it from someone is entirely up to you. All in all, books offer a wide array of topics from which they can be about and from which they can inform of, giving many different aspects to which they can be very entertaining for some people while not entertaining at all for others. All in all, books are a great source of entertainment, as they will entertain you by giving you either an engaging story for fiction books or an engaging topic for nonfiction books, and they will stretch your brain and help you learn and get smarter by reading more and comprehending what it is that you are reading. So, go get a book and entertain yourself by reading!

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Spectre Blofeld

The new James Bond movie has recently come out, starring Daniel Craig and it is called Spectre. It involves an evil organization, Spectre, hence the name, and Bond trying to stop them. The evil organization Spectre has appeared in previous James Bond 007 films, though. It made its first appearance in the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No. Spectre is basically just evil people and assassins doing evil stuff and killing people, for lack of a very specific definition of the evil organization of Spectre. In the 2015 movie Spectre, Christoph Waltz stars as the head of the evil organization of Spectre. Spectre stands for Special Executive for Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, thus SPECTRE. Christoph Waltz, as previously stated, is the head of the evil organization. He is supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. However, that was not his name at the beginning. At the beginning of the movie he was known as Franz Oberhauser, and he is James Bond’s adoptive brother. However, he hates Bond, for lack of use of a better word, for stealing his father, so he killed his father. Then he changed faked his death along with his father, and he changed his name to Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and he kept trying to rise to power with his motive of dominating the world. However, Bond keeps disrupting his plans. In the end of the film Spectre, Blofeld tries to escape from Bond in a helicopter. However, Bond shoots down the helicopter and lets Blofeld get arrested.

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Sickness

Now a days there is something that is not very entertaining. That is sickness. Not being healthy. Being sick. Feeling like crap. Feeling horrible. There are many ways to describe it, and those are just a few. This time of the year is the time that colds seem to be getting common, along with viruses. You do not want to get sick. It sucks. Getting sick could mean that you can’t do anything. That means that you cannot go to school, which some people like that idea of not going to school and not having to go to school. However, you would also not be able to go to work, which is not good because then if you miss too much you could get fired, and you will not get as much money then, and things start becoming one big giant mess. You will not be able to continue any sport while you are sick. If you were planning on competing at state and then you get sick, you might not be able to compete at state anymore. Also, if you get sick you will feel like crap. Absolute crud. It is horrible. It is awful. You do not want to feel that way because it just plane out sucks. It sucks big time. So do not get sick.

There are ways you can go to try and prevent yourself from getting sick. One way is to stay clean. Clean yourself daily, either a shower or a bath. Also wash your hands. Wash your hands a lot. A lot a lot. It helps. Get a lot of sleep. Do not try to survive your life with only about four or five hours of sleep a night. It will just run you down and you will keep getting sick and it sucks and it is no fun. So get plenty of sleep. At least eight hours of sleep a night. Yes that is a good idea. Eight hours of sleep a night. So if you have to wake up at five in the morning get to bed by nine at night, and if you have to wake up at seven in the morning you could, in theory, then, stay up until eleven at night each night, but that would not be recommended. In all cases, get a good nights sleep. That will help you a lot. Just try to not get sick, because being sick sucks, and you will absolutely hate it and feel like crap and it is no fun it sucks so take care of yourself!

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Netflix

This past year, and as of the last few years, Netflix has really gained some popularity. It has been becoming very famous and popular, if you will, especially with the phrase that has lately been used very much of ”Netflix and chill”. That has been used a lot as of late, which has helped Netflix gain in popularity. Almost anybody you would ask would know what Netflix is, practically everybody knows of Netflix, practically everybody. There are other streaming site other than Netflix, however, that are out there. One example of one such site is Hulu and Hulu Plus. Both Hulu or Hulu Plus to be exact I think as well as Netflix stream things live to watch. By live I mean you just need wifi, and you can watch something. By something I mean tv shows or movies and such. Netflix and Hulu are both known for that. But which is better? Hulu arguably has better television shows. Hulu’s selection of television shows is greater than Netflix’s, and it has those television shows available as soon as they premiere on the actual television I believe. Netflix however does not and Netflix only has a limited selection of television shows. However, whatever you watch on Netflix has no ads what so ever. No ads to interrupt your viewing of television or film or whatever you are watching. None. No ads. Which is very nice. It is very nice being able to sit down and watch something with nothing to interrupt it. However, Hulu has ads. Hulu has a lot more ads than Netflix because Netflix has no ads while Hulu does have ads. But Hulu has more selection for tv shows and more recent additions than that of Netflix, arguably. However, Netflix does have a few good selections. Some good selections from Netflix are Family Guy, Friends, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Flash, Futurama, That 70s Show, House, Half Baked, Once Upon a Time, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, The League, Last Shift, New Girl, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, American Dad, Gotham, Daredevil, House of Cards, Django Unchained, Jane the Virgin, Doctor Who, Criminal Minds, Men in Black II, A Night at the Roxbury, The Interview, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Batman Begins, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2, Bones, Corpse Bride, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Hot Rod, Pretty Little Liars, Major League, Lost, Forrest Gump, Wet Hot American Summer First Day of Camp, American Pie, Grandma’s Boy, Silver Linings Playbook, 30 Rock, Pulp Fiction, Malcom in the Middle, Silence of the Lambs, Good Will Hunting, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Zoolander, Gladiator, White Chicks, Christmas with the Kranks, Rain Man, and a lot, lot, lot more. Those are just some of the more popular and well known titles that Netflix has to offer. A few of those films mentioned actually won best picture Oscar, so those are some pretty good movies. Hulu also has a pretty nice selection, but Hulu specialized in television shows more so than in movies. Both Hulu and Netflix are great ways to stream tv shows and movies as well as to chill.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a high school sport that is played at many high school. John F. Kennedy has a volleyball team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a really good volleyball team actually. They are headed to state playoffs. State playoffs for volleyball start this week. Kennedy is playing their first game on Tuesday. It is at the U.S. Cellular Center, and it starts at 2 pm. Because of this, Kennedy is having a half day on Tuesday so that more students can go support and cheer on their fellow students and volleyball players as they play volleyball. This way there will be a lot of Kennedy students there at the U.S. Cellular Center to cheer on their volleyball team. It will be a very good and fun experience, and it will be very entertaining. Hopefully the volleyball team will play well. If they win on Tuesday, then they will move on in the tournament and play again on Thursday, this time at ten o’clock in the morning, so it is possible that Kennedy might have no school on Thursday to support students going to the U.S. Cellular Center to support and cheer on the volleyball team, however that is just a rumor and it is not guaranteed in any way.

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SMART Lunch

School. It is such a big, prominent, and an important part in most young people’s lives today. Today, school has grown much more than school used to be a long time ago, and even from just a few years ago. However, I am only going to be typing today about school as in classes, and the time spent at school from the first class of the day to the last class of the day. More specifically, I will be typing about lunch, and the lunch that I will be typing about is SMART lunch. SMART lunch stands for students managing academics and responsible time, so something like that. Anyway, it has something to do with students being responsible and productive and managing time efficiently I think. Well, here goes.

SMART lunch. I think that what I said it stands for is actually what it stands for, but I am not sure. It is something like that. But anyways SMART lunch is used at John F. Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids Community School District in Iowa of the United States of America in North America which is one of the seven continents on planet earth in the milky way galaxy in the universe. Wow that took up a lot of space. But anyways yes my high school used SMART lunch. It is about seventy minutes or so of lunch, with two tutorials of which you can eat lunch, work on homework, get help in classes, or socialize with friends and enjoy yourself. However, this poses a question: where is the best place to be during SMART lunch? What is the best thing to do during SMART lunch?

The best place to be during SMART lunch is arguably not at school. School lunch does not taste all that good, and it is not good for you. Sorry Michelle Obama, but school lunches are not healthy. Putting it bluntly, school lunches suck. That is why it is better to not be at school during smart lunch because then you can have a tastier and a healthier lunch. Yum!

Also if and when you leave for smart lunch you should do it with friends. It is a fun time and you can socialize and have fun spending time with then, if you are so inclined you can get homework and work done, if you need help you can help each other out for classes, and you can get a better tasting and a healthier lunch. There is no reason to stay at Kennedy for smart lunch except if you have to go to a tutorial for a class and to see a teacher, if you are not supposed to be able to leave during smart lunch, or if you just don’t want to leave. So entertain yourself at smart lunch!

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Football-State

Football is a wonderful sport, and many would agree. It is played at many levels. Some kids play it at a very young age, starting as young as in elementary school, or even in preschool. At that time kids play it as a game for fun, rather for sport or for intensity, but rather because they enjoy it. It will usually start off as backyard games with friends at a young age, and with young kids it will usually start at two hand touch, flag football, then tackle football. In Cedar Rapids, at least, kids can start playing tackle football in the fourth grade. By that I mean the tackle football with all the pads that the players, the kids, wear, with coaches, who are usually volunteers. All in all that is usually a good experience, and pretty fun, for the kids. Then things start getting more and more intense. For those kids in the fourth grade, in the fifth grade, and in the sixth grade, they can play tackle football through Metro. It is called Metro tackle football. It is based on high school that the kids are planning on attending, so for example there will be a fourth grade Kennedy Metro Tackle Football team, a fifth grade Kennedy Metro tackle football team, and a sixth grade Kennedy Metro tackle football team. There may be many Kennedy Metro tackle football teams for each grade as well. If there are a lot of kids who are trying to play tackle football via Metro, then there will be multiple teams. For instance, if there are enough kids to warrant three sixth grade Kennedy Metro tackle football teams, then there would be a sixth grade Kennedy White tackle football team, a sixth grade Kennedy Green tackle football team, and a sixth grade Kennedy Gold tackle football team. Then for grades seven and eight, in middle school, you can play tackle football for your middle school. Then comes high school. There is a freshman football team at the high school level,composed of the freshmen that go out for football for that year. There is also a sophomore football team at the high school level, composed of the sophomores that go out for football that year. Then there is the varsity football team. That is mainly composed of the juniors and seniors who go out for football for that year, and it includes both the varsity team and the junior varsity team. The varsity team is what I am going to write about.

This year, Kennedy's Varsity Football team has done extraordinarily well. They have set a new record-they are undefeated right now and have already won two playoff games! That is amazing! We currently have only one more playoff game to play at Kingston, and that is this Friday night against Washington. That game will be a good one. We already played them, and it was a close game, yet we still beat them. Let us hope that we will beat them again. After Kennedy wins that game Friday night, we will be playing up at the UNI (University of Northern Iowa) Dome. That is pretty cool and would be a lot of fun to see. If we win that game, then we play another game at the UNI Dome: the state playoffs. That game is for the state championship. If we win it, then we win state. Go Cougs!
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Scary Movies-Halloween

Around Halloween, a lot of people like to watch horror and scary movies. There are many scary movies out there, some scarier than others. Some are not all that scary at all, while others are very scary. Some are famous, in some sense, some are classics, some are remakes, some are good, some are bad, and some are just plain stupid. Here are a few of the more well known and arguably better and scarier scary movies, in the Halloween spirit: Friday the 13^th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Those are just some of the more popular, and arguably scarier horror movies out there, and those tend to be more popular around Halloween time as well. So enjoy if you end up watching any!

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Halloween

Halloween has come and gone, yet again. Such a different holiday, I guess, if you would call it a holiday. Some do. Some do not. People are different. But Halloween is a nice holiday for young kids. They get to dress up in costumes and pretend to be anyone that they want to be. They go door to door asking for candy. They have fun. They have huge smiles upon their tiny and young faces. That does not mean that the only people who can enjoy Halloween are young kids though. Everyone can enjoy it. There might be sports games and meets going on on Halloween. These can be at the high school level, at the college level, or even at the national and professional level. This year there were high school meets and college football games going on on Halloween. Anyone can attend or watch those and enjoy and entertain themselves. You can hand out candy at your house to the trick or treaters as they go by. That can be very entertaining being able to see all the different costumes everyone has on. And to give a kid some candy and to see the kid smile. That is a good feeling. You can also have or go to a costume party. Those are fun to go to. Go to one with friends and have a good time. You can also just hang out with friends. However, on Halloween always be careful as there are a lot of kids walking around for trick or treating. But, all in all, Halloween is a day that many, many, many people enjoy. It has so much to offer, many people love it. I hope everyone had fun this last Halloween. I hope it was a good Halloween for everyone, but I know that for some people it was not and some people just in general do not like Halloween. And I hope that everyone can enjoy Halloween next year then and be very happy as they have a lot of fun.

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