Midnight Ocean

Posted on April 28, 2022 by Luisannie Santos

Art by N. Lewis-71,CCB Contributor
Article by L. Santos-51, CCB Arts Editor

Genius painting from N. Lewis-72- *image courtesy of N. Lewis*

N.Lewis of 72 has made a painting for her sister’s birthday that happened this month. This is N. Lewis’s second time being highlighted on the Cowell Cougars Blog and second time giving us great paintings!

N. Lewis made this painting for her sister and she doesn’t mind sharing her painting with our school. You can tell she really loves sharing her work with her school.her painting for her sister was just as great as the first. She has a very creative mind and she is very talented.

N.Lewis wanted to share with her school community the fine details about this painting. N.Lewis said that she made the painting for her sister’s birthday, as she was turning 17 and her sister asked for the painting. It took N.Lewis an hour to paint the painting by her sister’s birthday on April 5. According to N. Lewis, she said that she likes to paint a lot and the painting she made for her mom for the past Eid al-Fitr inspired her to create this painting.

Holocaust Remembrance

Posted on April 21, 2022 by noelaniisthebest

By N. Champion – CCB editor

*Remembrance* Graphic by J. Cruz- CCB artist

Peter Stern, 81, a Holocaust survivor, gave the Conwell Middle Magnet School community a presentation on what happened durning the Holocaust. Throughout the assembly, which took place at 9 a.m. on April 6, 2022 on Zoom, Stern painted a very tragic picture of what he and his family went through.

‘’Why is it that people go through stuff I experienced?” Stern said.

According to Stern’s presentation and his online biography. Stern was born in Nuremberg, Germany in March 1936, he had a younger brother named Sam. His father’s name was Artur and he was a mechanic. In 1941 Stern and his family were deported to Germany to a camp in Latvia, which was surrounded by guards and traps.

“Because, we shouldn’t forget the past, knowing our past helps us know where we came from,” said Mr. Posnan.
Mr.Posan

Stern was only 6 years old, and he said he did not know what was going on. On the campsite, in the building, he said there were many Jewish people in one house. He said the Nazis tricked them into going into camps to kill off the Jewish people.The Nazis took away his rights and also his family rights. They did it because Jewish people were way different from them.

D. Llanos, in section 62, had some questions to ask Mr. Stern about the Holocaust, during the question and answer part of the Zoom presentation.

“Why did so many people go along with his plans?” said D. Llanos.

To answer that question Stern revealed a sad truth from his experience.

“The Nazis believed that the Germans were very easily tricked into agreeing with their plan,” Stern said.

Mr. Posan, a 6th grade math teacher at Conwell Middle Magnet School, who helped organize the presentation, said some encouraging words to Peter Stern.

“Because, we shouldn’t forget the past, knowing our past helps us know where we came from,” said Mr. Posnan.

A fan made song by nocturnal

Video

by:X Rollins 62

Check out the latest digital composition by X. Rollins of Section 62, a.k.a. “Nocturnal”

Hi! This is how I made my newest song, MISSING_ASSETS. I use Fl Studio 20 for all my music, and this was no exception. The first thing I did was use the plugin Sytrus for the weird alien acid-like sound you hear. (The preset is called Acid 3 so take that as you will.) I made them Major Chords, and made them go down for the first three chords and then take them up on the last. Then I used SimSynth, And just copied the chords and pasted them in SimSynth.

Next was the Hi-Hats and Kicks. At the start of the song you can probably hear “ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts tts ts ts” I used them for the kicks as well which you can hear at the end of the song when the Hi-Hats were removed. Next was the Drum Loop that I just found on the Internet so not much to add here. Now the Vocals, I made most of them up by myself but two of them are taken from the song this song is based off of, Recovered_Project.

At 16 Seconds, you can hear a reference to Recovered Project at this Part (This Link should take you straight to that timestamp: https://youtu.be/gi45-19UPQE?t=16 And at 1:04 Seconds, You can Hear a reference to the part at 40 seconds in Recovered Project. https://youtu.be/gi45-19UPQE?t=40. To make the Visualizer, I Used ZGameVisualizer.

The effects I used are, Linear, (The Waveform in the back, Youlean TextDraw (To add the text), and Youlean Time Stamp for the time stamp in the corner.

That’s Basically How I made the song. Thanks for Listening! Here’s my Youtube if you wanna see more of the music, and other content I do: Nocturnal – YouTube.

edited by A diggs speach, CCB Editor

SHORT STORY: My Biggest Fear

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Aquil Diggs-Speach

My Biggest Fear

By: R. Whitmore-81, CCB Contributor

Dark woods surrounding me, the cold wind hitting my face as I run. Why am I running? I need to go; he’s gaining. He wants me. I don’t know why, but he does.

Come on, boy, he said with a snarl to his voice.

But I keep going. I see a cabin. I ran to it, going in and slamming the door. As I go deeper into the cabin, there’s a foul smell to it, like something died. As I walked to the back, I saw something hanging. As I get closer, the smell is getting worse. Once I was close enough to see that it was a body, not just anybody, it was mine. My body, my same exact eyes, my same exact tattoos, everything, this is my body. As I back up in fear, I bump into something as I slowly turn around to see what I bumped into. It was him, the thing I feared, that I wanted to get away from.

Death himself.

Once I was close enough to see that it was a body, not just anybody, it was mine.

He grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. I actually got a good look at him. He looked like a kid, like maybe 16 or 17 years old. Sorry, he says, we fall into a pit of darkness. once, hitting what felt like a floor. I look around. Warm sunlight hitting my face, soft grass surrounding my body. I see my wife. I run into her arms. The love of my life is back to me.

edit by:aquil diggs speach

Crazy Amazing Drawing

Posted on April 20, 2022 by Luisannie Santos

by L Santos-51, CCB editor

*beautiful drawing made by-N Holland-108*

An amazing drawing made by N Holland from 108 . In my opinion, you can tell she really loves the fact that she’s an artist. N. Holland’s drawing gives you many ideas, but one is that she’s very talented and knows it.

“[N. Holland] is interested in sharing her artwork, because it is something she truly enjoys,” Ms. Lisa of Room 108 said. “It is one of her talents and she worked hard on it and she wanted to share with her school community”.

have artwork you’d like to share? Send them to gdungan@philasd.org

ASAS Bashing Cake Party

Posted on April 20, 2022 by A. Rivers

By A. Rivers 61, ASAS editor

Delicious cake Photo Credit to S. Ortiz CCB Contributor

Let’s slice the cake Ms. Maria, Conwell Middle Magnet School ASAS coordinator, was so generous and took bought a delicious yellow cake just to share with the ASAS students. We split it between the whole ASAS program and it was very good and delicious.

Everybody had a fun time and we savored every bite of it. Ms. Maria is so kind to put money into this program and encourage others to give. The cake was a yellow balloon cake with white frosting and blue frosting and the bottom of the cake and had a red surface all around.

“I appreciate every single one of you,” Ms. Maria said.