Letter To the Editor Asia Rodgers The Corsair In response to the November 29, 2011, The Corsair issue, “Unemployment Part II: The Solutions,” I believe the reason the United States conquered the depression in the past was due to the ingrained sense of national pride and determination that Americans have always been known for. When...
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Second Place Winner – My Pursuit of Happyness Contest
Pursuit of Happyness Essay Katherine N. Griffin The Corsair January 2012 What it Took for Me to Get to Pensacola State College In high school, I thought that I had life by the tail. There was absolutely no doubt in my mind that I could overcome any obstacle thrown my way. I married my high...
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First Place Winner – My Pursuit of Happyness Contest
FIRST PLACE WINNER Pursuit of Happyness Essay Contest Pensacola State College Jan. 23, 2012 My Pursuit of Happyness By Jill Marlowe The Corsair One telephone call, one movie and one billboard sign changed the direction of my life forever. As a mother of seven still very dependent children, I found changing direction is like...
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Paterno’s legacy in the dark
Tim Ajmani The Corsair Before the 2011 college football season began, the legacy that Joe Paterno would leave behind once he retired from Penn State was unquestioned. Now? It’s much more complicated. The man who some say “made” Penn State passed away at the age of 85 early Sunday morning. Paterno had been fighting a...
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Pensacola State students invade Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Travis Noonan – The Corsair The popular ABC show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a reality television program that has been building and repairing homes for needy families since 2003, chose Pensacola for their latest episode. Approximately 20 Pensacola State HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Condition) and carpentry students participated in the construction. “It was just...
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Pensacola Celebrates its 51st Greek Festival
Dustin Toney – The Corsair Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church held its 51st Annual Greek Festival of Pensacola October 15th-17th at its Downtown location. Each year a portion of the proceeds are donated to a local charity and the remaining funds go to help the church with future improvement projects. This year the money went to...
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Party Like It’s 10/10/10
Matt Leight- The Corsair Cheers to the “Power of Ten”! For it will be on October 10th, 2010 that fans of the number ten will unite. A similar numerical pattern has occurred for the past 9 years and will again for the next two. There was 01/01/01, 02/02/02, etc., and this phenomenon will continue to...
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‘Spice”: pefectly legal
Nicholas Alford – The Corsair It goes by many names: Bay Breeze, 420, Headhunter or the most common name, Spice or K2 Spice. It comes in several different “flavors” like vanilla, pineapple or strawberry, and depending on where you buy it, whether it be at a head shop, gas station or liquor store, looks mostly...
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Naval Aviation Museum resurrects Helldiver
Brianna Edler-The Corsair 1944 Bomber resurrected from the dead in California on August 20th, and will be displayed at the Pensacola Naval Museum. A WWII Navy aircraft was raised from the waters of the Lower Otay Reservoir near Chula Vista California. The SB2C-4 Helldiver was disassembled after being recovered, sent across the country to N.A.S....
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Effects of dispersants still unknown
Nick Alford-The Corsair Nearly three months after the leaking well head that released an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally capped, the EPA and BP have issued statements telling the public that the oil spill has been cleaned up and that no more crude can be found...