6/1/20

Human’s Tribune

Volume 2

Issue 1

Monday, June 1, 2020

Stay Strong


On top of our Pandemic, protests over the death of George Floyd by a police officer. He was choked to death. All we can do is stay strong. COVID-19 will not keep us forever. Tragedy will teach us to be stronger.


How Many Companies that have Gone Under in May?


By Antoinette Durand

The car rental company Hertz (May 22).


JCPenney, the retail store (May 15). 


J. Crew clothing store (May 4)


Neiman Marcus, the luxury department store (May 7).


The home goods store Tuesday Morning (May 27).


Nike’s Statement on the Death of George Floyd





"For once, Don't Do It. Don't pretend there's not a problem in America. Don't turn your back on racism. Don't accept innocent lives being taken from us. Don't make any more excuses. Don't think this doesn't affect you. Don't sit back and be silent. Don't think you can't be part of the change. Let's all be part of the change."





Music Review Double Feature: The Kids are Coming & The Times, They Are A Changin’


By Antoinette Durand





My good friend Morgan Cook suggested to me the song, The Kids are Coming. It’s empowering. It made me feel like someone understood. My parents don’t always seem to get my outrage on society. This feels so different. We don’t just protest because it’s fun. We do have to clean up the mess of past generations. Be strong because you are strong.





The next song is The Times, They are a Chanin’. This is an old song (from the 1960’s), but it’s just as relevant today. Artist Bob Dillan was originally protesting the Vietnam War, but it holds up with racism, sexism, and many other issues. It has a country feel, and an honest message.





Come mothers and fathers


Throughout the land


And don't criticize


What you can't understand


Your sons and your daughters


Are beyond your command


Your old road is rapidly agin'


Please get out of the new one


If you can't lend your hand


For the times they are a-changin'.





That was an excerpt from the song. It means that our generation is the one that will make change.






Birthday Crafts


By Phillip Collin






An example of my favorite type of cake: red velvet. For die-hard Disney fans, you could create their favorite characters out of fondant.






You could assemble a drive-by parade for the birthday boy/girl or a Google Meet.






You could text, call, or even mail someone you know asking for a present to surprise the birthday boy/girl.


That's all I have for now. Enjoy the tips and tricks!





If We Must Die





By Claude McKay





If we must die, let it not be like hogs


Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,


While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,


Making their mock at our accursèd lot.


If we must die, O let us nobly die,


So that our precious blood may not be shed


In vain; then even the monsters we defy


Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!


O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!


Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,


And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!


What though before us lies the open grave?


Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,


Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!






Sketching






By Antoinette Durand


Sketching helps me relax, especially during the pandemic. I love drawing fashion and clothes, but sometimes, I get stuck.

CNN Science Quiz!

Test your knowledge with this CNN quiz!


Interesting Facts


From Business Insider

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.


Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.


It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.


It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.


Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.


A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.


Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.


If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.


Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.


If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.


The state sport of Maryland is jousting.