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Christmas Music
WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE M&M’S
Two of the best selling candies in America are evaluated. M&M’s are the better choice, for more reasons than just their delicious taste
by Ivy Lowery ilowery408@g.fhsdschools.org
Everyone has seen the bright, colorful, and seasonal advertisements and begged their parents for these candies at some point. Whether it’s chocolate bars or fruity sugar pellets, people of all ages love candy. Two of the most popular in sales and flavor come down to be evaluated by a candy enthusiast. M&Ms by the candy company MARS, or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups by the arguably most famous chocolate company, Hershey’s. Who will win? Why should someone buy M&Ms instead of Reese’s? Other than the exceptionally smooth chocolatey taste, the price for each unit is a great amount lower than Reese’s. In a typical $5 candy bag for Halloween, there are 14 units of one piece Reese’s cups, and 21 packs of Fun Size M&Ms with 17 candies, 357 in total. This comes out to three and a half ounces worth of Reese’s Cups and a whopping 11 ounces of M&Ms. By buying M&Ms, you get more than triple the candy for your money.
As well as getting more sugar filled delights, MARS offers more variety of M&M flavors such as the classic milk chocolate, hazelnut, almond and First sold in 1941, M&M’s spill out next to a relative of theirs, Reese’s Pieces. Although the first Reese’s candy hit the shelves in 1928, its small, candy coated counterpart wasn’t seen until 49 years later in 1977. Despite the obvious inspiration that Reese’s took, they continue to rival M&M’s. (Photo by Aidyn Gleason)
more. Unfortunately, Reese’s doesn’t have much variety: only various chocolates and Reece’s Pieces Cups. With more choices, the combinations and possibilities of flavors are endless. For some, the classic M&M cookie filled childhood memories with mouth-watering smells and smiles all around. With all these M&M flavors, you could make endless varieties of these cookies with M&Ms. What cookies or recipes can you make with Reese’s?
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups blend the taste of peanut butter and chocolate seamlessly, but have you ever come back to your car and had melted peanut butter and chocolate all over your seat or console? M&Ms were designed to prevent this very problem. Forrest Mars, Sr. came up with the idea in 1941 after seeing soldiers during the Spanish Civil War eating chocolate pellets with a hard candy casing. The candy was made with hard casing so the soldiers could carry them around during warm weather. So thanks to Mars’ great observation, you no longer have melted chocolate in your beautiful car.
Although M&Ms have many benefits, both M&Ms by MARS and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups by Hershey’s are great candy in their own ways. The smooth pure taste of the classic chocolate candy is a beautifully crafted recipe, and is severely underrated. MORE INFO Check out some more facts about Reeses’ and M&Ms here : bit.ly/2MNK3MW
Christmas comes with many special things. One of the biggest ones is Christmas music. There is a great variety of Christmas songs in existence, like “Jingle Bells,” “All I Want for Christmas is You,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and lots more. There is an ongoing debate as to when these tunes are appropriate to listen to. Some people are Christmas lovers and are happy with listening to Christmas music all year, while some people have a set time frame for when it is appropriate. The best time for Christmas music should be reserved for the Christmas season.
Holiday music all year long is inappropriate. It should be saved for after Thanksgiving through New Year, however, because playing music year round would take away from some of the special quality of the music. Christmas music is special because it is only widely played around the holiday season. If it was played every day, it would no longer be special, like any other song played on the radio.
Some people absolutely detest Christmas music and would rather not hear it at all. They say it all sounds the same, upbeat and happy, which isn’t their style. That is very true, but that’s the point of it. It’s a happy time of year: people give gifts to each other, spend time with their families and much more. Christmas music reflects the overall feeling of the holiday: happiness and joy. Besides, lots of people really enjoy listening to Christmas music, so it still should be played widely during the holiday season.
When played during the right times, Christmas music is a fun, special addition to the holiday season. To keep the special quality of Christmas music, the best time for it to be widely played would be just the Christmas season. KEEP CHRISTMAS TO ITSELF by Justin Christensen 11justintc@gmail.com The best time to hear Christmas music is after Thanksgiving MORE INFO Check out some popular Christmas music here: bit.ly/33XCAki
STUDENT TAKE: WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON FHSD SUING JUUL?
“They can sue them, but I don't know how effective it is because there are different brands .” Abby Keathley, 11
“I don't like Juuls, but I think it's kind of stupid to sue them because you'd never win. It's not about FHN. It's just kids Juuling.” James Struble, 12
“I think it's waste of time. It's the individual kids so it's kind of silly to sue a whole company. We should focus on something else.” Alex Harris, 12
"It seems kind of stupid because they don't have any power over who they can sell to. It's the kid who chooses whether or not they buy one.” Aiden Kehoe, 9
“I think it's kind of dumb and waste of money, but I don't know much about it.” Emily Nelson, 10
“It'll probably help with banning Juul, making it harder to access. It'll also help with the other schools that sued.” Calvin Caswell, 10
The Francis Howell School District has decided to join other school districts around the country to sue the e-cigarette company, Juul Labs. The decision was brought forward to the board by their lawyer, Cindy Ormsbry. After the federal government released a statement saying that Juul Labs advertises towards underage kids and the rapid spike in e-cigarette related offenses in the school district, FHSD didn’t want to leave Juul unpunished.
The Editorial Board is in support of the Francis Howell School District. FHSD has done the most they can do with trying to keep the students away from e-cigarettes. They have tried to prevent them from being used by under-age kids with their health effect warnings and have tried to help students with nicotine addictions.
According to Ormsbry, the district has spent an excessive amount of their time and resources trying to take care of this e-cigarette epidemic. After a spike from around 50 to 280 e-cigarette infractions within the school district, On Behalf of the Editorial Staff @fhntoday.com | @FHNtoday FHSD is currently in a lawsuit against Juul Labs NORTH STAR TAKE: FHSD SHOULD TAKE THE FIGHT TO JUUL
(Illustration by Kiley Beiner)
the board has taken action to fix the underlying issue of nicotine addiction. Figuring that detentions and suspensions don’t work, they have spent excessive resources to hold information programs for their students and enforcing a new drug policy. None of the funds from the lawsuit are coming from the taxpayers or the district either. If there is any recovery from a settlement or after a trial, the legal fees will be paid out of that settlement, but there will be no funds and no taxpayer funds to pay for the lawsuit.
Although this lawsuit does punish Juul Labs, FHSD will not blame Juul for students being caught with vapes on their person. The student is still held accountable for their behavior. The student will be punished with in school suspension and will be go through programs to help with their nicotine addiction.
The district’s end goal of the lawsuit is to get reimbursed for the issue they didn’t create, but that Juul did. FHSD wants the funds reimbursed to them that they had to use towards the vaping problems they have had over the past three years. They want to be able to pay for the programs and rehabilitation that is used and the administrators and professionals that help as well.
If no actions were taken before this, the lawsuit would seem impractical. But FHSD has spent time and finances trying to fix a problem that they didn’t create for their students. Juul has created a mess that FHSD has had to clean up for the past three years. The district isn’t using their own funds to pay for the lawsuit, they have tried other ways to fix the problem, they aren’t blaming only Juul, but also the students; FHSD has all their I’s dotted and all their T’s crossed.
The district cares about their health and well being of their students. If they win this lawsuit, they are hoping to be able to cure this vaping epidemic once and for all with the resources they will be able to provide, including rehabilitation programs and help for the students’ addiction with nicotine. Podcast Editor: Tom Jamison Isabella Manthey Allison Moore Jordyn Sgroi Rachel Stover Samuel Watkins Sarah Williams Avery Witherbee Riley Witherbee Courtney Wortman Salam Abouchleih Addalynn Bradbury Alayna Furch Bryanna Ginn Aidyn Gleason Sky Hebisen Adam Hogan Anna Hollinger Pavan Kolluru Entertainment/Opinions Editor: Justin Christensen General Staff:
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