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Sharknado

 Rating: 1/5 Panther Paws   When a movie like this comes out, you don’t really know what to expect, do you? It could be a hilarious, silly shark and tornado movie, or, it could just be really, really bad. Sometimes it depends how you look at it. The story is about a guy who owns a bar on a beach in LA, divorced, and everything is going alright until, somehow, wait, is that right? A giant herd of sharks get picked up in a tornado?! There are so many things wrong with that statement.  The guy decides to leave his bar, and drive away with one of his employees and a customer to go find his wife, daughter, and son to save them from the most unrealistic event in the history of existence. It seems as if this movie takes itself too seriously, when there’s a whole cliche emotional scene about whether or not he still cares about his family, or something like that. It really gets boring during those scenes because we came to watch sharks jumping out of tornados to eat peopl

Cokie Roberts Shines a Spotlight on our Founding Mothers

“We the people.” That was part of the first line of the Constitution. But it’s not really what the writers meant. Because at that time, “We the people,” probably meant, “We the men”. All the writers were men and many of the important people in history were men. Because women weren’t the generals or the politicians they were often ignored by the people of the time and the people of today. When Cokie Roberts wrote Founding Mothers the Women Who Raised Our Nation and then turned it into a picture book for younger people, she attempted to change that.     When I got the chance to interview her, she said that one of the hardest parts of writing Founding Mothers was finding what the important ladies of the time actually said. Lots of them wrote journals and letters, but often times these were burned, sometimes by the women themselves. As President Truman said to his wife when he saw her burning their letters to each other, “Bess, what are you doing; think of history!” She r