I am the current news editor for Talon Marks. I am a Journalism major at Cerritos College and want to review movies, music and other entertainment. California
Worked on 425 assignments, created 77, named on 50 bylines for Talon Marks.
By Daniel Green + 2 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
Arts- Iron Man 3 review
"Iron Man 3" is a strong entry in to the Iron Man trilogy. Even with some flaws, the movie manages to avoid being a paint by numbers superhero movie and throws twists and turns that even the most avid comic book reader will not see coming. Director Shane Black take the story in a different direction that is interesting, but...
(Daniel as collaborator) + 3 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
Schools are not churches
Creationism has no place in the classroom and should not be taught as an alternative to evolution. Creationism is the belief that the World was created was created by God as described in the bible. Why we should be respectful of people who hold this belief?It needs to be kept separated from science classes. In recent years religious fundamentalists have...
By Daniel Green + 4 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
Editoral: Scapegoating
When terror strikes America everyone is put on edge, and often quick to judge the ones who inflicted terror saying they are automatically a different ethnicity and probably even from a different country and not a citizen of the United States. Not to say that it should be any one group who commits a terrorist attack but that we as...
By Daniel Green + 3 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
Outstanding Faculty Awards Spring 2013
Susana Magana, dental hygiene major, waited with a group of her fellow classmates in the Student Center for the Outstanding Faculty Awards to begin. Magana, the senior president of the Dental Hygiene Club came out with her classmates to cheer for her professor Adelle Krayer. Krayer was one of the faculty members honored Thursday for her achievements and hard work...
By Daniel Green + 2 others for Talon Marks - 4 min read
Anthropology Club
When Anthropology Club President Cierra Sorin took her first anthropology class she was only focused on completing her science requirements, but she found herself becoming fascinated with the subject. “I had a really bad experience in high school with biology. So I said 'Physical Anthropology will fulfill the class. I’ll take that.' It’s cheesy, but it totally changed the way...
By Daniel Green + 3 others for Talon Marks - 5 min read
Wi-Fi expansion helps some students, but leaves some fustrated.
Even though Cerritos College's campus Wi-Fi has expanded since the beginning of the 2013 spring semester, woman’s studies major Irene Aceituno has had difficulty connecting to the internet. "The Wi-Fi used to connect on my Kindle but then it stopped. Now, I usually use my phone as a hotspot," Aceituno said. In January, Cerritos College allocated $20,000 to upgrade and...
By Daniel Green + 3 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
Anonymity come with responsibility.
In today’s world we live in a contradictory state of publicity and anonymity. Our entire identity can stored on a computer with our social security numbers, credit cards numbers, or just what we “like” on Facebook. At the same time it can be incredibly easy to lose yourself in the internet. It has become easy to disappear in the crowd...
By Alexandra Scoville (Daniel as section editor) + 2 others for Talon Marks - 5 min read
Facebook confessions
Students across California have started a trend of confessing their secrets and thoughts to separate pages representing their schools on Facebook. These pages are developed so students can anonymously confess things about their school, friends, life and other subjects. Schools like Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Dominguez Hills as well as Cerritos College have pages like these. Students...
By Daniel Green + 3 others for Talon Marks - 4 min read
Bioshock: Infinite looks to soar again
For Business Administration major Raul Cendejas the appeal of Bioshock has been the storytelling and the exotic world it takes place in. “What I liked about Bioshock the game is that they were all pretty much stories of “paradise lost”. In a way it was always just like a surreal escape.” After three years players will return to the world...
By Daniel Green + 4 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read
video game tournament
On the fourth day of the Spring Festival clubs competed in a video game tournament. A trailer from Extreme Game Truck was parked outside the Fine Arts Building with screens outside and inside the trailer. Students were also offered free popcorn, snow cones, cotton candy and the chance to have their photos taken wearing costumes in a photo booth. Thirteen...