Daniel Suarez Jr.

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By (Daniel as managing) + 4 others for Talon Marks - 5 min read

Cerritos college automotive training program endures tumultuous year

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“That presented the biggest challenge: they were so used to being fully in person here for instruction and then it went to fully online quickly,” remembers Joe Mulleary, instructor and department chair of the Automotive Training Program at Cerritos College. Mulleary, who is also a Cerritos College alumnus, has been teaching the campus automotive program since Fall of 2012. “It...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 3 others for Talon Marks - 5 min read

BLM-LA responds to Wright murder, Chauvin trial and Huntington Beach protest

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Black Lives Matter-LA leadership responded to Daunte Wright's killing, Derek Chauvin's trial and the Huntington Beach counter-protest during Wednesday's annual rally outside the LA Police Protective League on April 14. Daunte Wright killing and protests Daunte Wright was killed by Minneapolis police officer Kim Porter on April 11 after she pulled Wright over for expired license plate tags. After learning...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 5 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read

Russell Westbrook deserves praise, not hate

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There is nobody in the league that gets quite as much unnecessary hate as Washington Wizards Point Guard Russell Westbrook. This is something Westbrook has dealt with throughout the entirety of his career. While the Westbrook haters have a point when it comes to pointing out his weaknesses, these haters do not appreciate the unique qualities of his game enough....

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By (Daniel as managing) + 6 others for Talon Marks - 5 min read

Close the camps, create a path to citizenship

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The humanitarian crisis at the Mexican American border is worsening and the Biden administration cannot wait any longer to address it. Everyday, border officials are detaining hundreds of immigrants and border crossings are spiking. Now local communities like the city of Long Beach are trying to alleviate the pressure by opening new concentration camps to house child immigrants, but the...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 3 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read

ASCC elects new president and vice president

Sandra Abundio has been elected ASCC president and Ethan McLaughlin has been elected ASCC vice president by the Cerritos College student body. The newly elected duo will assume their respective positions May 24, after the student inauguration, which will be held during the ASCC Awards Ceremony on May 14. Both freshman expressed their excitement to be chosen to represent the...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 5 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read

A Look Back with Oscar: 'Metal Slug Trilogy' is a great series of run n' gun shooters

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Welcome back to A Look Back With Oscar where we take classic video games and movies to see if they truly are classics or actually garbage. This time, let's go back to the late 90s and talk about one of the most popular run and gun games to hit arcades: Metal Slug. The story of the game is a simple...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 5 others for Talon Marks - 4 min read

College hosts 'healing circle, community conversation' amidst anti-asian hate crimes

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Cerritos College students, faculty and staff, reflected on the recent spike in hate crimes against Asian-Americans throughout the country, during the APIDA Healing Circle and Community Conversation online event on April 1. Event host, Luisito Amador, opened with a moment of silence for those who have been impacted in any way by the recent, senseless acts of violence.“The purpose and...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 6 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read

'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': 'The Whole World is Watching' is an intense commentary on the state of America

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“The Whole World is Watching” is the fourth episode in the series, and it feels as if Disney and Marvel Studios have reached their peak with the series. It’s clear where the series is going. Four episodes into its six-episode run, the stakes are set and we (presumably) know who our villains and antiheroes for the series are going to...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 4 others for Talon Marks - 3 min read

'Pac-Man 99': A fast-paced/intense battle royale

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With "Super Mario Bros. 35" gone from the Nintendo Online Service, many people were wondering what will happens after the game gets taken out. What follows is an addicting, fun battle royale that puts 99 people in one room, only instead of shooting people to be number one, they have to survive a horde of Ghosts as everyone's favorite yellow...

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By (Daniel as managing) + 4 others for Talon Marks - 4 min read

Faith leaders and Cerritos College chief of police discuss faith and the LGBTQ+ community

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“God said, ‘Let us make a humankind.’ He did not say let us make a human race, Humankind,” Reverend Dr. Roger L. Culberson said to the virtual attendees, “And I love that word human, because it has, what I call, the hue in it, the hue I do believe we can find in the colors of the rainbow.”Students, staff, faculty...

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