Komal's Kool Korner

Women in rap were always disregarded, until this year's Grammy's. This year women were running the show. They delivered the night's best performances. The most rememberable performances like Cardi B's 'Money', Camilla Cabello's 'Havana' or Janelle Monae's and Miley Cyrus's 'Jolene' performance. Cardi B won a Grammy for 'Best Rap Album' with her album 'Invasion of Privacy'  against Travis Scott's 'Astroworld' album. I honestly found that amazing! 'Astroworld' was an extraordinarily big project with astounding songs. It's amazing that a women rapper won the award against such a successful rapper. Last year when Neil Portnow, Grammy's President, was asked about the lack of women in the top categories he said that women need to "step up". He did acknowledge that it was a poor choice of words and apologized at this year's Grammy's. When Dua Lipa won 'Bes...

Nate and Patrice are no average kids, they protect Neighbourville from zombies!  Their biggest enemy, Zomboss, is back and he's causing trouble everywhere; at the park, in the store and on the streets. He's robbing every store and lollipop in sight. But here come some old foes, The Anti-Bully Squad. There another problem though! Crazy Dave has some much ice cream! Will Zomboss take over Neighbourville or will The Anti-Bully defeat him? Will Crazy Dave's ice cream melt? Read Plants vs Zombies Bully for You to find out! I think this book isn't that good. It could be because I don't like Plant vs Zombies, but I didn't find it that exciting or funny. There were a couple of parts that were funny. Most of the time I didn't understand the story or what was happening. That again could be because I don't know all the names of plants and what they can do. Here are some of my favourite parts: For this book to be better they could make sur...

Pardeep Singh Nagra was a boxer. Well, more than that actually.  Tiger is a movie based on the true story of Pardeep Singh Nagra. Pardeep was born and raised in Canada. He faced lots of discrimination because of his faith and culture. He was raised by his aunt and uncle because his parents moved to India.  In the movie, Pardeep had lots of rage and anger. That's how he became a boxer. He let out all his anger with each punch. The boxing club that he attended was filled with racists. He got better day by day with practise and support from his coach and soon from his fellow boxers. The problem soon arose. The ABC (American Boxing Commission) didn't approve of Pardeep boxing.  It was because he had a beard and the rules say the boxer must be clean shaved. Pardeep and his lawyer fought until he was allowed to box. But did it work? Watch the movie to find out! I can relate to the movie. I have witnessed and faced racism countless times. I think that what Pardeep...

This egg has more than 32 million likes. Yeah. On January 4th the 'world_record_egg' Instagram page posted a picture of an egg that went VIRAL. It got more than 32 million likes. It beat a post by Kylie Jenner. What was the competition? It was a post of a birth announcement. Kylie Jenner's post had 18 million likes and the egg beat it by over 14 million likes! And it's just an egg. Why was a picture of an egg even posted? Well, the manager of the page said they were reading an article about the top 20 posts of 2018. They thought it would be amazing to beat the records with something very basic. That led them to decide on an egg. It took some time for the picture to get so many likes. On January 8th, four days after the picture was posted, it had 10, 000 likes. Then, the egg started to get more and more popular.  How does Jenner feel about this? Well, Kylie made a post of cracking an egg on the pavement. The caption was "Take that, little egg". ...

A very special penny that's worth a lot.  Rare 1943 copper penny Ordinarily, a penny would be worth, well a cent. But this particular penny was sold for $204, 000! What makes this penny so unique? It's the year. That year the coins were supposed to be made of steel so they could use the copper for other items such as shell casings. These items were critical to the Military in World War II.  There is an estimated 10 to 15 of these 1943 copper pennies still in circulation. How were they made? Well, some copper got into the mints and out came these pennies. In 1943 they weren't really too relevant, but now it's worth more than $200, 000! 1943 steel penny 1943 copper penny This $204, 000 penny was once lunch money in 1947 and belonged to a man named Don Lutes. Don held on to the penny because something told him it was special. He soon found out that there was something special about it. In 1958 a 1943 penny was sold for $40, 000, which today is $300, ...

Some people say that blue is for boys, and pink is for girls. But there's also a controversy about fast food toys.  When you order a Happy Meal, for example, they always ask you if you want a girl or boy toy. Many people think that this is wrong. Leslie Love is a Democrat from Detroit. She believes that this shouldn't happen. So, she proposed a resolution for a change in the restaurant business. "It's a new day, and it's time for us to stop using that kind of language," Love says, "We would never want to gender-identify careers, but we still do it with our toys.". The aim is to erase the separation between boy and girl toys. Fast food chains give action figures and cars for boys and teddy bears and little dolls to girls. The solution is to ask what toy children want. "This practice can influence and limit children's imaginations and interests by promoting some toys as only suitable for girls and others only for boys, " reads the ...

What will Greg Heffley do when it's a snow day? He'll have a neighbourhood snow battle, that's right. Greg Heffley lives on Surrey Street and it's quite different from your average neighbourhood. On Surrey Street, you're either a hill kid or a non-hill kid. Greg and the hill kids can't stand the non-hill kids. In the summer the kids at the bottom never let the hill kids play down there. But in the winter the tables are turned. The hill is amazing for sledding and all the non-hill kids want in. Upper Surrey Street ambushing lower Surrey Street kids If you really want to enjoy and understand this book you have to know your Wimpy. In this book, there are a lot of callbacks to things that happen in previous books. So, to understand this book read a couple of the older Wimpy Kid books.  So I really loved this book. In fact, I really love the entire series. I would recommend this book to ages 10-12. Something I would love to see is this book in movie for...