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Katniss
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Effie
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Magcon BoyS
By: Karly P.
Have you ever heard of “Vine”? If you have, you know it’s an app where you make 6 second videos. You can follow people and see their videos also. If you do have a vine, you most likely follow one of the MAGCON boys.
Nash Grier is considered the main one in the group; he has 5.9 million followers on vine and more than 200 posts (videos)! All the other boys have more than 200k followers! One of the boys, Shawn, is a singer and he posts videos of himself singing on vine.
They also all have youtube channels, they make videos that include waxing legs, pickle challenges, dry oatmeal challeges, eating baby food, throwing eggs at each other and having trivia contest’s. In the latest Youtube video of Nash Grier and Cameron Dallas, they were asking questions about each other and if they got it wrong they would have to pour any type of food or liquid on the person. If they got it right they didn’t get anything poured on them. They spent $60 dollars at the dollar store buying everything for the video. During the filming of the video, Cameron stepped on the lid of a tin can and had to go to the hospital to get 13 stitches.
In the end, if you don’t follow them on Vine, you should because one of their many talents is making people laugh.
The World of The Walking Dead
By: Deanna L.
The Walking Dead is a show on AMC based off of the comic book, “The Walking Dead.” The pilot episode is about a sheriff, Rick Grimes, chasing after criminals but then getting shot by one of them. He wakes up in the hospital after a week of being in a coma. He walks through the hospital and sees that the dead are walking around. There aren’t many at first, but as the seasons progress, there are more zombies, or as the show calls them, walkers.
The shows premiere date was on October 31st, 2010. It is based off the comic book by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Some of the directions of the plot the show takes are similar to the comic book, but most of the time the producers and directors have different ideas for what the plot should be, like character deaths and things that can drastically change the plot.
The Walking Dead makes about $8 million dollars per episode and spends about $2.75 million per episode. Each episode is about 40 minutes long. Season 1 started off small, with about 6 episodes. In season 2, they added more episodes to make 13 episodes. In season 3, they made 16 episodes. Season 3 was around the time the show got more popular. So far in season 4, they have 8 episodes. They aired the mid-season finale a few months ago, and got 12.1 million views. The mid-season premiere is on February 9th, 2014, and will continue to make at least 8 more episodes.
The Walking Dead has a huge fan base with about 16.1 million viewers. The favorite characters among fans are either the protagonist, Rick Grimes, or Daryl Dixon that has been on the show since season 1, and hasn’t been on the show as much as Rick. Fans are also angry because it’s being hinted that Rick may be killed off of the show when season 4 continues. But nobody is certain he will be killed off, because as Robert Kirkman, one of the creators of the show, says, “Nobody is safe.”
Two video games were also created in 2012. One was called Survival Instinct, where you play as Daryl before the apocalypse. Most of the people who bought the game were disappointed by it, and it didn’t get good reviews. Another one is called The Walking Dead, but doesn’t have the characters from the show except for Hershel and Glenn, who stay for only a little part of the first episode. You get to play as a man named Lee and shortly after the apocalypse starts, he finds a little girl named Clementine and they go through the apocalypse together and meet new groups. The game is in its second season. You get to play as Clementine about a year or two after the first game.
Survival Instinct
Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Grimes and his friend Shane Walsh, who is also a cop, are chasing after some criminals in a car. They have to start shooting at the criminals. One of the criminals they didn’t see shot Rick in the chest and was in a coma for at least one week, or a longer period of time. He wakes up in the hospital and sees that the dead are walking. A man, Morgan, and his son, Duane, take in Rick and take care of him until he fully knows what is going on. Rick leaves to find his wife Lori, and son, Carl. But walkers are everywhere, and he meets a group of people in a store in Atlanta, who are Andrea, Glenn, T-Dog, Jacquie, Morales, and Merle Dixon. They drive out to a camp with Rick. In that group, it had Rick’s son and wife there. Along with other people named Carol, Ed, Sophia, Dale, Amy, Jim, Daryl Dixon, Shane Walsh, and other extra people. But soon after, their camp got over run with walkers, and killed 2 of the main people in the group, who are Amy, Andrea’s sister, and Ed, Carol’s husband. They left the camp the following day. After the walkers passed, Jim was acting strange, and they found out that he was bitten by a walker on the stomach. Jim got worse, and he decided that the group leaves him under a tree where he can’t hurt anyone. They say goodbye and leave him just before he dies, and they drive on. They eventually find the CDC, Center for Disease Control, where they meet a man named Dr. Jenner who has been trying to figure out what has been happening. The group learns more about the virus and are welcome to stay at the CDC. But They find out that Dr. Jenner set the center for self-destruct. The group hurries out, but Jacquie stayed behind with Dr. Jenner, and they stayed in as the center blew up, the group driving away.
Season 1 Main Characters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(season_1)
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/10/amc-makes-per-episode-of-the-walking-dead
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walking-dead-what-happened-fired-221449
http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/episodes/season-1
Uncharted 4
By: Kahdija C.
If you are a gamer and a fan of the game series Uncharted then I suggest that you continue to read on. If you do not know what Uncharted is, it is an action adventure video game and has a third shooter platform. It is a line of games developed by Naughty Dog and is published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation. It follows Nathan ‘’Nate’’ Drake who is a treasure hunter in modern-day and many other people who you will soon meet and recruit as the game goes on and uncover many mysteries.
The series includes:
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1.Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
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2.Uncharted Among Thieves
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3.Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception: Among Thieves and that is also the highest rated one of the series. It won much Game of the Year awards and a film modification has even been announced. It has sold 17 million copies worldwide and the next installment will be released only to PlayStation 4 and that is
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4.Uncharted 4.
Naughty Dog has been working on Uncharted 4 for a long time. It has been in development for three years. Naughty Dog begun creating Uncharted 4 right after they finished Uncharted 3, it also helped the creation of PS Vita launch name Uncharted: Golden Abyss. They announced the next Uncharted on the eve of the PS4 release.
They released a teaser and the teaser also hinted that it will take the characters to Madagascar, one of the locations in Drake’s travel route. It also, included a Latin quoted that stated, ‘’Today you will be with me in paradise." In my opinion the paradise is most likely suffused with monsters and honestly, in the game Uncharted anything is a possibility. Naughty Dog is probably close to showing more of the diversion. Hopefully, they do because I am a huge fan of the series Uncharted and own all of them not including the 4th one of course. I am pretty hopeful they will release it soon and could not be more excited.
If you are a fan of the series, are you excited of the new development and what do you want or think is going to be in the game?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Uncharted-4-PS4-Development-2011-62413.html
