“The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has recently been made into a movie- again! Nick Carraway, played by Tobey Maguire, finds himself living in the rich part of town. Nick’s next door neighbor Jay Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio, seems a bit suspicious but always throws ‘extravagant’ parties on Saturdays. Over the summer, Nick finds...
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Adventure
The Great Gatsby: From Book to Movie
Fallout: New Vegas
You are a courier. A traveler of the Mojave Wasteland in what used to be Nevada. Your job? To deliver messages and packages through the terror of the wasteland when no one else will. It has been just over 200 years since a nuclear war ravaged the entirety of the world and you are...
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Smallworlds
Smallworlds is a virtual world that was launched in 2008. In 2009, it was voted top prize in the social computing category of the adobe MAX awards. Smallworlds, a game of many things. In this complex virtual world you first create you avatar. You choose from many personalizing options of hair, faces, and accessories....
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The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
Your name is Daryl Dixon, and almost all of your family has just been murdered right in front of you by monstrous, flesh-eating zombies. While you were off hunting in the woods with your family, the zombies came and ruined everything. Now, you must go and rescue your brother Merle, the one and only...
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My Girl
Set in a small town located in Pennsylvania, this is an emotional movie about a lonely young girl’s journey during the summer of 1972. Eleven year old Vada, based on her life, is played by Anna Chlumsky. Vada lives with Harry or her dad, played by Dan Aykroyd, who has a business in their...
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Featured Author: Jay Asher
You may all know the amazing story of Hannah Baker in Thirteen Reason Why and the great novel The future of Us, both written by this featured author Jay Asher. Both books have a very different style of writing to them. They have a way of writing that attracts the teen age group to...
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The Devil Wears Prada
Fresh out of college with a degree in journalism, Andrea Sachs, having grown up in a small New Hampshire town, has no idea what lies ahead of her when she moves to Manhattan to pursue her dream to write for the New Yorker. With little experience in the field, she knows she has to...
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Looking For Alaska
“Before”: Miles Halter- memorizer of last words, bored with his Florida high school and ready to venture in order to find his very own “Great Perhaps”. When he leaves Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School, he never imagines how a few people and events could change his life irrevocably. “If people...
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White Noise
Imagine you and your partner are exploring an area that is supposed to be haunted. At first, you pass off the rumors but investigate anyway. You let your partner explore on their own, trusting that no harm will come to them. They will record the information they find onto eight tape recorders. Then, they...
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Admiral Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen Beardsley (Rene Russo) are high school sweethearts. After high school they went their separate ways and married different people. Later on they find each other on dates at a fancy restaurant, but not with each other. Come to find out both Frank’s wife, and Helen’s husband had died...
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