In most people’s lives, the one thing anyone really wants more than anything is control over their lives. The ability to do anything we want and make all the choices is extremely attractive. In The Sims 3, that’s exactly what you are able to do. With no plot whatsoever established, it’s completely up the...
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“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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Haper Lee is best known for her bestselling novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. This won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into a film in 1962. When the novel was published Lee was only 34 and this was her only ever published novel. Haper LEe was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She went...
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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 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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire to be released in 2013” Published by Christopher Rosen Written by Sean Bigelow Christopher Rosen of Huffingtonpost.com reports that “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” will be released as a motion picture in November 2013. The film will start of where “The Hunger Games” left off, with Katniss Everdeen...
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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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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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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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Terri Schwartz of MTV news reported on February 9, 2011 that Jay Asher’s popular young adult novel 13 Reasons Why is becoming a motion picture. This heart pounding novel’s storyline follows Clay Jensen, a shy high school student, who finds a box sitting on his doorstep. Inside the box are seven cassette tapes containing...
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