Articles by Alec Plante

News & Features May 30, 2018

NBA Finals 2018 Cleveland Cavaliers VS Golden State Warriors

It has happened again, that’s right the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State warriors are facing each other in the finals for the fourth straight year. Even though they were Down 2 – 0 at the because of the conference finals and somehow won both of there series. An even more crazy fact is that Lebron has denominated the finals. Since 2010 there has not been an NBA finals without Lebron James.     The Cleveland Cavaliers season has been very rocky this year. At the beginning of the year they had a whole new team with many new members. However, the day before the trade deadline the cavs traded away almost there entire team for newer, younger players. Throughout all this chaos Lebron stayed strong and averaged 27 points per game. Also, he did not miss one game this entire season. The Cavs went through the Pacers, the Raptors, and…

News & Features, Opinions May 2, 2018

The Day of Silence 2018

Last week, students and teachers in the Friends’ Central community participated in the Day of Silence. On the Day of Silence, people choose to silence their voices to symbolize the forced silence of the LGBTQ+ every day. This helps spread the word of groups that are not often heard because of stereotypes that are misleading. Ms. Pidot, a Spanish teacher in the middle school, said that this is her 4th year participating in the Day of Silence. She says that each year she finds a different minority group to put light on. She said, “sometimes it is tough to find ways to interact effectively with my class, so I try showing my class what it might be like for people in minority groups and why there is a struggle. We try to find ways to make the Day of Silence interesting each year by looking at different groups and making them…

News & Features, Opinions April 25, 2018

Fortnite: Will Tilted Towers be destroyed?

Fortnite has exploded since the beginning of 2018. With the release of Fortnite Mobile for Apple devices people have more access to the game making it even more mainstream. Today we are talking about one of the most controversial cities on the Fortnite Map known as Tilted Towers. At the beginning of April, Epic Games put a small light in the sky that was not distinguishable from the rest of the stars in the sky, but a couple weeks ago people noticed it and realized it was getting closer to the map day by day. I am going to talk about what might go in the place of Tilted Towers after the comet strikes. Tilted Towers is a hot spot right now, but Epic Games has been trying to find a way to get rid of it. Since this season of the battle pass is space themed they saw a…

News & Features February 28, 2018

Stranger Things Season 2, Episode 8

Once again there will be spoilers in this about the 8th episode in season 2 of Stranger Things. In the episode, they are in a hospital, but Will starts to freak out and the demidogs get out of the lab. The entire lab shuts down and is ground zero for horrors. As the lab descends into hell, Bob volunteers to turn the lock systems off, so they can get out of the lab. As he makes his way back from the basement he finds himself confronted by demidogs. He manages to outrun them, but as they are leaving a demidog flanks him and kills him. They all managed to escape except for Bob. They decided to go to Will’s house, but they had to figure out away to get will to talk, but he couldn’t know where he was. So they went to his shed and using paper cardboard, metal…

News & Features January 31, 2018

Super Bowl 2018 Preview

The Eagles have made it all the way to the Super Bowl for the first time in 14 years. In 2004 when the eagles last went to the Super Bowl they beat the Vikings then the Falcons and went on to face the Patriots. Nearly the exact same thing has happened this year is history repeating itself? We don’t want history to repeat itself exactly because in 2004 we ended up losing to the patriots. We hope to have a winning outcome this year. This year the Eagles have faced the Falcons, then the Vikings and are now going to fight the Patriots in a true showdown. In my opinion, I believe that the Eagles win based on there great defense and how they are riding off their title of Underdog. Amazon’s Alexa even agrees that the Eagles will fly to victory and I like its opinion. Las Vega and…

News & Features January 24, 2018

Avengers Infinity War: Trailer Analysis

The Avengers: Infinity War trailer dropped in late November and was number 1 on the trending list for virtually every video and media site. It was one of the most popular movie trailers ever and I will analyze it and see what I can get out of it. Warning! If you did not watch the trailer there is a link below. Also if anything I say maybe correct, then here is a possible SPOILER ALERT! In the beginning of the trailer, we see a red, cloudy planet, I presume this Xandar, after Thanos visits the planet to retrieve the Power Stone inside the Orb. I believe this is what the planet looks like after Thanos gets the stone and destroys the planet using it. Next, we see Tony Stark, “AKA” Iron Man, holding someone’s lifeless hand. I think the hand is either Captain America, or, Nick Fury, we do have…

News & Features January 24, 2018

Stranger Things: Season 2, Episode 3

Hello, it’s Alec again, and today we have episode 3 of our Stranger Things serious. Just wanted let you guys know that there are spoilers in this article and you should watch the season if you haven’t yet. Thank and enjoy. Chapter 3, Dustin is just getting home from a long night of trick or treating with the group, but his mother begins to interrogate him. Trying to hide the mysterious creature in his trap, he lies and tells her that it was rigged with a motor to ease her. Then when he gets to his room he takes out the creature which he names Dart and feeds him chocolate. After that it shows us a flashback of Eleven finding Hopper in the woods. Hopper spots Eleven and then Eleven is sleeping in her bed after that dream. Hopper tells El it is to dangerous to go see Mike and…

News & Features November 8, 2017

Game Overview: Fortnite VS PUBG

Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battle Grounds (PUBG) are both very similar Battle Royale style FPS/TPS games, but what are the differences and which is better? Fortnite Battle Royale is currently in Beta on all systems and will be officially released later in 2018, while PUBG was released for PC earlier this and will come to Xbox in 2018. Fortnite is a survival building game that is testing out a Battle Royale after seeing the success of PUBG. In the campaign you have to build a fort, survive a waves of zombies, you can also do missions. In these missions you can save survivors from the zombies and the storm. You can venture out into the storm and find new materials and weapons to use. Fortnite uses “redesigns” of weapons that are iconic. Like a bolt action rifle that may not be real, but is based off real a bolt-action rifle. They…

News & Features October 26, 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Analysis

[Trailer included at the end of the article.] The Last Jedi trailer just came out and it has blown up with theories and ideas behind it. This is my theory of what is going to happen in the Last Jedi. Warning! If you want to go into the movie fresh, don’t read this. SPOILER ALERT! In the beginning of the movie, Rey meets up with Luke and asks him to train her in the ways of the Force, but he is afraid and refuses to train her. I think when Luke says, “I have seen this raw power before,” he is referring to himself and not Kylo. I think this because of how quickly Luke saw himself learn the Force without much training, while Kylo had years of training behind him. When Luke refuses to train Rey, she goes rogue and encounters Snoke. Snoke captures Rey and tries to take…

News & Features October 10, 2017

Video Game DLC Review – Battlefield 1: In The Name of the Tsar

This summer has offered many different games for teenagers and kids to dive into and enjoy. Today I am going to talk about a game that has swept the world. Battlefield 1 was released last October in a spectacular way pulling hundreds of thousands of gamers across the globe. With gamers eager to get new content, Battlefield entered the French into the battle however players were hungry again, so EA and Dice’s response was Soviet Russia. No, no, I mean Russia. On September 19 (September 5th if you had Premium) they released the Russians to fight for the Tsar in the new DLC (Downloadable content) “IN THE NAME OF THE TSAR!” I took it on myself to purchase and play the DLC and I have spent the last couple weeks playing the game so I can make a fair review of it. The new Russian expansion has brought the most…

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