Micro-Transaction and Why the Need to Go

May 10, 2018

Filed under Opinion

Micro-transactions have been a controversial topic for a long time, even before the whole Battlefront II thing happened. Many gamers hate them, but few of them try to defend this choice in video games. I’ll go through most of all the points why they don’t hate this system. While some won’t say...

The Battle Royale Genre

Austin Nuchols, Staff

May 4, 2018

Filed under Opinion

Everybody has heard about Fortnite. It’s the new craze that is taking over video games. But what is Fortnite? Fortnite is the current most popular Battle Royale game. Battle Royale games are based off of the 2000 Japanese movie called Battle Royale. The movies features 42 Highschool freshmen sent to an island all alone. Battle Royal...

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Austin Nuchols, Staff

May 4, 2018

Filed under Opinion

Disney has been making bank recently, with the release of Marvel’s Infinity War Disney made $252 million in the opening weekend alone. Star Wars also has an box office buster coming out soon, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The movie is coming out only a few months after 2017’s The Last Jedi. The So...

The Paris Climate Agreement

Austin Nuchols, Staff

March 5, 2018

Filed under National and International News, News, Opinion

The United States recently left the Paris Climate Agreement. The Agreement is to cut down carbon emissions into the atmosphere to help prevent climate change. Almost every country in the world is a part of the agreement. The only three countries in the world are now Nicaragua, Syria, and now the United...

Black Panther not just a superhero movie

Davis Cornelius, Staff

March 1, 2018

Filed under Creative Writing, Film Reviews, National and International News, News, Opinion

Marvel has been making movies that have drawn big crowds for years, but Black Panther is on a whole new level. The second weekend Black Panther topped all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as the highest grossing movie with 700 million dollars. The city of Memphis placed number one in ticket sales. Memphis...

Political Opinion Trump Article

Abigail Martin, Facebook Manager

February 27, 2018

Filed under Opinion

America’s current president Donald Trump has been in office for about a year now. Since being elected he has taken over social media with his political views. On a typical day, he tweets an average of ten times and over 300 times a month. Many Americans consider a lot of Trump’s tweets controversial and...

1 picture and 100 words

Davis Cornelius, Staff

February 23, 2018

Filed under Creative Writing, Opinion

Get ready for Easter! Easter is a time of making eggs and being with family, whether it is looking for eggs in an Easter Egg Hunt or buying new clothes at the mall for the next Sunday morning service. Many people have different traditions for Easter, but in the end everyone should have the same conce...

Olympic Gymnast Coach Larry Nassar Sentenced to Life in Prison

Nikolas Henry, Staff

February 2, 2018

Filed under National and International News, Opinion

On January 24, 2018, Larry Nassar was given life in prison in court on Wednesday and sentenced to 40 to 175 years. Larry Nassar was the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University team doctor that was accused of seven counts of criminal sexual conduct of the first degree. He used his position...

Who is Affected the Most by Youtube’s New Partner Program

January 26, 2018

Filed under Opinion

After the Logan Paul controversy with the suicide video, Youtube is planning to change the partner program. Now activate ads on your videos, you must have 1000 subscribers in total and obtain a total of 4000 hours of people watching your videos every month. The amount of people to get that amount ...

Net Neutrality Dies with 3-2 Vote

Mason Jones, Media Director

December 15, 2017

Filed under National and International News, News, Opinion

The net neutrality vote has ended. The FCC has decided to repeal net neutrality. What does that mean for us? There is pretty much two outcomes to this. The first is your are high in rank at the internet service provider and you are making bank, or you are just a normal citizen that is getting the short...

Risky Online Relationships

Shelby Sensat, Staff

December 15, 2017

Filed under Creative Writing, Opinion

In today’s society online relationships are more common than ever, but how can you tell if you are walking into something risky or unsafe? If there’s one thing the internet has taught us it’s that people aren’t always who they say they are. We were taught at a young age what “stranger danger”...

What Justice League Means for the DCEU (SPOILERS)

December 12, 2017

Filed under Film Reviews, Opinion

Warning Matey!! There be spoilers ahead...    Justice League came out a few weeks ago and much like the rest of the films that are apart of the DCEU, the reviews were very mixed with some critics bashing the film and others praising it. But either way Justice League definitely had a big impact...