Meet Alexa Dosreis!

Meet Alexa Dosreis, a 17 year old Senior at Norton High. She currently runs track but she also use to play soccer. Alexa enjoys going to the movies and spending time with friends in her free time. If you ever see her listening to music it will most likely be Emblem 3. When she does take time out of her life to read, she will pick up a book from the Twilight series. Her favorite movie to watch is Titanic but only watches it up until the part that Jack and Rose die. When Alexa was younger, she played the Piano but throughout the years she has not played as much. That is something she would like to pick up again and really get to enjoy. One time Alexa stepped on a ball in the middle of her soccer game, tripped, and gave herself a scar on her elbow, it is still there! "I don't get why people wear socks and sandals," Alexa says thoughtfully on the subject of her pet peeves. She also listed: "I don't like when people laugh really loudly and it sounds fake and when people chew with their mouths full." The first ever concert she went to was the Hannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus concert. She comments on her ordeal, "It was an exciting experience but looking back now I don't know why I went." She is looking forward to going to college to major in either business or biology. "I don't know exactly what college I want to go to," Alexa says " but I'll most likely stay in Massachusetts and have a major in bio or business."  Thanks for the interview Alexa! 

Dust Off Your Robes And Shine Those Wands!

Calling all Wizards and Muggles! It is time to break out your wands and throw on your cloaks because Harry Potter is back! J.K Rowling, the wizard herself, announced that she is releasing two new books and screen writing a new movie. The movie will not be a prequel or a spin-off of the Harry Potter series that everyone is familiar with but an expansion to the wizarding world that Harry Potter takes place in. Rowling released a statement regarding the movie: '"Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world, the laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway.'”  That is no problem to the Harry Potter fandom! People on the social media networks like Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook expressed their enthusiasm by posting pictures and quotes with sayings like "Long Live Harry Potter." Rowling has not commented if any of the actors/actresses from the previous Harry Potter movies will be in the movies. Daniel Radcliffe, known to the world as Harry Potter, comments on the newly released information on the continuation of the wizarding world: '"I don't know if any of us [the original Potter cast] will be."'  This movie will be the first in a series of films that J.K Rowling has planned out and is screen writing herself. The new movie could be about Flobberworms and the Potter fandom would still go nuts over it. So fingers crossed that this will be the start of a new Harry Potter millennium! See you in line for the premieres Potterheads! 

   

Rolling Stone Controversy

            The prominent Rolling Stone magazine controversy is taking over the web and newspapers all around. “’Jahar’s World”’ is a completely new angle on who Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev is as a person. If someone wanted to avoid reading the article and not have anything to do with it, they couldn’t! Rolling Stone plastered Jahar’s face onto the front cover of their magazine and it makes the terrorist seem like a guiltless young male. The Rolling Stone article and cover of the bomber Jahar Tsarnaev humanizes the man who was anything but.

            The article and cover had hundreds of reactions; most of them were in the form of anger. Rolling Stone did not think thoroughly about how the city of Boston would protest such an act as this. News stands, local shops, and big name pharmacies have taken their form of protest in boycotting the magazine. Rolling Stone editors retaliate to the negative reviews saying that 40 years earlier they had cult leader Charles Manson on the front cover and an interview with him from inside the prison which won a National Magazine award. Times have changed; technology was not as big as it is now, that magazine cover was not heard about all around the world through social net working sites like Twitter or Facebook. It may have won an award but Rolling Stone doesn’t have that excuse now.

 When a writer or journalist describes a man, who deliberately harmed citizens of Boston, as “charming” you get the impression that having the image of the bomber on the front of the magazine doesn’t seem like a big deal for them. It is completely inappropriate to make it seem like this terrorist is treated as equally to countless other celebrities that have been on the cover. When a celebrity is placed on the front of the magazine it is quite an honor to have. Putting the face of a bomber on the front of the magazine makes it seem like anyone with an interesting story can be a first page star. Even if you are terrorist who hates America and what it stands for and bombed a well known race, you can still be on the front of Rolling Stone. “’The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many as our readers”’ The editors of Rolling Stone state, “’Makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens.”’ Rolling Stone has an audience of wide variety- whether it is teenagers with an interest in new music artists or adults reading up on what’s new in the world. Understanding the complexity of Tsarnaev is one thing but having him on the front cover of a widely known magazine is another. If Rolling Stone wanted to have an article of the tragedy in their magazine why did they not have a victim of the bombings on the front cover? There are countless people they could have put on the front cover like Jeff Bauman, a man who lost both of his legs due to the tragedy or how about Heather Abott who lost her foot due to the explosion. Anyone who had witnessed this tragedy would have been better than the killer himself.

             The bombings in Boston were truly horrific. Bostonians are still feeling the effects from it every single day. Rolling Stone magazine did not think too clearly about how their cover would affect the people and victims of the tragedy. Writing “’Jahar’s World”’ was not the smartest move. The article had interviews from people that knew Jahar personally so the readers did not really get to look at him from an outside point of view. Idolizing the terrorist and putting him on the front page was the worst action Rolling Stone magazine could have done.