The HPCMS Chronicle

By Able Bloodgood, Anita Andrade, Dash Fisher and Isamu Russo  Long Island City -  The multi-million dollar series from Marvel Studios, Avengers , is returning with a bang, releasing Avengers: Infinity War on April 25, 2018. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the new films are bringing back old characters from previous movies and introducing new characters, a few who have never made a screen appearance in a Marvel movie. The movie follows the storyline that all of Marvel's superheroes must come together to fight Thanos, an intergalactic villain with the powers of the universe, before he destroys earth and the universe as we know it. Thanos is expected to set high standards for villains to come. “I wanted to turn Thanos into the Darth Vader for a new generation. He’s an incredibly intense character. In other words, he is sociopathic. He takes no prisoners. I think the audience needs to be prepared when they go see these movies,” said director Anthony Russo in...

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By Gabriel Alarcon, Destiny Dimitrova and Cara Marie Giardina Long Island City - There are countless people affected by the five hurricanes that hit between August and October of 2017 - namely Maria, Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Nate - and some of those affected are students and staff at this school. In fact, out of the 60 students we surveyed, 56% reported that they have been directly affected by the hurricanes. When we started the school year, Hurricane Harvey had already destroyed Houston, Texas. Nine trillion gallons of water rained down on the city. This is about the size of fourteen million Olympic-sized swimming pools according to Quartz . This forced thirty thousand people to evacuate and move. In our first week of school, Hurricane Irma tore through the Caribbean. Shortly after, it was followed by Hurricane Maria which destroyed Puerto Rico and neighboring islands. The aftermath of these storms directly impacted students here at HPCMS. Lesly Hernandez, a 6th grader explain...

By Alexa Perez, Nicholas Lentini, Nairi Nakhapetian and Tsheyang Lhamo Students at their lockers in the afternoon Long Island City - There’s a locker situation at Hunter’s Point Community Middle School. The students at this school are saying they don't have enough time at their lockers, therefore making their bags too heavy to carry around from class to class. This has been stated in every grade and in most classes. The data that our team collected backs up all of these statements. Many kids at HPCMS have certain opinions about the lockers. Some say they need more time, others say they think that they have a good amount of time in their lockers, and others don’t know what to say about the situation. The data from our surveys show that 86% out of the 94 students surveyed feel that their bags are too heavy to carry around all day to different parts of the school. Only 8% of students said their bags weren’t that heavy. This means that the majority of students think that their bags...

By STACEY CHAVEZ, NADIA HIDALGO, ANGELIRENE CUAUTLE and MARK LAZAR Mark Lazar, “School Monster” HPCMS, Stacey Chavez, 6th grade, 11 years old - When I first stepped into this school I remember being nervous but excited at the same time. It was kind of nerve wracking because I didn’t know anybody here. I might have a few old friends, I thought, but they probably weren’t in the same class as me. When we first got in the school they told us to go to the cafeteria. I saw most of my friends and learned that we were going to be in the same class so I felt better than I did before. When we got out of the cafeteria there were 7th and 8th graders all around us! It was also pretty confusing because we all forgot where our homeroom was. When we got to our h...

By Kylie Williams, Jaiden Montero and Vanessa Ramos Original Artwork by Michelle Oliveira, 7th Grade Long Island City - On November 8th, 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States of America. There were lots of mixed feelings on this event from many different students at Hunters Point Community Middle School in Long Island City. Some students have felt the need to discuss Trump's presidency and the state of US politics, whether it be in the cafeteria at lunch, in the classroom, or at the dinner table at home. So we have gathered a group of students from HPCMS to interview them on their opinions about US politics. That way, people can have an understanding of what kids think when they hear the word “politics.” “There’s actually a split in my family. None of us support Trump and I supported one of the candidates, but of course I don’t get to vote,” said 6th grader Griffin Weiss. “My mother voted for Bernie until he got out. Then she voted for Hillary and that ...

By Ruan Sherpa and Jose Rios Barcelona, Spain - On Sunday October 1st, FC Barcelona won its seventh game in a row, playing in an empty stadium with no fans to cheer them on. The game was played in an empty stadium because the fans were protesting Spain’s government’s attempt to deny the vote for Catalonia to be an independent country. In the 3-0 match against Las Palmas, Messi scored 2 goals. To add one more, Sergio Busquets scored a header crossed by the genius Lionel Messi. But some players like Gerard Pique said, in a New York Times article , “today was my worst experience as a professional,” as he tried to keep his tears in. FC Barcelona wanted to play the game on another day, but the league they play in, La Liga, denied their request. They played to avoid losing points but they kept the stadium empty. FC Barcelona’s club president, Josep Bartomeu, said they did this “to show the entire world that we were not pleased with what happened.” By the end of the day of the match, 844 citi...

Photo Credit: Adam Hunger/AP By JJ Lin and Jordan Robinson Madison Square Garden  - 18 year old, Filip Chytil (pronounced HEE-TUL) has been chosen to play in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers as a centerman. At 6 feet and 2 inches, Filip Chytil is the first teenager to be drafted since Manny Malhotra in 1998. Filip Chytil is from the Czech Republic. He was selected as a 21st overall draft pick in the 2017 NHL draft as a centerman, according to the New York Times. Chytil caught the Rangers’ coach, Alain Vigneault’s attention quickly when Chytil scored an overtime winning goal on the New Jersey Devils on September 20th in Madison Square Garden with an assist from Mats Zuccarello. Chytil also had two assists and one goal in only three preseason games. “Talent has no age,” said Rangers coach, Alain Vigneault, in a New York Times interview in September. Filip Chytil may help the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup this year, as the last ti...

                   By Gabriella Wilson, Nathaniel Gorain and Cassius Quinn-Crandall Long Island City - Elon Musk is following his dream of colonizing Mars and we want to know how HPCMS students feel about that. Elon Musk is the owner and founder of a private space company called Space-X, a company that constructs spaceships and space shuttles. Founded in the year 2002, the company's main goal is to be able to travel to other planets, but mainly Mars. There is a lot of conversation about exciting changes to space exploration because of the work of Elon Musk. Musk is an ambitious inventor and scientist who has already had great success with multiple businesses. He has successfully engineered and sold a line of Electric cars under the brand name Tesla. Now he wants to colonize Mars and so what he is doing is building huge rockets that can take people there. In fact, his company built...