The HPCMS Chronicle

By Laura Ciucia and Kiara Gonzalez Did you ever hear the phrase : your actions have consequences ? Whether you think about it or not this phrase is related to watching horror movies because they can have very big consequences on the brain. Your brain reacts to every little thing even if you don’t feel it. These reactions can be positive or negative. If you want to find out how and why your brain reacts this way to horror movies then keep reading to find out more! What Your Brain Thinks While Watching a Horror Movie While watching a horror movie, you know that what you see isn’t real. Unfortunately, that’s not what your brain thinks. Your brain thinks that everything your eyes see is real. For example, Edward Araujo is a sixth grader who enjoys horror movies. He says that “Halloween” is the scariest movie that he has ever seen, especially when Michael dies. What he doesn’t realize is that his brain believes that what he is watching is real and wants to warn him against dang...

By Starlyn Reyes Hi, I’m a 7th grader and this is my first article. So, most of us know one of the best futbol (soccer) players is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. He plays for a great team called Real Madrid FC (a Spanish Football Team), but in August, he left Real Madrid to go to Juventus FC (an Italian Football Team). According to New York Times, this happened because the Brazilian football player Neymar wants to win the Ballon de Oro (a trophy) and the club’s president, Florentino Perez, says if Neymar wanted to win the Ballon de Oro he would have to move to Real Madrid and Ronaldo did not like that. Moreover, the club’s president and Ronaldo have problems. So, Juventus offered to take Ronaldo and they agreed to a transfer of 112 million euros. Fans have lots of feelings about this transfer. Ronaldo has been playing for Real Madrid for almost 10 years! But this isn’t the first time he is changing teams. The first time he changed his team was from Sporting De Lisboa (a...

By Lareen Miah and Pema Yangchen Do you believe that school uniforms are a necessity in school? My name is Pema Yangchen and my past experience with uniforms is pretty good. I didn’t have any problems with them. Instead, my writing partner Lareen states that her experience was just OK.. Most people in her school didn’t even care about uniforms and they just wore casual clothes to school. Lareen believes that students shouldn’t wear uniforms in school because a parent or guardian might have a lower income and they might not be able to purchase uniforms for their child. In most stores, uniforms are pricey. Parents have to pay for a variety of things such as taxes, bills, rent, and much more. Uniforms don’t help financially struggling families, but instead burden them. In addition, she feels that if kids don’t wear uniforms, then they cannot express themselves and their individuality by how they dress. On the contrary, I believe that students should wear uniforms because it is time effici...

The Harry Potter Book Series 1-7 By Katy Simpson One day in 1990, a woman named  Joanne Rowling  had a thought pop into her head while on a delayed train, a boy with round glasses and a lightning scar. Thus, Harry Potter was born. I’m sure that you have all heard of the famous Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, but what has surprised me is how many HPCMS students have not read the series or at least watched the movies. 32.6%, in fact. While 22.1% have started, only 45.3% have read the series completely, and that is less than half! This is an extremely popular book series, yet few I have talked to have actually read it. Well, I hope this book review will change your mind! Harry Potter is a fantasy series written by J.K. Rowling, and the first book alone sold over 11 million copies, and many are still selling. This seven book series has an entire theme park dedicated to it and has a new History of Harry Potter exhibit in the New York Historical Society. Ther...

By George Haraguchi and Jonathan Cruz Note to Reader: If you are not interested in video games, this article may not be for you. Will BioWare’s upcoming shared world shooter game Anthem - to be released on February 22nd, 2019 - become popular like Destiny or will it fail? Anthem’s main weapons, called javelins, are Interceptor, Storm, Colossus, and Ranger. As far as we know they are customizable in terms of color, weapon choice and armor. We know you can change your javelin in the strider (a moving vehicle that you use to go on missions) and Fort Tarsis (your private base). Fort Tarsis is your main base in the realm of Anthem. Currently, we don’t know the name of the planet where Anthem takes place so Fort Tarsis is the only general description of the setting. We know that Anthem has multiple biomes and they have different monsters based on their surroundings. For example, a desert biome (not real or known in the game) has sand titans (also not real or known in the game). We al...

By Lily Pichardo HPCMS, Long Island City - What is the midterm election that everyone is talking about you might be asking? Well, I’m here to help you understand!     Photo Credit: Alexi Stegner and Sarah Horie Q & A What is the midterm election? According to CNN , the midterm election is an election that occurs halfway through the president's term. Who is being elected? According to USA.gov : 435 seats in the US House of Representatives One third of all US senators.  Thirty-six state governors and three U.S territory governors. Many city mayors and local representatives. What does any of this mean?  Congress is the part of the government that creates laws. It is divided into two branches - the house of representatives and the senate (both are controlled by the republicans currently). How is the senate different from the house of representatives? Each state has two senators but the number of representatives is based on populatio...