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The Lorian
March 28, 2019
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Movie Review: Captain Marvel by AUDREY MILLER staff writer
Marvel’s back at it again – this time, with a prequel to virtually the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in “Captain Marvel”, newly released on March 8th. We’ve known this movie was coming, ever since the big “Captain Marvel” symbol reveal at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War”. However, we didn’t know exactly how much content we were in for with this movie. In typical Marvel fashion, this film is complete with the requisite plot twists, high-action scenes, quality soundtrack, and endless character depth. From the movie, we got answers to questions we didn’t even know we had about the MCU. If you’ve been keeping up with the MCU “Infinity Saga,” this is one movie you don’t want to miss. A brief synopsis of the plot, without giving away too many spoilers: Vers, an extraterrestrial Kree warrior, is part of a galactic battle between the Krees and the shape-shifting Skrulls. During
Short Story: Heracles
by SARWAN MOGHAMIS staff writer
What makes a true hero? Is it their strength? Their power? Or perhaps it’s something more. His father, Zeus, made the mistake of cheating on his wife, Hera, with a mortal woman. The mortal woman gave birth to the noble Heracles. Hera refused to accept the demi-god into Olympus, forcing him to remain on Earth. He has fought as the greatest warrior, protecting the innocent. He had a loving wife and five beautiful children. Hera could not stand seeing him happy. Her heart darkened, filling it with rage. She cast a curse on Heracles. The curse only lasted a few hours, but the cost was too great. The curse forced him to murder his dear wife and children. Once released, he saw the horrors committed by his hands. Heracles was sentenced to complete twelve deadly labors. After succeeding, Hera is still not amused. She manipulates a soldier, who serves under Princess Iole, to murder Heracles. In doing so, the soldier stabbed him in the heart. His soul was sent to the debts of the Underworld. Heracles must complete one hundred years of service to Hades before allowing is soul to be sent to Heaven. After watching all the struggles his son was put through, Zeus sends down his most valuable treasure and source of power, the Blue Diamond. He transforms the Blue Diamond into a woman. Zeus gives her the mission of watching over his son. Blue Diamond descended to the Underworld and remained by Heracles side, as his conscience. Heracles formed a deal with Hades. The deal consisted of him continuing his years of service on Earth, by protecting
the mortals. Hades allowed this deal to proceed. His skin was gray and cuffs remained around his arms. Heracles traveled around the world, but was arrested by an Arab king for trespassing. The king has a wife; Scheherazade is her name. Scheherazade was always mistreated, cheated on, and verbally abused. Her greatest skill is telling story’s that would always put her husband into deep sleep. At first, she was disturbed by Heracles, but grew sympathy toward him. When ten nights of storytelling passed, the king failed to stay awake and fell into an everlasting slumber. Scheherazade released Heracles and gave him an special axe that transferred super strength to whomever shall hold it. When learning Hera was behind all the dark doings, Heracles went after her. Once confronting his evil step-mother, he threatened to destroy her life as she did to his. He raised his axe in the air, but stopped as he looked at the fear on her face, the same fear he saw in his family. He refused to allow vengeance blind him as it did for Hera. Heracles threw his axe on the ground and forgave Hera for the hurt Zeus caused. They left her alone. Hera looked down in shame and was taken to the Underworld for her crimes. Heracles continued his fine heroic work with Blue Diamond by his side. Everyone looked up to him as their guardian angel. A true hero is not made up of their strength or power, but by what they chose to do with it. Meanwhile, as Hades added years to Heracles sentence, he secretly removed a mask that made up his face. This revealed his true identity…it was Hera. The End
a mission, Vers is separated from her fellow soldiers in a Skrull ambush. She is captured by the Skrulls, escapes, and ends up on none other than 1995-era planet Earth. There, she meets S.H.I.E.L.D. officer Nick Fury, and the two are launched into a multi-faceted adventure to discover Vers’ true past, figure out how she acquired her superpowers, and attempt to continue the fight in the Skrull-Kree war, a fight Vers started when she was training as a Kree warrior. “Captain Marvel” is doing very well in the box office, at $300M in domestic revenue and $850M worldwide, after only two and a half weeks after its release. It has been highly praised as MCU’s first female-led action movie. The release of “Captain Marvel” was empowering, and certainly lived up to the hype prior to its release. MCU fans everywhere are looking forward to seeing what role Captain Marvel—the strongest character Marvel has introduced into this MCU saga thus far—will play in “Avengers: Endgame”, the highly anticipated finale to the MCU “Infinity Saga” which will be released on April 26.
Crock Pot Chicken & Noodles by ANNA HEDGES staff writer
Ingredients 1- 24 oz frozen egg noodles 2- cans cream of chicken soup 1 stick of butter cut into pieces 1- 32 oz chicken broth 6 small boneless chicken breast or 4 large Salt and pepper and parsley if desired Directions Salt and pepper chicken, place in bottom of crock pot.
Spoon over soup. Cut butter into several parts and place over soup. Pour chicken broth next. Place lid on the pot and turn to low. Cook 6 Hours. Remove chicken and cut apart. Add chicken back to crock pot and add noodles. Cook 2 more hours or until noodles are tender. *You can add more broth to thin out.
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