THE BECKETT VOICE [email protected] September-October 2018 - Issue n°08 THIS MONTH! EDITORIAL Read About Comic-Con Paris, Happening Soon! p. 2 A new school year has started. As we speak, we’re even close to the first holiday break. How time flies! This will be the second year this project is going. This year, though, we will limit ourselves to an issue every two months, the journalists preparing their baccalauréat at the An Article on Breast Cancer same time. The subjects will be as varied as last year, so I strongly to Learn more p. 5 encourage all of you to take a peak, and more if you like it! Don’t hesitate to talk to the students involved in this project or to me either! It may seem random but we finished last year with an issue featuring a journalist specialized in climate change and I think it is an important subject. You are the future generation that will have to make a drastic change to have a chance to see the next generation thrive. If you take a closer look at the weather, yes it is very nice to be wearing a t-shirt in mid- October, but is it normal? It sure is not! And what to say about the succession of storms, fires, hurricanes that ravage the Earth daily? You can act, and you need to do it now. On that thought... Learn More About Brazil p. 13 Enjoy this issue, Read About a History-Themed Video Game p. 17 Fiction of the Month Special Halloween! p. 21 Mrs Climecot, the English Teacher. UPCOMING EVENT 2 The 4th Comic-Con for Paris The Paris Comic-Con is a multicultural French festival on the imagination, comics, science-fiction, series… The 4th Comic-Con will open its doors between October 25th and 27th 2018. How does this event attract French people in large numbers for the 4th time? What is Comic-Con? According to Wikipedia, Comic-Con is a festival that was created in San Diego in 1970. At the beginning, San Diego inhabitants organized a big comics sale. It was exclusively focused on comics. It takes place during the summer and it has slowly entered pop culture. Its audience has constantly increased and celebrities such as actors or artists have started coming. More recently, it started including gaming. So in 2010, more than 130 000 people came to the San Diego Comic-Con. Today, the public is growing and you can see Game of Thrones actors or Batman’s designer. The comic-con became omnipresent in other countries like Italy, France or Germany. Comic-Con is in competition with the Japan Expo. Comic-Con has become an international www.vampires-sorciere.fr event! The Paris Comic-Con The first edition of Comic-Con Paris was in 2007. It was started by the creator of the Japan Expo and the Comic-Con is focused on comics and new films. Since 2007, there were seven events but its name changed a lot. It was Kultima, then com!c con’. In 2014, com!c-con’ is removed,to be replaced by Comic-Con Paris in 2015. This event has 18 000 visitors and welcomes the US stars and designers of comics. Today, Comic-Con Paris is very famous and it has opened its doors to gaming. It takes place at La Grande “Halle de la Villette” in Paris. Today, Comic-Con Paris tries to reach more than 50 000 visitors with a lot of cosplays! UPCOMING EVENT 3 The theme of Comic-Con Paris 2018 The 2018 Comic-Con will be centered on feminism. So, we can discover new super hero women and many women are invited. For 3 days, you will be able to see Shannen Doherty, Jenna Coleman and Amanda Lawrence among others. The stars are in the game! Discover the biggest stars of series like Dean Cain, Ricky Whittle, Miltos Yerolemou… For the first time there will be 3 Harry Potter actors and other great stars of Deadpool, Star Wars and Batman Returns. The best designers More than 15 designers of our favorite super heroes will be there. There will also be Frank Miller (for Sin City, Batman); Andy Kubert (for Wolverine:origin and 1602); Mahmud Asrar (for Hulk, X-Men) and many others. www.comics/blog.fr Conference Stars will hold conferences to make you discover their passion! Take this opportunity to ask your question on the shooting of a film or series. The best cosplay If you go to the Comic-Con, it’s for fun. So you can disguise yourself as your favorite hero. Each edition of Comic-Con offers a cosplay tournament for the best costume. Tom’s experience Tom is good friend from New York, he says Comic-Con New York is wonderful but it’s a big mess. There are too many people and they are all crazy. It has many cosplay and stars but the www.comics/blog.fr comics are very expensive. My experience I participated in Comic-Con Paris from last year and it’s very magical. I am a big fan of comic books and I was not disappointed! I find the event well organized and at a reasonable price. But there are a lot of people and you have to go in line quickly for the interview. Even if the price is reasonable, we must bring a lot of money to buy comics, toys and others. The sale-assistants are passionate and they will give you good advice. The comic eater. PORTRAIT 4 The Portrayal of the Month: Jack MA Who is Jack MA? HIS CAREER HIS YOUTH Jack MA or Ma YUN was born th After High School, he tried to on September 10 1964 in join Harvard university Hangzhou (Chinese province). unsuccessfully several times. He is a businessman and He worked odd jobs before billionaire. In 1999, he created starting teaching English in the first online store. Today, he 1988. In 1994, Jack MA heard has one of the most popular about the Internet. One year shopping website. On top of later, he went to the US with that, this man is a real his friends who helped showman! introduce him to the internet. For example, he performed Although he found part of “Can You Feel The Love th information coming from Tonight” for the 10 many countries, he was anniversary of “Alibaba”, his surprised to find none from website. According to China. He also tried to find google/adplaner, the Alibaba general information about group had 3 out of the China and he still didn’t find hundred most popular https://www.flickr.com/photos/unfcc anything. So Jack MA and his websites in 2011. Its popularity c/23587031136 friends created an “ugly” cannot be denied, customers website about China. Then he from many different countries created Alibaba in 1999. Today, use this site to buy cheap the turnover of the company is products. valued at 23 billion dollars! This month, we asked to some of our readers how often they do their Daniel J.: “Buying on the Internet is not my favorite hobby. shopping online, and in their opinion, For me, it is not reliable. Indeed, we can’t touch the product what the pros and cons of online and sometimes, there are bad surprises when you receive shopping are. This is what some your package. However, shopping websites are still a good people answered: step forward! Lorraine V.: “In my opinion, doing my shopping on the Internet is simpler than ever! Nowadays we can buy everything on the web (clothes, food, books, etc…). I very often purchase online, I think that it is a revolution which today is essential!” http://www.marketing-chine.com/e-marketing/le-fonctionnement-dalibaba Nail M. HEALTH 5 Breast Cancer At the beginning, women with breast cancer were undergoing treatment without really understanding what was happening to them. Doctors didn't want to share this information so that women didn't feel fear or other feelings such as anxiety. But, since 2002 they have the right to access their file and to know what disease they have. Some women, but few, don't wish to receive complete information about their disease. That is, they know they have breast cancer but nothing more. I asked questions to my doctor, doctor Etienne and I also read Un cancer du sein, et alors ? By Margarita Ortiz Macias so let me explain what I learned. What is breast Cancer? What is the cause of breast cancer? Breast cancer is the most common cancer in We have a first cause that is fundamental. First of all, women. In France, about 1 in 10 women learns there is a modification of the nucleus of the cell, it that she has breast cancer, which makes it has the capacity to multiply without control. This approximately 42,000 women every year. It's change is common during cell aging, although our rare that a woman under 30 gets cancer but not defenses allow us to permanently eliminate cells that impossible. But, it's more for a woman have become uncontrollable. But when this between 45 and 75 years old to have cancer. regulation is no longer effective, abnormal or Breast cancer is defined by the presence of mutant cells escape control and multiply freely to cancer cells that form a tumor in the breast. form a tumor. Moreover, there is a second Throughout our life the cells of our body possibility that's less frequent and may not be multiply and replace those that die.