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Earthquake 4.0

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“April 29: WPIX Morning, News Host Dan Mannarino: Another aftershock hit New Jersey over the weekend. A U.S. Geological Survey saying the quake registered 2.9. It happened just before 10 Saturday morning in Gladstone in Somerset County, 40 miles west of Manhattan, and there were no reports of any injuries were damages. Comes after a 4.8 magnitude quake shook the Tri-City area on April 9th. Since then, more than 130 aftershocks have been recorded. Wow.”

WPIX Morning Co-Host Hazel Sanchez: “Yeah, it’s crazy.”

Some Hunter students also felt tremors on the Hunter campus.– Article by Xinlan Tang.

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My Hometown — Chongqing

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Chongqing is located in southwest China, covering 82,400 square kilometers, and more than 90 percent of the area is mountain land. After many tributaries of the Sichuan Basin merge into the Yangtze River in Chongqing, they create an outlet to connect to the outside world.
Article by WORD senior political writer Xinlin Tang, an Intrnational Student who lives in Chongqing.

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SUMMONING SYLVIA LGBTQ Horror Comedy Film Review – Warning! Are You Ready to Die Laughing? 🤣

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The Horror Collective has released its North American theatrical and TVOD release of a daredevil LGBTQ horror comedy smothered in layers of cinematic derring-do. Written and directed with considerable aplomb by Wesley Taylor (Smash, The Spongebob Musical, it’s soon to recur on Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building”) and Alex Wyse (Marvel’s IRON FISH, soon to join Broadway’s Good Night, Oscar). It hit theaters nationwide March 31, 2023 and is scheduled for Cable VOD and Digital HD, four days from now: April 7, 2023.

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Luis De Leon’s THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT Film Short Review

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QUEEN OF THE DESERT is Director Mary Ann Rotondi’s creative endeavor to make a movie commentary about what she believed are the dynamic social and political forces menacing this country, writes the WORD’s Luis De Leon. Rotondi, who won Best Woman Directed Short at the 2022 Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, uses two characters of different gender, ethnicity, personal values as well as social and political mores to express her point of view that the power of people’s shared humanity can ameliorate the centrifugal forces she believes are tearing away at America.
 
In other words, people living in the United States of America need to empathize more with people who don’t appear to be like them.
 

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