Princess Diana: The Queen of Hearts

            Princess Diana. Her name sparks a lot of memories about a woman who did so many things despite an unfortunate death anyone could not have predicted. When she died, the news spread out like wildfire despite the absent prominence of social networks back then. The reason for that phenomenon wasn’t only because she was a royal but also, a woman that was popular with the masses. She broke the boundaries of royalty and started to embrace the reality of the needy. So on that fateful day of her accident, everyone was mourning for her.

            She was born Diana Frances Spencer on July 1, 1961 to Viscount Earl Spencer and Viscountess Shand-Kydd. With her parents in the nobility, she inherited some status within their society. She shares this with her siblings Jane, Sarah, and Charles. It seemed that her life is going to be smooth and easy with her social inheritance but things had come sour as her parents decided to split up at her young age of six. As bad as it was, she and her siblings were being pulled to both opposite sides as there was a custody battle happening between their parents.

            After these sad events that perhaps haunted her life, everything seemed to have been well after that. She then met her future husband, Prince Charles of Wales. Just like the aggressiveness of the media in the case of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the media wasn’t stopping at any point for them to know about the truth between the two. Everything then fell into place as the two confirmed their engagement. They then got married and blessed with two children: William and Harry.

            

         Her image within the society was even brought to greater heights when she publicly showed that she was shaking hands with people that have severe diseases such as leprosy and AIDS. Even though she was a royal, she showed no signs of disgust with these actions and these people then gave a soft heart for her. Moreover, people were trying to reach out to her when she visited the United States. She has the same stardom with celebrities that visit the United States.

            

        Everything then seemed to look good in the end but another unfortunate event happened. She separated with Prince Charles due to the fact their relationship was very stagnant. She received heavy pressure due to this and it went to a steep dive. A motion for separation was filed and it had come to fruition. It is already predictable that this will happen due to the nature of the relationship between the two but it is still frustrating for the reason that one of the loved nobles in Britain would suffer such an event.

       

      Perhaps the next notable event that had put her on the headlines was her untimely death. Everyone was shocked back then when they heard a noble dying in a crash. What’s worse is that the royal mentioned was Princess Diana. Television clips showed people back then who were crying and frustrated about the accident. They were standing outside the tunnel where the Princess’ car had hit a column supporting a tunnel. The car was traveling at a considerable amount of speed so when it crashed, it resulted to severe injuries to everyone who was inside the car. Up to this day, most people know her because of this incident.

            She had highs and lows during her life but she will always be remembered as the Princess that was loved and respected by many. Up to today, she is remembered through her sons William and Harry as they themselves are starting to come out in the spotlight especially in the part of William where he recently got married to Kate Middleton. The numerous acts of goodwill will never be forgotten as she was a noble who reached out to the needy.

Updating the old headlines,

Bowen Romero

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The daddy of 90's gaming

All of us nineties kids have probably played Super Mario or Tetris back when the video game consoles were still producing 8 to 16 bit graphics and honestly those games were all that and a bag of chips but we all know what made the 90’s such a memorable time for the video game industry. Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania all these amazing games came out during the 90’s and all of them have since become gigantic franchises in their own right but none of them would have ever been made if not for the emergence of the PlayStation. 

In the early 90’s an up and coming brand of technology entertainment known as SONY was looking to compete with video game giants Nintendo and Sega by creating the PlayStation, a new console with features not seen in other consoles at the time, Sony was not the first to use the CD as the medium for their games to be played but they were the ones who seemed to make it all work. The use of the CD was revolutionary because at the time the medium for playing games was a cartridge, the limited size of content available to a cartridge was not enough for other developers which is why the use of the CD became so popular. Not only did they have more memory to work with they were also cheaper which is why the Playstation is hailed as the cartridge killer. They also came up with the memory card, back in the day the only way to save your game was to input a password but with the memory card all that hassle was thrown away. These improvements were so off the heasy, most kids had to pick their jaws up from the floor after seeing the PlayStation in action and I must admit that I was one of those kids. Because of this not only did Sony compete with Nintendo and Sega but they completely blew them out of the water by being the number 1 console of the 90’s.

The Playstation would sit atop the throne of video game consoles for years to come producing gigantic video game hits such as Xenogears, Resident Evil and Tekken which to this day are still considered to be ground breaking and used as the blue print for most games we see today. Sony’s number one machine would continue to sell until the coming of the new millennia wherein the Playstation was dethroned by its successor the aptly named Playstation 2, better than the playstation in every way but similar in the sense that just like the original would set the bar for its industry by being the gaming console with the most number of units sold and still has a record that stands up to this day.

Today, Sony has brought out its 3^rd generation console once again a numbered console named the Playstation 3 which has countless performance capabilities that are top notch with some not even being game related such as watching DVDs or surfing the internet. Sony still continues to expand to this day and is continuing to be successful with their Playstation brand.

Though times have changed and video games look even better today, we can’t really forget how awesome the 90’s were because if you were like me then a little gray box gave you enough fun to last you a life time and the cool cats of today wouldn’t be enjoying their 3^rd generation consoles if it wasn’t for the Playstation one and all it did for gamingkind. 

Catch you all on the flipside, 

Victor Lopez

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