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UAA nursing student talks about her time working in a hospital during COVID-19 By Daisy Carter news2@thenorthernlight.org
Britney Saenz, a new UAA nursing student, but she’s also a medical assistant at the SouthCentral Foundation hospital. This specific hospital is a subsection of the Native Medical Center. She started working there in June 2020, right after graduating from Anchorage Career College. She started her nursing studies before graduating highschool. “I was seven years old when I knew I wanted to be a doctor,” Saenz said. She said that her passion for being a doctor stemmed from wanting to help people like her aunt who was very sick and was always in and out of the hospital. Saenz recounted that she promised her sick aunt that she would one day become a doctor. Now, she’s pursuing her dreams to be a nurse and eventually a surgeon. Her average work day for SCF (SouthCentral Foundation) is about 8 to 12 hours a day. This doesn’t include the hours she takes being a full time UAA nursing student. Her work consists of mainly helping patients, checking vitals and administering vaccines. She also volunteers at the Brother Francis shelter. Since she began nursing at the height of the pandemic, Saenz talks about how in the beginning of her career the hospital was taking the virus very seriously requiring everyone to wear intensive PPE. Now, she says that since they know more about the virus, they are only required to wear a face mask. She has
treated patients with Covid-19. “It gave me much more perspective on how I do things through life just because of how vulnerable these patients are and how we need to take care of them. Not only physically, but also emotionally because I have been seeing that covid does take a lot emotionally, not just physically,” Saenz said. This past month she has been able to get her full dosage of the Pfizer vaccine. Saenz talked about how she was very nervous about getting the vaccine at first. Once she received both doses, Saenz was happy to have gotten it. The only side effects she experienced was a sore arm on the first dose, but had no symptoms on the second dose. When administering the vaccine to others, she said that they have a waiting period of about 10-15 minutes before they are released. In that time they observe any symptoms you might have to the vaccine. Saenz said that the most severe side effect she had seen was a slight fever, but nothing too extreme. When asked if people should be nervous about taking the vaccine she said, “Absolutely not.” Her time at the SouthCentral Foundation has been amazing and she likes the fact that people’s needs are met and their spiritual beliefs are respected. She said that other hospitals aren’t as considerate to the patients beliefs. “A lot of the time other physicians
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Brittney Saenz is a first year at UAA, but graduated from Alaska Career College in May of 2020.
outside of campus don’t take the time to cater to these needs, wearas SCF does that and more in order to make our patients feel even more comfortable,” Saenz said. Saenz also goes and helps people at the homeless shelter Brother Francis, which is a homeless shelter combined with Beans Cafe. Saenz talks about her time
at the shelter as very disheartening. She says that no residents of the shelter have the proper care that they need because of the limited space and funding. With the closure of the Sullivan Arena, she says that there are a lot more people in need. Something that Saenz wants to emphasize is to not be afraid of the vaccines and to stay safe and socially distant during this time.
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Britney Saenz works at the South Central Foundation, which is a subsection of the Alaska Medical Center.
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Hitman 3 Review - Blood in the Sandbox By Jake Dye arts@thenorthernlight.org
Developer: IO Interactive Release Date: Jan. 20, 2021 Platforms: PlayStation 5 [Played], PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC. Price: $60 In the games industry, there’s not really a comparison to the Hitman franchise. Hitman 3, like the seven Hitman games before it, tasks the player with entering into a massive virtual space, identifying their target and then eliminating them, by any means necessary. Hitman 3 is the conclusion to the World of Assassination trilogy, following 2016’s Hitman and 2018’s Hitman 2. This was my first experience with the franchise, and unfortunately, the story really failed to make any impact at all. The plot of the trilogy deals with the main character, Agent 47, discovering and taking down a secret organization of the worlds elite called Providence, who are operating behind the scenes and controlling the world. The plot, told through cinematic cutscenes between each level, serves only as an excuse to move Agent 47 around the world to new mission locations. Locations are the star of the show, with the six featured maps being massive and diverse. Dubai is a “Mission: Impossible” inspired stealth operation in the world’s tallest skyscraper, while Dartmoor creates a s murder-mystery vibe where Agent 47 disguises himself as a famed inspector and infiltrates a grand mansion to solve the mystery. Other maps include an underground nightclub in Berlin, the alleyways of Chongqing, China, a grand winery in Mendoza, Argentina and a train racing through the mountains of Romania. Each map is designed to be played multiple times, with a progress bar for each map that tracks location mastery. Each target can be eliminated in countless ways, many of which are inventive
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and involved, such as triggering an evacuation in the Dubai skyscraper and sabotaging your target’s parachute. Locations are massive simulations where people follow schedules and move around interacting with one another. Once a player has mastered a level, they can take on escalations which add new challenges and conditions to taking down each target. Disguises are an integral part of gameplay, allowing 47 to take the place of guards to access high security areas, or even to take the place of important people in each location. Finding a member of Providence waiting for his food in a noodle shop presents the opportunity to follow him into the bathroom, take his clothes, then take his place in a tour of a top secret Providence facility. Learning maps and operating on the fly is daunting, and the game offers an easier way to get flashy eliminations in the form of mission stories. Each location has several mission stories which guide the player through scenarios, making it easier to get interesting conclusions to each area. Highlights include the aforementioned murder-mystery in Dart-
moor, joining a research project in Chongqing and setting up a meeting between two targets in Dubai. The Hitman franchise is unique, and has always been pretty niche. Each entry in the World of Assassination trilogy has drawn the series closer to the mainstream, and playing through Hitman 3 I could certainly see why. Learning and experiencing each of the tightly tuned virtual playgrounds is compelling, and mission stories allowed me to get satisfying conclusions while still learning each area. New players looking to get the whole World of Assassination trilogy can actually purchase the stories and locations from Hitman and Hitman 2 within Hitman 3, making the entire trilogy playable within the current entry. Right now this is pretty spendy, asking $30 for the first game, and a full $60 for the second, but I could see myself purchasing them when a sale comes around. Hitman 3 will be supplemented with post-launch challenges and new targets added to each of the existing maps, and I will be eager to jump back in and try more.
Dubai is the flashy first location in Hitman 3.
Despite a story that failed to grab me, and some frustration early on as I learned the unique rules and playstyle of Hitman, Hitman 3 was a great experience from a franchise that I’ve clearly been missing out on for years. IO Interactive very recently announced that their next project will be a licensed James Bond video game, and I’m eager to see how the gameplay and mechanics of Hitman translate to the more action focused IP. Have any suggestions on what I review next? Send your suggestions to arts1@ thenorthernlight.org
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Movie Analysis: The Artist (2011) By Daisy Carter news2@thenorthernlight.org
With the award season having to be put on pause, I thought why not watch an award winning film. “The Artist (2011)” is an amazing silent film that follows the story of a silent film male actor. Once talkies become popular, his stubbornness to stick with the past makes him less desirable. “The Artist’’ was directed and written by Machel Hazanavicius, and was released on Jan. 20, 2012. The film had a budget of 15 million dollars. It grossed 204 thousand dollars in its opening weekend and grossed 45 million dollars in the U.S. The film is rated PG-13 for disturbing images and crude gestures. The star actors of the film include Jean Dujardin who played Geroge Valentin, Berenice Bejo who played Peppy Miller and John Goodman who plays Al Zimmerman. “The Artist” has won 161 awards and has been nominated for 204 awards. The film won five Academy Awards that include Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role; Jean Dujardin and Best Achievement in Directing. It was also nominated for 5 other Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Berenice Bejo. This was one of the better films that I’ve ever seen. I was skeptical when I saw that it won five oscars because I don’t really like those kinds of films, but this one was so surprisingly spectacular. I knew I was going to at least enjoy “The Artist” because I love the 1920’s esthetic films, especially if it’s around old Hollywood. I wasn’t expecting the film to be entirely silent, but it didn’t diminish the experience.
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Jean Dujardin became the first ever French actor to win a Best Actor Academy Award when he won an Oscar for this film.
Even though the entire movie was silent with only flashes of text for dialogue, the story kept me interested until the very end. Another thing that kept me invested, was the specific camera shots it had, specifically one in particular in the beginning of the film. It’s a wide shot of the side of a building and you can see the stairway and the floors above and below it. I recognized this shot as paying homage to the old style of camera work Another amazing technical aspect that I loved was the use of dramatic angles and lighting. Although those kinds of angles didn’t come into play until later around the 1930’s, I really like how they used it to make scenes more dramatic. This combination of techniques really helped advance the story, especially since there was limited dialogue.
The performances by both Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo were perfect. Dujardin perfectly encapsulated the stereotypical charming one man show. In the beginning, he played it off so amazingly it was such a dramatic shift to see the actor George Valentin be at his lowest of low. The performance by Bejo was excellent, and Peggy was easily my favorite character. I have a soft spot for small name actresses that make it big in Hollywood, so I easily fell in love with her. I think that since there is basically no dialogue the film had to rely on the actors to portray the characters and they both nailed it. I think my absolute favorite part of this film was the use of sound. Since the main character we are following doesn’t want to switch away from the silence, the
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All of the dancing scenes from The Artist where performed by the actors themselves.
majority of the film is silent. The scene that really emphasizes his dislike for the silent films is when he starts to think about giving the talkies a chance and he can hear things. As the audience you can hear everything he can hear, and you can see in his acting that he is utterly terrified of the natural noises around him. When he was first introduced to it he was terrified and thus hated the idea of talkies. It isn’t until he realizes that he needs to switch his way of thinking that we finally have a brief moment of sound. Do you have any recommendations on what films I should look into next? Send your suggestions to news2@thenorthernlight.org.
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