By Jasmine Blanco Who is Jennifer McAllister?![]() Jennifer McAllister, also known as JennXPenn, is an 18-year old Youtuber, actress, blogger and internet personality. Jenn was born on July 9, 1996 in Pennsylvania. Jenn attended public school up to her senior year in Pennsylvania. After Jenn moved to California, she started online schooling and ended up dropping out. She said she would like to go back to school and get a degree sometime in the future. On January 2009, at the age of 12, Jenn created her own Youtube channel. Luckily, she already had experience with the Youtube community through a channel she created with her bestfriend. In June 2012, Jenn signed a Youtube partnership and started working with a Youtube channel called Awesomeness TV. At the 2014 Teen Choice Awards, Jenn was nominated for both "Choice Web Star for Comedy" and "Choice Web for Collaboration". Jenn McAllister recently announced that she will be releasing a book called "Really Professional Internet Person" on August 25th, 2015. What does JennXPenn do? Jenn McAllister is a popular Youtube star. Her YouTube channel is "JennXPenn" was created in 2009. She became popular through her partnership with Awesomeness TV. She uploads videos of challenges, skits, (most popularly "Expectation vs. Reality"), advice, and just her life in general. Jenn’s audience usually consists of teenagers. Jenn is awesome and I recommend her channel because she is really funny and gives excellent advice. Jenn is never afraid to be herself and is blessed with a great fanbase that always encourages to be her best. Here is a video of Jenn’s “A Letter to Yourself” video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ6lzWBrFOA Here is a video of Jenn’s “Expectations vs. Reality: Highschool” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPhKPPdqr4 Here’s a video of Jenn’s “Prank Call Challenge” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0N_hClOV3k
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By Jessica Gregorio Starring: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr, Keith Stanfield, Kaitlyn Dever ![]() 24-year old Grace is one of the staff members at a temporary residential home for foster children and troubled teenagers. She works with her boyfriend, Mason (who was also a foster child) and tries to improve the lives of the children there. A new girl, Jayden, arrives and all of the staff is alerted of her tendency to self-harm. Jayden doesn’t interact with the other teenagers and distances herself because she knows that her father will pick her up soon. Grace and Jayden connect and start talking to each other after Grace shows Jayden her own scars from her self-harming. Grace and Mason also plan a birthday party for Marcus, one of the residents who is soon turning 18 and will be released from the facility. Marcus is nervous about being released because he doesn’t know anybody in the real world, other than his mother (who made him sell drugs as a child). As Grace is dealing with this, she finds out that she is pregnant, which worries her. Grace was sexually abused by her father as a teenager and she was put in the foster care system when he went to jail. She doesn’t know if she is ready to have and raise a child. All the abuse that Grace suffered makes it difficult to express her feelings and connect with people. It is because of this that she is having trouble deciding on whether to keep the child or not. She doesn’t open up to her boyfriend even though he tries to help her. As Grace is struggling to balance her life and work, she gets news that her father is being released from prison. Things start turning for the worst at the residential home. Jayden reads Grace a story about an octopus. Grace suspects that the story is an analogy for abuse and tells her to talk to a social worker. Jayden says that she’s afraid. About two weeks before Marcus will be released, he commits suicide. He breaks the tank and uses the glass to slit his wrists. While Grace is in the hospital with Mason she breaks down and tells him that she wants to abort and that she doesn’t want to marry him. Jayden gets picked up by her father and has to live with him. Grace gets angry and fears for Jayden because of the things that she’s said about him. Grace goes to Jayden’s house, ready to hurt her father when Jayden comes out of her room and tells Grace that she’ll talk to a social worker about the sexual abuse that she has to suffer. Grace finally starts talking about her problems and her feelings with Marcus, and even moves out. Jayden also ends up getting help. This movie was created by Destin Daniel Cretton as his thesis project for his Master’s degree at San Diego State University. Cretton based the film off of what he experienced as a two-year staff member at a temporary foster residence. The film discusses/contains: sexual abuse, suicide, drug abuse, and profanity.
By Jasmine Blanco who is he?![]() Connor Franta is a 22 year old Youtube vlogger, Internet personality and entrepreneur. Connor was born on September 12, 1992 in La Crosse, Wisconsin but was raised in a small town in Minnesota called La Crescent. Connor went to a small private school with less than 100 students from kinder to 8th grade. During middle school, Connor joined a swimming team which he loved because he made strong friendships and he also excelled. He was in the cross country and track team during high school. Connor was always a student who had good grades, he went to La Crescent High school and graduated in 2011. After high school he was unsure what he wanted to do, but eventually he studied as a business major at Saint John’s University. Connor watched Youtube vloggers Shane Dawson and Mitchell Davis, which inspired him to make a Youtube account. On August 2010 Connor joined Youtube. He now has over 4.3 million subscribers on his Youtube account. In 2012, Connor joined a collaboration channel “Our2ndLife” which sky-rocketed his popularity and helped him gain more subscribers. After 2 years of being in the collab channel, in 2014, Connor announced that he was leaving O2l because he was unhappy and felt that his content wasn’t satisfactory. Connor now focuses on making videos on his main channel, full of challenges, collaborations, Q&A’s, and more. Recently, Connor also came out as gay in one of his latests videos, which also happened to be his most-watched video on his account, racking up more than 7 million views. what does he do?Connor Franta is a popular Youtube star. His Youtube channel “ConnorFranta” was created in 2010 became more known after Connor joined collab channel “O2l”. He uploads videos of challenges, collab videos, advice videos and a lot of video’s of “Expectations vs. Reality”. Connor’s audience usually consists of teens. Connor is awesome and I would personally recommend his Youtube channel because he is always supportive to his viewers and he’s a positive person. He always stands up for what’s right on his videos and always reminds his viewers how awesome they are and how he loves them. Connor is also not scared to admit anything, even if it’s difficult. He’s a brave person with a happy and supportive fanbase. Here is a video of Connor Franta’s “A Simple Question”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhiETGlKEoU Here is a video of Connor’s “coming out” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYodBfRxKWI Here’s a video of Connor Franta’s “Say anything challenge”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSF_ESCBOBY By Diego Zaragoza if you liked:Then you'll love...once upon a timeOnce Upon a Time revolves around Emma Swan, an adult who has been through the foster care system her whole life and always felt lost. However, her entire life changes when she is introduced to the little town of Storybrooke. In this town, she finds her son, Henry, who she gave up for adoption a long time ago. He convinces her that everyone in the town is in fact a storybook character under a curse that prevents them from remembering who they truly are. After accepting that fairytales are real, Emma has to become “the savior” and break the curse to return everyone to their real lives. What’s so great about this show is that it fuses together tons of different stories and fairytales that we all know and love and adds a little twist to them. Emma faces foes such as the Evil Queen, Rumplestiltskin, Peter Pan, Maleficent, and the Wicked Witch of the West. While saving the fairytale world, she fights alongside her parents, who happen to be Snow White and Prince Charming, Little Red Riding Hood (who happens to be a werewolf), and the sleazy Captain Hook. She does all of this while creating a stronger bond to the family she never had and especially her now-son Henry. This program demonstrates strong family values while delivering an amazing plot chalk-full of action, suspense, twists, and heartbreak (literally).
By Diego Zaragoza if you liked:You'll love...The fostersThe Fosters is a drama revolving around the life of a very unique family. The story starts with Callie Jacob, a girl who has been in the foster care system with her younger brother for a while now. She is a troubled girl who eventually finds sanctuary under the roof of Stef and Lana Foster’s home, along with her younger brother, Jude. Stef and Lana are also the mothers of Jesus and Mariana (of which whom were adopted), and Brandon (who was originally Stef’s son). While adjusting to her new life, Callie falls in love with Brandon, but their love for eachother is forbidden since it goes against the foster system rules. This is just the start of a series of dramatic events that brings the Foster family closer together, determines the future of Callie and her younger brother, and creates new and meaningful relationships. Not only does this show deliver incredible storylines, but also deals with topics such as the LGBTQ+ community, the foster care system, family values, morality, and much more. This program is just for you if you need a little more drama and love in your life!
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