The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend’s family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also chose this book because it was a Newberry award winner. Annemarie Johansen is the main character
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October 7‚ 2013 Society’s Views Amid Star Trek It has been said that Star Trek is simply a western in space. The show was roughly set 250 years into the future‚ so would it be so profound to depart from the western-cowboy manner of writing? In season one’s twenty-third episode called “Space Seed” primeval stereotypes of women and Native Americans are exploited to boost ratings for the show. Only in more recent years have women portrayed strong‚ confident‚ and independent women in film and
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The Star Spangled Banner Patriotism reflects the affection and reverence one has for the nation they were born in and lived their whole life. Devotion to country can be shown through many different ways of which one is the recitation of the nation’s national anthem. The people of the United States of America display their loyalty to their nation by reciting “The Star Spangled Banner.” Over the last seventy-nine years many singers have sung the U.S national anthem‚ but there are four renditions that
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of protest that is directed toward racism but even if it’s meant that way it also acts to disrespect and calls out the military and police forces. Those people that fought for your safety should not be disrespected because people think the spangled star banner is offensive or oppressive to people of a particular orientation. NFL players are some of the most
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The Star-Spangled Banner & Francis Scott Key It all started in 1812‚ while America was at war with England. The war broke out after England wanted to stop American Trade with the French. The British had entered the Chesapeake Bay on August 19th‚ 1814. Then on the 24th‚ the British invaded and captured Washington. The next day after burning down the capital the British turned around the Chesapeake Bay. However the American forces were busy getting prepared for the assault on Baltimore‚ that they
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This familiar anthem The Star Spangled Banner is America’s long-standing and unchanging tradition that is played at every sporting events nationwide‚ school events‚ assemblies‚ Independence Day events‚ etc. It was invented when the U.S entered World War 1 by a man named Francis Scott Key who gave his poem to his brother‚ who noted that key’s poem fit the melody of The Anacreontic Song. It started out playing at the World Series game in 1918‚ where from that point in time it has been playing every
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finding himself through his journey. You may know of this story because there was a clue in the first sentence. Yes‚ this is the story of Luke Skywalker and his journey to become a Jedi knight. However‚ you may not realize that during the filming of Star Wars IV‚ the director worked very closely with Joseph Campbell. What is a mythologist doing on the set of one of the greatest science fiction of all time? Well Luke experiences what Campbell calls the Monomyth Cycle‚ during the movie. While Luke followed
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In the opening scenes of the movie Star Wars by George Lucas Princess Leia‚ who is a leader of the Rebel Alliance‚ has stolen the plans for the Galactic Empire’s new weapon‚ The Death Star. Leia has to get the plans off the ship so she records a message to Obi Wan Kenobi‚ an old jedi knight in hiding‚ and loads them onto a droid named R2D2. She sends him and another droid‚ C3P0‚ off of the ship on an escape pod which lands on the planet Tattooine. This is the home planet of the protagonist Luke Skywalker
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Star Wars: An Intergalactic Joyride "Star Wars" is the highest grossing movie of all time. It is also one of my favorites. It was released in May 1977 and re-released in a restored and enhanced Special Edition just last month. There are many different criteria that can be used to describe Star Wars ’ appeal. Gary Arnold and Edward Rothstein‚ two movie critics who had the opportunity to review this great movie‚ explain its appeal in very much the same way. There is a difference though
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because every time you tried you were stopped by some form of wicked luck? Well for you this task may be star-crossed which means that it is thwarted by wicked luck and opposed by the stars. Just think what it would be like to have a romance like this. Star-crossed romances have always been a popular topic of writing. For example‚ Dreamless‚ Starcrossed‚ and Reckless Magic. Most of the time all star-crossed romances follow a different plot for each story this is what makes each story individually unique
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