history and myth of Maui were accurately and respectfully portrayed. Although Disney did not get every aspect of the Polynesian’s heritage right‚ it did a great job trying to display all the different Polynesian traditions and culture. Moana’s voyaging canoe was somewhat accurate to that of the Polynesians‚ “The ingenious design—two canoes lashed together by crossbeams—enabled it to weather rough seas and carry more weight‚ allowing Polynesian people to sail for thousands of miles across the Pacific
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Family celebration Thanksgiving In the fall every year my aunt‚ uncle‚ their older kids (from Edmonton) and two cousins (who are at a school at BYU in Utah) all drove to my house for Thanksgiving. My brother‚ two sisters and i get very enthusiastic and we help every way that can‚ to give our parents a hand to clean up. We have 2.5 acres of land and a small forest in our yard (which we call the bush [because of its size]). The bush is where my brother and i use our imaginations to build fort and
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The title of my book is‚The Bomb by Theodore Taylor. There are two main characters in my book. The first character is‚ Sorry Rinamu. He is caring because he is going to try to stop the American Soldiers from dropping the first “test bomb”. He is smart because when he hears that the Americans are going to drop a test bomb‚ he knows that when they leave and then come back the island and the water will be poisoned and filled with nuclear waste. The American Soldiers are evil because they aren’t being
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history and myth of Maui were accurately and respectfully portrayed. Although Disney did not get all aspects of the Polynesian’s heritage right‚ it did a great job trying to display all the different Polynesian traditions and culture. Moana’s voyaging canoe was somewhat accurate to that of the Polynesians‚ “The ingenious design—two canoes lashed together by crossbeams—enabled it to weather rough seas and carry more weight‚ allowing Polynesian people to sail for thousands of miles across the Pacific
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and gathering peoples from nearby areas‚ they provided them with pottery and/or stone axes in exchange for meat‚ honey and many other forest products. The Bantu people migrated slowly south into the west African forest‚ and taking advantage of the canoe traveling network that allowed them quick travel up and down the rivers. This form of travel allowed them to leapfrog and establish new communities and settlements at inviting spots on riverbanks. The advantage of their agricultural surpluses enabled
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You can hike‚ kayak‚ and canoe here. You can fish waist-deep in rivers as clear as glass. And you can watch the best fish catcher of all‚ the great Alaskan brown bear‚ sometimes diving completely under the water for its prey‚ sometimes catching fish in midair. At the end of the day you can relax in a rustic yet sumptuous lodge on the shore of a sapphire lake and recount the day’s enchantments. In 1912 a volcano here erupted with a force ten times that of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Suddenly news of
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use their creativity to make whatever came to their mind. He fast-forwards to when his three-year old daughter became interested in Legos so he decides to buy her a Lego set which was quite complex and came with war painted mini figures‚ horses‚ a canoe‚ a rocky cliff‚ and much more. When he started playing with Legos in the late 1960s‚ it was abstraction driven but when he bought that Indian Lego set for his daughter in the late 90s‚ abstraction was
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The Silver Sword- Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword is a story about the Balickis’‚ a Polish family‚ living in Warsaw. The story is about their separation due to the Nazi injustice in 1940 and how they reunite themselves in Switzerland after the war. It took them 5 years to reunite‚ the children have grown up‚ the adults have aged but at least they are all together again‚ along with a new member of the family. The first person that was separated from the family was the father‚ Joseph
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person narrator tells the story of her daughter‚ Zoe and her boyfriend‚ Michael who have come to visit her. It is the first time she meets Michael‚ who is a counsellor at the school where her daughter teaches. They go to the cinema and on a beautiful canoe trip together. Michael seems to be a very nice guy and Zoe loves him. What separates Michael from the majority‚ however‚ is the fact that he is turning blind. The mother seems to have a very difficult time handling this‚ which is seen in her inner
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Spring Break Every spring break my family and I go to a warmer location for vacation. All of us went decided to go to Montego Bay‚ Jamaica for seven days. The city we chose in Jamaica was Montego Bay because I thought there culture looked interesting and the images I looked at were beautiful. In Jamaica I went canoeing which was amazing experience because I had never done it before. All the canoes were near the beach and there were lifeguards to help me figure out where to go and what to do. Having
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