Ella Enchanted Every year millions of children novels are submitted‚ yet only a handful are selected with the honor of being published. Within that pool‚ a much more rigorous round of sifting occurs to receive an even more prestigious award – the Newberry Award. This award is given to one distinguishing American book that is regarded as the “most significant contribution to children’s literature.” In 1997‚ Gail Carson Levine crafted a medieval masterpiece that earned its award as a Newberry Honor
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Alex Beecher ENG 215 5/31/12 Film Review Perseus Abound For this film review‚ I watched the film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. It tells the story of Percy‚ son of Poseidon‚ and his quest to discover both who he is and who stole the mighty lightning bolt of Zeus. The film is aimed at families‚ and generally shows an accurate representation of the Greek myths. There are a few key differences though‚ which are mostly used to present the Greek Gods in a better‚ more likable
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Leadership and the film Remember the Titans A Review Movie Team Three Jon Atkins‚ Mike Russo‚ & Matt Brown Psychology 485 Professor Thoroughgood June 23‚ 2012 Movie Team Three reviewed and discussed the film Remember the Titans (Bruckheimer‚ Oman‚ & Yakin‚ 2000). While each member brought up differing perspectives on team leadership principles‚ there was also a fair amount of consistency across our individual responses. We all appear to agree that while the character of
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a teacher in Riceville Iowa‚ Jane Elliot wanted to show her students what it means to discriminate against someone. They had just named Martin Luther King Jr. as their “Hero of the month” and no one could understand what would compel someone to assassinate someone so good. She wanted to let her students understand what it’s like to be discriminated against and what it was like to discriminate against people‚ letting the students experience both
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“Pan’s Labyrinth” Film Review “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a 2006 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. It was a widely acclaimed film because of the imaginative and dark fantasy storyline. It received numerous awards and such as Academy Awards for Best Cinematography‚ Best Art Design‚ and Best Makeup. Pan’s Labyrinth is about a young girl named Ofelia who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her new husband/stepfather—Captain Vidal during the Spanish Civil War in Spain through the Francoist
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Film Review 12 Years a Slave Based on a true story‚ 12 Years a Slave depicts the journey of a free black man in the 1840s that is kidnapped and sold into southern slavery. Aside from the captivating story and tremendous acting‚ the historical accuracy of slavery during this time is gut retching. The director‚ Steve McQueen‚ does a remarkable job executing the transition of Solomon Northup’s autobiography into a live action film‚ but what makes this movie so captivating? What about the film makes
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Jim Elliot Would you give your life for something you believed in? Jim Elliot died trying to bring people to Christ. This might be all you know about this famous martyr‚ but he didn’t start out as a missionary in Ecuador. Early on in life‚ Jim’s parents introduced him to many missionaries who sparked his interest in mission work. In college‚ he became ever more focused on his goal of spreading the Gospel to the world. Finally‚ he went to the mission field where he began full-time missionary
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Denis Salinas 04/23/2013 “Pulp Fiction” Film Review When giving a film and evaluation it is obvious that acting‚ setting and plot would fit in every gender‚ however to evaluate a crime movie the expectations and feedback changes. Crime movies are known for having a flexible plot that allows mystery and tension build up‚ characters and acting that will maintain their role alive and transfer emotions and dialog that stays clear and understandable. Writing that is able to keep the audience concentrated
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Film review Eat Pray Love It’s true to say that cinema is rather enjoyable piece of art and a lot of people nowadays can’t imagine their lives without such leisure activity as watching different genres of films. As for me‚ I also belong to that people‚ who are called “film freaks” and it’s quite natural for me to watch many films and to express my own objective point of view on this or that film. To speak about the film “Eat‚ pray‚ love”‚ we have recently watched‚ is rather difficult
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first‚ he taps a hidden side to his personality and blossoms into an accomplished ballroom dancer. All very well‚ except none of his family is aware of this chrysalis bursting open in this way. In roughly one hour and forty-five minutes‚ the film turns all expectations and predictability on their respective heads. With all the action building up towards the climactic Chicago Tattinger Trophy who could blame you for expecting a neatly wrapped package at that point: Clark rewarded for his accomplishment
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