A Gun Up Your Ass: An Interview with Jim Jarmusch. (Cineaste 1996 ) By Jonathan Rosenbaum A dozen years ago‚ when his second feature‚ "Stranger Than Paradise"‚ catapulted him to worldwide fame‚ Jim Jarmusch seemed at the height of arthouse fashion. Having already known him a little before then‚ I could tell that the extent to which he suddenly became a figurehead for the American independent cinema bemused him in certain ways. Given the aura of hip‚ glamorous downtown Manhattan culture that seemed
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sending cargo to the moon." To reach the greatest technological achievement the world has ever seen seemed impossible but NASA was getting closer and closer to the moon’s surface and closer to showing America’s strengths. Finally‚ on July 20‚ 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped foot onto the moon and was accompanied by Buzz Aldrin later‚ the goal and challenge set out in front of NASA was successfully achieved on July 24‚ 1969. Why was it a turning point? The first moon landing is very important to American
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On July 20‚ 1969‚ Astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 landed on the moon. A few years later on December 14‚ 1972‚ the astronauts of Apollo 17 became the last manned mission to the moon. It seems inconceivable that 43 years later‚ these footprints left by Apollo 17 astronauts were the last of any man. Even more disturbing is the lack of a permanent commemoration or memorial to the accomplishment of those 12 astronauts that made the perilous journey. With all of the
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another child. They are depending on their father’s life insurance check to get them out of poverty and into better living conditions. Once that money is lost‚ they have no way of getting it back. Similar to the second play‚ Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon set in Brooklyn‚ NY‚ in the 1930’s‚ about a family struggling to make ends meet. Times are tough when the Jerome-Morton family is dependent on their father Jack’s and their son Stanley’s salaries. Within the two plays‚ both families struggle
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Mick 1 Marsha Mick Dr. Timothy Smith American History Sect. 102 3 March 2011 A Man on the Moon: The Triumphant Story of the Apollo Space Program by Andrew Chaikin A Book Review “In ancient days‚ men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times‚ we do much the same‚ but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” - July 1969‚ Nixon Administration Speechwriter William Safire. Award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin has
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Lunar Lies “One small step for man‚ one giant leap for mankind.” An estimated 500 million people worldwide heard these words as they watched Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. After a mad dash to beat Russia‚ America had won the space race at last! Or did they? In the past few years‚ evidence has come into light to discredit the landing of men on the moon. Like many of my generation‚ I grew up on the belief that man landed on the moon in 1969. I was 16 before I began
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this. The time period in this story could be present day if not for the fact that they are on Mars. The only informat that is given about time is that it is after the Apollo 11 moon landing. This is shown be Mark bragging that know his is cooler than Neil Armstrong. This shows that the story is not in a alternate universe it is the same world that we live in but it just has not happened yet. In other books like the Hunger Games the time period is shown by the story giving a time line. The book the Hunger
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What is so special about Coraline? What makes her and this book so special? Well‚ like other Protagonists‚it’s probably bravery. But Neil Gaiman portrays Coraline’s bravery very different compared to other protagonists. For some readers‚ it seems as if Coraline partially embraces the dangers and somehow uses it to maybe get rid of her boredom at the beginning of the book. But we will witness at the end of this book how Coraline overcomes the danger she is forced to face and almost makes the readers
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We are all sharks underneath the skin‚ to put it more precisely we are all modified sharks‚ said fossil expert Neil Shubin. As Shubin makes it clear‚ evolution does not proceed in mighty anatomical jumps but to the process of gradual changes‚ transforming a gene‚ cell‚ or bone for a new purpose. In this way new species are eventually created. Albeit‚ a new species that still carries traces of it’s evolutionary predecessors‚ an inner connection between fish and humans. You can see these biological
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The Space Race The space race began in 1957 after the cold war. The Soviet Union and The United States of America were fighting for superiority in the cold war. They thought that the first in space would be more superior. This was only the beginning of the race for space. The First Satellites After Russia heard rumors that the U.S. was planning on launching a satellite into space‚ they hurried and built Sputnik 1‚ the first satellite in space on October 4‚ 1957. Sputnik one was about the size of
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