WWII has been one of the most memorable events in history‚ but beneath all of it are the deprived POWS and the confined Japanese-American internees. Louis Zamperini before he was stationed as a bombardier on a B-24 was a olympic runner. Louie had been captured by the Japanese after his B-24 crashed in the ocean and was marooned on a raft with two of his friends. Miné Okubo is a American with Japanese heritage and has a talent for making art. She was going to college for an art degree until she
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5. What were your reactions to some of the religious connections made in the film? Examples: the American sniper who always prayed to God before he shot someone; the Jewish soldier who taunted the German POWs; or the quote‚ “If God be for us‚ who could be against us?” 6. How did you feel about Captain Miller’s decision to stop and storm the radar tower and bunker? Do you think he would have done something differently if he had known the outcome? 4. What do you think about the decision to send a
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EXT. POOL - EVENING Across a public pool‚ sits a girl (Melody)--her legs propped up on a chaise longue. Around her lies dead leaves fallen from washed out trees in the background. The cloudy sky casts a dull gray light softening the shadows and highlights; the desaturated colors of the concrete parallels the bright vibrant blue of the swimming pool. Melody is wearing a gray cardigan with the sleeves pulled all the way down--as if to protect from the subtle yet constant cold. She sits silently and
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openings‚ called pockets‚ at the corners and at the midpoints of the long cushions. The other requires tables without openings. On a pocket table‚ the goal is to drive object balls into pockets with the cue ball. On a pocketless table‚ points are scored by caroming the cue ball off one ball into another‚ sometimes with cushion contact required of the cue ball. Carom games on pocketless tables predominate in continental Europe‚ Latin America‚ and Asia. Pocket games‚ which include pool‚ predominate in
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Today’s Agenda Introduction of SCOPE consulting Business Overview Introduction of POW Analysis Ø Immediate Planning Ø Vendor Supply Ø Price Sensitivity Ø Long-‐Term Contracts How POW works Conclusion SCOPE Consul4ng Team‚ LLM Collaborative consulting
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to different POW camps that were overly abusive and put Louie through a lot of mental and physical pain. In the novel‚ Unbroken‚ Laura Hillenbrand uses Louie’s life experiences to show his two most important traits‚ optimism‚ and resilience. During Louie’s life‚ he had never failed to be resilient. Through the time that he had been struggling to survive at POW camps‚ with everything that the
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Zamperini once said “I was raised to face any challenge.” In the novel Unbroken‚ written by Laura Hillenbrand‚ Louie Zamperini‚ an ambitious WWII veteran‚ survives the hardships of life through perseverance and forgiveness. He struggled through multiple POW camps and an extreme captor‚ the Bird‚ but still managed to become the resilient person that made the impossible‚ possible. He had no regrets in his life because of the thorough decisions he made. By explaining how Louie’s resilient mindset gets him
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Planning and organizing is a great strategy. This strategy teachers can provide students with a topic and have them research it by planning and organizing how they want it to be written. The planning and organizing strategy can be combined with the POW+TREE strategy to better help struggling
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POW Camps During World War II During World War II there were many camps but the most in America were Internment camps and the most in Japan were American POW camps and they both can be compared and contrasted. In Japan in WWII Japanese doctors and military personnel killed‚ tortured and experimented on thousands of American soldiers who flew and fought in Japan this was exercised by dozens of hospitals and military camps (McCurry). As it says the Americans were not treated very fairly over in Japan’s
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seven days war that put the world to sleep” “The tractors lie about our fields” Onomatopoeia: “Ball goes in (thwack) to mitt‚ and goes out (thwack) back to mitt.” “Sometimes ball gets hit (pow) when bat meets it.” Imagery: “Sokoya‚ I said‚ looking through the net of wrinkles into wise black pools of her eyes.” “A shade of feeling rippled the wind-tanned skin.” Sensory Language: “This bed whose covers I straighten smoothing edges till blue quilt fits brown blanket and nothing hangs
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