Star Trek Fan Fiction: Copyright Infringement? Introduction As I sat in during one of the many Westlaw training sessions this year‚ I heard rumors that the company instructor and research guru John Lim was a part time actor. A quick trip to IMDB confirmed that John Lim played Hikaru Sulu in a fan fiction series named Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. With the proliferation of the Internet‚ it has become easier than ever before to have access to other fans of a certain work and as a result‚ create
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To be a fan of Star Trek is one thing‚ but to be a “Trekkie” puts you in a while different category. Trekkies is an old documentary about the many loyal fans of the original movie‚ Star Trek. Have you ever asked yourself that question‚ What meaning has this show had in these people’s lifes? Does the show’s message hold some kind of ideal for the future? Does the show somehow create a way for people to feel they “fit in?” In the movie Trekkies‚ the Star Trek actors and fans answer these
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Companionship Can Change a Life Louis Lowry skillfully captures a time where food shortages were a given‚ fear was ever present‚ riots were synonymous with regular life‚ and death eminent in her historical drama Number the Stars‚ which emphasizes how a devoted friend can change the life of another.Lowry elaborates on the lengths friends go to protect one another by engaging the reader with Annemarie’s thoughts‚pathos expressed through the character emotions‚ symbolism of Ellen’s necklace and growing
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Running Head: Collaborative Case Study Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager ’s Alliance in “The Void.” Erol Gokcedag Western International University 1 Running Head: Collaborative Case Study 2 Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager ’s Alliance in “The Void.” Collaboration among multinationals has become a gateway toward long-term sustainability and innovation. Within a dynamic global marketplace‚ an organization that insists on safeguarding its ideas and values
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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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