The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. During WWII‚ while Jews are sent to ghettos‚ Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) helps 13 Jews to save their life while raising her little sister. Every day‚ she risks execution by given food and water to the silent individuals living above her. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead‚ it conveys a message of hope for mankind‚ despite the horror humanity shows itself in sensitive ways
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Hidden Champions in China Pearl River Piano Group Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) was established in 1956‚ and it now owns the largest piano factory in the world. PRPG’s factory‚ which produced approximately 83‚000 pianos around the globe in 2008‚ is located in Guangzhou‚ China. PRPG now exports to more than 80 countries all over the world. Now PRPG dominates the domestic market‚ has a market share of 13% in America and enjoys a high growth. By the beginning of the 1980s‚ PRPG had become
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“Facing to yourself‚ Luke‚ facing to all the challenges! ”‚ a sound always said to him‚ shear panic holding him in place‚ Luke Garner‚ the main character in Among the Impostors‚ had spend his whole life in hiding‚ and had a great fear of the Population Police. His life is different from other children‚ full of challenges and dangers‚ the reason for all of this is that he is an illegal third child‚ to be seen by them‚ was certain death. It’s time for Luke to accept the responsibilities he felt to
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As the group read the article that we chose to focus on for this project‚ we came across various contrasting ideas that Foner has in his book and the ideas in the article itself. From the very beginning of the section where Foner speaks about the War of 1812‚ brutality that American’s used to gain the Indian territory is completely played down. The book does not go into an extent of what the American’s did to the Indians to strip them from their own possessions and rights. In the article‚ since it
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and to not judge people by how they appear. After reading the book: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald‚ I have realized that all this time that I have been striving to be a good person‚ I have actually been judging them due to a part of my brain that I had no idea existed until now‚ it is called my “blindspot”. In the book Mahzarin and Anthony call a person’s hidden bias their “blindspot”. That is due to one thinking they are a good person‚ but
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The story ‘Among the Hidden’ and the article ‘China Lifts One-Child Policy Amid Worries Overy Graying Population’ are similar because they both include a limit on how many children a person and/or family is allowed to have. In each article it mentions being able to have two children. However‚ in China people were legally only allowed to have one child. In the story ‘Among the Hidden’ if you had more than two children‚ any more children you had (third child‚ fourth child‚ etc.) they would be taken
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REFLECTION: POETRY THEME: Dance- The Hidden Language of the Soul EXPOSITORY TOPIC: How can dance be considered as a communicable form of non-verbal language? PREFACE The purpose of the poem under theme “The Hidden Language of the Soul” is to evoke an emotional response in the reader and to cause him to ponder about dance as a language but to also inform them on the difficulties of speaking that language. The poem shows the definitions of verbal language in dance and how emotional an
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Among the hidden and Among the Impostors (323 pages) “Among the hidden” and “Among the Impostor” is part of the phenomenal series called “The shadow children book.” This magnificent book is by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Her writing is very complex but descriptive as well‚ making it easier to understand the mystery book. She has countless memorable novels such as Turnabouts‚ Just Ella and Running out of Time. After I read this amazing series‚ I am hoping to read these outstanding novels. That’s
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decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists‚ from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war‚ is a brilliant vehicle for Dali’s ideas‚ and an evocation of pre-war Europe. The basic theme of Hidden Faces is love-in-death. We here have a treatment in modern dress of the ancient and perennial Tristan and Isolde myth. Nothing gives greater intensity to love than the imminence of death‚ and nothing gives greater poignancy to death than its irremediable
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Hidden Figures‚ a 2016 film based on a true story by the Director Theodore Melfi. The film follows the lives of three female African-American women who endured racial discrimination‚ segregation as well as the patriarchal American society of the 1970s. These women acquired temporary jobs in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and were the brains behind launching the Friendship 7 into space. The Friendship 7 was the first rocket the Americans successfully sent to outer space. During
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