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    drawing‚ I have depicted a crescent moon wrapped in a rainbow ribbon. Starting with the moon‚ I chose to draw a crescent because when Amanda calls over Laura to look‚ she says to look at the “little silver slipper of a moon” (Williams 49). By this description I imagined that the moon was in a crescent stage. In regards to why I chose to draw the moon‚ I chose this symbol because of its significance with Amanda. In scene five‚ Amanda asks Tom and Laura to wish on the moon and even does so herself. When

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    Game” & “Hare Moon” through a hero’s willingness to sacrifice in order to achieve a greater good. Many textual techniques are involved in the novels to show this as such. The composer’s context of “Ender’s Game” was of historical thus making “Ender’s Game” an allegory of a historical event. Said event was the Cold War. This has influenced the text to represent heroes as unlikely but able to make a difference on small or large scales. However‚ the composer’s context of “Hare Moon” is personal which

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    “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime‚ but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon.” (book jacket Harstad). Three teenagers have won the opportunity to go to the moon for a week‚ and this is how it happened. Mia‚ from Norway‚ is upset because her parents signed her up for the 2019 Moon Trip “raffle” so to speak‚ but‚ the thing is‚ she didn’t want to go. Midori‚ from Japan‚ is excited for this trip because she can be free and is able

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    JFK “Moon” Speech Rhetorical Analysis Rough Draft Precedent John Fitzgerald Kennedy also known as JFK gave a speech during the cold war‚ and the race to space. Saying that we need to go to space not to use as a weapon but as a source of knowledge and explaining why we need to. He believes that most of his audience is skeptical and dost want to go to space. To convince the laudians that we need to go to space he passes himself off as a visionist saying that this is going to be the most important thing

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    The texts studied in class‚ Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon prove to have great potential for being performed on a thrust stage. When presented with a space such as this‚ it allows the director to be exposed to a vast array of ideas‚ conventions and concepts that would not be effective on a proscenium arch stage. Through this space‚ the director is able to break through all traditional styles of classic shoe box theatre; creating a unique experience for the audience as opposed to just a spectacle. It cracks

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    Joseph Anton O’Keeffe & Bierstadt: Different Presentations of New England Landscapes Pink Moon Over Water is a Maine landscape painting that was created around 1923 by Georgia O’Keeffe‚ a pioneering American modernist painter (O’Keeffe). Echo Lake‚ Franconia Mountains‚ NH‚ is a landscape of a lake and set of mountains‚ as indicated in the title‚ painted around 1861 by Albert Bierstadt‚ a German American immigrant painter renowned for his love of mountains and romanticized portrayal of Western

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    preceding Neil Armstrong’s walk on the Moon in 1969. The success of sending two men to walk across the land of another celestial body was more than a large scale science experiment for the United States- it was an affirmation of American ingenuity‚ it boosted national morale in an uneasy time‚ and ended the decade on an uplifted note. This work seeks to examine Neil Armstrong’s walk on the Moon‚ most specifically‚

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    Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch scientist and mathematician born in 1629. Huygens was known for his work with early studies of the rings of Saturn and later the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan. Huygens would grind his own lenses for his telescope and invented what is now known as the Huygenian eyepiece. He was also known for his work as a physicist‚ probabilist‚ and horologist. Placing two plano lenses in a telescope‚ separated by an air gap‚ creates the Huygenian eyepiece. The lenses should

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    Margaret Wise Brown has written hundreds of books and stories during her life‚ but she is best known for “Goodnight Moon” and “The Runaway Bunny”. Even though she died nearly 60 years ago‚ her books still sell very well and and maintain their recognition by critics and educators specialized in the process of reading learning. “Goodnight Moon” was published on September 3‚ 1947 by the editorial Harper & Brothers. Readers from 4-5 years old are the ones intended for this book. It’s perfect for beginning

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    Moon Landing Essay Some people say astronauts landed on the moon. Some people say it was a big fat lie. In 1969 a rocket ship from NASA “Apollo 11” supposedly went to the moon‚ took some pictures‚ videos and some pieces of the actual moon. Then the astronauts flew back to Earth. But did they really go to the moon‚ or was it just a big myth. The world may never know.

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