Flicka Flicka is a heart wrenching movie about the love of family‚ nature‚ and horses. This movie shows you the summer of a ranchers daughter. Katy McLauglin (Alison Lohman) is the teenage daughter of a horse rancher who is looking to hand over the reins of the family business. While her family is on the ranch‚ Katy is studing at a private school feeling like her own kind of misfit. One day‚ while out riding‚ Katy finds a beautiful black mustang and instantly feels an emotional connection with
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Apollo 11 is probably the most famous NASA mission in United States history. The mission that took man to the moon. The mission that made "...one small step for a man‚ one giant leap for mankind" a recognizable phrase throughout every home in America. The mission that captivated not only the nation‚ but the world. The world had recently changed its sights from Imperialism to the vast unknown‚ namely‚ space. It was common knowledge that the USSR was making incredible progress into space exploration
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This enticing movie brings you with the character Rocky as he struggles to succeed in middle-class Philadelphia. Living in the poorer sections of his neighborhood‚ Rocky is a small-time boxer who also works for a loan shark on the side. He makes just enough money to keep a deteriorating apartment and a couple pets. But once given the opportunity to box a legend in front of a huge crowd‚ he works hard to train and prepare. Though quite drab and uneventful at some moments‚ the movie progresses into
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the moon. Recently though‚ many discussions of the Apollo 11 mission have astonished thoughts of many Americans. Conspiracy theorists are looking at the Moon Landing as a hoax and one big set up that Americans were fooled into believing actually happened. In 1974‚ Bill Kasying wrote a book entitled We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle‚ which explained in full detail that the whole Apollo 11 mission was a fake (The Apollo Hoax). Not only did this spark many people’s interest
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Dakota Gravitt The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Analysis “The Great Gatsby” movie‚ made in 2013 featuring Tobey Maguire‚ Leonardo DiCaprio‚ and Carey Mulligan‚ is a film based on a book by the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is about Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire)‚ a bond salesman living in the 1920s‚ before the market crash‚ who moves near the shores of New York City over the summer and encounters his mysterious neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). His rich neighbor would
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In the book & the movie Kidnapped what I found interesting in the movie was when the gun did not shoot when the captain tried to kill Alan and it worked when Davie shot the Captain I also found interesting was when the uncle of Davie said “Why are you here” with gun pointing at Davie. Another part that was interesting was blowing up the ship instead of cashing the ship. The finally part that I found interesting was when Alan killed the head of the Red coats the Red fox. I never thought Alan
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On December 21st‚ 1968 Apollo 8 launched off of the surface of the Earth. It was the second mission in the United States Apollo space program involving human spaceflight. Three brave men departed the planet on the spacecraft‚ Lunar Module Pilot William Anders‚ Command Module Pilot James Lovell‚ and Commander Frank Borman. These brave astronauts made history in several ways; they became the first human beings to be launched out of low Earth orbit‚ they were the first humans too see the entire Earth
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Would you watch a movie about authors writing books about authors? That sums up the whole movie called The Words. Clay Hammond is the main character‚ who is an author in the movie played by Dennis Quaid. The movie begins with Hammond giving a reading of his new book. He tells the story of his book while narrating Rory Jansen’s (who is played by Bradley Cooper) life. In Hammond’s story‚ Rory finds a manuscript that was long lost. He decides to steal it and publish it as his own to get his writing
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In the short stories‚ "Apollo" by Ngozi Adichie and "By Any Other Name" by Santha Rama Rau‚ the authors portray the idea that identity can create a sense of belonging. In the short story "Apollo" A young boy feels distant from his family because he isn’t interested in the same things they are. When another young boy comes to work in the house he discovers they share a passion for Kung Fu. The author‚ Okenwa‚ says "I was twelve years old and had‚ until then‚ never felt that I recognized myself in
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Cleaning up after the Apollo Sea Introduction The species Spheniscus demersus‚ more commonly known as South African penguins‚ also called Jackass penguins‚ have fallen victim to the negligence of oil carriers. The population of South African penguins has decreased from 3 million to less than 150‚000 in the past century (Singer 2000). The cause of this unfortunate decrease in population are the many oil spills near southern Africa‚ with the first oil spill occurring in 1948 (Whittington 1999).
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