beautiful princess that was to be sacrificed to a sea monster to repent for her father’s crimes. She was chained to a rock by the ocean in an attempt to attract the sea monster. The young hero Perseus was returning from his quest to kill the beast Medusa when he saw her about to be killed‚ and swooped in to kill the sea monster. He rescued Andromeda
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Pegasus is a famous constellation within Greek mythology about a winged horse. Pegasus has a story of a him coming out of Medusa and beheading her and that is how he came into this world as a magical horse in Greek mythology. Pegasus is a constellation that has a shape in it called the “Great Square.” Another constellation is tied in with Pegasus in a way that it is a horse but a much smaller version of Pegasus and its heads are touching as if they are in love. That constellation is named “Equuleus
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island” (283). This is similar but vastly different to the physical features and importance of the island in Lord of the Flies. Unlike Pi‚ the young british boys had no other option but to take their chances of survival on the island rather than making a raft and setting off in search of rescue. The physical makeup of the british boys island was the more typical stereotype of an island containing a dense forest on one side and steep jagged rocks at the base of a hilltop on the other. Instead of opens plains
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BOOK REPORT THE LIGHTNING THIEF Gianne Angelo R. Valdez 9- St. Alphonsus Author: RICK RIORDAN Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling Author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series‚ the Kane Chronicles‚ and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. For fifteen years‚ Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002‚ Saint Mary’s
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earth‚ even though it was under the earth’s crust. Then they built a raft to travel across a sea. It took them a long time to get to the other side of the sea because of a terrible storm. They found another tunnel‚ but it had rocks in front of it so they blew it up. The rocks fell in the sea and it caused the sea to make a wave which pushed them in the tunnel. Suddenly‚ they were falling down until water shot up and caused the raft to head into a different passage. The passage ended up being a volcano
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INDEX Chapter No. Chapter Page No. 1 Introduction Synopsis Cast and Crew Awards and Credits 2 Scene Breakdown 3 Narrative Analysis 4 Character Analysis 5 Aesthetics and Design Misc-en-scene Props Set Lighting Editing Video Audio 6 Auteur Analysis 7 Textual Analysis Symeotics/Marxists/ Retotic‚ Physco 8 Conclusion Introduction Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks with director Robert Zemeckis‚ their first
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Strong and Hopeful Believe it or not‚ 2‚403 Americans died in the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ Louie Zamperini was lucky to not be one of those people. Floating on a raft in the sea for forty-seven days; Captured and tortured in POW camps; Louie Zamperini endured all these examples of trauma beyond belief and lived to tell the story. The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand best describes Louie Zamperini’s life‚ and the nightmare he went through shows how he stayed Hopeful and mentally strong. Louie Zamperini
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appoint captains for navel ships. -Gericault prepared well in advance before creating the final masterpiece. He made many preparatory sketches‚ interviewed some survivors as part of his research‚ asked a carpenter to make a scaled model in detail of the raft‚ surrounded himself with decapitated human parts‚ and went to morgues to observe the appearance of corpses. This wasn’t just to be as accurate as possible but also it was to keep a gruesome frame of mind of death and mortality -this painting’s creation
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Vincent Zhang Per. 0 APES Chapter 3 Quiz Prep 1. Growth rates at which the amount doubles in a fixed unit of time is called exponential growth. 2. Changes that tends to stabilize a system is called negative feedback. 3. Change that tends to destabilize a system is called positive feedback. 4. The lessons of Amboseli National Park teach us: III. Continued wet-dry cycles change soils‚ the distribution of plants‚ and the abundance of animals. 5. The principle of environmental unity states that
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When Huck and Jim are on the raft trying to find Cairo‚ a small town on the shore of the Mississippi River‚ so that Jim can be a free man‚ Jim’s excitement about being so close to freedom opens Huck’s eyes to the magnitude of what he has done by helping Jim escape. He does not know
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