The movie saga “Star Wars” seems to be known by many as the movie that “created” tThe sScience fFiction film genre and is claimed to be unique‚ but there are many similarities between the seven main films. During your time in the class‚ “History on Film B” you will watch eventful movies based on different genres that define that genre and their time period. My class had the genre of “Science Fiction” and we watched two Star Wars movies‚ one of them being “Star Wars: A New Hope” which came out before
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In the book titled‚ Number the Stars‚ by Lois Lowry I have learned many interesting facts about the period of time between World War 1 and World War 2. This book tells the story of a little girl named Annemarie and her family and friends. One day three girls were walking on the sidewalk and their names were Annemarie‚ Kirsti‚ and Ellen. Then they wanted to race so they raced‚ but they got stopped by two German soldiers because during the war Germany took over a lot of countries except Sweden.
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Literary Assignment 2; 1 Literary Assignment 2 Nina Post Hunterdon County Polytech Mrs. Skeahan 11/29/2014 Literary Assignment 2; 2 Summary: The Fault In Our Stars‚ John Green was set in Indianapolis around the year 2012. The main character Hazel Grace struggles with stage 4 thyroid cancer which is affecting her lungs. The other main character is Augustus Waters who had previously struggled with osteosarcoma; a bone tumor that is malignant and spreads rapidly in teenagers
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Racism in Star Wars Star Wars is a highly popular science fiction movie franchise. Some people say there is racism in Star Wars especially in the prequels. From only being two African American actors in the franchise‚ to lots of racist stereotypes‚ and no diversity in the stories. There are only two African American actors in the Star Wars Universe. The most popular would be Billy Dee Williams who played Lando who was Hans Solo’s old friend from his pre rebellion smuggling days. The character starts
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Stars are used as a symbol all throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare. After diving deeper into the meaning of the stars in Romeo and Juliet‚ a conclusion has been found. The lovers fate has been set in stone and they can try to escape it but they can not. This may imply the stars as being some unknown force that controls their lives‚ like a god of some sorts. They may try to change their fate all they want to‚ but the outcome will remain the same. In the story
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Augustus Waters from the book‚ The Fault in Our Stars‚ by John Green‚ can be described as thoughtful. First‚ he is thoughtful of other’s feelings. For example‚ when Isaac’s girlfriend dumps him because he is going blind‚ Augustus invites him over to his house to talk and play the video game of Augustus’s favorite character‚ Max Mayhem. Shortly‚ he listens to Isaac cry and rants about Monica‚ his ex‚ breaking their promise to always stay together‚ and he then lets Isaac get his anger out by destroying
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In the book Number The Stars‚ the story begins with a girl named Annemarie‚ and her friend Ellen. Annemarie and Ellen raced to the corner of Ostenborg‚ with Annemarie’s little sister‚ Kirsti‚ pouting behind them. Until‚ they were suddenly interrupted by two German soldiers. One soldier asked why she and Ellen were running‚ and the other asked them if they were good students. Kirsti‚ being her usual obstinate self‚ resisted when the soldier‚ who had a long neck‚ tried to touch her hair. After being
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The Snow Star By Sharon Laferty From out of the blue and gold of a Christmas Eve sunset‚ comes Chrystalene. She was a snowflake‚ born in the clouds‚ as all snowflakes are. She began her journey‚ falling and spinning‚ with all the other little snowflakes on her way to the earth below. Chrystalene‚ however‚ was far too curious a being to simply drift along and wait to see where she would land. She began to look around her‚ peering at her fellow flakes‚ and noticing quickly‚ that she was not like them
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Title- The Fault in our Stars Author- John Green Text Type- Novel I was overwhelmed with the character Gus/Augustus. He was perfect; witty‚ self-assured‚ good looking (from how Hazel describes him) and in love with Hazel Grace. I automatically fell in love with him too; John Green made him a very realistic teenage boy with great desire to win Hazel over. I knew that as soon as I fell in love with him though this novel would break my heart‚ “the marks humans leave are too often scars” The
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Describe with examples how different aspects of development can affect one another. Katie is a 13 year old girl. Her mom has left home. She lives with her farther and brother. Her farther runs his own business and is a very busy man‚ he has to leave Katie with her brother to get him ready for school. When Katie comes home from school she has to cook her brother some tea and do all the house work as her dad is still at work and he believes that because she’s the only girl in the house that is her
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