Star Wars: A New Hope
I watched the movie Star Wars : A New Hope. Although most of the movie was set in “a galaxy far far away” the setting still had some similarities to the Milky Way. For example, there is a sun like similar to our own, moons that revolve around planets, and also water (a necessary resource for all currently known life). But Star Wars also supports the ideas of advanced manned space travel and also different species living throughout space.
Space travel in A New Hope is accomplished by something called “hyper drive”. Basically it is a feature of a spacecraft that allows it to travel at the speed of light. The coordinates are put into the spacecraft and then it speeds up to light speed. Then once it reaches the destination
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it stops and slows back down to a slower speed. It works similarly to a self driving car. It was also mentioned that all of the spaceships require some form of fuel in order to fly. Space travel of the sort mentioned earlier is not currently possible. We have figured out how to fly aircrafts faster than the speed of sound but not the speed of light. If you could go at the speed of light space travel would be much faster and probably safer as well. The good news is that all technology is flawed so at least we don’t need to worry about ending up in the asteroid belt if something goes wrong. The one thing that most astrobiologists agree on is that all life need some sort of food or water.
There are two scenes in the movie that demonstrate people eating or drinking. The first is when Luke goes to eat dinner with his his Uncle and Aunt. He seems to be drinking water and they’re having dinner so they are obviously eating as well. The movie did not specifically mention the type of food that they were having but I would assume that it would be different than the food on Earth especially because Tatooine was such a dry and desert-like planet. Soil, or more likely sand, would not be very good for growing crops. It also probably rains less (or not at all) than here on Earth but the rain may not even be …show more content…
water. There are many different types of alien life in this movie. Although the majority of the main characters are human there were some characters that were of different species. Probably the most well-known of these other species is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee that is the first mate on the Millennium Falcon. He is intelligent and strong but also short tempered. He also speaks a different language than the rest of the main characters. But Han Solo can understand him and translate for him to the others. There were countless numbers of other species that were not mentioned or named but they all spoke different languages and originated from separate planets. They all ranged in appearances for insect-like to more of a human appearance. There were two main planets that appeared in the movie: Tatooine and Alderaan.
Tatooine is the setting at the beginning of the movie. The planet is very dry, sandy, and was described as “sun-scorched.” Which could mean that it either had a weak atmosphere or a close proximity to the sun which would both account for heavy and or frequent solar flares. However, the planet does have some rocky and mountainous areas that provide some shade and probably a cooler temperature. As far as its location in the galaxy, Luke says, “Well if there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” This could be him expressing his feelings about his home or it could be about its location and distance from the galactic center. The second planet mentioned is Alderaan. Alderaan is a planet which was blown up during the course of the movie but outside sources tell about its characteristics. According to the same fan site referenced earlier, Aleran was a beautiful planet. The planet had large bodies of water, snowy mountain regions, as well as a good place for crops. The planet seemed very similar to Earth in terms of its appearance and
conditions. Additionally, asteroids are mentioned in the movie. On Earth there is only one main asteroid belt but in this other galaxy there are apparently many asteroid belts. When the protagonists find the remains of the destroyed planet Alderaan Han Solo assumes that it is a group of asteroids. This also goes along with the theory that asteroids are leftover pieces of planets or possibly a planet that was destroyed. C-3PO also tells Han that, “...the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately, seven hundred and twenty to one!” This shows how frequently asteroids are encountered in space travel this galaxy our solar system. The asteroids also seemed to be portrayed correctly scientifically.
Rogue One not only surpasses the other films in the franchise, but it does so in a clear and well thought out way. It's a film that had no reason to exist but it does meaningfully with a concise plot. The exposition event is when Director Orson Krennic invades Jyn Else's home and tries to make her father Galen Erso work with the Empire. This ends poorly and the Empire killed Galens wife and takes Galen into their ship while Jyn barely escapes. Rising action then takes place when Jyn, K-2SO and Cassian arrives at the holy city of Jedha. They soon discover Saw Gerrera and find out that they need to get the Death Star plans. They then head to Eadu to find Galen Erso and after sometime arguing head to the Imperial’s base on Scariff. The climax occurs when Jyn Erso is about to send the Death Star plans to the rebellion but confronts Krennic. Cassian defeats him and he goes with Jyn to the beach while the watch the planet blows up. The falling action is when Darth vader inceps the Death Star plans but the rebels escape. The resolution is when Prisons Leia is asked what the plans mean and she says Hope.
The Holocaust has become the worst event in human history but why did it happen? Mein Kampf was written by who many would consider one of the evilest men to walk the earth; a man whose ideas committed one of the worst crimes in all of the man kinds history on this earth. Adolf Hitler with only his voice took the lives of millions of homosexuals, gypsies, blacks, disabled people and most of all Jewish people just for not being a part of what he viewed as the perfect race. Mein Kampf was used as an outline for the Holocaust and used against the already hurting Germany to effectively execute on of the vilest acts in history.
Where would we be if we did not defeat the Japanese in World War II? During World War II, the Battle of Midway was the turning point: it was where America took back its authority in the Pacific. Midway was the turning point of the war because: the U.S. permanently crippled the Japanese Imperial Navy, the U.S. also ended all hopes of further expansion for the Japanese and it set the stage for how the U.S. would fight the rest of the war.
In the opening scene of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark we see Indiana Jones’ whip in his pocket, and his hat from behind. The ordinary world for Indiana Jones is not really boring, as he is living as a professor at Oxford, and he is living day by day, but he is constantly being hit on by many of the undergraduates that he teaches in his Archaeology class. We see the undergraduate girl close her eye lid to display a message that said “LOVE YOU.”
Recently, our class read the book and watched the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The book is written by Arthur C. Clarke and the movie was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The book was written as a framework for the movie, so the two are mostly the same. But, while there were similarities, there were also some major differences.
When I found out I qualified to be a candidate for the NJHS, I knew I had to take this chance. This group is made up of people who depict leadership, character, citizenship, academic success, and service and I would love to join. These characteristics wouldn't just be valuable for a candidate to have, but for everyone to have to exceed in life. If I were to be in the National Junior Honor Society, it would give me an opportunity to ameliorate my future and motivate me to do better.
The events that were portrayed in “Black Hawk Down” drastically affected the U.S.’ foreign policy during the 1990’s. The U.S soldiers went into a country in East Africa called Somalia. They went into the one city, Mogadishu, to capture top lieutenants of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The mission was only supposed to take an hour, but it ended up lasting the entire night into the next morning. It was a short war that the U.S. never wanted to get into.
While visiting the battlefield I knew there were two major parts of the battle I wanted to discuss, the Battle at the Crater and the part that African-American soldiers played in the battle. After the initial attack on Petersburg that lasted until June 19, 1864, some of IX Corps picket line set up four hundred feet from Eliot’s Salient, which was a part of the main Confederate line. The Union soldiers then created a plan to construct an explosive mine under the salient to surprise the Confederates and hopefully shorten the siege. After weeks of planning and preparing the mine, it was exploded at 4:45 a.m. on July 30th. The Crater was 130 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep, only an incredible explosion could leave such a hole. 352 Confederate soldiers were killed in the blast, disorienting the outnumbered
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific of World War II between the United states and Japan at that point in time. Between 4 and 7 June 1942. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the united states defeated japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of world war II. Thanks in part to major advances in coding breaking intelligence. Therefore the united states was able to counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy.
Introduction The Black Hawk Down movie is about in Somalia in the 1990s a civil war has broken out within the country. During the civil war over 300,000 civilian deaths and the peacekeepers had to withdraw from Somalia. In response to this the United States sent their army to help stop the civil war. Their goal was to capture Mohammed Farrah Didid, who was the self-proclaimed leader of the country.
Star Wars and Star Trek and are both popular universes in theaters and on television. I will not be comparing them as art forms, but as the ideologies behind them. The three points I will cover are the Economics, The Identity, and Politics of the universes as revealed in the television shows and movies.
The battle of Midway on June 3rd-6th of 1942 was one of the decisive naval battles of history. The engagement was entirely decided by air power with no surface gun action. At Midway, the Japanese repeated the pattern at Coral Sea one month before. Approaching in widely separated groups, seeking to draw out the American forces, the Japanese commands accelerated into the Solomon’s and New Guinea. This was to capture Midway and the Aleutians. Many of the objectives have been set forth in previous plans.
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The term "Recruiting Process Outsourcing" has become established for describing outsourcing activities in the area of recruiting. RPO refers to the outsourcing of one or more processes of personnel procurement to one or more external service providers (Riedl 2003, 7).
Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest leaders of our time. In the movie Invictus, the devotion and love he had for the South African people is exemplified. The movie was named after a Victorian poem that brought President Mandela strength while in prison. The meaning of Invictus is “Undefeated”, a perfect fit for this movie. The opening scene of the movie shows President Mandela being freed from jail and driving past a field of young boys playing soccer. All the boys start chanting the Presidents name and running to the fences to get a better look. This is the first scene, and an obvious show of support and following for Mr. Mandela. Throughout the movie there are many different styles and approaches of leadership shown. Not only is President