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Mercedes Cotton Ha's Journey From The Fall of Saigon to America Inside Out And Back Again is a National Book Award Winner written by Thanhha Lai. This is a semi-autobiographical book written in poems. The poems in this story talk about a girls life and her journey from one country to another country during the Veitnam War. Based off of Thanhha Lai's experience as a little girl during the Veitnam War and her first hand experiance, she was able to write this book. By writing this essay, I'm…

trending sport session like Amilla Fushi and Four Seasons resort. Each session will include a brief orientation ashore and after a few minutes of training, everyone should be able to lift themselves up into the air and have the experience of a lifetime flying. Basically, a water jetpack will be attached to your back or feet, water would be forced under pressure coming from nozzles underneath the jetpack that allows the rider to fly up into the air or even dive down the water. Beside the water…

The movie is based on the true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Englishman Harold Abrahams, who is Jewish, overcomes anti-Semitism and class prejudice in order to compete against the "Flying Scotsman", Eric Liddell, in the 100 me Opening in 1919 England, Harold Abrahams enters Cambridge University, where he meets with anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan theatre club. He becomes the first person to ever…

Deanna, leggy, beautiful, and daring, came a long way from a rugged childhood and the time of liquor bottles aimed at her mother’s head. So said a Washington Post reporter in 2008, “Councilwoman Deanna Flin is a fresh face and a breath of fresh air in D.C. politics.” In the eyes of her colleagues (boozing old school boys with potty mouths and potbellies), she personified Hillary Clinton, the little engine that would, if she could, overturn the political status quo. “Too big for her britches,”…

I can hear New York City buzzing outside through my cracked window as I wake up. I used to love it here, that is until I lost the reason I wanted to live here. My love of New York City all started with him, he led me here. He was the reason why I woke up every morning. He was the only thing that kept me going, and now he's gone. The worst part isn't that he is gone, but that no one knows why or how. Not even I can explain it and I was with him until the very end. When the police questioned me,…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a boy in the American Revolution? Johnny Tremain is a novel that shows you just this. In this essay, I will analyze all of the literary elements; including the setting, main character development, conflict, rising action, climax, resolution, and the major theme of Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes. For me, the most important aspect of these elements is the relationship Johnny has with Rab. Without this relationship, the character of Johnny…

picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT. SS Imo, a much larger and faster ship than SS Mont-Blanc, passed into the Narrows. She was travelling fast, and to close to Dartmouth when SS Mont-Blanc first spotted her. SS Mont-Blanc, not flying the regulation red flag to indicate she was carrying explosives, signalled that she was in her correct channel; SS Imo, however, signalled that she was intending to bear even further to port, closer to Dartmouth and further into SS…

The Development: The American Air Force was created as a result of Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, being bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor held numerous amounts of American boats which had approximately 350 planes on them, in case they needed to be deployed from the sea rather than the land. Japan decided to bomb America 's defense force because they wanted to take over the pacific, and in order to do that they had to weaken America 's defense force. When the Japanese destroyed a…

Reginald Mitchell (1895 -1937) Introduction Reginald Joseph Mitchell was an English aeronautical engineer born on May 20, 1895 in Talke, Staffordshire and died of cancer on June 11, 1937 in Portswood, Hampshire. He was married to Florence Dayson in 1918. They had a child called Gordon Mitchell who later wrote two books about his father titled “R.J. Mitchell: World Famous Aircraft Designer” and “R.J.Mitchell: Schooldays to Spitfire”. Early life and Career Reginald Mitchell went to…

Chapter one opens with a background on what the current time and situation was in Hiroshima, Japan. The start of something so horrific that would impact the lives of an entire nation. The atomic bomb that was dropped early morning on August 6, 1945 would affect the lives of the six individuals that the story revolves around. These six individuals are only miles away from each other but survive due to chance, fate, and quick decisions. The first person we meet is Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto he is…