Homestead Strike

The book Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.) Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his…

Temple of The Jedi Order as a Religious Cult Colorful lightsabers and old Yoda may be among the first things one thinks of when they hear about the Temple of the Jedi Order. To the members of the First International Church of Jediism, however, the Temple holds much more importance and its teachings are far more serious than outsiders may imagine. Those both inside the church and outside the church may have doubts on whether the Jedi Order is a true religion or not. More importantly than if a…

The Star Wars saga is such a phenomenon in American that it has become part of American pop culture. Just by references or symbols from the movie, people already connect it to The Star Wars trilogy.The Star Wars saga is well known and easily recognizable by everyone of different culture and has impacted the economy positively. Because of the concept of galactic fantasy, it made Star Wars sequels and prequels more more enjoyable to any age group. The saga is very appealing because of the…

The legacy of Star Wars still exists today partly because it was constructed by so many different philosophies and religions. The trilogy includes aspects of Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and even Christianity. Sometimes it is hard to find, but the teachings of Christ and the truth of the gospel are paralleled several times in the films in the morality of the Jedi and Luke Skywalker. With that, while the Force and Holy Spirit are alike, the Force is not the only small aspect of God in the films. Caleb…

Be tempted to join the Dark Side or fight them off with this LEGO Star Wars Imperial Shuttle. LEGO Brickset #7166 from the LEGO Group offers the chance to construct one of the most exciting and easily recognizable vehicles from the Star Wars universe. The Imperial Shuttle, used to carry the emperor and the evil Sith lord Darth Vader to their nefarious tasks, is recreated here in LEGO form and is just as menacing as its on screen counterpart. Conquering the galaxy is a big job and these two bad…

The Galactic civil war portrayed in the original Star Wars trilogy is one of the most well known, if not the most well known fictional conflict in science fiction. You can ask anyone who the good guys and bad guys are, and what each side was fighting for, and most everyone will be able to give the canonically correct answer: The Rebel Alliance fights to destroy the evil Galactic Empire, and to reinstate the republic. The Star Wars story has become so popular that even football and baseball fans…

In the novel The Odyssey, Homer tells the story about Odysseus and his journey to return home. In the story we see that Odysseus can be characterized as the hero who is intelligent and curious. The movie Star Wars - A New Hope shows us Luke Skywalker’s journey to rescue Princess Leia and discover “the force.” In the movie Luke can be characterized as brave, courageous and quick thinking. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is the archetypal “hero” going on a journey, full of adventure, similarly in…

I will be carefully studying a fifteen second teaser for the third trailer developed for the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This film is set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. It has been thirty years in the Star Wars Universe since the conclusion of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the galaxy has changed much in this thirty year time skip. The evil Galactic Empire has collapsed and its remnants have reformed to establish a successor organization called The First Order…

Many books and movies have the same basic storyline. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend both have a very similar storyline; however, there are a few differences. The Force and the Holy Grail are both something that people are trying to find. Han Solo and Lancelot are both main characters but they have very different endings. Star Wars: A New Hope and Arthurian Legend are similar because they both have something that the main characters are trying to find, but they are different because…

Welcome to the Dark Side (Still deciding on an opening sentence) In the first episode of Star Wars the Phantom a Menace Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi master and his young padawan Obi Wan kenobi are sent to Naboo as ambassadors to negotiate a deal with the trade federation in hopes to end the blockade. Negotiations ended badly causing them to flee and they met a Gungan named Jar Jar Binks while running through the jungles of Naboo. Jar Jar took them to the hidden underwater city called Otoh Gunga to keep…