Shadow

The purpose of the advertisement is to persuade other students to read Dance of Shadows, by Yelena Black. The choices that I’ve made to ensure I fulfil this purpose is trying to make the advertisement eye-catching and having enough information on the advertisement, making people want to read the novel and find out what happens. The target audience of the advertisement are girls from the age of thirteen or have a high reading level. These people are the target audience because they would enjoy…

years ago, at the city of Syene, the sun’s rays fell upon a temple column casting a shadow, (1). The scientist noticed that as the sun reached midday, the shadow would not be casted since the sun was directly over the column. However, 800 kilometers to the north in the city of Alexandria, at the same moment at noon, there was a shadow displayed from a different column, (1). This made him wonder as to how a shadow could be seen from an object in one city and not seen in another at the same…

On February 28th 2017, I was scheduled to job shadow the General Manager/ Certified Chef at Crafthouse in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The General Manager that I followed around was Tyler Stinson. He has an associate’s degree in culinary arts and sciences. He has been in the Service and hospitality business since he was 15 years old, for nearly 20 years, with 12 years of that being in management positions. He attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University as a history education major, he then decided…

The website link I chose was, Life in Shadows: Hidden Children of the Holocaust. It is a part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. From the moment you enter, this website really makes you think. The opening page is a dramatic all black with these statistics; “In 1939 nine million Jews lived in what would soon be Nazi territories. In 1945 six million Jews are dead, one million being children.” I thought that was a clever entrance into the actual site, it most definitely got me…

After the first day of my shadow, I was surprised to find out that I was really not that excited about what I had experienced. Becoming a physical therapist was a goal I had set in stone so I thought maybe the first day was just an off day. For this reason, I returned and shadowed multiple days. However, after each day I still felt the same way I felt after the first day. I enjoyed the aspect of seeing the same patients multiple days throughout the week because I could tell that was how…

Imagine waking up eight o’clock on a Saturday morning, but instead you were waking up to the sound of your commander's voice telling you to get ready for war. The movie Ender’s Game and the book Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card has its similarities and has its differences. Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the book and movie shows with his wins and his defeats that he can only fight people or buggers that he understands. In each of the paragraphs, you will learn about why the book is…

Traditions of the lottery have been implemented in the cities for as long as people can remember; furthermore, the lottery has at least occurred for 77 years, because that’s Mr. Warner’s current age, he states the lottery has been occurring since he was born. Participants include all families, and all members of the family have to participate. Annually during the lottery, each head of the household has to go up on stage to draw, when each family has a slip of paper, everyone waits in…

You may have seen the action-packed movie, but if you want something even better than the movie you really should read the book. Ender's Game was an intriguing story that is very exhilarating. You will read this book cover to cover over and over. In Ender's Game, the earth made contact with aliens and now the aliens took that the wrong way and started to attack earth. So the earth came together and fought against the aliens, but the aliens technology was to advanced and it wasn't even a…

In Ender’s game the computer game foreshadows how Enders character will be in the end of the book. Ender is playing a game and is stuck at a point until he thinks differently about the situation.“And instead of pushing his face into one of the liquids, he kicked one over, then the other, and dodged the Giant’s huge hands as the Giant shouted, ‘Cheater, cheater!’ He jumped at the Giant’s face . . . and began to dig in the Giant’s eye. . . . As the Giant screamed, Ender’s figure burrowed into the…

Envision sharing a universe with strange insect-like creatures, called “buggers,” who are trying colonize your home - Earth. Ender’s Game, written by Orson Scott Card, is about a boy, Ender Wiggin, who gets sent to Battle School - in space! - and soon becomes commander of Dragon Army. Battle School is designed to turn young children into military leaders. At Battle School, groups of students fight mock battles, in null gravity, and are split into different toons. Because of Ender’s brilliance,…