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    March toward the Thunder Rykhus 3 In my choice novel March toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac, a boy named Louis Nolette who is an Abenaki Indian from Canada that joins the Fighting 69th Irish brigade known for being strong in battle. Louis at the age of 15, joins the Union army in 1864, a few years before the end of the American Civil War. He joins the war for two reasons the first one is that he agrees with them in the fact that slavery is not a right thing to do, he thinks that it is…

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    Two summers ago, superstar forward Kevin Durant stunned the entire sports world and joined the Golden State Warriors. At the time, the Warriors had won 73 games and beat his former team, the Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games in the Western Conference Finals. Many sports fans were not happy with Durant’s decision and thought that he was taking the easy way out to win a championship. Fast forward to June 2018 and Durant is a two-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Finals MVP. Even though he…

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    Operation Rolling Thunder is one of the largest US air force to strike the NVA (the North Vietnamese Army) during the Vietnam War. It was intend to destroy many industrial buildings in NVA's homeland to cripple their supplies, productions, and others. This would help to reduce the NVA's supplies to their army into the South Vietnam. However, it was the worst and ineffective ways because the NVA has a stronghold with mainly an air defense. This shows with more powerful and effective coordination…

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    The opening scene in ‘Macbeth’ is greatly different to a majority of other Shakespeare plays, as the first scene begins with “thunder and lightning” (sd, 1.1), and only contains twelve lines. Before the Weird Sisters begin chanting, the thunder and lightning help the audience to identify that the characters they are about to see are not human or the usual characters they would be used to seeing in a Shakespeare play. It is most…

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    family in this way. News of ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ is spreading and I can only worry what it will bring, the operation has 4 main objectives were to boost the morale of the Saigon regime, to persuade North Vietnam to halt supporting South Vietnam without taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam, to destroy North Vietnam 's transportation system, and to stop the flow of men and materiel into South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder sounded to me as if it will be sucsessful and…

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    Operation Rolling Thunder officially ended on 31 October 1968. In January 1969 peace talks with North Vietnam began in Paris, but attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese continue (Gavin, 1996). At the completion of Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. and Vietnamese aircraft expended 643,000 tons of high explosive, cluster bombs, guided bombs, and fuel air explosive bombs lending…

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    Do you think that you could fight of a dangerous reptile? Yeah same here. But in the stories “Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”. The character had to fight them off. Plumwood (The main character of “Being Prey”) fights a dangerous crocodile. Then Eckels (Main character of “Sound of Thunder”) had to go up against a dinosaur. If you want to know what happened then keep reading. The setting of the text are dangerous and deadly. The character didn’t listen to what the instructors had to say about…

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    The news has spread like wildfire. Kevin Durant is now a member of the Golden State Warriors. Twitter exploded like the Fourth of July on Monday, which just so happened to be THE Fourth of July, and people and NBA players alike lost their minds. Several opinions have been thrown around these past couple days; Durant is a ring chaser, Durant is a traitor, and the list goes on and on. Not every opinion was bad though. A lot of the positive feedback came from Warriors fans — duh — and analysts…

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    Gloria Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” is a superior work of science fiction compared to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" because it has an important theme, has better charcterization, and is much more original. A Sound of Thunder and Nethergrave fit into the genre of science fiction because the use of futuristic technology to travel to new places is a key element in both plots. A Sound of Thunder features the age old fantasy of time travel and Nethergrave uses a computer to create an…

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    When their inexperienced frustrated director drops them in the middle of jungle to shoot the movie, the actors have to rely on their acting abilities to survive actual real life action and danger. Tropic Thunder belongs in the parodic phase because it ridicules the elements of the action and adventure subgenre. To demonstrate when Damien Cockburn, the director, gets killed by an old landmine, the members of Flaming Dragon (a heroin manufacturer organization)…

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