Moon Shadow lives in the Middle Kingdom, or China. He has never met his father, Windrider. Windrider left to go find money and work in the Land of the Golden Mountain, or San Francisco. Cosin Hand Clap returned to China one day. He was sent by Windrider to get Moon Shadow and bring him back to San Francisco to live with him. When Moon Shadow arrives, he meets The Company. Uncle Bright Star, Lefty, Windrider, Black Dog, White Deer, Hand Clap, and now Moonshadow are in The Company. They run a laundromat together in the Tang people’s village in San Francisco. During Moon Shadow’s first night there, the demons, or white people, threw a brick through the window, making the glass shatter into little pieces. Upstairs in their room, Windrider shared …show more content…
Then he tells his son that he wants to build an airplane. Uncle Bright Star insists that Windrider is crazy. Moon Shadow is adjusting to his new life in San Francisco and goes with Windrider to deliver and collect when he is not doing other things. Windrider helped to fix a demon’s car. The demon said that his name is Mr.Alger. Windrider and Moon Shadow find Black Dog in an opium den and save him from getting shot by the Justices. One day, Black Dog beats up Moon Shadow in order to steal the money that Moon Shadow has been collecting from laundry. Windrider vows to avenge his son and goes to the Sleepers to have a one-on-one fight against Black Dog. Moon Shadow follows him. Black Dog pulled some tricks, but Windrider and Moon Shadow won. They killed a man in the process though. To escape having to deal with the dead man’s family, Windrider plans for Moon Shadow and him to go work at Mr.Alger's. The company warns them about living among the demons then gives them parting gifts. Moon Shadow and Windrider move into a stable behind Miss Whitlaw’s house. Moon Shadow likes Miss Whitlaw, even though she is a demoness. She has a cool stained glass window of a dragon, and a
Good morning/ Afternoon Teacher I am Rachel Perkins And I was asked by The Australian Film Institute to be here to today to talk about my musical. My musical One Night The Moon which was the winner of the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film in 2001. I am also here to talk about how distinctive voices are used to show the experiences of others. The voices of Albert and Jim are two characters that give us two different perspectives this is due to their views. Albert one of the characters in my film is an Aboriginal character played by Kenton Pell who is hired by the police as a tracker. Albert is a very deeply spiritual person this gave him a spiritual voice throughout the play but when he get 's kick off the land and banned from the search the gets frustrated which gave him this really emotional voice. This event has a greater meaning which I will elaborate on later and now Onto Jim. Jim is your 1930s white Australian that owns a farm and is going through tough times because of the Great depression. Jim does not allow Albert to find his daughter, This is due to his racist and prejudiced views of black Australians. Jim has an authorial voice because he see’s himself as inferior. Near to the end of
Dante's ascension throughout the entire Divine Comedy, namely that of his last book, Paradiso, is notedly marked by the variant displays of light and how it effects the poets. Quintessential to the purpose of this entire poem is the depiction of Paradise as a realm of light that exists in nine spheres, whose proximity to God varies directly with their merit, shown by the first three lines, "The glory of Him who moveth everything /Doth penetrate the universe, and shine/ In one part more and in another less." (Dante, 293) In the closer spheres with the lesser radii, Dante notes the soft glowing lights, but as he approaches the centermost sphere, he attempts to describe the inexpressible gleaming of the vision of divinity, thus the recurrence of the theme of light running throughout the poem.
Jack then shoots Boyce because he didn’t follow Jacks orders and killed Peter’s family instead. Jack then pours gasoline all over the house and sets the old abandoned house on fire. Meanwhile, the hallucination of Peter's wife is on the brink of yelling, urging Peter to wake up. When he finally awakens, he takes Anne out of the burning house where she is reunited with her daughter. Boyce traps Jack in the fire by pouring gasoline on him before dying.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr, a famous war soldier once said, "The truth of the matter is you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." Although society has the potential to help others in need they restrict themselves from doing the right thing. But when society is challenged with a problem only some step up against to the odds to make a difference. Throughout history, during times of devastation and separation there are people that show a ray of light that gives people hope during the darkest times.
When a person's faith is also an alternative for their culture and morals, it proves challenging to take that sense of security in that faith away from them. In Night, Elie Wiesel, a Jewish student living in Sighet, Transylvania during the war of 1942, uses his studies in Talmud and the Kabbalah as not only a religious practice but a lifestyle. Elie and his fellow civilians are warned, however, by his Kabbalah teacher who says that during the war, German aggressors are aggregately imprisoning, deporting, and annihilating millions of Jews. When Elie and his family are victim of this aggression, Elie realizes how crucial his faith in God is if he is to survive the Holocaust. He vows after being separated from his mother and sisters that he will protect he and his father from death, even though as death nears, Elie gradually becomes closer to losing his faith. In the end, to Elie's devastation, Elie makes it out of the Holocaust alone after his father dies from the intense seclusion to malnutrition and deprivation. Elie survives the Holocaust through a battle of conscience--first by believing in God, then resisting his faith in God, and ultimately replacing his faith with obligation to his father.
Ponyboy has a dispute with his brother Darry and ends up running away to the park with Johnnycake. There, Ponyboy and Johnnycake get into a fight with Randy, Bob, and three other members of the Socs. The Socs try to down Ponyboy, so Johnnycake stabs Bob with a knife and ends up killing him. Ponyboy and Johnnycake run to a party where they meet up with Dallas, one of their close friends. He gives them a gun, money, and tells them to get a train out of town to an abandoned church. They are told to stay there until Dallas comes to get them.
Night by Elie Wiesel and Life is Beautiful share common themes. Both of these stories take place during the Holocaust, which was when Hitler wanted to annihilate all of the Jews. One theme they both share is father-son “bonding”. In both stories, 2 of the main characters are the father and son who are both going through the Holocaust. Another theme is silence. There are times in both Night and Life is Beautiful that silence plays a key role. A third theme between the two is innocence. Elie was very young when he entered into the concentration camps. Joshua is even younger when he goes through the Holocaust.
During my freshman year of high school, I was sitting in my Vocal I class when two upperclassmen came into the room wearing what I thought were nurses’ uniforms, or rather, scrubs. They introduced themselves as being with the Sparkman High School Medical Program. The students continued to tell us about a unique opportunity we could participate in during our later years of high school. For instance, they informed us that by taking the Health Foundations class and receiving an A in the class, we would be able to shadow nurses two days a week. Liking the idea of experiencing something different and leaving school two days a week, I signed up for the class, met all the requirements, and gained myself the opportunity to intern with nurses. For two semesters of my junior year, I
Jack didn’t know what to do in this situation, but all the while he suspected that his wife was cheating on him as well. Jack calls his sister Ellen to get her opinion, but in the process she ends up deciding to come down and stay with them for a while. Jack seemed hesitant but grateful for the company because Julia was never home anymore, she was too busy working at the fab plant for Xymos. When Julia hears that Ellen is coming over, she decides to leave work early. When she pulls in, Eric the middle child says he see someone in the cart with her, but when she walks through the door, she is alone. After dinner, julia abruptly leaves, but as Jack sees her pull out, he sees the figure of a man in the passenger
Rachel Perkins hybrid musical drama One Night the Moon set in the 1930’s Australian outback and Malala Yousafzai’s ‘speech to the UN’ in 2013 were composed to raise awareness and reveal truths of multiple perspectives, representing the voice of the unheard and disempowered in juxtaposition to the dominant and powerful. Both Perkins and Yousafzai challenge societal expectations of their context, advocating for all voices to be heard and for the potential unity between cultures and races through education and shifts in paradigm.
I was born with an inherent fascination for all things celestial. Ever since I was young, I have been staring at the night sky trying to find constellations, or using my juvenile imagination to create my own. My efforts to find, view, and mentally catalogue everything the heavenly bodies have to offer has led me to employ some over-the-top measures, but the most extreme of them all might be the night I stayed awake through the wee hours of the morning to catch a glimpse of a meteor shower. Over the course of an entire year, the memory of this stupefying event is still as lucent and vivid as it was that very night so long ago.
Lunar sunrise and sunset rays are a rare phenomenon which occurs when shafts of sunlight shine through gaps in crater walls and mountains to cast a spike of light across a dark crater floor. They happen infrequently and only during sunrise and sunset when there is a very low angle of sunlight. The rays can range from thin slivers of light to triangular patches of illumination. They differ from lunar rays where debris from impact craters is strewn across the face of the Moon.
Enigmatic lights seen on the Moon are a classic example of a Fortean enigma. Called transient lunar phenomena (TLP), they have been a mystery and a source of wonder to skywatchers since the earliest times. And yet, as astronomer Peter Grego points out, despite a wealth of detailed observations we seem no closer to an understanding of what these anomalous flashes are.
Moon Shadow resided a simple life in the Middle Kingdom (China) with his mom and grandma. They live peacefully for seven years, until a cousin, Handclap came with a letter from Moon Shadow’s father, a man he never met. Moon Shadow decided to go and sets on a year long journey to meet his dad. He knew very little about his father. His mother would say she had to do something else to talk about him. One thing she did say was that his father was a great kite maker.When Moon Shadow arrived he got acquainted with members of the Company of the Peach Orchard Vow. He also gets used to the busy streets of the Land of the Golden Mountain (America). Most importantly, he sees how demons act to the Tang people in real life. For he only heard how his grandfather
I pulled up to my house late at night. My truck humming as it rolled over the gravel scattered about the driveway. After coasting to a stop, I reached for the knob that controlled the lights. I paused for a moment, and looked out into the beams of light that sliced through the darkness. A thought, a fleeting idea, was developing in my mind. I had just spent half my day shooting the breeze with friends and couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact that there is so much more out there, in the real world. “Click” I switched the lights off and then stepped outside into the darkness of night. Instinctively, as I do every night, I looked up at the vastness of the midnight sky. Tonight was extraordinary, it seemed as though all of the stars had been drawn out for a special occasion. Even the most faint of stars seemed extra bright, with the backdrop of pure blackness and not a cloud in the sky. As I looked up,