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     For my blog I watched the second episode of Band of Brothers. This episode continues directly after the First. The paratroopers from easy company are dropping behind enemy lines on D-Day to begin the attack. The Easy Company is accompanied by ma

           Sarah Starzynski lived in an apartment in Paris in 1942.  She locked her brother (Michele)  in their closet when a Nazi officer comes into their home asking for Sarah’s dad and brother. She thinks fast and says they went into th

The movie I watched was The pianist and it was about this jew and and his family and he plays the piano on the radio and the beggining of the movie the jews buildings were getting bombed and so the pianist and his family are freaking out about how th

      For my second WWII movie I chose to watch Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. I didn't realize until after I watched this that this is the second Spielberg movie I chose after Saving Private Ryan. Schindler's List is a black and whit

                                                           Temple Of Vesta, Rome

The temple was built due to the need for a public structure where fire created at the time by rubbing flint, could be made readily available to the entire community. The

Saving Private Ryan

This movie was on Sunday night on TV. It starts out with a man recollecting on the war. It then goes to D-Day. Tom Hanks is a commanding officer of the Rangers and its their job to take some control of the beach. When the gate goes

The Diary Of Anne Frank-

I watched The Diary Of Anne Frank.  A 2009 made movie. It is inspired on a true story, about a girl named Anne. Anne, and her family are Jewish. At this time they had blamed jews for all of there problems and had put them in c

For my 3rd assigned blog topic i got the Red Lake school shooting. This shooting took place March 21, 2005 at Red Lake high school at around 2:45 P.M. The shooter's name was Jeff Weise, he was 16 years old. People think he did it because he was depre

Any school shooting is one that didn't need to happen. Any unnecessary loss of life is a tragedy. We are going to look at a school shooting that took place in 2002 at the University of Arizona. We are going to see who did it, if they know why, and wh

Church of San Lorenzo

The Church of San Lorenzo is one of the largest and oldest churches in Florence, Italy. The church was constructed from 1421 to 1460, except for the façade which was uncompleted. The Church also served as a cathedral in Florence

Saving Private Ryan

The movie begins with an old man and his family walking through cemetery.  The old man then stops at a specific grave, and falls to his knees crying, while his family tries to comfort him. The next scene is on a beach in Normandy,

I watched the movie pearl harbor Rafe and Danny become Air corps pilots they go fight in Britain but then they had to get transferred to pearl harbor. Rafe meets a girl named Evelyn which they then fall in love with  each other When Rafe joins the Br

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Jonesboro Arkansas Shooting

            Mitchell Johnson was born on August 11, 1984 in Grand Meadow, Minnesota to Scott and Gretchen Johnson. When Mitchell parents got divorced he was seven, he then moved to Jonesboro, Arkansas with is mother and bro

university of texas assigned blog - where, what happened, why, types of weapons, shooters have mental issues? where are they now?

University of Texas – 16 dead plus shooter, 1 August 1966, Austin, Texas

- Charles Whitman, 25

Also known as the Sniper

Saving Private Ryan follows the story of a group of U.S. soldiers who are assigned to go in and save Private James Francis Ryan. The film begins at on D-Day and shows Captain Miller (played by Tom Hanks) fighting his way into Omaha beach. After they

On Anne Frank's 13th Birthday her father, Otto Frank, bought her a diary to write all of her thoughts and feelings. Anna was a wealthy, Jewish girl who was living during World War 2. Anne wasn't allowed to do much but she was allowed to go out with a

Amish School House Massacre.

On October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse located in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and asked the people in it if they had seen a clevis pin. Then he told the boys in the school that they ha

I watched the movie The Boy In Stripped Pajamas and it starts out where this German family lives in a nice home in a town, but then they have to move to a house in the country that is fenced in and has guards. The main character is an 8 year old name

For this assigned blog I watched the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The movie begins with a family living in Berlin, Germany. The family consists of the father, who is a Nazi soldier, the mother, their daughter, and their son, Bruno. Ralf, the