Renaissance
-Renaissance “re-birth”
-Italian: Rinascimento, “to be reborn.”
-It is the cultural rebirth in Western Europe
-It was very influential movement for the 14th to the 17th century
-Mainly started in Italy
Authors:
Shakespeare – He wrote Macbeth, R
Navajo Code Talker Summery
My movie this week was a "The History Channel" documentary on the Navajo Code talkers. It talks about the hard times the Navajos had before WW2. Starting when the first Navajo people came to America across the land bridge. T
I watched Letters From Iwo Jima. Letters From Iwo Jima is the story of the Japanese troops that defended the small island of Iwo Jima. The Japanese were outnumbered and understocked, but they turned the presumed short defeat into a 40-day battle. The
This week I watched The Diary of Anne Frank from 2009. It was based on Anne Frank’s actual diary and her accounts on how she and her Jewish family hid from the Nazi’s during WWll. Ann Frank is one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust
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On April 16, 2007 the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (a.k.a Virginia Tech) suffered a massive catastrophe. It all started when a senior at the university, Seung-Hui Cho, walked into a West Ambler Johnston Hall dorm buil
The boy in the Striped Pajamas
This movie takes place during World War II. It shows the jews in concentration work camps and some getting burned. This movie is seen through a 8 year old boy named Bruno who is the son of the commandant at the concentra
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For my building I chose to do the building, El Escorial. This building is in San Lorenzo Del Escorial, Spain. It was built in the late 1500’s during the Spanish Golden Age. The King of Spain lived in El Escorial. The King of Spain at
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San Pietro in Montorio
San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, Italy. It includes in its courtyard the Tempietto. Which is a small commemorative tomb built by Donato Bramante. It was built on the site of an earlier 9th century church which was d
Assigned Blog #3 (Kent State University Shooting)
Nearly 43 years ago, there was a school shooting at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. This shooting took place on May 4th, 1970. Nine students were injured and four were killed. The surprising thin
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i gave blood on Thursday.
Saving Private Ryan is a movie on a group of soldiers in WWII going through many obstacles to find a single man, James Francis Ryan, and to bring him home after his three older brothers were KIA.
The movie starts with the D-Day attack. The men are hea
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Women's Rights
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For this assigned blog we had to watch a movie about world war 2. I chose Windtalkers becuase Mr. Bruns reconmended it for me.
This movie is definitely an awesome action movie. It gets your adreniline going big time. It is semi based off t
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