AP US History/Literature 17 March 2014 Extra Credit Opportunity: Historical Film The Monuments Men Based on a true story of what was a “treasure hunt” in its most basic definition‚ The Monuments Men portrays a hand selected World War II platoon on a mission that sends them to all edges of Western Europe in order to retrieve artistic masterpieces stolen by the Nazis and return them to their original owners. This special force of American and British museum curators‚ directors‚ art historians
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In the conclusion of the movie “Monuments Men.” The team finds out that the Nazis are hiding the art in various mines and castles. They also become competitive with the Soviet Union who were seizing the art for reparation purposes. Many artifacts that were looted by the German Nazis were found and returned. Although some of the art was destroyed by Germans or taken as rewards by the Russians‚ in the end though the American army unit reigned victorious and recovered over 5 million different pieces
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with the construction. The townspeople said he was not a man to marry‚ but he took Emily out on buggy rides on Sunday Afternoons. He is killed by Emily. Part two: 1. The metaphor used in the first paragraph to describe Miss Emily is “A fallen monument.” 2. The house is personified in the second paragraph by when the author describes it as coquettish. 3. In 1894‚ Colonel Sartoris told Miss Emily that she did not have to pay taxes because her father had given money to the town. 4
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The Monuments Men‚ directed by George Clooney‚ is a 2014 film based on World War II. This movie reveals another crime the Nazis were committing which was the theft of many famous art masterpieces and hiding them inside different mines all around Germany so no one could find them. To stop the Nazi thieves from taking priceless masterpieces away from anyone else‚ the United States created a unit containing seven men to retrieve the masterpieces and return them to where they belonged; they were known
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believe that art is not worth a life‚ but the Monument Mens believe that it is. Theme of sacrifice is shown when Monuments Men act on their belief that art and the history that comes with it needs the be protected. They believed that it is needed by the human race in the future so they died protecting it. They sacrificed themselves for the future. Robert Edsel‚ the author of the book‚ wrote “But was art worth a life‚ Taper wanted to know. Like all Monuments Men‚ it was a question that haunted him. “I had
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In 2014‚ a film called‚ “Monuments Men” was created based on a true story that is illustrated in‚ “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes‚ Nazi Thieves‚ and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History” by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. This film was about seven men on a mission to recover the art that Hitler has stolen from all over Europe and hidden in Germany. This movie starred George Clooney as Frank Stokes‚ Matt Damon as James Granger‚ Bill Murray as James Campbell‚ John Goodman as Walter Garfield‚ Jean
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In a multicultural society‚ it is essential for early childhood professionals to develop and sustain respectful and reciprocal relationships with all children in their care‚ mindful of the needs of individual children in order to ensure that each child’s agency and emerging competencies are recognized and supported (Bandura‚ 2001). Respectful relationships are considered as crucial factor in the constitution of high quality of the early childhood education. The pedagogy of respect is the foundation
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Applicable for all file organizations‚ not just sequential Why sort ? to make a report‚ to merge files in queries‚ to merge files in master file maintenance‚ to make searches easier‚ to prioritize‚ etc. Chapter 05 External Sorting Algorithms Internal vs External Sorts Internal Sort – sorting items entirely in main memory ICS 2‚ ICS 3‚ CS 101 External Sort – sorting files in secondary storage using main memory CS 102 Why external sort ? Some files may be too large to fit in main memory Some
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Chapter Fifteen: Respectful Interaction: Working with Children and Adolescents This week’s experience in the clinic motivated me to reflect on the young adolescent issues experiencing health problems. People tend not to think about these problems much because most of the young adolescents have a good health unless there is some pre-existing condition‚ systemic or inherited disease. The authors also reiterate that “Adolescence was often viewed as a relatively healthy time in person’s life” (293).
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Over the time span of 100 CE to 600 CE‚ Rome went through many changes. Political life changed when the empire was split into two halves. Cultural life changed as Christianity went from being outlawed to becoming the religion of the empire. Through all the changes however‚ the patriarchal system stayed in tact‚ leaving women with few rights. One significant change was the division of the Roman Empire into two separate states. When Rome was unified‚ the empire was huge with roads stretching from
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