Fly By night

Martha Graham’s production of Night Journey is a unique and symbolic contemporary dance work. Graham bases many of her dance pieces on Greek myths and this is seen in her work Night Journey. Graham has manipulated elements of contemporary dance to communicate the emotion of the main character, Jocasta. Graham’s previous work focuses on depicting both the power and struggle of female idols in history. Graham has choreographed Night Journey to explore the perspective of Queen Jocasta, the main protagonist in the piece rather than the story of Oedipus. (Mueller, 2007) Graham has skilfully choreographed significant symbols and motifs to convey Jocasta’s emotions of grief, pain confusion and love through the manipulation of motifs and

Life is always changing. What you do and like changes every day. Traditions are made every day and last for years. Change doesn’t always break traditions, it also creates them. Traditions and changes make up our lives, sometimes one more than the other.

According to The Houghton Mifflin dictionary, night is defined as “the period between sunset and sunrise, especially, the hours of darkness” (p.887). Everything terrible happens at night. Every death, every tragedy, anything for that matter, happens at night. The significance that Elie Wiesel was trying to imply about night was a form of darkness. Darkness, as in danger. Darkness as in loneliness; loneliness as in sadness; sadness as in death. The symbol of death is expressed by the main character of the novel, Eliezer. Eliezer might not have died, but he experiences darkness, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith.

The book that I decided to read was Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker. The tribal identity in the book was Oibwe from the White Earth Band. Ms. Broker started out the book from the present day in Minneapolis where she grew up. There wasn’t much culture to be seen, and the younger generations were getting too lost in the new world. Ms. Broker made sure to mention that she still taught her children the Ojibwe ways, and told them the stories that her grandmother had once told her. Throughout Ignatia Broker’s introductory chapter, we got a sense of the amount of respect she had for you great-great grandmother Oona, or Night Flying Woman.

With his new found fame, Lindbergh spent much of his time in promoting the aviation field while going around the United States with his iconic plane the Spirit of St. Louis. While visiting various cities in the US, he would participate in countless parades as well as give speeches. His fame grew to such height that he was soon regarded as an international celebrity who was nicknamed “Lucky Lindy” and “The Lone Eagle”. By 1927 he released a book entitled “We”, about his historic flight which quickly became a bestseller. Throughout all his rising fame and influence, Lindbergh had always stuck to helping the aviation industry as well as other causes which he felt important.

As a child growing up in Sighet, Eliezer and his family looks much like an ordinary and close knit family today. That is until they were “taken away” where all control over life is striped away and as a result has his destiny chose by chance (Wiesel 22). During his time in Auschwitz, he has no choice of what he does. His only choice is to fight to survive. Eliezer simply does what he is told, when he is told, so he is not punished.

Night is a story that reveals some of the worst of the human race. It is a re-telling of a young Jewish boy, Ellie Wiesel, coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. The book is quite short and very clearly written, but it is still a very hard book to read. The young boy who is also the author of the book makes us, the readers, accompany him through many in-human and near-death experiences. These are written in such detail that anybody taking the time to read the book will be left with an in-depth knowledge of what we as humans are unfortunately capable of and a desire to contribute in any way possible preventing this part of our history to ever repeat itself. This, I believe, is the authors goal, to teach us, make us aware through his own experience, and hence give us a reason to hopefully prevent it in the future.

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, more commonly known as “Eddie”, was the third of eight children, born to William and Elizabeth Rickenbacker in Columbus, Ohio on October 8, 1890. Just as most adolescent boys, he went through a defiant stage. As a child, he was quite the delinquent, for he began smoking at the age of 5 and often spent time with a group of ornery kids called the “Horsehead Gang.” He was quickly whipped into shape by his father, however, who tragically died at a construction site in 1904. Due to the absence of his father and the toll it took on his family, Rickenbacker quit school at age 12 and brought it upon himself to assume the position as the provider for his family. His longing for aviation did not start at this time, but during World War I. Even so, he made his impact on history during the 20th century through his many successes in aerial warfare.

Lindbergh’s achievement has spread around the world and changed the aviation history. The media and the public nicknamed “Lucky Lindy,” or “The Lone Eagle” and he became famous everywhere. He received many prestigious honors, including Distinguished Flying Cross medal from President Calvin Coolidge. He traveled around the country to give speeches and participate in parades, which honored his courageous achievement. Later, he made several more flights internationally and reflected his legendary flight in the book, We in 1927, and later in his life, Of Flight and Life (1948) and The Spirit of St.Louis

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his book “Night,” survived through some of the harshest conditions mankind has ever seen. Separated from his mother and sisters at the Auschwitz concentration camp, he and his dad had to keep each other alive while they were being held captive by the Nazi’s. Elie had to manage to survive off of little food, forced labor, and other inhumane living conditions. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, is affected by the events in this book by losing faith, becoming less sympathetic, and changing emotionally.

After the US was bombed he then returned to the US and tried to join the Air force but they wouldn’t allow him. So henry ford called him and fond away for him to be able to fly planes and fight as a civilian with out people knowing. After the war he mainly just taught people how to fly and tried to advance aviation.

Flying with TWA, Trans World Airlines, he became one of the youngest captains to fly a Boeing 707 in 1964 (Berman 2), and also the youngest 747 captain that year (Aswell 1). He flew weapon to Fidel Castro, a Cuban communist revolutionary, in the late

Throughout high school history class, students often learn about “how the West won” during the period of western expansion era in the United States. Americans had this ideology of Manifest Destiny hoping the United States would stretch from sea to sea. However, not everyone won during these so called “fabulous times” of the western expansion era. Native Americans view the westward expansion as a painful and sad time period during which they lost their cultures. Through the perception of the settlers, westward expansion was good and beneficial to a great country, but what is not read in high school history class is the the negative role the settlers had on the Native Americans. Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker depicts the hectic uprooting of the Ojibway tribe on the account by Broker’s great-grandmother, Oona or her native name, Night Flying Woman. The Ojibway tribe struggled to keep their beliefs and traditions as the settlers came in and forced them to assimilate.

Luke Bannister, is a sixteen year and a champion drone racer. As drones are becoming more popular around the world the first person to view the EPV racing is where a drone’s user puts on headsets and navigates with a real-time view from the camera mounted on board. Luke won the World Drone Prix in Dubai where it is the biggest world drone race. The British teenage drone pilot Luke Bannister attended Paris Drone Festival in Paris France September 4, 2016. Luke’s goal is to go to the University, become a pilot and fly a real plane one day. He first got into flying acrobatics at age of ten. Then when he was eleven he built his own planes at his local model aircraft club.

A college journal reported on one of his boxing matches saying, "Bader in his usual 'no-time-to-spare' manner went straight at his opponent and knocked him out with two very hard rights. He took about the same time as he did last year, and is a very dangerous man to meet." (Douglas Bader: Fighter, Pilot). Aside from sports, Douglas Bader seemed to be a natural at flying. After Cranwell, Bader was assigned to No. 23 Squadron at Kenley, where he flew the Gloster Gamecook.