Number the Stars

At the beginning of the book, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry, Annemarie, the main character, and her best friend, Ellen, are on their way home from school in Copenhagen with Annemarie’s little sister, Kirsti. Ellen and Annemarie decide to have a race, ahead of Kirsti, but Nazi soldiers stop them and question why they are running. The Nazis let the girls go about their day because they think Kirsti is cute, and tell them to not race anymore. Once they get home, Kirsti goes inside while Ellen and Annemarie

Masking the Holocaust Throughout history, many novels are written to help portray dramatic times and appeal them towards the child mind. The story I read was “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry. This book was published in 1989. Being only one hundred and fifty eight pages, this is a very reasonable size book for children to read. This book is arranged into chapters and is a piece of historical fiction. This novel is also a John Newberry Award winner. It appeals to children by having the main character

There are multiple people who view the stars' meaning differently. In "What the Stars Meant" by John Koethe had a very beautiful, unique way of expressing what the stars meant to him. He wrote what the stars meant to him and had described how there is no right or wrong meaning to the stars. It is to everyone's own perspective. The theme of this poem is to explain what the stars meant to John Koethe. He wanted to get people to view the stars that they may not have viewed them before. Each stanza

sparkling at night, due to stars. Stars are luminous ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, held together by its own gravity. Our night sky is filled with groupings of stars creating a galaxy, or also known as The Milky Way. The Milky Way, is one of many galaxies in a Local Group, containing between 100- 400 billion stars. Observing these stars with the naked eye is sometimes difficult, however technology today has made it much easier. In the experiment “Number the Stars”, we used two different types

think that the star is very beautiful I do not know much about the Elven star yet but what I do know about it is that it is a seven pointed star or, Then again it is known as a septagram or heptagram and it other name is a faerie star a sacred symbol to the faeries. It is said to have many meanings it is just the way the person looks at it. The number seven is also a number that I believe is a lucky number and it is also just so happens to be the same number of points on the Elven star. Seven is surrounded

seasons). For the 168 episodes of Modern Family the average rating was ȳ=8.0304 stars out of 10, with a standard deviation of 휎=0.3469 stars. The minimum rating received by an episode is 7.3 stars out of 10 and the maximum rating is 9.5 stars out of 10. By using the median, any outliers in the data can be excluded, the median rating was 8 stars out of 10. Quartile 3 was 8.2 stars out of 10, while quartile 1 was 7.8 stars out of 10, resulting

that he saw the original Star Wars movie twenty-one times in one summer when he was thirteen years old. Despite what some readers may think, this essay is not about any kind of obsession he may have with Star Wars. He tells more about the aspects of his childhood that related to the detail of his almost religious coming and going to the movie theater, which serves as the sweet lace to the bitter truth of his childhood. In this essay, Lethem purposefully uses the device of Star Wars to link details of

humans just landed on the moon. Who knew that this landing could spark the idea of the most advanced and important franchise of movie history, Star Wars. Star Wars has brought many different ideas to the cinematic world. The production of movies has gone up in the past few years, with that being said, Star Wars is the number one franchise in cinematic history. Star Wars is an action packed space opera about a galaxy a long time ago in a far away place. In this galaxy, a young slave boy, who lives in an

The Star of Life is a six pointed blue star with a white border and the Rod of Asclepius in the center of it. It was first created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. Before the Star of Life came about, Emergency Medical Services used an orange cross against a white reflective background as a symbol. The Star of Life was first created by “Leo R. Schwartz, who was the Chief of the EMS Branch & NHTSA.” The Star of Life came about when the Red Cross believed that the logos were too

Star presented to be dressed like a gothic, and dressed appropriately for the weather, she was wearing a black sweater, with black pants, and glasses. She had short, purple colored hair and displayed a flat affect. Star appeared to be depressed throughout the session. She appeared to have low energy, she walked and moved in a very slow manner. She didn’t smile and cried most of the time. When she sat, she hunched forward, making little or no contact with the assessor. She spoke in a very low