Empire of the Sun

The movie Empire of the Sun was a great movie. That me and my class mates were able to see in our English class. The movie showed lots of things but the one thing that stuck out the most was the value of family.

Jamie was a wealth British boy who lived in China with his mother and father. When he is separated from his parents because of the war he goes home and try to continue his old life. When that does not work he goes out and try’s to find help. That when he meets a man name Basie who becomes like a father to him. When Basie and Jamie are captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, Jamie attempts to reconstruct his former life by building a family with everyone. He lives with the people at the camp.

Jamie lives with the British but when he does a task for the American’s he is able to move in with Basie and the other American’s but when the American’s turn there back on Jamie and leaves him he goes back to the British who welcomes him back with open arms as if he were one of there kids.

Everyone helped each other out so they could survive. The doctor helped Jamie continue his education, Jamie helps the older people that can not get there own food, he also help people get things that they need. At the end of the movie when the war is all over and Jamie can reunite with his parents he builds another family bound all over again with his mother and father.

In the story the value of family means a lot the Jamie as you can tell. From the doctor helping him, to him helping others, to the British helping him built another family.

April 21-25

Thursday meeting was based on ideas we had some great ideas

What we did: We want on a walking tore of the school and tried to find out what we could do to make the school more beautiful. The one good idea that we talked about was the glass case that should be in our school to show off all the awards that students and teachers got that has do with our school for example: NHD meddles, Teachers awards, ect. We think that this should go on the wall in the lobby when you first come in. Our other ideas were that we should make a little sitting area outside of our school for people to sit down and enjoy there free time in the morning but most of all to make the school look even more beautiful outside. Our last idea was a wall of pictures that showed the first and second graduation class to show who we were and how we grow over the years. The garden group and the school beautician made up these ideas.

What questions do you still have about your mission and role in your group? When are we going to be able to put these plain in action?

I would like to do the job of Researcher because that was my job last year and I think that I would be a great person for this job. I also think that because I love to look up things and I am a very reliable person. I would love to do this job.

Race

Two hundred and twenty years ago, a group of men gathered of men gathered. They wrote a document about the sin of slavery. Words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights. We hold common hopes, that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction. Towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. He was raised with the help of a white grandfather and a white grandmother. He is married to a black woman who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners. He has brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue.

By: Shawanda Smith
4/9/08 8-9