Posted on December 5, 2014 at 3:03 pm
One of the biggest films of the year is “Unbroken,” based on the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete whose airplane crashed into the Pacific in WWII. He survived for weeks in a lifeboat and then spent two years undergoing brutal abuse in a Japanese prison camp. Angelina Jolie directed breakthrough star Jack …
Posted on December 5, 2014 at 8:00 am
In “Wild,” Cheryl Strayed begins her 1100-mile hike with a quote from Emily Dickinson. Here is the poem. If your Nerve, deny you— If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve— That’s a steady posture— Never any bend Held of those Brass arms— …
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Posted on December 4, 2014 at 5:58 pm
“If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve—” Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) adds the name of the author, Emily Dickinson, to the quote she has inscribed in a journal for hikers kept at her entry point on the Pacific Coast Trail. And then she adds her own name as well. It is her own …
Posted on December 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie, homophobia, suicide |
| Date Released to Theaters: | November 21, 2014 |
| Date Released to DVD: | March 30, 2015 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B00RY85CQI |
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician with an enormous intellect, an almost equally enormous ego, and an almost equally enormous secret. He was one of the founding thinkers behind modern computing and it is his name that we use for the test that determines whether a computer has achieved true artificial intelligence status. The Turing …
Posted on December 4, 2014 at 8:00 am
Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to giving every student in every school the opportunity to learn computer programming. They have partnered with Disney to create tutorials hosted by “Frozen’s” heroines, Anna and Elsa. Disney is also very generously contributing $100,000 contribution to fund Code.org’s work to bring computer science education to afterschool programs around the …
