research topic

"Why is Hitler more widely recognized as a brutal dictator when Stalin, who killed many more people, is less recognizable?"

Hitler and the Holocaust have always interested me, but I wonder why Stalin, having killed over 20 million of his own people, has never interested me. I think it's a very peculiar that Hitler is more widely known for his mass murders although Stalin murdered much more. I think this topic would be easy to research because there is so much information about it. I would like to research the differences in their dictatorships and then figure out what made Hitler stand out so much.

I am nineteen years old and I truly love the cartoon movie, The Incredibles. I think this movie has a lot of character. It's funny, it's exciting, and it's about superhero powers! What's not to love? I personally think this movie is great for kids. First of all, it is a cartoon letting all children know that this movie is NOT real. This movie does have "bad guys" and "scary parts" in it, but in the end the "good guys" win. This is the message being sent to children.

I think the review on this movie is a little absurd. The author of this review clearly takes everything too seriously. He says although there is "no matters of witchcraft, sorcery, wizardry, Satanism or occult, but did find a number of uses of God's name in vain but none with the four letter expletive". Can anyone tell me what the "four letter expletive is"?? Basically the author of this review is coming up with excuses to not like this movie because they never used God's name in vain.

That wasn't even the most ridiculous part of the review. On the side of the review it states every instance the movie score was docked for and the Sexual Immorality (S) section is just the best. He says the movie shows three cases of sexual immorality: 1. smacking on the "bottom", TWICE...wow! someone's butt got smacked!! 2. rude gaze at posterior- meaning rude gaze at someone's body...how do you even notice these things? and number 3. (which is my favorite) dressing to maximize the [cartoon] female form and/or skin exposure. Enough said. This guy is so anal it makes me laugh. Clearly this guy is just thinking about sex and naked women because who else would come up with this? Who cares how the cartoon is dressed? IT'S A CARTOON!!

This guy criticizes every little detail in this movie, but never states anything good. The dad in this movie, Bob Parr, wants to fight evil to protect innocent people. The mom, Helen Parr, tells her children, Violet and Dash, to use their "powers", or if you want to think of it abstractly, she tells them to use their talents that God gave them. I think this movie has plenty more positive messages that I could find if I looked into it as much as this guy did, and I think The Incredibles is a great family movie!

Trip to Memorial Library

Finding a book at the library was a little intimidating. It was only my second time a Memorial Library and I didn't really know what it was like. I looked up a book I was thinking about reading called, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. I wrote down the information and took it to the circulation desk to find out where I could find it. She explained to me that the "regular stacks" meant the whole library so she asked for the call number I told her the number: PT9876.22 A692. She explained that the PT books were located in the South stacks of floor 4M. I walked away thinking, "Um, ok. What the heck is floor 4M??" It turns out floor 4M is the floor between 4 and 5. I don't know why that is, but I guess you learn something new every day. From there I took my little sheet of paper and went to the South Stacks like she had told me. I felt strange. I can't remember the last time I looked for a book in a library, but I was pretty sure I remembered how it worked...and then I came to the stacks. I looked at these stacks and I thought they were from the future! I've never seen moving stacks before. I tried to move them by hand but when I realized that wasn't working I finally noticed the move button on the stacks. Yeah I know, I'm a genius. When I finally moved stacks I got to the book I was looking for. It wasn't hard to find because all the books around it looked old. I felt relieved when I found it because to tell you the truth, the library scares me.

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2008. Print.