Looking at the Stars

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Amina remains a positive and optimistic character as much as she can and turns to the power of storytelling to help the people survive the atrocities. As in her other novel "The Library of Lemons", Cotterill shows us the power of stories, imagination and sharing in books to heal, unite, reassure and calm. Even on the cloudiest of nights, stars still shine through the haze. So too, light will shine on even the darkest days. All in all, the book was pretty good. But the relationship between Amina and Jenna really suffered in the later half. He pointed. I leaned across, trying to follow the line of his arm. "That bright one?" I asked. He nodded. I couldn't be sure I was looking at the same star he was, but it didn't matter. "Good choice," I told him. "This one's a lovely story. That warrior is called Clemus, and he grew up in the countryside. " I also love how the author did not set this story in a specific country and made it quite general because the events that took place in this book most certainly represented a lot of what is happening around the world right now.

Amina is thirteen years old living in a country where women have absolutely no power. Prohibited from going to school, she spends her days with her sister, Jenna, weaving baskets and rugs, which they sell to stool holders in the local market. The novel begins with the two girls witnessing the arrival of foreign soldiers. They are overjoyed believing that all their troubles are over now that the liberation has begun. This, however, turns out to be a false hope. In that case, Jenna wouldn't need to truly be in love with Aron. It could've just been Amina's suspicions. Unnecessary love triangle solved. And even if Jenna was in love with Aron, we could see her brushing that aside for her sister's happiness, hence adding to the greater theme of sisterly love. Light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second. That is inconceivablyfast – faster than most people can even comprehend. This extreme speed is the reason you don’t have to wait for the light to appear when you switch on a bulb in your room; as soon as the bulb is on, light fills the room. In other words, you neverhave to ‘wait’ for light to reach you. Rather than making political statements, Looking at the Stars focuses instead on the human tale of Amina’s struggle to survive, and on the people she encounters on her journey. The hints of romance are sweet and convincing, and if I had one complaint it would be that I wanted a more fulfilling ending for Aron and Amina (sequel please, commissioning people).The storytelling aspect to this novel makes it unique to others in this genre. There are many books that deal with war, refugees and death, but Amina’s stories provide something extra. They are beautiful and bring hope and faith into such as bleak and dangerous setting. Twinkle, twinkle, little star,/ How I wonder what you are!/ Up above the world so high,/Like a diamond in the sky." - "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,"- Jane Taylor For beginner’s planning can help ensure that time is best spent focusing on the sky, and less about logistics. A bit of preparation can also give you the best viewing chances at deep sky objects and stars. Amina tells stories. She has an imagination, a powerful one, and it's been her companion throughout the war that has ravaged her country. Her family have felt the impact of this differently, but they are together. That is enough. That is enough to survive. But then things start to change, and slide horribly out of control and Amina's family life is shattered. Nothing will ever be the same again. Will Amina ever tell a story again? What's going to happen to her family? Hoffmann, S. and Wolfschmidt, G. (2022, eds.). Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy, Featuring the Proceedings of a splinter meeting in the German Astronomical Society. tredition, Ahrensburg.

You're the star/ Above the storm/ I wanna wrap you in my arms/ And keep you warm" - "You're the Star," Rod Stewart Stars rise and/ Stars fall/ But the ones that shine the brightest aren't stars at all/ There are the planets just like us/ And from big to small/ We all shine" - "Stars and Planets," Liz Phair

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Google Sky: You might be familiar with Google maps, but are you familiar with Google Sky? It’s essentially a map of the sky that’s provided to you free from Google. It takes almost a whole day for me to gather my thoughts & put up a review because there's so much that I want to talk about. In the end, just put in a list form: The fear and hopelessness of the characters is palpable, their need to escape but with nowhere to escape to is well captured. The description of the refugee camps is convincing and clearly well researched and despite the sense of location throughout the novel generally remaining (deliberately) a little hazy, the scenes within the camp are very easy to visualise. But we would do well to pay attention to its original context and meaning: namely, that all men are base and immoral, but some men are more cultured souls who are able to appreciate beauty when they see it. ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’, then, is a line about how men are never to be trusted, but some of them are charming all the same – and this line neatly sums up much of the appeal of Wilde’s comedies.

Avoid densely populated areas such as city centers. Typically these areas have the most lighting for streets and other commercial purposes. Being properly equipped will certainly improve your view of the stars at night; however, no equipment is actually required. Consider your budget for the evening and how much detail you would like to see. Below we have compiled a list of different items that can help your stargazing. Selecting your optics Telling stories was such a simple yet effective way for Amina to help others and it moved me so much the way she was able to connect with others and comfort them just by creating this elaborate story about warriors in the sky. It distracted everyone from reality and it gave them hope and an escape from the perilous times they were currently in. I think this aspect of this book for me was what made me love it even more. Seeing the power of storytelling through Amina reminded me so much of how important having an imagination is and how it can bring others so much happiness, even during dark times.Light pollution is the main enemy of the observing evenings. So that as far as possible get away from light sources of any kind, and mainly from the cities, it will offer a privileged point of view to the astronomer for the observation of the celestial vault.

In fact it is advisable to keep it off or in any case away from sight because the light emitted by the device can compromise the vision of details of the sky, as the eye would soon become unaccustomed to the dim light of darkness.

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Even the wildest theoretical technologies that anybody has ever imagined (such as using the Sun as a magnifying gravitational lens) would not be nearly powerful enough to see dinosaurs on Earth from such a great distance. By the time you get that far away, there are almost no photons (particles of light) left to collect, which means there is no obvious physical way for any aliens in NGC 4845 to reconstruct pretty pictures of old T. rex getting mowed down by an asteroid. When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion, then I go out and paint the stars." - Van Gogh Which brings me to galaxy NGC 4845.It is located 65 million light years away, meaning that we are seeing it as it was 65 million years ago, right around the time the T. rex went extinct. The finite speed of light has the exact same effect in the other direction: If there are intelligent aliens in this galaxy, when they look at the Milky Way, they are seeing our galaxy as it was at the time of the dinosaurs. In principle, they could see our planet as it was at that time, too. Zotti, G., Hoffmann, S. M., Wolf, A., Chéreau, F., & Chéreau, G. (2021). The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), 221–258. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822