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A personal experience I had that made me feel adventurous was when I climbed Enchanted Rock for the first time, I feel happy, and strong. Bilbo begins to gain strength and become adventurous when Gandalf leaves them. He becomes a new leader of sorts.

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In the article, it is the 100 year anniversary of a major war, and a lot of heartbreak, and sadness happened. The dwarves want to reclaim the mountain that they lost many years ago, and it brought sadness to the dwarves.

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Centennial of US entrance into WWI lures visitors to museum

Crossing a glass walkway that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported in time. That is when tanks and air warfare were new. Hopeful flowers sprang up on the barren, trench-dotted battlefields. That landscape is where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died.

But this place is a museum in Kansas City. It is housed under a tower that rises 217 feet into the Missouri sky. It is topped by a giant flame and was the site of a remembrance March 6. It marked the 100-year anniversary of the United States entering the war.

The poppies that visitors pass while entering the museum represent the 9 million combat deaths of the Great War. About 116,000 were Americans.

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow. Between the crosses, row on row," goes a famous poem about the Belgian battlefields. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died there. It was the war's Western Front.

With the centennial of the fighting drawing more attention to the war, more than 200,000 visited the museum last year. That was an increase of about 50 percent from three years earlier. They included visitors from more than 70 countries.

The site's Egyptian Revival-style monument was erected in a burst of postwar patriotism after $2.5 million was raised in less than two weeks in 1919. That amount would be equal to about $35 million today. Children helped raise funds. They went door-to-door, collecting money in what was "an early 20th century story of crowdsourcing," according to museum spokesman Mike Vietti.

So noteworthy was the achievement that Allied commanders from Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, France and the U.S. gathered in 1921 to dedicate the site. It's located across the street from the Kansas City train station. More than half of U.S. troops passed through the station before being shipped overseas. When the monument was completed five years later, a crowd of more than 150,000 turned out. They heard President Calvin Coolidge speak at the dedication.

But years of deferred maintenance led the site to be closed in 1994. A massive $102 million transformation followed. It was funded by a sales tax, bond issue and private donations. The exterior was repaired. The design firm that was behind attractions such as Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum was tapped to create a new museum that would tell World War I's story of assassination, empires swept away and new nations born. The site now is known as the National World War I Museum and Memorial. It was made official in legislation that President Barack Obama signed in 2014.

The museum's collection of documents and artifacts has a global breadth. It covers the period both before and after the U.S. entered the war. The conflict ended in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. But many historians believe the treaty's terms helped set the stage for World War II a generation later.

Among the items used to tell the complex story of the connection between the two wars is the tunic and cape of Paul von Hindenburg. He was a German commander and national hero. He later became Germany's president and in 1933 appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor.

Visitors can also see the rapidly evolving weaponry that led to widespread casualties. There's a British torpedo, a U.S.-made Naval mine, a life-size replica of a British biplane known as the Airco DH.2 and a French Renault tank. Vietti described the tank as a weapon of "terror as well as a weapon of war."

One exhibit highlights the damage an artillery shell would have done to a house in the French countryside. Another allows visitors to glimpse inside replicas of the trenches where soldiers fought and often died. In the Horizon Theater, World War I film footage plays on a 100-foot screen. It rises above a full-scale tableau of no man's land.

The site's original museum now hosts rotating exhibitions. The latest one highlights propaganda posters.

Matthew Naylor, the president and CEO of the museum, keeps his grandfather's wartime shaving kit on display in his office. While issued by the British, it was made in Germany. He noted that the two countries were trading partners before the war.

The "fragility" of world relations at the time, Naylor said, has parallels to today that "some would say are ominous."

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why were people so eager to contribute almost 100 years ago?

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Centennial of US entrance into WWI lures visitors to museum

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Centennial of US entrance into WWI lures visitors to museum Crossing a glass walkway that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported in time. That is when tanks and air warfare were new. Hopeful flowers sprang up on the barren, trench-dotted battlefields.

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The poem talks about unlikely heroes, who do everything they can to help and save others. In the Hobbit, Bilbo saves the dwarves in the forest of Mirkwood by fighting and having the spiders chase him. Another example is of him sneaking around in the Elves palace, and acquiring the keys to the dungeons, and escaping by barrels through a trap door.
"They wondered what evil fate had befallen him, magic or dark monsters; and shuddered as they lay lost in the forest." (166). This was near the end of their journey in Mirkwood, when Bilbo was seen as a hero.

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The double infinity sign can signal revenge, or equilibrium. In the book, Thorin seeks revenge against Smaug for destroying the kingdom of his kin, and wants to be the rightful king under the mountain.

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The setting in this TED Talk is in a sacred place called Bahá'í Temple in South America. To Bilbo his Hobbit hole is his sacred place, and to the dwarves, the Lonely Mountain is their sacred place. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with thing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort". (1). The Hobbit Hole was Bilbo's beloved home, and he talks a lot about wishing he was there.

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Siamak Hariri: How do you build a sacred space?

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To design the Bahá'í Temple of South America, architect Siamak Hariri focused on illumination -- from the temple's form, which captures the movement of the sun throughout the day, to the iridescent, luminous stone and glass used to construct it.