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| My Name Is Rachel Corrie | 
| Author: Rachel Corrie
Creators: Alan Rickman, Katharine Viner
Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 260833
Media: Paperback
Pages: 49
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.2
ISBN: 0822222221
Dewey Decimal Number: 812
EAN: 9780822222224
ASIN: 0822222221
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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"A powerful, thought-provoking and deeply moving piece of theatre."-Daily Telegraph
"Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern."-Guardian
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still have very few words to describe what I see. I don't know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls. You just can't imagine it unless you see it. And even then your experience is not at all the reality . . . [due to] the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and of course, the fact that I have the option of leaving. I am allowed to see the ocean.-Rachel Corrie
On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she was trying to prevent the demolition of the Palestinian homes. My Name is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play composed from Rachel's own journals, letters, and e-mails-creating a portrait of a messy, skinny, articulate, Salvador Dal-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left home and school in Olympia, Washington, "to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's military occupation." The piece premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre, with an award-winning, sold-out run, before its transfer to the West End.
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 "RACHEL CORRIE," SHOULD BE IN AND OF ITSELF A COLLEGE OR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE ON PURE EG'S OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEROIC ICONS September 13, 2008
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RACHEL CORRIE, MAHATMA GHANDI, NELSON MANDELA, POPE JOHN PAUL II, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., MOTHER THERESA, IRENE SENDLER, JOHN AND ROBERT KENNEDY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, LECH WALESA, RACHEL CORRIE...Yes, Rachel Corrie has joined the ranks of the world's most heroic icons, as Rachel has certainly paid her dues: WITH-HER-LIFE, damn it!; to be honored as such.
Rachel's words and thoughts are so moving, inspiring and just so 100% pure. Read Rachel Corries words, and you will be profoundly moved forever. Read for yourself and you'll probably say to yoourself: "What have I done as an American, to help stop the present, ongoing (right now, as you read....) daily home demolitions and murders of helpless and harmless (media wants you to think otherwise) Palestinian people? What about Darfur? Rachel was murdered while trying to stop an Israeli from demolising another Palestinians home while the whole family was inside drinking tea. The Israeli soldier, with Rachel in full daytime view, ran over little Rachel's body THREE times, to make sure she suffered horribly and was murdered. This was all caught on film.
Rachel's very special words and thoughts should be read and acknowledged by all people with conscience. Every school should have Rachel's stories on their required reading lists. This book is fine for Junior high through graduate school. The message is universal, peaceful and pure. Don't let Rachel die in vain. Get her thoughts, words and inspiring life to your school and library. This was one very, very special young lady, who's life was cut so short in helping the poor and defenseless Palestinian families.
Read Rachel and be changed for the better and forever. Visit the memorial website and learn more about this heroic women icon at :www.rachelcorrie.com. Kate Bowman has an article about Rachel, right here on Amazon. bowman elaborate on how Bush & Co. completely ignored her murder and parents' plea for help. The article by Kate bowman is tiled; "It's Now OK For Israeli's To Kill Americans." Also, read Jimmy Carters' Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and view his movie Jimmy Carter: Man From Plainsand finally a documentary that Jimmy Carter highly recommends in his book that really gets into the human rights abuses by the Israelis adainst the Palestinians is "The Wall," which shows the true destitude that the Palestinins are subjected to everyday. You won't believe what you'll see, as Rachel did and gave he life trying to stop thr jewish terror machine. Remember young and brave Rachell Corrie.
Great book which will no doubt be bashed by zionists and their right wing bed mates September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Demonstrates how one amazing young woman with peace and compassion in her soul attempted with great courage and strength to stand up for Justice - and the ultimate price she paid for doing so. The terrorists (Zionist Israelis in this instance; yes they come in all nationalities and religions) thought nothing of an American human life as they razed right over her. What kind of heartless monsters are capable of doing that? Yet, we continue to give them billions of dollars in aid, thus empowering and furthering their consistent human rights violations. May Rachel rest in peace and may her ultimate sacrifice not be in vain. Jimmy Carter and Rachel Corrie - way to go for standing up against injustice.
Play is a tribute and a plea September 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Because of the youthful exuberance, which is not naivety, of Rachel Corrie's words, taken from her journals and e-mails to folks "back home," this drama does proceed deeper, and deeper into the mind and actions of a young woman on her personal crusade to do something about the lives of virtual strangers. Dramatists have put together an excellent portrayal of Rachel and some of the conflicts of her life experience.
RACHEL CORRIE WAS INSIGHTFUL AND SAW THE FUTURE "CLEARLY.": RACHEL DEFENDED THE PERSECUTED WITH "NON-VIOLENCE." LIKE GHANDI DID October 2, 2007
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
This young lady brutally murdered by an Israeli soldier, was very aware of what was truly going on in "The Palestinian Holocaust" that still is ongoing today. This book is a book of a true "American Hero." Her heroic death must not be in vain, but give courage to all to stand up to the racist atrocities being perpetrated in the world today. The brutal savagery and humiliation against the women, children and men of Palestine is one such, present day "Holocaust." Rachel Corrie had incredible foresight for someone so young. Her cause is now proven and backed by some of the greatest human beings and scholars on this earth: Former President Jimmy Carter has gotten the same message Rachel was getting out to the world in his present best-seller: "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." In another new best-seller "THE ISRAEL LOBBY, AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY," by John J. Mearsheimer (of U. of Chicago) and Stephan M. Walt (Harvard), clearly shared young Rachel's view that the savage and horrific treatment of the Palestinian People and "their" lands, was not good for Palestinians, Israeli's, and Especially for America's Safety and Reputation to the World. The list seems endless, especially today, proving and backing Rachel's heroic mission. May she rest in peace. Her parents must be so proud that Rachel tried to help the oppressed and brutally occupied people of Palestine. Rachel Corrie, be proud as your message of justice is being carried on by the great authors mentioned and many more.
Just something to think about readers: Be careful or take great caution with amateur reviews that try to distort Rachel's pure and humane message. Whose words do you give more weight to, a reckless, insensitive, amateur reviewer, or some of the notable icons and scholars mentioned. Yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion,(that's what makes AMAZON the best) but some spend years researching specialty topics and are more up to speed - weigh everything. Do Former President, and probably todays greatest humanitarian, Jimmy Carter's words have weight and substance? What about other great and acclaimed scholars such as Professor John J. Mearsheimer, who is the Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the Univ. of Chicago. Add, Professor Stephen M. Walt, who is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Who do you believe? I leave that rhetorical question to you.
Rachel Corrie and her beautiful messages in her writings, this book, and her heroic and tragic death keep her lagacy and message of justice alive. Now, more than ever, notable people and scholarly authors are writing an array of necessary books supporting Rachels cause and, important message. A message that, finally, is getting to Americans,i.e., The horrific plight of the Palestinian peoples. Rachel, the world will not forget that you died for the justice of the Palestinians. Rachel's life should be a academic course in and of itself. Rachel was a true martyr. Read Rachel and be inspired and moved forever....
 Good book about a misguided girl July 23, 2007
17 out of 55 found this review helpful
This is a tough review to write.
As to the book, it deserves five stars.
But as to Rachel Corrie, who was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, she brought about her own death when she was defending the wrong side.
The Al-Aqsa Intifada was started by Yasir Arafat when he refused to take the 99% of the West Bank that Ehud Barak offered him.
Arafat had to start the Al-Aqsa Intifada because if he did not, people would comes to terms with his own incompetence, arrogance, and greed. Which has all been documented since.
First off, Fatah, Hama and others, who Rachel defended, besides being anti-Israel, are anti-American.
Second off, these two organizations have killed innocent people, including many Americans.
For Rachel Corrie to defend these people is criminal at best, immoral at worst. Rather than defending terrorists, Rachel should have been defending the innocent Israelis.
She was killed when she tried to obstruct an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer operating in Hai as-Salam, a Palestinian area of Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, an area the IDF had designated a security zone.
Why was the bulldozer there? For security operations designed to uncover the network of smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt to the Palestinian side of Rafah - tunnels used by Hamas and other groups for smuggling weapons from Egypt in Gaza strip.
Let's see, illegal weapons are imported to kill innocents and Corrie wants to defend such people?
She brought about her own death.
Rachel Corrie was a beautiful person with a good heart. She was also misguided. That mistake took her life.
This is a sad tale about a good heart, who defended evil people.
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