films since Star Wars‚ with his latest film premiering last year. I’m so tired of the LFL brass and the media continually lying to us‚ and much of it has been tracked back to Disney by way of shills and astroturfers. Its surprising not only how quickly after the purchase of Lucasfilm‚ that everything that wasn’t the Original Trilogy began to be discredited; but also that this discrediting was so readily accepted. While Mr. Plunkett laid the ground work for the Prequel hate‚ the Star Wars Expanded Universe
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In the 1770s‚ the French and Indian War had just ended and Britain was in massive debt. Britain‚ being the mother country‚ placed numerous taxes and acts into place on its child‚ the colonies‚ to pay the debt as per mercantilism. The colonists were furious because they believed they had nothing to do with the war and were just dragged in; hence they should not have to help pay the debt. The British military measures and the restriction of civil liberties were really important factors in prompting
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Ben Fontana HST 340 Mary Silliman’s War Assignment Due 10/11/2011 I very much enjoyed watching the film “Mary Silliman’s War.” The movie highlighted the story of a woman in the revolutionary war who lost her husband for an extended period of time. Mary Silliman’s husband‚ Selleck‚ was a state attorney in Connecticut‚ and was in charge of prosecuting Tories. Tories are people who’s allegiance still lies with the British empire‚ and Selleck’s job is to basically keep them away from the colonies
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person than their disability. They have personality and feelings like everyone else. Dealing with a disability is hard‚ for those reasons‚ but if people are treated only by their ability. things are not better. In both stories‚ Out of My Mind and The War That Saved My Life‚ the authors Sharon M. Draper and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley‚ gets a thought to the reader that people with disabilities are misunderstood or mistreated. Melody‚ in Out of My Mind‚ is smart‚ but nobody cares to realize because most
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in 1992 she had clear sense of who she was‚ her culture and identity had a strong foundation that could not be shaken.As a child of an immgrant understanding who I was and where I belonged was diffcult and at times confunsing. In Sherman Alexie’s “War Dances”‚ the protagonist struggles to understand the national identity of First Nation peoples and his own cynicism of what he sees as a lack of authenticity in First Nation culture. The colonization of Canada and the policy of assimilation created
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The end of World War I provided innovators the opportunity to develop new and improved military capabilities in relation to equipment‚ tactics and interoperability between services. However‚ several obstacles prevented military innovation therefore‚ creating friction along the process as the world prepared for World War II. Military politics‚ civil/military relations and lack of a strategic understanding are the most significant obstacles to effective innovation during the interwar period. Politics
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Danielle Garrison Professor Harding English 117W 1 December 2014 Disturbing the Universe Do I dare disturb the universe was a question that Jerry Renault consistently asked himself throughout the book called The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier. With that powerful statement‚ it was clear in stone what Robert Cormier was trying to express in the book. Cormier’s powerful statement throughout the book gave some insight into the consequences of standing up for what you truly believe in. Throughout
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The writing of The Gallic Wars by himself in third person was a propaganda to portray himself as a successful military commander. I think Julius Caesar was a man with ambition to become greater and to gain popular support of the people for more power in controlling the government of Rome. In the book‚ these are many of the fine qualities like: talent for commander‚ persuasive speaker both military and politically‚ and ambition for glory that Caesar had or he portrayed himself to enabled to triumph
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For the second portion of my summer assignment I watched Charlie Wilson’s War. Throughout the movie the various governments affected many of the individuals. The movie is set in the cold war where the United states would not openly oppose the USSR. When the United States took action against the Soviets it had to be done covertly. Charlie Wilson was a U.S. Congressman who decided to help the Afghans in there battle against the Soviets. During the movie Charlie tells of how he originally became
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fighting and not fleeing or vise versa. However‚ the depiction of survival doesn’t matter to us during this speech. What matters today is that the idea that when we are challenged‚ that our true survival instinct kicks in. The book ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ recalls‚ a story of eight ordinary teenagers‚ morphing into the ultimate survivalists. They fight against wicked tyrants‚ that are attempting to invade Australia. They try to bring back their family and save Australia. This story has some prime
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