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    Serious movies or entertaining movies? Some people really like serious movies‚ such as drama and romantic movies‚ while others prefer to watch entertaining movies like “Iron man” and “Avengers”. From my point of view‚ I would like to watch entertaining movies. There are many unusual events and actions in the entertaining movies. Besides‚ this kind of movie shows our current technological advancements. In addition‚ some people get new ideas from entertaining movies. First of all‚ there are many

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    produced to make people laugh‚ both genres share plenty of differences‚ but also some similarities. Horror films are those known to create fear by depicting gore‚ ghosts‚ killers‚ and/or killings. Examples of horror movies include the Saw‚ Insidious‚ and Halloween movies. Horror movies tend to center on an evil force‚ person‚ or event that is supposed to resemble something of the audience’s worst fears and/or nightmares. Ghosts and zombies have become more popular

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    The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano telling his experience during the slave trade compared to The Amistad shares many similarities as well as differences. As a whole‚ both of these historical stories emotionally and mentally tells the struggle of slavery including how they were treated as well as how big slavery was. In both stories it described how slavery affected African Americans so badly that death might have been better than being treated as nothing by being chained and thrown together‚ taken

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    Amistad I have watched the "Amistad" directed by Steven Spielberg‚ written by David Franzoni‚ presented by Morgan Freeman‚ Nigel Hawthorne‚ Anthony Hopkins‚ Djimon Hounsou‚ Mathew McConaughey‚ David Paymer‚ Pete Postlethwaite‚ and Stellan Skarsgard. It was rented from Hollywood Video to complete the assignment. "Who we are‚ is who we were"‚ states attorney Baldwin‚ the persuading point reaching into the hearts of the jurors. Telling a story about the intriguing life and life lost of the Mende

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    After watching the movie Zombieland I noticed that it was a very gory film‚ but I didn’t find it scary just very disgusting. It was interesting to see that only a hand full of humans survived the violence from the zombies. In the movie Columbus struggled to survive because before the zombies took over he was full of anxiety and was very fearful of being around people. He made a list of things on what to do to survive in the world‚ but the zombies overrode everything that was on his list. For example

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    Out of both of the movies we watched‚ the movie I found better was the American version. In the American version‚ the parts actually went in order which makes sense if you didn’t read the story. The British version of the story mixed the parts up a bit to make a flashback scene. I the American version didn’t miss any parts and was really detailed‚ the British version was a little shorter and some parts that didn’t really matter was cut off. In this American version Mary comes back from the grocery

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    have souls. Why we feel bad‚ we no have no souls? We want to be free very much.” This is a part of a letter that Kale‚ an African of the Mendi tribe‚ wrote to John Quincy Adams. Kale‚ coming from nothing‚ learned enough English while abroad then Amistad Slave Ship. Africans of the Mendi tribe struggled to regain freedom after Spanish abuse. Sometime in January of 1839‚ hundreds of Africans were captured near Sierra Leon. The Africans were beaten and blindfolded. They were then boarded onto a Portuguese

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    Dave Dilebre Composition I Professor gould February 18‚ 2014 Review of “Amistad” by Sally Hadden summary Amistad begins with the event that made the ships history different from other slave ships. Cinque also known as Sengbe feed himself and his fellow slaves. They overthrew the ships crew killing all the spanish sailors but two in order to sail back to africa. The two men that were left of the crew managed to trick their new found captors and sail to new york. The initial trial

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    La Amistad Film Analysis

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    La Amistad movie a movie released in 1997 was a true movie story based on slavery life it took about how slavery was managed and about the slaves of La Amistad ship‚ La Amistad ship is a ship which carried slaves from other countries to the U.S. The historical setting is in Connecticut‚ a place in the U.S. The event took place in the 1800s. At the beginning of the movie Cinque the leader of a tribe was in LA Amistad ship then he managed to scaped from the spanish crewmen ‚ slaves force 2 spanish

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    First aired in January 1977‚ Roots‚ a dramatic factional TV miniseries captured the minds and hearts of the nearly 80 million people who watched (Bird 94). The series was based on the book Roots by Alex Haley; both depict his family tree going back eight generations (on his mother’s side) when his family was still in Africa. The story begins with Kunta Kinte begin a young man in the Juffree village‚ Gambia‚ West Africa who was taken from his village to become cargo on the Lord Ligonier; a ship that

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