with the looming hostilities. "I have seven children‚" he says. "My wife is dead. Who’s to care for them if I go to war?" But his eldest son‚ Gabriel‚ has no such qualms; he defies his father’s will and joins the army. You know it’s only a matter of time before Benjamin‚ too‚ is drawn into the fightingin this case‚ courtesy of the cruel British cavalry leader‚ Col. Tavington. Positive Elements: The colonists often show true selflessness‚ joining to
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The movie Burn! is a 1969 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The main characters are Marlon Brando starting as Sir William Walker and Evaristo Marquez starting as Jose Dolores (The Internet Movie Databases). The movie takes place during the mid-19th century on the island of Queimada‚ a Portuguese colony located in Antilles(Burn!). The British send Sir William Walker to Queimada‚ an English secret agent‚ to start a rebellion against the Portuguese regiment‚ to benefit the British Sugar traders. In
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Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently
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The movie I choose to write my review on is not one of my all-time favorite’s movies but the person who the movie is based on has been huge interest to me since I heard his story. The movie is titled “Jobs”; it is based on the true story of Steve jobs‚ one most innovating men in 21st century. The movie is a series of events in Steve’s life that started from when is just dropping out of college to when he is a success business man. In the movie you can expect his struggle of trying to build a innovative
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Media Project Dilemma‚ Stakeholders‚ and Perspectives For the media project‚ I chose to examine the movie The Island. In The Island‚ the main dilemma is cloning‚ as the two main characters are clones of individuals that are wealthy. These rich individuals want clones for the purpose of organ harvesting‚ surrogate motherhood‚ and for other unethical reasons. However‚ the clones are unaware that they are clones‚ instead they live in an isolated compound and are lead to believe that the outside world
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Thesis: Carl Lee Haley should be found not guilty because he had Christian morals‚ he was insane‚ and his family was the victim in this society. I. What happened to Carl Lee’s daughter was morally disturbing. A. The men raped his daughter and left her for dead. B. They felt as if they had the right to hurt his daughter. II. He was insane. A. He was pushed to the point of rage. B. He was not thinking clearly. III. His family was the victim in this society. A. He
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would live up to its star-studded cast‚ yet it falls short. Contagion‚ a thinking man’s horror film‚ “follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows‚ the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time‚ ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.” With a close up of Gwyneth Paltrow’s coughing face we begin the foreboding journey of a deadly
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after finding all of the soldiers there has killed themselves using barbed wire. Josh and Jared- teenage boys who joins up with Elliot‚ Alma and Jess. Mrs. Jones- a woman who lives alone in an isolated house in rural Pennsylvania. Setting The movie took place at the state of Philadelphia. Plot Central Park‚ New York it all started. As people doing their usual routine a plague strikes as people started killing themselves‚ rumored to be a bio-terrorist attack that quickly spreads throughout
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Nurul Hazwani Bt Hatta M12L THE OTHERS Movie Review The Others is one of the psychological horror movies that impress me with its good story plot and suspense elements. It was written‚ directed and scored by Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar‚ starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston. It is inspired partly by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house in the British Crown
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Dalia Selman The Modern World Movie Review 2/25/2014 Amadeus Movie Review The movie Amadeus depicts the life of Mozart from Salieri’s tainted perspective. In this paper I will be analyzing three of the most notable scenes I felt while watching the movie. The first notable scene‚ where mozart complexities are revealed. The second scene in which Salieri begs god for his "breath" and for a sign that he loves him‚ intended to show is desperation. At last‚ the third scene I will be analyzing is the
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