“The ‘I Am Legend’ movie starring renowned actor Will Smith focusses on “a scientist named Robert Neville who is incapable of stopping the horrible virus once created to cure cancer. At first‚ the virus looked promising and was given to cancer patients to treat their disease but few years down the line it transformed into a plague which killed most of the people on earth or turned them into zombies. Neville is the only unaffected human survivor in New York and the world‚ for many years he has been sending
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Reflection: Hope. It is something that we can hold on to at times. One in which the main character in the movie‚ Richard Neville‚ only had. He had hoped that he can save the humanity and with determination‚ he did. The movie itself shows to us many values and lessons that each one has to learn in life. Like him‚ sometimes we also need to think of others first before ourselves‚ as what he did to save the mother and the child on the last part and also by doing his best to discover the antidote alone
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General Certificate of Secondary Education June 2013 History Specification B 40451 Unit 1: International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the Twentieth Century Monday 3 June 2013 1.30 pm to 3.15 pm For this paper you must have: an AQA 12-page answer book. Time allowed 1 hour 45 minutes Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Examining Body for this paper is AQA. The Paper Reference is
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Joshua Chamberlain was born September 8th‚ 1828 in Brewer Maine and was the oldest of four siblings. Chamberlain graduated from Bowdoin College in 1852 and eventually became a professor of modern languages with a total of 10 languages he was fluent in. On December 7‚ 1855‚ Chamberlain married Frances Adams‚ to whom he had been engaged for several years. Joshua and Frances had five children‚ but only two survived. Chamberlain became distressed about the secession of southern states and the outbreak
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Main Infantry Regiment was created under the command of Colonel (COL) A. Ames and Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) J. Chamberlain. The regiment was comprised of soldiers from around the state of Main and was initially comprised of 1621 men. The unit would fight in some of the initial bloodiest battles in the Civil War to include Antietam‚ Fredericksburg‚ and Chancellorsville. LTC Chamberlain‚ a college professor with no military training‚ actively sought out mentoring by his commander COL Ames at every
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Apocalypse: An Analysis of Society’s Fears of the Evils of Prejudices and Alienation! “It’s the end of the world as we know it!” The musical band REM stated it best in the lyrics of their hit song titled “It’s the End of The World”: “It’s the end of the world as we know it (It’s time I had some time alone) and I feel fine‚ fine”(REM). There have been many stories written throughout history highlighting the total destruction of societies and revelations of the future‚ otherwise known as an apocalypse
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The year is 1931‚ and a new policy has been introduced by Mr. Neville who is chief protector of the Aborigines‚ that gives the government powers to take half-caste’ children away from their families. Once the children are taken away it is Mr. Neville’s objective to have the children raised in institutions so that they can be integrated into white society where the black colour of their skin can be eventually bred out’. Mr. Neville‚ although undoubtedly the villain in this film‚ is not deliberately
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Chamberlain‚ the Hero of the Civil War We all have certain people that we look up to‚ whether it be a friend‚ family member‚ celebrity‚ or so on‚ they impact our life. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain‚ the oldest of five ad part of the family with a spectacular history of bravery. All the men before him‚ in his family‚ that lived in America‚ served for their country and there’s no doubt that this strongly influenced Chamberlain growing up. Chamberlain was a college professor‚ but decided to leave his
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Why did war erupt in 1939? War erupted in 1939 for many of reasons. There is long-term cause which is the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles had a significant effect on why war erupted in 1939; however there are also many mid-term causes that also helped lead to World War Two. These are; the Failure of the League of Nations and The Wall Street Crash. The short-term causes are The Appeasement and Hitler’s actions. One of the short term causes of World War two was Hitler’s actions. Hitler
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The JFK Assassination in Dallas President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22‚ 1963. This year is the 51th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas Texas. It is estimated that 85% of the American Public do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did it as a lone gunman. There have been two official government investigations with two different sets of conclusions. A week after President John F. Kennedy assassination‚ Lyndon Johnson‚ his successor‚ appointed the
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