meets a girl who is against Trujillo and learns how bad Trujillo really is. This is when she begins to start acting rebellious. Once she is older‚ Minerva’s family is invited to a party at Trujillo’s palace where she does things that most people would never even dare to think of doing. Minerva plays a game with Trujillo which she wins and gets her father released from arrest and gets her into law school. In law school‚ she joins a group that is speaking out against Trujillo. A lot of courage is needed
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courage that Leonidas possessed‚ to have the willingness to fight an army ten times the size of his own. Naturally‚ viewers are compelled and affected
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still armed and battle ready‚ holding fortresses across Greece. The interactions that these two city states made against‚ with‚ and without them were so intense that even the fierce kings‚ Leonidas of Sparta and King Pericles Cleon Nicias of Athens‚ fell to each other’s armies. Around 400 B.C.‚ King Leonidas of Sparta finally had enough of the Athenians acting like gods. He first tried to take a hold of his own state. He revised the government to
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under the rule of King Xerxes have already taken over some of Greece’s city-states‚ and now threaten Sparta and Athens. A messenger sent by Xerxes attempts to present King Leonidas of Sparta with two options: either have to sacrifice the well-being of Sparta or have it burn to the ground. With submission not being an option‚ Leonidas forms an army of 300 Spartan warriors to block the narrow passage of Thermopylae where Xerxes intends to reach Hellas. The 300 are accompanied by about 1‚000 Thespians and
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driver came to their home was hired by Trujillo who was the dictator of the Dominican Republic and asked if they needed a ride and they said yes and ended up at the bottom of a cliff and was found a couples hours later. Before all of those things happened the Mirabal sisters lives weren’t so bad. It all started when they
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occurs throughout the country; as shown in the novel In the time of the butterflies‚ the author Julia Alvarez shows how the Dominican republic’s‚ dictator Trujillo controls society‚ this control causes change in the Maribal sisters. Patria and Minerva being two out of four sisters are made into rebels trying to over throw the corrupted power Trujillo has on their country. Consequently when a society’s freedom is taken away there will be changes in many people.
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she later studied mathmatics. After completing her education she married leandro guzman. She greatly admired her older sister minerva. She was arrested and harassed on direct order of trujillo. Where they were beaten and starved and was not able to get a bath. She looked up to fedel castro and he ended up like trujillo. She ended up getting out of jail and had kids. Then she later died with her sisters
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of Greek history. Leonidas‚ the Spartan “king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war against Leonidas his city state of Sparta. As in any story there is a traitor‚ which only complicates Leonidas’ determination of
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opens her eyes to the injustices happening in her country. The reason why Minerva joined the revolutionary movement was because she met a girl by the name of Sinita‚ Sinita tells Minerva about all the horrible things Trujillo has done to her family; Minerva then considers how Trujillo isn’t the saint as everyone proclaims him to be and how being aware of what is happening has set her free‚ “And that’s how I got free. I don’t mean just going to sleepaway
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Video Assignment on 300 The movie I selected for my movie review is 300 by Zach Snyder which represents the story of the brave 300 Spartans who fought bravely to their death‚ know that would be the end result. The movie stars Gerard Butler as king Leonidas and his wife Queen Gorgo as Lena Headey. Also another important actor is Dominic West who plays Theron a traitor of Sparta who is trying to delay the Queen or override her attentions of convincing the council to assembly an army against the Persians
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