Captain Philips is a movie featuring the ever rising piracy activities in the great seas of the Indian Ocean off the Coast of Somalia a country in the horn of Africa. Tom Hanks‚ Paul Greengrass and Billy Ray teamed to tell the true story of Richard Philips a US cargo ship captain who surrendered himself to the Somalia pirates so that his crew would be safe. The movie shows how Lots of men and women risk their lives to make and deliver goods that some people take for granted. A world away‚ some other
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Although it may not be apperent at first glance‚ the popular Marvel movie Captain America : The First Avenger and the ancient Babylonian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh are similar in many ways. Captain America is the tale of a meek man named Steven Rogers who wanted to join the army to help serve in World War II. When he discovers he is not eligilbe for health reasons‚ he is chosen to partake in an experiment that enhanced his physical and mental strengths‚ which he uses on his journey through combat
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Kirk’s decision vehemently and when Kirk is still insistent on direction to load he nuclear warheads on the Enterprise‚ Scotty aggressively but half-heartedly offers up his resignation. In a surprising instant‚ Captain Kirk accepts his resignation which shocks Scotty. Though the Captain values Scotty’s opinion and expertise‚ he needed to move the mission forward and that was one of the conditions for it to do so. The back and forth between them is curbed instantly with Kirks acceptance of Scotty’s
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Captain of Industry or Robber Baron: J.P. Morgan J.P. Morgan was a post-civil war “captain of industry‚” separating him from the other “Greats” such as Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and Andrew Carnegie because of his motives and his upbringing. A “robber baron” is most simply defined as an individual who has financial ambitions that cause him to knowingly take advantage of others for his own personal gain. A “captain of industry” seeks solutions to common problems‚ and though the outcome
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Jameisha Tucker Divine Purpose Dance Team 08.01.11. Co-Captain Admissions Essay The term captain is synonymous with the term leader. By definition‚ a leader is someone who is in an advanced position to take the initiative in order to go forth and show the way. A dance captain should be able to make intelligent and creative decisions quickly and efficiently. Being a dance team captain for the Mighty Marching Lions has so much more to do with choreography and precision. Because we are
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The deposition describes the nature of the “plague among our blacks”—physical diseases‚ madness‚ and thirst arising from “sweltering” conditions—and a shipwreck. The lasciviousness and immorality of the “Crew and Captain” are indirectly introduced as a “curse” upon the captured Africans: “the negroes howling and their chains entangled with the flames‚” The horrible conditions of the Middle Passage are hard to overstate. Captive Africans were packed together in cargo
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I] was quite beyond most of us‚” writes George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in the preface to his extraordinary Heartbreak House‚ one of the playwright’s most important pieces. The play is the featured work this year at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake‚ Ontario‚ celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011. Written and set immediately prior to the First World War‚ Heartbreak House is a quasi-Chekhovian dark comedy about a society on the edge of a precipice. Shaw delayed the production until the war’s
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Roger Chillingworth is a physician in The Scarlet Letter‚ by NathanielHawthorne. Captain Ahab is the experienced captain of a ship called The Pequod inMoby Dick‚ by Herman Melville. Although there are some differences between them‚Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab have evident similarities in the way evilmanifests itself in each of them.First of all‚ Chillingworth and Captain Ahab both want revenge on someone orsomething that has wronged them. Chillingworth’s wife‚ Hester Prynne‚ committedadultery
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Mecca Nelson Mrs. Balas & Ms. Delivuk Period 8 2/7/13 Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman show the effect the death of a great President has on the nation in their two pieces “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Funeral Train.” They include significant details such as the amounts of people affected and the shock of the nation due to this tragic event. Whitman and the American people in Sandburg’s piece have two unique but somewhat similar responses to Lincoln’s assassination. In “The Funeral
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pay. Carnegie like to give back to the people but he wanted recognition for everything he put his money to. Besides all of these‚ Carnegie was really just trying to help the economy and the community at the same time. So that is what makes him a Captain of
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