Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a detailed description of the cholera epidemic in 1864‚ but the more interesting part of the book is how Dr. John Snow and Rev. Henry Whitehead’s different ideas merge to solve the mystery of the source of the illness. Although as Johnson makes clear in the early pages of his novel‚ it is not really a mystery when you consider the sanitation issues they were facing in mid-nineteenth century London. Johnson describes how two men from different fields with different
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Superfreakonomics Review Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was an interesting read. The authors did a great job of taking what was probably a mind-numbing amount of numbers and figures‚ and turned them into relatable situations. Each chapter compares and contrasts to explain how seemingly unrelated subject matter‚ is actually related. Which could be confusing at times but the information was entertaining to learn. The introduction first shows you that while driving drunk
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Citations: * Alice Walker‚ The Color Purple (New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.‚ 1982) * The Color Purple. DVD. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 1985; Burbank‚ CA: Warner Bros. Pictures‚ 1985 * John O’Brien‚ Interviews with Black Writers (New York: Liveright‚ 1973) * Patricia Harris Abrams‚ The Gift of Loneliness: The Color Purple (Michigan: Central Michigan University Press
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as a whole. To this day‚ World War 1 remains Britain’s costliest conflict. Given the enormous carnage of the war‚ any serious artistic treatment of World War 1 has to take the basic truths of war into consideration. Such is the case with director Steven Spielberg’s film War Horse‚ adapted from the novel of the same name by Michael Marpurgo. War Horse is a film that follows a horse named Joey over four years as he experiences World War 1. A farmer named Ted Narracott purchases a young Joey to plow
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Saving Private Ryan The movie I chose to analyze was Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. Overall‚ I would say this is a must see movie. The movie is action packed‚ drama filled and heart felt. It really makes you appreciate those men and women who have died for our country. If I had to rate the movie between zero and five stars‚ five being the best‚ I would not hesitate to give the movie a five out of five. Besides all the action and well written dialogue‚ the actors who play the parts are
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English Essay ‘Saving Private Ryan’ By Holly Towler Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece Saving Private Ryan earned itself 5 academy awards‚ including the best director award in 1998. The all-star cast starring Tom Hanks‚ Matt Damon and more brings to life the horror of war. Seen through the eyes of an American soldier; the story begins with World War 2’s historic D-Day invasion. We follow captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his soldiers as they battle their way on to Omaha beach. In the past war films
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Documentary films and their representations of the Holocaust have served not only to speak their truth’ of the atrocities but also to document changing paradigms of social thought concerning Holocaust truth’. Holocaust History and its documentation: Theodor Adorno’s famous 1949 injunction that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ is indicative of the initial approaches of documentary to the subject matter. The first documentary footage of the Holocaust was shot as Allied troops
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Summary: Vergil’s Aeneid: A Poem of Grief and Love by Steven Farron In this book‚ Steven Farron argues that Vergil’s “Aeneid”’s main purpose is to present a series of emotionally gripping episodes‚ not to praise or criticize Aeneas and his mission. In the first chapter‚ Farron talks about what is considered the “great glory of the Aeneid”: the Dido episode. He believes that the purpose of the episode was not to comment on anything else in the epic but rather to depict a tragic love and supports
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Afterlife: the complete emptiness Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) wrote most of his poems during the world wars period‚ which took the lives of millions of people. As a result‚ Wallace Stevens started to question the importance of religion in the modern era‚ and felt that you should enjoy your life in the present and not waste time living for an afterlife. In his poem “The Snow Man”‚ Stevens describes a harsh winter environment creating a unique dramatic situation through an effective imagery. He
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forty-five minutes before any real action scene‚ where the first action sequence is only fifteen minutes into War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds opened in theaters June 29th and has a DVD release date of November 11th‚ 2005. It was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ who has a few films under his belt that I am sure you have heard of‚ not to mention a film which deals with aliens‚
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