How far was England a more Protestant country at the death of Edward VI than at his accession in 1547? It’s 1547 and Henry VIII has just died leaving the English Church in a state of pure confusion. A Protestant approach to the Church of England had been adopted in the early 1530s to help Henry gain the annulment he so desperately wanted from his first wife Katherine followed by several Protestant doctrinal changes. However the latter years of his life saw a reversion back to Catholicism with
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Sparks For Your Imagination "Space... The final frontier...These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds...To seek out new life; new civilizations...To boldly go where no one has gone before!" Star Trek’s connection to the real world started with its monologue‚ “to boldly go where no one has gone before” (Gene Roddenberry‚ Star Trek: the Original Series)‚ which was taken almost word for word from a 1957 White House booklet on space exploration(Startrek
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because one is able to follow the sequence of events that occur during galactic timeline. Since it was first revealed that Darth Vader was Luke’s father when the original trilogy debuted‚ the twist was most exciting for moviegoers who experienced Episodes VI and V first without prior knowledge. However‚ this excitement is lost if the most major turning point of the saga is already
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all living things‚ set up the back-story to this space epic. However‚ the one character that has been given the most depth is‚ the one that the movie series chooses to focus on: Darth Vader. “More machine than man‚ twisted and evil” (Episode VI)‚ Vader‚ formerly known as the Jedi Anakin Skywalker‚ “turned to the dark side‚ believing that it was the only way to save his wife from death” (Anakin Skywalker). He defended the evil then-Chancellor of the Republic‚ Palpatine‚ from a Jedi attack‚
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(Original) Trilogy (OT) with Return Of The Jedi in 1983 (see Appendix: Synopses). However the original Star Wars premise was of a 9 episode epic. The OT was the middle three films (Episode IV – A New Hope‚ Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back‚ and Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi) and many fans thought that with Return Of The Jedi the saga was complete. However‚ in 1999 Lucas released Episode I – The Phantom Menace. This began the Prequel Trilogy (PT) which culminated in 2005 with Episode III – Revenge
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Discuss Alberti’s argument that‚ ‘Grace of form could never be separated or divorced from suitability for use.’ Bk VI‚ 2. Abbot Suger believed that he existed ‘neither in the slime of the Earth nor the purity in heaven.’ Suger’s writings expose the contemporary medieval mind-set of Earth as foul‚ sinful and ‘slimy.’ Yet moving forward to the Renaissance era of the 14th Century‚ prolific archaeologist‚ humanist and aficionado of the ancient and modern arts- Leon Battista Alberti- characterises the
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scenario is popular in many parts of the world; in the Philippines and Thailand‚ it is played as much as the game Counter-Strike.[31][32] It is also popular in Sweden and other Northern European countries‚ where the Defense of the Ancients-inspired song "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" by Swedish musicianBasshunter reached the European 2006 charts at #116 and cracked the top ten Singles Charts in Sweden‚ Norway‚[33] and Finland.[34]LAN tournaments are a major part of worldwide play‚[30] including
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American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out‚ t-shirt even action figures that go along with it. So where did this
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Star Wars and The Matrix There holds in heaven‚ if there is a heaven‚ a cabinet so sublime‚ so extravagantly constructed as to hold the two classics: Star Wars and The Matrix. Star Wars was the original space-western journey of the seventies – The Matrix is the Star Wars of the noughties. Luke Skywalker was the well-built‚ blonde haired‚ blue eyed stereotypical American farmer of the time of Star Wars’ production. Today‚ western civilisation considers Neo an idol for modern boys. Neo is the
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Essay on Star Wars “Aren’t you a little short for a storm trooper?” (Lucas New Hope 40). Rings a bell‚ doesn’t it? This is one of the many quotes and a memorable one from Princess Leia in George Lucas’s saga Star Wars. Lucas had created an all American myth and was the first to do it. His movie saga used every archetype known to man and was inspired by the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Campbell’s book also had every archetype known to man in it. It affected an innumerable
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