The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839‚ a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists‚ Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey)‚ who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the
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Summer rain came in cats and dogs. Soon planting corn began and my odyssey to eating salagubang had to begin. Father told me that a good catch usually occur during good weather. One evening‚ father and my two brothers‚ Earl‚ 21 and Joe‚ 19 walked towards that usual cornfield where I helped my two brothers pick up white grubs during the month of December when plowing the field for second cropping season to catch some salagubang. They patiently grab as many beetles as they can and put them in the container
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dream at one time or another of leaving everything behind and starting over‚ searching for inner strengths. When Into the Wild was released on September 21st‚ 2007‚ based on the nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. Directed by Sean Penn‚ this movie shows us the gripping true story of Chris McCandless‚ played by Emile Hirsch‚ as he leaves his privileged life behind to embark on a quest for adventure and truth. The film is set in the early 1990’s and follows Chris as he graduates from Emory University
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Olympia movie review Olympia an award winning documentary made by leni Riefenstahl is beautifully captured‚ capturing the true life of the berlin Olympics. Riefenstahl uses techniques in which we still use nowadays and creates art in her films Riefenstahl and her staff didn’t uses very professional camera angles ‚ only to improvise with telephoto lenses; though the results are often more dramatically impressive than the up-close-and-personal approach taken by contemporary TV cameramen. Riefenstahl
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Babel – Movie Review Babel is about four interlocking stories which are connected by a gun‚ but happen in different places in the world: Morocco‚ Mexico‚ and Japan. At first‚ these four stories seem not to be related at all. However‚ they come together at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of people around the world. The movie also reveals the fact that all of us connect to each other in some ways‚ and we truly are not completely different. Guillermo Arriaga‚ the writer
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Jordan Hill Dr. Fabrie SDEV-03 4 September 2014 Frozen Movie Review In the movie Frozen there are two sisters named Elsa and Anna. Elsa was born with the powers of ice. After accidently injuring her sister with her powers‚ the king and the queen locked down the castle so that the people of the city don’t figure out that Elsa has powers and think that she’s a monster. After the parents go across the sea they run into a storm and the ship capsizes and they both die. Elsa becomes queen and
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People dream of breaking away from their same old daily life; however‚ as people become more aware of realities‚ they start to fear deviance. Although people are scared of having adventures‚ they eventually find some places to fulfill their desire to escape from the same old dull days surrounded by the same old people they see everyday. In my case‚ the escape is a trip to an YVR airport in.......... My adventure starts as I get on the Canada Line that glides on a rail to help my sweet escape from
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The Queen The Queen is a movie that shows a great display of the death of Princess Diana‚ and reveals what really happened in the house of Windsor‚ and how Diana’s death almost abolished the monarchy. The movie starts with Tony Blair who is running for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1997 walking up to the voting stations with his family. Tony Blair is a modernist‚ and many people admire him for his fresh views‚ people believe he is going to bring a modern change to the British
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Movie Review: The Kid Based on the movie The Kid‚ there are a few theories that could be used to describe the behaviour of Russ. Firstly‚ one of the personality theories that can be used to describe Russ’s behaviour would be the Big Five Personality. Russ has a low degree of openness as he is not open to new ideas and would only use his ways to get things done. Russ likes to get things done only in his ways. He orders his assistant‚ Janet‚ constantly to get things done and if things are not done
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Writing a Thesis Statement For me writing a thesis statement was one of the hardest parts of the writing process. I was unsure of how to come up with the idea for a thesis statement‚ much less how to create it or where it should be included in the essay. By following this guide for writing a Thesis Statement‚ my writing experiences have become more rewarding. First‚ the thesis statement is the main topic or idea of the essay. It should directly answer the question the writer asks
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