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- 2971: Casablanca Movie Review
- ... black and white film, it was extremly important, because It set the mood so well. I believe that because of the filming of the movie being so close to the events in Casablanca during the war the costuming was dead on. The time period in the film was the same as the time period it was actually filmed in. The amazing thing about the sound was that it was done live ... by the fact that being brought up with millions of technicolour movies, I am not that used to black and white, thus making me feel detached. The fact that I had never been through a war could be contributing to the detachment as well. Another thing that made me personally feel detached was that it kept me sperate from the characters. It never had the characters speaking to the audience in ... constanly keeping the camera on the characters. Some people may feel caught up in it because of the supense. The main plot begins in Casablanca, Moracco, Africa in the 1940's during the Second World War. It starts with two letters of transit being intercepted and held by Rick. Victor and Elsa Laslow come to Casablanca looking to flee Europe and require Letters of transit. Due to a past affair ...
- 2972: The Prince
- ... The Life of Castruccio Castracani, a narrative essay on the life of man, who founded the state of Lucca in Tuscany, in the fourteenth century. Machiavelli published seven books in 1521 entitled The Art of War. The seven books contain Machiavelli's ideas on war tactics and the superiority of national troops over mercenaries. The Medici family used Machiavelli's services again in 1525; they commissioned him to write The History of Florence. A year later in 1526, Pope Clement ... Mixed troops are better than mercenaries or auxiliary troops, but native troops are incomparable. Machiavelli blames the foreign domination of Italy on the use of mercenaries that were hired to stop Charles VIII in 1494. War is the great equalizer, it can allow a prince to maintain his princedom, and can raise an average man to a seat of power. A prince should study the history of war, imitate the ...
- 2973: Bloody Merdian
- ... Kid dances to the beat of the Judge s fiddle. What does the dance mean to the judge though? Its seems as though the dance represents life and life is only good for one thing, war. If one does not offer up himself to the blood of war (pp.331), then that man cannot dance and thus cannot live. Is this why the Kid must die in the end of the book? Because he had chosen to stray away from the fate the ... calls for the largeness of heart (pp. 330), one that deviates from the Judges own empty, barren, [and] hard [heart, whose] very nature is stone (pp.330). This path is one, which does not include war. In the judges eyes the Kid has become a false dancer (pp.331). The Kid after all the years of false bloodshed that made up his youth, no longer recognize [s] the sanctity of ...
- 2974: Existentialism
- Existentialism Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan ... world, since "if the world were clear, art would not exist". "The Myth of Sisyphus" became a prototype for existentialism in the theatre, and eventually The Theatre of the Absurd. Right after the Second World War, Paris became the theatre capital of the west, and popularized a new form of surrealistic theatre called "Theatre of the Absurd". Many historians contribute the sudden popularity of absurdism in France to the gruesome revelations of gas chambers and war atrocities coming out of Germany after the war. The main idea of The Theatre of the Absurd was to point out man's helplessness and pointless existance in a world without purpose. As Richard ...
- 2975: Jesse Louis Jackson
- Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Jesse Louis Jackson is one of America's foremost political figures. Over the past three decades he has played a major role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "conscience of the nation" and "the great unifier." He is the best-known living American leader in the United States. Jesse Louis ... class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. In ...
- 2976: Margaret Sanger
- ... laws for her escapades with The Woman Rebel. If convicted, Margaret could face up to 45 years in prison. A hearing took place in August of that year and the trial was postponed. Then World War I broke out in Europe and when it became obvious that her movement and trial would take a backseat, Margaret Sanger set sail for Europe under the name Bertha Watson. In what has been referred ... The Birth Control Review. Aside from asking for money from the wealthy elites of her time, this was the first real break that Margaret had with her straightforward grassroots past. After the end of World War I, there was a worldwide urge to suppress the radical left. Margaret, astute as always, realized this and decided to gain support for her birth control movement by "promoting it in the basis of medical ... 1939, the Department merged with the Bureau to become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Miller 237). With that done, Margaret tried to turn her attention to the world effort, but was interrupted by World War II. After that there was a string of personal tragedies in Margaret's life that conspired to keep her from actively participating in the birth control movement, the most detrimental of which was the ...
- 2977: Albert Einstein 3
- ... part of the world became a national event; photographers and reporters followed him everywhere. While regretting his loss of privacy, Einstein capitalized on his fame to further his own political and social views. During World War I he was one of a handful of German academics willing to publicly decry Germany s involvement in the war. After the war his continued on. Being supported by pacifist and Zionist goals made him the target of vicious attacks by anti-Semitic and right wing elements in Germany. Even his scientific theories were publicly ridiculed, especially ...
- 2978: A Study Of The American Revolu
- Pointing the finger of blame at any one country when speaking of war is a difficult task. Each country must take responsibility in the beginning of the conflict. Although there is never one country responsible for starting warfare there is an opinion that one side is more at ... societies they labored to build, that for so long went unnoticed. The following paragraphs will explain in detail how Britain s neglect of the American colonies and it s use of them lead to the war. In order to understand why the colonists felt threatened by British control, we must first know who these early people were and what they looked to accomplish by settling this vast new country. The founders ... were established to regulate trade in the favor of the British. For a considerable amount of time, these practices were rarely enforced among the colonists. In fact up until 1963 when the French and Indian war ended the Americans were allowed to develop their colonies with little interference from the mother country. During this time a great precipice was forming between the beliefs of the colonists and that of Britain. ...
- 2979: A Fourteenth Century Castle
- ... Castles evolved and became stronger as methods of warfare changed. In the next few paragraphs I will be talking about how warriors surrounded and attacked a castle, how the people in the castle prepared for war, how they defended themselves, and how they lived in peace. A castle was usually built on top of a cliff so it would be harder for the opposition to reach it. It was also surrounded ... by the guards or was killed by the traps that were set up in the castle. In the castle there were several walls that enclosed the courtyards. Each courtyard was called a bailey. During the war men women and children sheltered here. When there was no war these court yards were used for work shops. During the war The water supply was vital, especially when the castle was surrounded. Wells were dug into the rock below the castle, the water was ...
- 2980: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... his handicap as a motivator, a reason to work harder and excel in all aspects of camp life. Camp Wayne was very competitive; the summer culminated with four days of intense sports competition called Color War. It was during Color War that my view of Justin changed. During Color War the whole camp is divided into two teams. The teams play each other in various competitions and sports for 4 days and at the end of the fourth day the points are tallied up ...
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