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- 6591: Nicholas: The Last Tsar
- ... helped Alexei was when Alexei had suffered a bruise on his leg was in agonizing pain. Rasputin walked to Alexei's bed, grasped Alexei's leg and healed the possibly fatal bruise. There are many stories where Rasputin healed Alexei without physically being there. For example, in 1912, Alexei was suffering from a common cold. When he tried to blow his nose, the blood vessels burst and the blood began to ...
- 6592: Movie Review: A Time To Kill
- ... jury relate with, but so can the audience. Samuel L. Jackson is always good and there is one particular scene where he gives a small talk to Brigance. It is powerful, even if it is short. That's how good Jackson is. Sandra Bullock, in a supporting role, is charming as always. Kevin Spacey, in his first role since The Usual Suspects, is okay but not as brilliant as his Oscar ...
- 6593: Movie Review: Yentl
- ... a traditional woman should. So Yentl departs for America in hope of a different mentality, but never forgetting her love for Avigdor and all that she has learned. Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's acclaimed short story, "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," the story is somewhat unrealistic but serves its purpose in proving a point; the point being that women have always been just as capable as men in studying and education ...
- 6594: Nikita Khrushcev
- ... below contributed to the disarray and alienated many party officials at all levels. Symptomatic of the country’s economic difficulties was the abandonment in 1963 of Khrushchev’s special seven-year economic plan two years short of its completion. By 1964 Khrushchev’s prestige had been injured in a number of areas. Industrial growth slowed, while agriculture showed no new progress. Abroad, the split with China, the Berlin crisis, and the ...
- 6595: John Ford and Frank Capra: A Study of Their Movies
- ... the two Capra films. They not only affect the characters but they also help explain the story to the audience. In the Capra films we learn that news is subjective to mistruths and when silly stories appear of Deeds in the paper we know they were not meant in the context that they were printed. Yet it seems that in Capra's films the society believes without question everything they read ...
- 6596: Herodotus' The History
- ... not consider Greece as a single unified country. The position of Sparta often serves as a sort of internal Greek “Other.” The burial customs of Spartan kings are explicitly linked to barbarian practices. The court stories, especially those concerning Leotychides’ and Demartus’ births and inheritances, are similar to those practiced in the East (The History of Herodotus, Grene, Book 6, chapters 58-89). Herodotus also associated Spartan military tactics, for example ...
- 6597: Oliver Cromwell
- ... the important social position he held in Ely and partly because of his fame as "Lord of the Fens,") he found himself among many friends at Westminster who were highly critical of the monarchy. This "Short Parliament" did little since it was dissolved after three weeks, but, when in November 1640 Cromwell returned to Cambridge for the "Long Parliament", which sat until 1653, his public career began. (Smith, 1991) Cromwell had ...
- 6598: Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness
- ... mass shootings. This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear of cultural intermixing which would impurify the "Master Race." Joseph Conradís book, The Heart of Darkness and Francis Coppolaís movie, Apocalypse Now are both stories about Manís journey into his self, and the discoveries to be made there. They are also about Man confronting his fears of failure, insanity, death, and cultural contamination. During Marlowís mission to find Kurtz, he ...
- 6599: Oliver North
- ... wants, one-on-one. Up to this point, Oliver North was looked at as a can-do Marine officer with fervent patriotism and was a personal favorite of President Reagan. But after a whirlwind of stories flew around the Reagan administration, Lt. Col. Oliver North found himself locked out of the place where he had worked for the last five years and was under the suspicion of America. He was being ...
- 6600: Film Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- ... Wars and other such science fiction slash space odyssey's of our time. But since this movie was made before many of these others, I believe it was just a draw off all of the stories and possibilities of encountering another life form. "Close Encounters" has a good mixture of character and film cinematography. Spielberg relies on the actors to make the special effects seem that much more special. He also ...
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