Analysis Of Black Hawk Down

Mark Bowden once wrote, “No one gets behind, you know that.” The story, Black Hawk Down, provides information not only about war, but values in life. Mark Bowden expresses these values throughout the story and they are beneficial for a teenager in high school. In this story, the soldiers experience the true horror of the Battle of Mogadishu and are exposed to combat. Mark Bowden expresses the terrors of this war through the voices of the soldiers on both the American side and the Somali side. Although this book has many unpleasant features, it can educate an American teen valuable lessons. The book, Black Hawk Down, provides academic, social, and nationalistic benefits for a high school student.

U.S. Navy SEAL ,Chris Kyle was just the average die hard Texan. He aspired to become a cowboy, but it wasn’t working out in his favor. After seeing the horrors of terrorism on 9/11 he was ready to fight for his country and enlisted into the military. He goes on to fight in four tours and becomes the deadliest sniper in American history. After each tour, he felt that he had to go back. He had two goals that he couldn’t give up on; protecting his team and taking out the deadliest enemy sniper, Mustafa. Chris would not stop until he achieved his goals, when he finally did, he faced a new battle. He struggled with normal daily life, but even then he persevered and found a new passion to aid him. Throughout this film, Clint Eastwood portrays the theme of perseverance through the use of setting, camera angles, and the main character Chris Kyle.

“Nobody asks to be a hero; it just sometimes turns out that way,” SSGT Matt Eversmann said this while explaining to a solider the hardship of trying to explain to civilians the duties of a soldier. There have been many battles fought, and many have been lost. Black Hawk Down is an adaptation of the failed attempt to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid during the Battle of Mogadishu. It started on March 2001 and it was released January 18, 2002. During the real operation there was a dramatic change between it being a simple capture operation to it being a rescue mission that is shown in the movie. Black Hawk Down is historically accurate because the chronological sequence of the operation and rescue mission are correct.

Mark Bowden is a teacher, columnist for Atlantic Monthly, playwright, and a writer. His book Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War a world wide bestseller that spent more than a year in the New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Bowden also worked on the script for Black Hawk Down, a film version of the book, directed by Ridley Scott. Bowden is also the writer of the bestseller Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw in 2001, which tells the story of the hunt for Colombian drug lord billionaire Pablo Escobar. He is the author of Doctor Dealer published in 1987, Bringing the Heat made in1994, Our Finest Day made in 2002, and also Finders Keepers

The movie Black Hawk Down is based on a true story. It takes place in Somalia in October of 1993. A warlord by the name of Mohamed Farrah Aidid seized control of Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. He accomplished this by capturing shipments of international food supplies at the ports and used hunger as his weapon. More than 300,000 Somalians died by starvation. The United States responded by sending in Delta Force, U.S. Army Rangers, and the 160TH Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) to capture Mohamed. It was a mission that was to only last three weeks but, turned into six weeks. General Garrison, commanding general of the U.S. forces, formulated a plan to capture two high value targets to try and draw

Wes Moore, the author, is living a meaningful life that brings about a positive change in the world, thanks to repeated positive actions. Of that series of decisions, the most significant in the determining of his fate was continuing military school after his first year. The self-discipline and desire to better himself the school inflicted proved to be crucial in leading as positive of a life as he does. Role models in that environment ignited a flame of diligence in Wes, “…the support of people like Cadet Captain Hill and the others in my chain of command and on the faculty…made it clear that they cared if I succeeded, and eventually so did I.” (Moore 115). Initially, Wes hated military school, saying he, “woke up furious and went to bed even more livid.” (Moore 90). Despite his hatred for the place at first, his mother’s encouragement, as well as blunt refusal to bring him home, kept

Overall the book is a great historical book that teaches people not just about the horrors of the war but those who continued to fight for the justice for all humans. It explains the difficulty of finding these people and the amount of work required to find and capture these

Despite the fact that “Black Hawk Down” is meant for an older audience, it can hold many good components for high school students. For instance, it helps students reflect on their morals and question themselves on how they would react to the situations these soldiers were put through. This would benefit them in the future by making wiser decisions when dealing with politics and help them with life choices. Allowing them to truly see what war is about and how it could affect other people, as well as themselves. “Black Hawk Down” also demonstrates how to learn from past mistakes that had been made and how to correct them. Although there are some disadvantages to showing this content to the Morongo Unified School District, yet there are many advantages as well. Such as, using the information given in these books inappropriately, however, these problems could be easily solved. Such as warning parents beforehand about reading this material in class, resulting parent’s feeling more at ease in knowing that the school came to them for permission to teaching their child these topics in school.

This corrupt government is Sierra leone lead to rebels fighting/rebelling and a civil war broke out. This war then lead to the breakdown of the economy and basically every government controlled system. Money and other ways of communication/payment were useless and that meant that it was an absolute disaster. Cause and effect is displayed to me when reading this book and it shows how harmfull an argument can become. Also this book showed me how harmfull an event like this civil war can scare and destroy a person for the rest of their lives. I learnt this when Ishmael said that is now a fully grown man, but he still can have a good sleep at night. Overall this book really helped me facilitate history by letting me see the big picture and the cause and effect that historic events play in people's lives. In conclusion this book created a huge learning curve for me and I thoroughly enjoyed reading

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

I’m proud of ‘Black Hawk Down’ because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I’m still proud of it.” (Josh Hartnett). This quote overall proves that Black Hawk Down is a valuable book for teens since, it provides the truth of what happens during war and if you are not prepared and it provides advanced vocabulary terms. In the book Black Hawk Down there is a lot of advanced vocabulary, certain styles of language and a ton of military terms. During this essay I will be talking about how Black Hawk Down is valuable for the teens of Morongo unified School District. This story ties into academic, social and patriotic.

In some cases, the production of a certain television series is genuinely poor and lousy, however, that is not always the case. Sometimes the producers intentionally compromise the standard and the quality of an episode in order to generate profit for the network. This compromise is evident in the “pilot” episode of the series called Lethal Weapon. Fox network used what has worked in the past, as a result, the series is a typical comedy genre cop show with a bitter-sweet relationship between the two main characters, Roger Murtaugh and Martin Riggs. In addition to comedy, the produces have also used violence, sex and vulgarity in order to achieve high profits.

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1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

Going Solo is the sequel to Boy, and about a third of the way into the story, Dahl starts to describe his time serving as a pilot in Britain’s Royal Air Force during WWII. Your eighth graders may know a good deal about the war, but are likely unaware of how it played out in areas under British control, such as the part of East Africa that Dahl describes. Take the opportunity to deepen students’ understanding of the political situation (“Why is Dahl trying to stop the convoy of Germans from leaving from Dar es Salaam when war is declared?”) and the geography against which it plays out (“To where are the Germans trying to escape to? Why there?”)—the memoir easily opens up avenues into different kinds of background knowledge. Through these very personal perspectives, students learn a great deal about the social and historical contexts that surround them. As they deepen their sense of what it was like for these particular people to live in