Essay on Ireland Strikes Back

When George Lucas first pitched the idea of Star Wars, a space-western, to movie executives back in the 1970’s; he probably never imagined it to be the cultural phenomenon that it turned out to be. The original Star Wars trilogy (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi), earned more two billion dollars, after adjusted for inflation in North America (IMDB). Then sixteen years later the next three Star Wars movies were

“The two science fiction phenomena—Star Trek and Star Wars— appear to have the same basic creative foundations; both were designed to speak to Americans in need of social and moral guidance. George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry were responding to their own social times and acted upon the contemporary issues that faced America in the sixties and seventies.” -Lincoln Geraghty “Creating And Comparing Myth In Twentieth-Century Science Fiction: Star Trek and Star Wars.” Star Trek and Star Wars are science

categorized as a completion of Hero’s Journey, to better understand Luke Skywalker’s transition from farm boy to Jedi Knight, all the sequels of the Star Wars saga can be explored to create a more unified representation. In Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Luke is deployed on the barren planet Hoth serving the Rebel Alliance when he is called on by Ben Kenobi’s spirit; he instructs Skywalker to travel to the Dagobah system to complete his Jedi training. Amidst a Rebel retreat after an attack from

People who matter aren’t playing attention People do not have the time to keep up with what you are doing. Quite honestly, people have difficulty keeping up with themselves much less anyone else. In fact, if you are not in their face on a constant basis, you will be largely forgotten. You complete your work with no problems. Everything gets done, and there are no problems. For this, you need to make sure that you are on their radar. • Avoid repetition of your past achievements, you don’t want

With lightsabers in hand and phasers set to stun, Star Wars and Star Trek ignite battles at the box office, with critics and among super fans to ultimately decide which is the most popular. The senior of the two space franchises, Star Trek, began back in 1966 with Star Trek: The Original Series, starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Before the release of Star Wars, Star Trek: The Original Series was canceled, and an animated series debuted and canceled, which suggests

“None of them expected he would ever see his homeland again or get back to his native place and the people who reared him.” Beowulf leaves his homeland to take down Grendel, and eventually Grendel’s mother. Luke left his home to fight the empire who killed his family and to fight to save the people he cared about. Beowulf

then coined the term the “Mandela Effect” which was the phenomenon of people sharing the same false memory. The Mandela Effect and false memories can range from historical contexts to simple brand logos. In the 1980’s movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back I vividly remember Darth Vader speaking to Luke saying, “Luke, I am your father.” However, I came over to this epiphany when I was watching a video about the Mandela Effect by the Fine Bros. It pointed out that Darth Vader actually says, “No,

External influences may guide an individual towards their destiny, but only the person themselves can attain their full potential once they believe in their own ability to succeed. As American positivist author Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy” (Brainy Quote). This can be seen in George Lucas’ Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the protagonist, Luke Skywalker,

This year MTV decided to go back to the previous method, by having the award show last night. There may be a few reasons for doing this, but being able to censor (or bleep) may be a factor. Action movies cleaned most categories, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens taking home the top honors and 3 total awards. Deadpool came in second taking home 2 awards. The remaining were scattered, but a majority of the films that won were in the action genre. A few years back, the award show as moved to April

While it is universally agreed that the Star Wars prequels were a terrible idea, the question of in which sequence to watch the six movie series in order to incur the smallest amount of disappointment is still a debated topic. This was the question that my Chamber Orchestra sub-group attempted to answer while our teacher tried to convince us that it was best to watch the first two originals, then the prequels, and finally Return of the Jedi, an order known as the machete order. Mr. Schwaegler presented