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    One of the ways that rules and safety precautions are brought about are actually from games that show they need rules for it. This is evident when the game first started and was not regulated well with the type of equipment that should be worn or how the game was played. This lack of knowledge caused bans of football at schools because people were dying. This whole idea of rules being made through the game being played can be seen, and it can almost be said that games actually shape the way the game

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    Essay on Coach Bowden

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    Bobby Bowden began his lifelong love for football at an early age. As a young child he would often climb onto the roof of his house and sit for hours watching the local high school team run practice drills. Bobby played football while a student at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama and again in college, first at the University of Alabama and then at Howard College (now Samford University). Bobby’s coaching career began in 1954 as an assistant coach at Howard College. After working as an

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    Somalian militia” (Anderson). By including all first-hand experiences Bowden gives students in the M.U.S.D. direct sources to help lean their decision of whether to join the military. As Morongo Unified School District students can learn about the logistics of military life, social understandings are also taught from Black

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    originally released in 1999 by Mark Bowden according to the publication records held within the book itself . However, in order to produce this book, Mark Bowden went through several measures to produce the best story possible. Nevertheless, quality stories take time and effort to create and be exquisite. The story Black Hawk Down educates students in more than one way. The story of Black Hawk Down helps teach students about how to be an excellent writer. Mark Bowden took several risks, such as interviewing

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    The first major point left out by Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down is the initial conditions that lead to the state of civil war, anarchy, and famine that existed in 1992-1993. The first scene of the movie shows many Somalis that are dead or dying from starvation. The audience is told only that “Years of warfare among rival clans causes famine on a biblical scale” and that one of the most powerful warlords, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, is a brutal dictator who is willing to starve his own people. The famine

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    Black Hawk Down Essay

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    Black Hawk Down is a film about courage. From the explosion of bombs, to the black hawks flying overhead, to running the streets of a forgien enemies country, and bullets hissing past your head and the soliders who still perform. In Black Hawk Down, the director Ridley Scott uses many different camera angles, colors, tones, speeds, and music to put the audience right into the extreme battle of the fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia. The director Scott Ridley puts the audience or viewer right into the

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    Black Hawk Down Essay

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    Black Hawk Down A Story Of Modern War 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

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    Black Hawk Down Analysis

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    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

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    Usually a book containing these subjects, along with many other disturbing aspects, would not be recommended for teenagers to read. However, looking past all of those details, Black Hawk Down actually has valuable lessons within it. The author, Mark Bowden, writes about the Battle Of Mogadishu that occurred from December 1992 to October 1993, and includes useful information within his novel. He focuses on the truth about war, weaknesses and strengths within it, and also lessons that can be learned from

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    Black Hawk Metaphors

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    In " Black Hawk's Surrender Speech,"Black Hawk uses analogy, metaphors, imagery, and gives a sad tone, to state all the cruel and damaging actions the white men took with Black Hawk's tribe. Throughout the speech Black Hawk uses pathos to make the audience use their sociological imagination, or show sympathy, of the struggles the Indians went through. Furthermore, Black Hawk uses imagery and analogies throughout the speech to make the audience have an image of the horrible things the white men

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