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    worldwide. Lionsgate the released the 2nd book Catching Fire on November 22, 2013. This movie was directed by Francis Lawrence. The film was the highest-grossing domestic box office release of 2013 and 10th highest-grossing domestic release of all time. Lionsgate also released Mockingjay Part 1 on November 21, 2014 and Mockingjay Part 2 on November 20, 2015 both were directed by Francis Lawrence once

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    The Different Adaptations of Dracula

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    has been captured in many different mediums, such as the Japanese anime and manga series Vampire Hunter D, which follows Draculas son D in his adventures (Kikuchi). However, one of the adaptations that endures in modern minds is the 1992 film by Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker's Dracula. This version of Dracula was meant to be loyal to the novel, but it diverged from the original in many ways. Bram

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    One of the main components of the Cold War was, the Cold War espionage. The Cold War espionage was a series of gathering information and intelligence during the Cold War between the United States (which included the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), etc.) and the Soviet Union (specifically the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti a.k.a. the KGB and Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye a.k.a. GRU). The CIA originally began as the Office of Strategic Services

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    The Importance of Roger Spottiswoode’s Screen Adaptation of And The Band Played On [1] Hollywood is no longer just a name, it is a business, a living entity holding America’s people in its grasp, and it is not about to let them go. Gradually taking on more responsibility and trying to build up its reputation over the years, Hollywood has progressively assumed the position of history-teller for the American public. This role, whether or not an appropriate one for an industry such as Hollywood

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis Background The Cuban missile Crisis was an intense Time for the U.S, Cuba and Russia at this time of the period. The cold War was fought into two groups the Western Bloc (The united states and NATO the allies and other countries.) The Nato also known as North Atlantic Alliance. NATO was intergovernmental military alliance compacted based by the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4, 1949. The NATO a system of defense and if a country that was being attack by another country or

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    Bridge Of Spies Cold War

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    Spies. The Cold War was a war between the US and the Soviet Union, where they were fighting about who was the better country. James Donovan a lawyer of the Russian spy Rudolf Abel, as the lawyer tries to give the spy his rights, an American spy Francis Gary gets captured by the Russians, which causes a trade of prisoners on the crossing point between East and West Berlin on a bridge. Although they bear any superficial similarities, the differences between the Cold War and the Bridge of Spies are remarkable

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    A woman changes everything; finally there is vindication for the knight who gave up life to avenge the death of his one true love, as he chose to become the undead. Director, Francis Ford Coppola, in his work, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, reaches beyond the words to prove Dracula was more than a monster in creating the movie. Coppola focuses on Dracula as a man, as well as a knight, who is both deeply in love with his church and his bride. The historical elements in the writings of Bram Stoker come to

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    Movie Series Overview The Hunger Games movie series is centered around the main character Katniss Everdeen. In Panem, the Capitol is over all districts and districts, four through twelve suffer from violence and poverty. Every year, two people, one male and one female are chosen as tributes to compete for their district in the annual hunger games. During the first movie, it is time for the seventy fourth annual Hunger Games District’s Twelve drawings for the names of the tributes of those who will

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    their army they kept tract of their missile technology progress to have an upper hand. They took pictures of flight vicinities and building grounds. Thirdly, they took some images of their cities During the flight that was taken down Gary Francis Powers was pilot. Powers was an experienced pilot that worked with the U.S. Intelligence Agency for a while prior to the crash. During this period Eisenhower was president of the United States. Eisenhower had a good reputation and was well liked by many people

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    Julius Rosenberg partook in espionage activities against the United States and provided military technology information to the Soviet Union during World War II. The type of military technology provided to the Soviets was warship guns that would be able to destroy any aircraft or shoot any ships in the sea. “Julius Rosenberg, identified in the documents by the code names "Antenna" and "Liberal," helped the KGB recruit electrical engineer Alfred Sarant, who later escaped to Russia. Rosenberg also

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