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    The movie may have been shown in colored and high-definition but director George Miller always wanted to show Mad Max: Fury Road as a black and white movie. And he might just get his way when the Blu-Ray version comes out for home video release. The last viewers saw of Mad Max: Fury Road was at the Citadel when the impoverished people are overjoyed at the sight of Joe's dead body. Furiosa, the wives, and the Vuvalini are praised by the people and welcomed by the remaining War Boys, but Mad Max walks

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    Glory: Hollywood vs. History Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first official all black units in the United States during the Civil War. It’s an inspirational story of how a young Union soldier, Robert Gould Shaw, is offered the chance to lead an army unit that will change not only his life, but the lives of many other Americans. Glory does a great job of capturing many of the feelings towards the black soldiers during the Civil War. The film is based off

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    certain character from the film Glory Road helps the discriminated african-american basketball players to reach the goal of winning the NCAA Championship . Even as the bad times come, they persist to stay non-violent because of Coach Haskins’s need to stop retaliation. His Ideals closely follow those of Dr. King,

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    A film “Glory Road”, based on a true story features a coach, Don Haskins, who is a basketball coach for the Western Texas Miners. The movie takes place in 1965, Haskin is going against the society’s standards of leading African Americans players to play basketball in college. At the beginning of the movie, Don Haskin struggles to build a good basketball team because no players want to play at a no name school. He doesn’t care about skin color like the society does, but instead, he wants to recruit

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    Beowulf the movie and poem A hero is an individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. In the poem of Beowulf it was told by the Anglo-Saxons, they gave us many visual and detailed descriptions of what they believe in and how their style of living was then. They rejoiced with each other telling stories and playing musical instruments by the fire or acted in ways that showed everyone around them who they were.Although the Beowulf movie and poem share

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    The Truth In Glory Road

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    In Glory Road, we see the idea of changing the truth to fit the agenda of the media. Although the storyline the movie follows is very similar, the truth behind some of the things is shaky or not there at all. One of the most racist things in the film did not actually happen per Jeff Merron. In the film the team returns to their hotel and blood is all over the walls with a message on one of the walls. Merron writes “this incident almost certainly didn't occur” but he does say that derogatory comments

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    Common and John Legend did a collaboration on the song “Glory”. The genre of this song is Hip-Hop and soul. It was released on December 11, 2014 by Columbia Records as the theme song from the movie Selma which portrays the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. On January 12, 2015 a music video for the song “Glory” was directed by Paramount Pictures. The song won awards for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015, 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, as well as the award for Best Song Written

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    Exam # 3: ESS 330 Writing assignment: Race and Sports Race is defined as a category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share genetically transmitted traits believed to be important by people in a society with power and influence (PPT slide ESS330). In sports, race has and continues to be snared with question, but as former Israeli Olympic athlete Gideon Ariel underscores: “I know that the American system is very sensitive to statements

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    Mad Max Fury Road Essay

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    of a dystopian wasteland, “Mad Max: Fury Road” presents the audience with a world that, on the surface, seems different from current society. However, upon further analysis, the movie could more of a warning of the future. Showing the survivors struggle with limited food, water, and freedom, the movie compares the gendered suffering between the men, women, and the Earth. Beginning with the War Boys, “Fury Road” presents suffering for the men in the movie different from women. Any injury the War

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    world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties and the Sixties. At the very beginning it was hard to

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