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    Star Wars : A New Hope

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    Star Wars IV: A New Hope The creator and director of Star Wars, George Lucas, was incredibly successful for his movie series, but even more successful for its overall purpose: to sell toys to ten-year old boys. The use of ethos, pathos, and logos are very abundant in this movie. Ethos, Greek for “character”, is anything referring to or relying on the author’s credibility. Pathos, Greek for “emotional”, is anything that makes you feel emotion. Logos, Greek for “word”, is anything that makes you

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    Star Wars: a New Hope

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    Critique Star Wars: A new hope "A long.long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…." These short, simple words have influenced generations. Novices and Star Wars fans alike have enjoyed and thrived on these inventive movies. The writer and director, George Lucas, came up with the idea during his years at the University of California. He came up with a six part series, yet, the first movie to be produced was part four entitled Star Wars: A new hope. It was produced in 1977

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    Star Wars : A New Hope

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    Much of the Star Wars ' credibility and popularity is owed to the richness of its fictional world as defined by writer/director George Lucas. In an interview, Lucas states that the original idea for Star Wars was modelled on the movies of his childhood, The “Flash Gordon movie serials and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars Series of books.” The mise-en-scène in Star Wars plays a vitally important role, so the question explored in this essay is how the use of mise-en-scène adds depth to the

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    Obama at War The new Frontline documentary “Obama at War” by the filmmaker Martin Smith that was featured on PBS is mostly about the United Sates President Barack Obama trying his best not to go to war. The PBS Correspondent Martin Smith lays out, in a composed, thoughtful way, how the Syrian unrest over the past few years in opposition to dictator president Bashar al-Assad helped give mount to the authority of ISIS-led terrorism as the United States stood by, acting without conviction when at all

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    New Englander’s Opposition to the War of 1812 The War of 1812 was predominantly fought between the United States and the United Kingdom for a variety of complex reasons but most notably was caused by Britain’s inability to treat the newly-freed America as anything but a colonial body. Americans were overall outraged into war by their own government’s sanctioned trade embargoes, the impressments of seamen by the United Kingdom, and interpersonal negative sentiments that greatly restricted America’s

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    03.05 A New Kind of War: Option B 1. How did the new technologies of WWI affect soldiers fighting on the front lines? Please include at least three examples of new technologies in your answer In World War I, soldiers used trenches to keep them protected. Soldiers could not fight their opponents through the trenches. Poison gas was an innovative way to kill them in the trenches without having a line of sight. With them doing that made gas mask mandatory for use. They were introduced to machine

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    In Star Wars: The New Hope this would be when Luke is in Tatooine. Call to Adventure- For a journey to begin, it starts off with the main character being called away from his “ordinary world”. An example from Star Wars: The New Hope would be when R2D2 delivers a cryptic message to Luke. Refusal of the call- The main character is given a call/journey that they are only able to complete, which gives them the option to accept or deny. In most cases they will deny it. In Star Wars the New Hope, this

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    World War I was a new kind of war. Millions of men were recruited, and millions were killed, wounded, and missing. This changed the lives and roles of each gender, for good and bad. World War I changed the expectations and roles of men at home and on the battlefield. For women, professions, at home and on the frontlines, rights, social behavior, and cultural behavior changed permanently. World War I pressured men into viewing enlistment as a patriotic/nationalistic and masculine right of passage

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    Star Wars IV A New Hope is a science fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas. Fictional characters help us understand ourselves. Star Wars IV A New Hope teaches us about life and ourselves in many ways such as death,loss,pain and courage are experiences that we will go through during our lives. Death, loss and pain are experiences that then majority of people will suffer during life which can teach us about ourselves. Silence/no music a technique that George Lucas used to create a scene

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    Star Wars: A New Hope directed by George Lucas was produced in 1997 and has many examples of archetypal patterns. Joseph Campbell was an american mythologist and he believed in something called a monomyth or “a hero’s journey” which was a theory that all stories are fundamentally the same. Campbell believed that these patterns were found in all stories and wrote a story called “A Hero with a Thousand Faces” he talks about these types of archetypal patterns found in all stories. The idea of a heros

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