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    Lhaima Jimenez June 29, 2015 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 1. List the name of the Director, 2 leading actors and the names of their characters. Director: George Lucas Mark Hamill: Luke Skywalker Harrison Ford: Han Solo 2. List and describe where each of the 12 stages in the Hero’s Journey occur, which characters are involved and why. Give each stage a separate paragraph. Ordinary World When we first meet Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) he is living with his Uncle Owen (Phil Brown) and

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    history was analyzed. The Cold War is rampant with American foreign policy and influential in shaping the modern world. Strategies of Containment outlines American policy from the end of World War II until present day. Gaddis outlines the policies of presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, including policies influenced by others such as George Kennan, John Dulles, and Henry Kissinger. The author, John Lewis Gaddis has written many books on the Cold War and is an avid researcher in

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    The most important factor that shaped both the New Imperialism and World War I was nationalism in Europe and parts of Asia. Nationalism was a driving force for countries during the New Imperialism because Europeans saw this as an opportunity to make their nation stronger and assert its dominance. The reason for the New Imperialism was for these industrial nations to bring their goods into new markets in Africa. There was a lot of competition for markets so these nations saw Africa as an opportunity

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    After the Civil War: The New South Essay

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    Was there a New South after the Civil War? What elements marked or did not mark the New South? After the Civil War, the South was in a state of political turmoil, social chaos, and economic decline. Contrary to popular belief, Northerners did not subject Southerners to unethical or inhumane punishment. The time post Civil War was filled with efforts toward reconstructing the South, yet there is the strong question if there even is a New South. Yes, there was somewhat of a New South economically

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    sanguinary and violent wars in modern history, World War I introduced the world to the horrors of worldwide warfare. The War proved to be one of the largest turning points in the history of the world, and it completely revolutionized warfare and technology across the planet. Though easily overshadowed by other aspects of the War, New Mexico actually played a sizeable role in World War I. The most significant ways in which New Mexico related to World War I is the fact that New Mexico was at the crossroads

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    Civil War Paper A few years ago I was curious and did a free name search on Ancestery.com , and what I found was that hundreds of people with the Ellison last name served on both sides in the Civil War. In honor of this interesting fact I would like to explore this time period in American history to see how my ancestors lived. In this paper I am going to primarily put my focus on the people of this war , and what technology used during this period of dramatic change in american history.

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    When Abraham Lincoln referred to the American Civil War as a “new birth of freedom” in his Gettysburg Address he was trying to redefine the Civil War not as a struggle of the Union but as a rebirth that would bring true equality to all of its citizens. Modern times have been greatly influenced by the outcome of the Civil War and this “new birth of freedom” is no exception. The U.S. today is a very diverse country with many different ethnicities, sexualitities, and people all excepting of each

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    the Civil War, the South was in need of change. They were so reliant on cotton and other agricultural dependencies, and black slaves who worked for little to nothing. Without slaves, all they had was damaged farmland – and nobody to help repair it. The industrialized North was a model for the South. Influential southerners saw what could be, and started to take action. Henry W. Grady proposed the South take up new ways, and transition into a more industrialized society known as The New South. He

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    Losing the New War When the next Great War knocked on the doors of France, they were unprepared for the advancements made by the Germans in the new wave of warfare that would be introduced in Europe. Marc Bloch portrays both the issues of France lacking support in the government and society and that resulting in the French being less modernized when fighting the war before them. The Germans made advancements in major fights from the sky to the lab and the French were not ready to fight it. Bloch

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    Star Wars is one of the most successful movie franchises ever and A New Hope is one of the top grossing movies in the world. The original was written and directed by George Lucas and was planned to be a standalone movie but later turned into a trilogy after the first movies success. The Mos Eisley cantina scene is interesting because it introduces Han Solo and Chewbacca for the first time and is historically controversial for the changes Lucas did to the sequence in the rereleases of the movie.

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