Richard Attenborough

The religious beliefs if film icon and 'Gandhi' director Sir Richard Attenborough Legendary British film actor Sir Richard Attenborough passed away on August 24 at the age of 90. The performer, producer, and director starred in dozens of films, and is most well-known for his roles in Jurassic Park, The Great Escape, Flight of the Phoenix, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Bridge too Far. Attenborough also produced and directed many movies himself, his most acclaimed work being the 1982 biopic Gandhi

Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi (1982) unveils the saga of the greatest Indian freedom fighter and political activist Mahatma Gandhi. Attenborough presents a realistic and chronological record of the events in Gandhi’s life related with Indian Independence Movement. He made Ben Kingsley, the popular British actor enacting the role of Gandhi. The film opens by showing the end of Gandhi, after being shot by a Hindu fanatic and his burial with thousands of people mourning. The burial scene of Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), the man, the legend, is still echoing in the contemporary world. He had a vision for his birthplace, in the wake of colonization and war, to be tolerant, violent-free and neutral towards all religions. Gandhi had chosen the secular state, that is, the state that was neutral but not hostile to religions (Parel & Brown, 2011, p. 161). He rejected what was considered progressive and fashionable; to put the responsibility of state cruelty on the victims, criticizing them

is usually used to identify someone in sports or entertainment sector). A political leader seemed to be a celebrity according to this meaning and that is the reason why I selected Gandhi, as celebrity. The specific text that I worked on was Richard Attenborough 's movie Gandhi released in the year 1982. There are lot of other sources about Gandhi. One could work on Gandhi 's autobiography or other forms of literary narratives that explains Gandhi as a celebrity. But a movie about Gandhi seemed

David Attenborough, or at least recognize his very familiar voice. Although David did not get famous for biological discoveries, but by the many documentaries he has made. He has made a lot of documentaries with several facts about many different things including dinosaur fossil discoveries, sea animals and plants, and a lot of the many species of plants and animals that live on this beautiful earth. ~ Early life On May 8, 1926, in Isleworth, United Kingdom, David Frederick Attenborough was born

Chris Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, on August 29, 1959. He was raised on a corn farm in southern Ontario. In his childhood, Hadfield always had the vision of becoming an astronaut. At age 15, he won a glider pilot scholarship and a powered pilot scholarship at age 16. Hadfield joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1978. From 1984-1985, he trained as a fighter pilot in Cold Lake, Alberta on CF-5s and CF-18s. In 1992, Chris was chosen to become one of four new Canadian astronauts out

A Plant’s Bacchanalia: Imagery, Diction, and Tone in Roethke’s Root Cellar How can an atmosphere be so unbearable and cold, but evidently full of life and constant growth? Set in an old, decaying basement, Theodore Roethke addresses this in the poem “Root Cellar.” Life is clinging to and climbing over the dirty, damp, and dark possessions of the cellar. Why is it possible that so much life is present in such a place of shadows? In “Root Cellar”, Roethke uses imagery, diction, and tone to display

During a world literature class, we watched a film called Baraka, which was cinematically beautiful and restored within me this lost link with the natural world. It was a compilation of footage of people and places all over the world, spliced together to form this story of the lives we lead in this modern world. The film juxtaposed the hectic environment of the machinery that drives the mass production of consumer goods with footage of serene Japanese snow monkeys relaxing in hot spring baths. This

every second 2) What is (or could be) the greatest threat to the planet according to the video? Humans or ourselves 3) How many people were living on the planet at the time that Sir David Attenborough was born? Just under 2 billion people 4) What is the name of the group that Sir David Attenborough supports and what is its main focus? The Optimum Population Trust. Their main focus is to reduce birth rates 5) For how long has every human birth and death on the planet has been reliably recorded

In this essay I shall be looking at a few practitioners consisting of Illustrators, painters and film makers; each create awareness in their own unique and distinguishable form for the subject of animal endangerment and vulnerability. I shall also be studying which socially engaging visual practice is most effective and why. It is thought that scientists have discovered only 17.5 million species on this world; which seems quite a significant amount but when also considering that it’s only thought