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    Saving Private Ryan is considered one of the most historically accurate war movies ever produced. However, no movie could correctly duplicate the struggle that was faced and the fear that was shared among all of the soldiers. The movie is mostly centered around Private Ryan, a soldier during World War II, whose three brothers have died in combat. Not wanting his mother to lose her last son, eight men are given the mission of finding Ryan so he may be sent back home. The movie shows the difficulties

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    In the movie, Jurassic Park, released in 1993, dinosaurs are brought back to life from extinction and are used to create an amusement park. In the movie, Dr. John Hammond has discovered a new scientific way to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. However, Hammond has only done this for the good himself. Rather than allowing nature to run its course, Hammond and his team attempts to control nature in order to create a new amusement park. But, this causes many problems for the park and its workers

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    Steven Spielberg and The New Era Steven Spielberg, one of the most successful movie director of all time. A life changing, new era begins when Steven Spielberg enters the movie business, and the future begins. Some of the most famous movies in the United States/world are directed from Spielberg, the mastermind behind them. As a founder of the New Era, he made special effects work better, even look better. Awards keep adding on to his collection for his outstanding movies. Movies that he made

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    Steven Hawking Essay

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    passed 1st grade. First a brief biography on his life and then I will, with the help of Mr. Hawking himself (actually his online website), try to explain some of his mind-boggling theories in my own words. There are two indisputable facts about Stephen Hawking. One: The British theoretical physicist is a wizard of applied mathematics and a titan of astronomy. Hawking peers light-years away into space without a telescope and conquers

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    The Shining

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    the initial release of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, several people reviewed the film. In this essay, some online reviews are explained, analyzed and then compared. Reviews by John Bozelka’ argues that Kubrick did a great job of replicating Stephen King’s horror novel. Bozelka maintains that the film could leave one’s room creepy and unfamiliar because of the events and episodes contained. However, he feels that the film was quite empty in the beginning. Bozelka seems to have his own review

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    INTRODUCTION: The Coen brothers are one of the most known filmmakers in the industry. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s films range from different types of styles, categories and genres. These genres include, comedy thriller and action. A few of their famous films are Blood Simple which came out in 1984, Fargo in 1996 and one of the most recent film which came out this year Hail, Caesar. They have written a number of films which they didn’t direct such as Unbroken in 2014 and The Naked Man from 1998.

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    Nineteenth Century Short Stories and the Gothic Genre The three short stories that I have chosen to compare and contrast are: The Signalman by Charles Dickens, An Arrest by Ambrose Bearcy and Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë. All these stories were completed by the mid to late eighteenth hundreds. The Signalman is set by a railway in Britain, along a lonely stretch of a railway line in a steep cutting. An Arrest is set in America and for the most part in a forest. Napoleon

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    West Side Story The Musical *No Works Cited West Side Story is one of the most influential musicals of all time. It's integration of dance and song into the plot was very innovative, because even though it had been done before, it had never been done this well. Jerome Robbins had thought of an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet to a Broadway musical in 1949. He began discussions with librettist Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein of a musical called East Side Story, with a plot concentrating

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    Final Film Critique Essay

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    Final Film Critique Richard Hogan ENG 225: Introduction to Film October 25, 2011 Final Film Critique Introduction The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism

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    The Open Boat Essay

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    MAN VS. NATURE "None of them knew the color of the sky." This first sentence in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" implies the overall relationship between the individual and nature. This sentence also implies the limitations of anyone's perspective. The men in the boat concentrate so much on the danger they are in, that they are oblivious and unaware to everything else; in other words, maybe lacking experience. "The Open Boat" begins with a description of four men aboard a small boat on

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