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Movie Breaker Morant
756 wordsIntegrated Essay My name is Daniella D Antonio and I am a year 11 student at St Dominic's Priory College. I have been asked to write to you in response to your letter concerning, exposing children to war literature. In our English lessons earlier this year my class have read the classic book All Quiet on the Western Front, studied War Poetry and watched the Australian-made movie Breaker Morant. Learning about war is a very important part of our education. It teaches us about the history of the w...
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American View Of The Spanish
639 wordsThe movie " Rough Riders" was about the U.S. Calvary during Spanish American war. The main character is Teddy Roosevelt and he is a crazy general. The calvary consists of all kinds of men. Some are East Coast upper class men, others range from bounty hunters to cowboys, thieves, and Indians. One of the rich men is tricked into getting on an unbroken horse, but manages to stay on because of his polo skills. He quickly proves that they are not weak. During the training the General trues to make su...
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Captain Willard
684 wordsThe movie "Apocalypse Now", directed by Francis Coppola, is based on Conrad's novel The Heart of Darkness. The movie has to do with survival, obsession, and finding ones self. The inclination of this paper is to let the reader get a better understanding of how Captain Willard (the main character) goes through survival, obsession, and courage while trying to hunt down Kurtz. Captain Willard is on a mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War to find and kill an insane Colonel Kurtz, as he experi...
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Movie A War
993 wordsAlthough the movie Wag the Dog is a comedy about a completely fake war, written and produced by a top Hollywood producer and a presidential Mr. Fix-It in order to take the focus off of a presidential sex scandal 11 days before the election, it does have a serious message to impart - Don't believe everything you see on TV. Sure, parents tell their kids that the man on TV isn't really dead, it's all fake, and we all know that movies and sitcoms and dramas aren't real, they " re written and acted. ...
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Leonard Shelby In Memento
1,480 words"What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget". They are lyrics from the song "The Way We Were". It is a simplistic thought that has been made many times throughout the course of time. It is a philosophy that many people have lived by for ages. The blocking out of traumatic events is done by the best of us and it utilized prominently in war movies. A one-sided view point is the only way to create a plot. As the erasure of memories is used in war movies, it can also be seen by Leona...
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Movie Of The Vietnam Experience
585 wordsApocalypse Now is a movie of the Vietnam experience. Not as much the war as the experience, the thing that made this war personal for each soldier. US Army Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) receives orders to infiltrate renegade special forces Colonel Kurtz's troops and terminate his command. "Terminate with extreme prejudice". Reports tell of Kurtz having gone insane, and using "unsound" methods while running his own private army in the jungle in Cambodia. Willard makes his way to Kurtz with the h...
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War Against The Germans
504 wordsWWII: THE LIFE OF IVAN World War two affected many lives with thousands of casualties that caused so many conflicts outside the war itself. Ivan (played by Nikolai Burlyayev) in this movie had other reasons to join the war against the Germans. He wanted revenge and justice for the death of his family, and vengeance for the death of the children that were killed in the war. The movie repeatedly showed the words written on the wall about the kids that were all under 19 that were about to die that ...
