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    The film, Geronimo: An American Legend, was based on Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache from the Bedonkohe band born in 1829 in the American Southwest. He was a skilled hunter and led raids on surrounding enemy villages. He resented Mexicans because they killed his mother, wife, and three children. The American government acquired land that belonged to Apache tribes through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Americans who settled in this area were attacked by the Apache. In 1874 after years of…

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    The Wild Brunch Analysis

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    too… consists of excessive amounts of pistol and rifle-fire. So while the “Wild Bunch” is the group of main "hero" characters the audience follows, the characters do not fit the hero archetype; they are bounty hunters who kill people for money. Peckinpah even draws the comparison between the bounty hunters and vultures. The Wild Bunch practically lurks around the places where they know death has consumed an area; and they are ready to pick gold silver from the dead bodies. Though the shots…

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    was having a party at his house and that no one would be guarding the slaves. As soon as Harriet made her first invasion, there was a bounty put on her for forty thousand dollars. After the wanted posters were hung up all over towns, Harriet could not travel near them anymore because the risk was too high for her to get caught. People even hired one of the best bounty hunters in the country to search for her. On one of her trips, she and her group were cornered in a burning barn, set on fire by…

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    Donna Troy V.S. Angela Donna Troy and Angela have a lot of similarities between each other, but they also have many differences. For an example, one is evil while the other is good. Although there are many more similarities and many more differences just waiting to be discovered. Donna Troy and Angela have a lot of similarities. First, Donna Troy is incredibly strong and very fast, almost the same as Angela. However, Angela is a tiny bit faster. Donna Troy has many differences from Angela.…

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    Grant Penrod's Summary

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    Grant Penrod makes the argument that academic achievement should be rewarded just as much if not more than athletic achievement. Penrod believes that nerds are disliked because of their intellectualism, yet the reason they are excluded from social activity is due to a self-fulfilling prediction. He shares with us that today’s society tends to glorify non-intellectuals, such as athletes and celebrities, while the intellectually skilled individuals get left on the sidelines with little recognition…

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    O Brother, Where Art Thou is a film directed by Joel Coen portraying the life of three escaped convicts adventuring rustic Mississippi During the Great Depression. The movie is loosely based on the poem The Odyssey written by Homer. The film opens on a chain gang of the penal farm, where are three main characters are introduced Ulysses Everett McGill, Peter Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell (played by George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson), which are escaping to pursue an alleged…

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    is bound to its food. He has twelve commended restaurants August, Besh Steak, Lüke, Lüke San Antonio, La Provence, Domenica, Pizza Domenica, Borgne, Johnny Sánchez New Orleans, Johnny Sánchez Baltimore, Shaya and Willa Jean, all that celebrate the bounty and traditions of the southern region. In this paper, I will be performing a S.W.O.T analysis on three of his restaurant located in New Orleans. The first Besh restaurant I will…

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    Who Is Star-Lord?

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    In the beginning of the film, a little boy was listening to an old cassette player. He was in the hospital waiting to go see his mom. His mom ended up dying that night. While he was running away from the hospital in grief, a spaceship took him. About thirty years later, Star-Lord (the boy from the beginning) is on a quest to find an orb with special powers. Star-Lord is wearing a robe covered in red/grey. He is wearing a grey mask with red lenses to allow him to breathe oxygen. When he reaches…

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    Creative Writing: A Raid

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    waterfall. The cold wilderness water cascading all around always had a restorative effect on what could seem a brittle frame. Then after the shower was breakfast, fire boiled eggs and a bit of steamed moss broth. Of course not all of the morning's bounty made it where it should have, but what am I gonna do? The mornings adventures had yet to begin. Today was going to be a raid on the almighty iron labyrinth. I shook with excitement. Tiger meat! There was no better meal for a barbarian, that was…

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    sick or can even be seen as inhuman. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick attests that a person’s humanity lies in his ability to feel empathetic, and to be without empathy is to be inhuman. Rick Deckard makes his living as a bounty hunter retiring escaped androids. An android’s lack of empathy is the only defining trait that separates androids from humans. With only one characteristic dividing the two groups Philip K. Dick boldly equates empathy as the defining trait of…

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