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    My favorite relative is my Pap. He weighs a solid 170 pounds and is in very good shape for his age. Even though he's older, you would never guess that he's 60, which he just turned on July 17th. He's always at the gym working out, or with my family and I. It's not just his outgoing personality but the way is fun and how he still is very energetic. He has a mustache and always tickles us kids with it when he kisses us. I can always tell it is him by the way he walks, his legs curve out a bit and go out to the side. He might have had open heart surgery, but he's still keeps a great big happy smile on his face. The times of dark hair have going on since he was young but his big brown eyes haven't. He has dimples and there is always a twinkle in his eye. Even if his jokes aren't funny, he's always laughing at his own. One thing is that he's always singing Elvis and whistling. Whistling is one of his favorite things to do, and you know when something is on his mind when he does it. My pap was born in \_____, and has 10 siblings not including himself. He lost his dad when he was very young, and his mom just a year ago. He always says "She was one of the strongest women I knew." I can tell that he misses her very much by the way his facial expressions look, if he's staring he's usually thinking. The Contraguerro family is a huge family, but something has seemed to keep the family together through decades. All the siblings and my pap himself were always there for each other all…

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    The essay “Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul” by Brian Greene is unlikeable due to its arguable and tedious material. The author stated, “Science had made me feel small” (Greene 93). This statement is saying that the planet and the stars make everything else seem so small. Especially with the thousands of universes we have not yet discovered. This is the only thing that that author states in the essay that I agree with. Science seems very interesting to the author, but it is not as…

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    The Quiet American Essay

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    The film The Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the…

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    The story of an innocent murderer tells the tale of a man who truly believed his intentions were good, but as he delved deeper into the hole, he suddenly realized that he had helped kill hundreds. In The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Alden Pyle’s character proves to play a vital role in promoting the central theme of the novel, moral ambiguity. The narrative’s title stays true in describing this young American’s personality as being docile, preserved, introverted, and most of all quiet…

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    When I first read this article, I was incredibly confused. I did not know what the purpose of this article was. The article as a whole reads as a timeline of the Vietnam war. However, after reading the article multiple times, I now understand that the author was making a more nuanced argument compared to other articles I’ve read. The author name drops a lot of different sources, but in the end, the main objective of the source is to establish The Quiet American as a historical source. To…

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    Graham Greene utilizes the various characters in his novel, The Quite American, to express many of the political and diplomatic viewpoints about the involvement of various countries in the affairs of the people of Indochina and Southeast Asia. Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s, The Quiet American (1958), distorts the two main characters, Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle, away from the novel’s version so as to present a viewpoint consistent and pleasurable for the audience with the era in which the film was…

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    In Greene’s The Third Man (Movie) and The Quiet American, there are similarities and differences detectable in the stories. The principle closeness we have watched is that both stories catch the time of history. Notwithstanding, Greene’s stories also utilizes their own different speakers and visualizing different imagery that makes a totally unique perception of Greene ability to be innovative in his own way. The stories written by Greene all had mysterious history themes. In 1955, The…

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    The Patriot Analysis

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    The Patriot, a film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Mel Gibson, was released in the year 2000 and showcases the belief that when the people have the unity and determination to fight for what they believe in they can defeat even the strongest of armies. The historical fiction film follows a South Carolinian by the name of Benjamin Martin, a man who fought in the French and Indian War and now wants a quiet and peaceful life with his family on their plantation. With his wife dead and his…

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    Biography Of Kate Barry

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    Catherine Moore Barry Catherine Moore Barry also known as Kate Barry was born on October 22, 1752 around Spartanburg, South Carolina to Professor Charles and Mary Moore. Kate was the oldest of ten children. At the age of 15 Kate married Andrew Berry. The newlywed couple moved to Walnut Grove, South Carolina, where the couple began their family. They had three children together. Meanwhile her husband Andrew Berry joined the colonist in the war against Great Britain where he became a Captain in…

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    The Patriot

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    achieve a strategic victory. Overall, the movie does a great job at depicting battle scenes and is accurate on people and locations. The battle scene that Benjamin and Gabriel watched while heading into battle was accurate. It was the Battle of Camden and the Continental army lost that battle, which the movie shows. General Cornwallis was a real person that commanded both in the Battle of Camden and the climax battle. The climax battle seems to be a mixture of two battles, although not…

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