Casablanca

The French New Wave, also known as La Nouvelle Vague in its home country, France, came to be during the 1950s and 1960s. It was created by a group of French filmmakers who proved that they don’t need mainstream cinema to create and produce successful films. Even if the New Wave wasn’t really a conscious movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t…

Africa. For the follow-on operation, the Americans favored a cross-channel invasion of Europe, but the British favored a peripheral approach to wear down the Axis. Ultimately, the decision to invade Sicily was the uneasy compromise reached at the Casablanca conference with the strategic goal of freeing Mediterranean shipping from Axis harassment, diverting German strength from the Russian Front and pressuring Italy to sue for peace. Senior leader’s inattention to planning to meet those…

Operation Husky was an invaluable experience for Allied forces in World War II. It opened the Allied forces eyes to the numerous challenges they must face internally before they could hope to be victorious in the war against Germany, Japan and Italy. This essay will show how a failure in operational leadership caused Operation Husky to fail to become the decisive victory it had the potential of being. Essential to command and control is a thorough understanding of the commander’s intent at…

Now that we are all pinching pennies, a lot of people are traveling together with coworkers, friends or family, or perhaps with a tour group. There are times when I enjoy charting the waters on my own and times when I welcome the kindred spirits of fellow travelers on my journeys. If you are new to this type of traveling or if you would just like to make your trips better, there are certain behaviors and attitudes that are different when traveling with a group of two or more people. Here are…

This paper will provide an in-depth organizational profile of the international terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda, Arabic for “the base”, as well as a look at the leadership, funding, support locations, personnel strength, ideology, targeting, tactics, capability, communications, and overall goals of the group. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the worst attack on United States soil on September 11, 2001, as they planned and executed the hijacking of four commercial airliners and crashed two…

linguistic dependency of Morocco towards the colonizer. Other statistics suggest that more than twenty-five thousands of Moroccan students pursuing their studies in French schools, which has become widespread in many major cities such as Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Fez, Tangier and…

Interviewee’s present life circumstances James E. was born Feb. 24, 1936, which has him at the time tested age of 81. James is an African American male and is married to his lovely wife Margret. He has 4 children of his own and with that comes 9 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. James currently resides in a single family home located in laurel, MD. Nearby family members come by to visit nearly every week for dinner and quality time. James keeps himself busy by running his nonprofit…

The African Queen Directed by John Huston USA, 1951, 105 minutes Reviewed by Margaret Willford Student, Wynford High School, Bucyrus, OH (USA) In 1951, John Huston directed a PG film based off the novel The African Queen by C.S. Forester. John Huston has directed forty-seven other films and a total of two have won oscars, including the African Queen. The African Queen won 1952 Oscar in the category of Best Actor in Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart). Furthermore, The African Queen won 2012 OFTA…

society. A film can say so much about the historical era that produced it, and, by extension, the mood of people at that time. Examples of this include the films of the 1940s that hoped to arouse support for the struggle against Nazi Germany( e.g. Casablanca) ,the alien invasion films of the 1950s that reflected the US fear of communism (e.g. War of the worlds), films supporting the fight for equal rights for black people in the late 1950s and 1960s (e.g. The Great White Hope, To Kill a…

“Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.” This quote is the starting point of the movie, it kicks off the theme and sets the plot in motion. In the summer of 1989 When Harry met Sally premiered, this rom com by Rob Reiner starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan blew audiences away. The Castle Rock Entertainment production won 4 awards: The BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay, The ASCAP Top Box Office Films, The American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion…