Casablanca

casualties on the Russians, showing the rest of the world how weak the Red army was after Stalin’s purges. Britain and France had even briefly considered helping Finland and declaring war against the Soviets. It was clear to Hitler that invading Russia was not only inevitable but also possible. Hitler began preparing for such an invasion, despite the pleas of his generals not to do so. Many of the military advisors in Nazi High Command had served in Russia in World War one, and knew firsthand…

It doesn’t give you what to desire — it tells you what to desire” (Slavoj Zizek). How is the cinema the ultimate pervert art? Cinema is shared. Cinema is not “owned” by a person alone, but enjoyed by everyone. Everyone has been introduced to a form of cinema, even though they may not have seen it in that manner. From people in remote villages across the globe partaking in dramas that portray their cultures, to staged sets. From pre-world war II societies to the post war societies. From…

Airpower’s contribution to the Allied victory over Nazi-Germany in the Second World War (WWII) did not represent the ultimate fulfillment of the prophecies and predictions of interwar airpower theorists like Douhet, Mitchell or Trenchard, because strategic bombing with its predicted morale breaking effect did not lead to an uprising of the German population against the Nazi-Regime. Furthermore, their prophecies that air power alone could win a war; “the bomber will always get through” even…

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill formally known as Winston Churchill was born into a wealthy family on November 30th 1874. He had a life full of events to put him in a place in every history book, he was a writer/journalist served in the British military and later in life being in the life of politics he eventually became the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War 2. He lived a long life until his death at 90 in 1965. The early life of…

young educated Moroccans began demanding political freedom and even spoke about independence from Spain and France. The idea of independence continued to flourish during World War II, when United States President Roosevelt visited Morocco. At the Casablanca Conference of 1942, both Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke in favor of Moroccan independence and opposition to the French…

On June 13, 1942, 6 month after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an "Executive Order 9182 Establishing the Office of War Information.” In the document, he created “The Office of War Information” to “Formulate and carry out, through the use of press, radio, motion picture, and other facilities, information programs designed to facilitate the development of an informed and intelligent understanding, at home and abroad, of the status and progress of the war effort and…

The Being 314 Clipper was a flying boat commissioned to Pan American Airlines. Pan American went to Boeing and asked for a long-range, four-engine flying boat. Boeing catered to their needs creating the model 314, nicknamed the “Clipper” after oceanic ships. The Boeing 314 “Clipper” was a jumbo aircraft of it’s time and utilized a three tail-fin assembly allowing more control over the flying boat. The “Clipper” made its first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight on June 28th, 1939. The Boeing 314…

outside the Museum of Modern Art (Starpulse). Other things Williams enjoyed was cycling, and he had occasionally trained with Lance Armstrong. He enjoyed making music and also made his own music album in 1979, named “Reality...What a concept” on Casablanca Records (IMDb). While he was working with acting, he learned about comedy from watching “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” (50 Interesting Facts about Robin Williams). He had been voted funniest man alive by Entertainment Weekly in 1997 (IMDb).…

American Culture? The origin of midnight movies started with the film El Topo in 1970. Alexandro Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and starred in the movie. Playing the lead role of El Topo, Jodorowsky had to transform with the character, taking on different physical looks, as the story plot drastically changed as well as the cinematic style. “The film begins as a western. Jodorowsky, bearded and dressed in black leather, comes cantering across the desert on a black horse with a naked child (his…

and Warner Communications, primarily a producer of film and television pro- gramming. To reduce debt, Time Warner sold 25 percent of Time Warner Entertain- ment (which included HBO, Warner Bros., and part of Time Warner Cable) to Media One Group. In 1996, Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting Systems, expanding its cable programming networks significantly. By the end of 1999, Time Warner had revenues in excess of $27 billion and net income of almost $2 billion. In January 2000, AOL and Time…