First Blood

The film First Blood is first film in a series about John Rambo, a discharged green beret who struggles to assimilate into society and by failing to do so causes mass chaos. The film’s director is Ted Kotcheff, a director who got his start in England directing a film in 1957. Kotcheff has received praise for his role in increasing the film industry in Canada, Rotten Tomatoes states that Kotcheff should receive credit for, “all but single-handedly turned that country's film industry around”. Kotcheff can be viewed as being a very successful director as he has directed films such as Fun with Dick and Jane as well as Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. From examining the types of films that Kotcheff has directed, one can conclude he is a…

Homework Reading Blog #10: Teasle’s Determination In Part Two of Morrell’s First Blood, Teasle and his deputies go on a manhunt search to find Rambo after he murders Galt by slashing his stomach with the straight razor intended to cut and shave his hair. Out of impulsiveness and the desire to remain in control, Teasle decides to go ahead on the manhunt and not wait for the state police because when morning comes around, they’ll have no choice but to turn over the job to them. The reason being…

Haider Qazi Bobby Jones English 2322 12/09/15 Byronic Hero Regular legends are immaculate, they do everything right. Be that as it may, they are irreplaceable in view of it in the Sentimental Time. Byron made another sort of legend the Byronic Saint, in the motion picture First Blood, John Rambo is the ideal case of a Byronic Saint. In this film John Rambo is defiant, dull natured, easily affected, and energetic. He is willing to do whatever it takes for his reason. John Rambo is an ex-Green…

order to face and inevitably conquer them. For example, our society’s fear of the atomic age was transformed into the fear of Godzilla. In the film, humans eventually overcame the monstrosity and coincidentally eased the public’s fears of potential mutants. Our society has utilized this same defense mechanism with fears of war or greater powers. Many films concerning communism or wars with Russia were birthed within the 1980’s during the Cold War. An excerpt from Ronnie D. Lipschutz’s novel,…

The military uses tactics to indoctrinate children into fighting in the war for them. Some of those tactics used would be emotional manipulation, getting them hooked on drugs, and violent war movies. They use emotional manipulation by blaming the rebels for killing their families and using them as the reason why they are in this situation. The military would get them hooked on drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and “brown brown”. They would have them watch violent war movies such as Rambo which…

During these movie session the children usually get ideas from movies such as Rambo and Commando. Because of these movies children adapted to seeing these men as a role models and could not wait to implicate their techniques. Ishmael follows by describing their mindset during this time , “ We watched movies at night. War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on, with the aid generator or sometimes a car battery. We all wanted to be like Rambo; we couldn 't wait to implement his…

Doctrine into a child solider “If the first casualty of war is innocence, them perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world” Michael Franti. If kids were being turned into soldiers at a young age what kind of a world is expected? They don’t know any better than then life style…

Blood transfusion is a process in which blood is injected from one healthy human being to a patient; whom might be losing too much blood or suffering from an illness that requires more blood. This medical procedure is crucial in saving numerous lives. The first successful human-to-human blood transfusion was performed by James Blundell in 1818, yet a large number of patients had died because of wrong blood transfusion operations. The great discovery of Karl Landsteiner’s classification of ABO…

proper amount of blood and oxygen needed to keep the body running. However, when the cardiovascular system fails, the tissues and organs in the body don’t receive and adequate amount of blood and oxygen it needs, this is called shock. Shock is when blood circulation decreases and eventually stops. Shock can be cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular. There are three main cardiovascular causes of shock, which are; poor pump function, blood or fluid loss from blood vessels and poor vessel function.…

to understand the differences in fetal circulation versus postnatal circulation it is important to note that in a fully functioning not pregnant mammal blood circulates in the following way: vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonary semi lunar valve, pulmonary arteries, lungs, pulmonary veins, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic semilunar valve, aorta, systemic circulation, vena cava. Fetal circulation works by using three shunts to direct…