July Revolution

They are all equally engaging and are successful in how they present their subjects. Born on the Fourth of July is a biography of a Vietnam veteran, which is also directed by a Vietnam veteran. Suffice to say, their work is accurate, as they themselves had first-hand experience. While watching the film, the audience joins the character in his experiences as…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

In Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” he writes about his poignant experience visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in a way that suggests he is perhaps regretful of his time as a soldier and remorseful as a survivor. Komunyakaa explains to the readers the inner workings of his brain and how permanent war is not only in his mind but in the reality of the death toll. In order to accomplish giving a detailed and understandable explanation to the audience, Komunyakaa uses techniques such as…

The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, tells the story of a platoon in the Vietnam War. O’Brien uses many literary devices to help him portray the overall theme including repetition, details, and through emphasizing the reasons the soldiers are a part of the war. All of these combined portray the anti-war argument and illustrate the idea that when young men go into war, they carry many burdens, but the emotional burdens are the heaviest ones that they are never able to put this down.…

instead of a quick or immediate change. In a revolution, a slow change is more effective because you have time to plan for all the mistakes and problems that might happen during a change in government, while with a quick change you must spend time after the revolution is complete fixing the mistakes you didn’t account for resulting in a long drawn out revolution. We see that a long revolution is more effective and successful from the Cuban revolution. Slow change is more successful then quick…

34). Despite of its failure, it conceptualized what real slave uprisings are. Years later another freed slave insurrectionist named Denmark Vesey who bought his own freedom started to plot for a revolution. Around 9,000 slaves and free blacks escorted him in his collude which was arranged to take place on July 14, 1822 in Charleston. The plot never accomplished its goals as Vesey and his fellow mutineers were snitched on and thus hanged (Hazen 11). This attempt assured to the southerners slave…

is a section of a two part film series about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che: Part One is titled The Argentine and the film shows the Cuban Revolution from the start of Fidel Castro’s leadership to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. This film goes back and forth between the revolution, Che’s personal thoughts and the aftermath of the overthrow of the government. Part one was filmed in several locations in Puerto Rico and Mexico. These locations have…

Futurism manifesto revolted against the old, considered museums as cemeteries, and pushed freedom upon themselves from professors, archaeologists, and antiquarians. It also condemned old moralities in favor of logic as well as feminism. The futurism revolution was composed of the positive appraisal of youth, speed, and violence and was very anarchistic. In contrast, the Constructivism author Aleksei Gan stated how Russia has become the world’s first proletarian republic. It has become a…

To be successful in reaching goals a good strategy must be applied. Every person must have a goal in life to achieve. Once that goal is reached another is started. The only way to succeed is to keep making goals, and achieving them. The important strategy in planning how to successfully accomplish goals plays a huge role. As famous baseball and football play Bo Jackson would say “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there” (Jackson). Certainly, famous Bo Jackson set his goals high…

There are many things that have influenced my life over the past eighteen years such as family, friends, television shows, and video games. Yet the one thing that has influenced my life the most has been the sport of soccer. Soccer has had a great influence on the entire world each and every day. For many people around the world soccer is there whole life. Many people would say that soccer is the way to escape the hardships of the world. The sport also endures hardships on many people in the…