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    Although All Quiet on the Western Front and Saving Private both shows brutality of war and rough conditions, the novel shows more compassion it’s more realistic in that the emotion and feeling toward the enemies. In the beginning of Saving Private Ryan the viewer witness the American and ally forces execute Operation Overlord. As the American and ally forces storm the beaches they face relentless gunfire by the German forces stationed in bunkers. This is very similar to All Quiet on the Western…

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    Steven Spielberg's back at it with following his other successful hit Saving Private ryan . Band Of Brothers finds you following E Company of the 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne, From their basic training to the end of WWII. This HBO miniseries has commentary of these soldiers that were in the 101st this helps the “character building” move along as it allows you to access their personal thoughts and opinions on the situations they faced and sets the tone for the episode to come. Band of…

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    ‘’Let's go ladies,’’ yells the captain of the landing craft that Logan Thomas was on. It was June 6, 1944 at 6:30. There was a slight matalic smell and was quite cool from the water sprays. Logan was a part of the 2nd battalion. He is just out of high school, Logan was a tall, very muscular boy. He was a part of the football and wrestling team. But, even he felt the fear of landing on Omaha Beach. Logan looks up at his fellow troops and sees many young boys shaking in fear with their M1’s in…

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    Film: Saving Private Ryan. 1 sentence film:4-5 sentences research Hypothesis: The film Saving Private Ryan will represent what happened on the first day of the D-day invasion but then fail to represent what happened before and after the initial invasion. Introduction Paragraph 1 – Planning of D-day invasion The beginning of the D-day invasion, otherwise known as Operation Overlord, can be dated back to September 1941, after the British evacuated their troops from Dunkirk from Northern France.…

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    Lebanon Horror Of War

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    MOVIE: LEBANON SCENE: 55:30-1:00 War is bloody, violent and chaotic. However, the portrayal of war in cinema is glorified and romanticized on the silver screen. It is rare that we see a depiction of war for what it is; In the Israeli film Lebanon there are many scenes that showcase the horror of war and the fear that it brings. One scene in particular to me stands out above all else: For five minutes between 55:00 and 1:00:00 director Samuel Maoz was able to showcase human brutality, and how…

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    Windtalkers Movie Analysis

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    both of them are left with nothing. This is the cinematic way to cover the institutional racism. The US government very reluctantly was given recommendations for non-whites troops. Although, this system is used in many war movies ex. Saving Private Ryan (2002). Let me focus how those techniques are used in this particular movie: White hero receives a recommendation/a medal or trophy, which because of his past, he does not want, but after all he is highlighted whether he likes it or not (white…

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    as entertaining whether it be about a fictional or nonfictional occurrence. The journey to contain evil, both mythologically and realistically, requires sacrifice and courage in the face of fear, demonstrated in The House of Hades and Saving Private Ryan. One example of courage in the face of fear occurs in Rick Riordan’s The House of Hades. The novel entails a journey in which an ultimate containment of evil to protect the mortal world from being overrun by monsters and the Giants will come…

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    In a scene from “Saving Private Ryan”, a film directed by Steven Spielberg, Captain John Miller and other GIs approach Omaha beach in a landing craft. The scene begins with the soldiers all tightly cramped in the landing craft awaiting the landing on the beach. There is then a close-up of Captain Miller’s hand shaking and the camera then pans up towards his face and then slowly moves backwards to show the faces of the other soldiers in the landing craft. It shows some men throwing up and then…

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    Desmond Doss: A True Hero

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    Desmond Doss shows he’s a hero for his heroic action in Okinawa. Doss is man from lynchburg, Virginia (west). His mother raised him as a devout seventh day adventist. Desmond Doss deserves the status of a hero because he saved 75 men, never touched a gun and never gave up. Desmond Doss shows that he is a hero when he saved 75 men (American and Japanese). When he was in the battlefield the Japanese attacked his 77th Infantry by surprise. Instead of fleeing. He would lower them one-by-one with a…

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    Ed sheeran was cyberbullied in his lifetime so bad he got rid of twitter. I know this based on information also because i personally listen to his music. When ed started school he had problems socializing with other kids in school. Then he was getting made front of in school for his stuttering problem and his oversized glasses. He had the speaking and lazy eye because of a surgery that went wrong he was made front of because when he would speak in class he would stutter. So over time he…

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