Paul Revere's Ride

this film earned him an Academy nomination for Best Actor. Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, an employee of Hotel des Mille Collines located in Rwanda, and unfortunately his boss leaves during the mist of the crisis, leaving Rusesabagina in charge. During his short tenure, Paul allows Hutu and Tutsi refugees in the hotel to the dismay of the Hutu Revolutionary Movement. This film focuses on the obstacles and emotions of Paul and the Hotel refugees.…

Gihembe Refugee Camp Facts and Statistics Rwanda is a country in Africa that is located in the region currently affected by the ongoing tensions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) other African nations. It has been hosting refugees for several decades, and at the same time has been receiving and reintegrating thousands of Rwandan returnees. The majority of these refugees are hosted in camps, and Gihembe is one of these settlements. The others are Kigeme, Kiziba, Mahama, Mugombwa…

Tom Petty’s hit song, Free Fallin’, was released in 1989. The hit was premiered on his album “Full Moon Fever.” Although the song was released almost 30 years ago, the song remains popular. The album reached No.3 on the charts, the song reaching No.7 alone the week it hit the market. Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ was originally written in efforts to make his partner laugh. The popular hit was written down in about an hour. “A good song should give you a lot of images, you should be able to make your…

along with one another. (Wikipedia. 2016). Paul Rusesabagina was an amazing indivual during the terrible massacre. He had a job, as a hotel manager at the Hotel des Mille Collins in Kigali, Rwanda. Paul hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees in the hotel. (MyHero.com. 2016). He had a feature presentation made about him, made in 2004. It was called ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and received much acclaim from audiences and critics. The actor, Don Cheadle portrayed Paul Rusesabagina in the film as well.…

the former Starry Night. Caused by luminance, our brain’s cortex clashes when focused on the twirls and swirls, making the stars appear as though they flicker and radiate a pulsing light. van Gogh painted The Starry Night while in stay at the Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum, following the mutilation of his ear in an episode of depression and agitation; but it seems that paintings from his episodes of agitation behave similarly to the way fluid turbulence is understood. Munich’s The Scream may…

1. Thesis statement a. The 1998 version of The Parent Trap is a soundtrack film with many nostalgic aspects in the music, which changed the way audiences viewed this version of the film compared to the original 1961 version. 2. Use of nostalgia in film a. “As texts move through history, they encounter new audiences, are placed in new contexts, or gather new historical and cultural resonances. Thus, the political and social function of texts’ nostalgia inevitably change.” (Dwyer, 2015) i. This…

In 1994, in Rwanda, the mass killings of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus occurred. The killings were carried out by the Hutus, due to the tensions that rose between the two groups when the country gained its independence in the 1960s and the Belgians openly favoring the Tutsi. The mass killings that occurred should be considered as a genocide because it fits with the definition of genocide as it was the destruction of a whole/part of a specific group of people and the deliberate killing of a…

Robert Herjavec As well seen robert is a famous person from the show shark tank but as well as being a successful person on tv he is also a very successful entrepreneur. Also being a success in the business world he is a success from another nation. After his father and escapee from a prison in zbjeg croatia came to halifax at a young age of 8 years old. After he made it to halifax his mother remembered she knew someone in toronto they went there and lived in their basement for 18 months. When…

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” this is a quote from the legendary pop artist Andy Warhol in a 1968 exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Warhol was an American artist, director, and producer whose works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising. His mediums included everything from painting, silk-screening, photography, film, and even sculpture. His studio, The Factory, became a well-known…

President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Entire families were killed at a time. Women were raped and murdered. The war did not end until the Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the RPF defeated the Hutu regime and President Paul kagame took control. Thousands were dead and the world hadn't help put a stop to the genocide.…