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    Review about the movie:- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an amazing and impressive piece of film-making from director Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth. It is a film of hope, where director explains it beautifully how “Hope is a good thing”. Movie shows the ugly realities on life of Prison and its day to day life. There is a lot of scope of learning during free time in prison whether it is art or literature. The film portrays the story of Andy…

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    Christopher Navarro APUSH 03-15-18 P3 Short Answer Rewrite 2. The president that played the most significant role in the Vietnam war was President Richard Nixon who had an impact on the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon had support for the United States during the Vietnam War and wanted to bring peace in the world and end the war. The causes of the war and the US involvement was communism was spreading all throughout southeast Asia and the US did…

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    Film Analysis: Remember the Titans Remember the Titans has the setting to be in the early 1970s, two high schools in Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The movie is about a football team, starring Denzel Washington who took the role of Herman Boone, the head coach of the Titans. At first, Boone is brought in as an assistant coach to an all-white staffing coach but he is then appointed to be the head coach over the current one. Herman Boone was hesitating in the beginning…

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    Soldiers of the Charlie Company were ordered by Lieutenant Calley, on March 16, 1968, to leave the village of My Lai destroyed. During the Vietnam War, the United States supported South Vietnam and were in the process of fighting North Vietnam because of their communistic viewpoints. The fighting had been different than any other war, the Viet Cong's fighting style consisted of sneaky sniper attacks and booby traps. Their fighting style had aggravated the United States soldiers and they soon…

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    Have you ever read any of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry about Vietnam?” Ferlinghetti asked. “No, I haven’t.” “In his poem Wichita Vortex Sutra he says: McNamara made a “bad guess” chorused the reporters in 1962 “8000 American Troops handle the Situation” Bad Guess in 1954, 80% of the Vietnamese people would’ve voted for Ho Chi Minh “And here I thought most of Ginsberg’s poetry was about sucking cocks,” I said, risking insulting his friend.…

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    World leader When people talk about the world leaders, there are a several great people appear in people’s mind such as Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Pope Francis and etc. However, there is only one person who obviously makes everything possible while a lot of people tend to think that it is impossible. This one is John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. John F. Kennedy once said a powerful quote to the world, “One person can make a difference, and…

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    Lyndon B. Johnson was the successor of President Kennedy deeming him the 36th President of the United States from 1963 until 1969. Johnson desired to create a “Great Society” that was beneficial to the American people. This desire led to the creation of the legislation in 1964 called the Great Society, also known as the “War on Poverty”. “The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States…” “Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the…

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    their actions. The motive of the killers were revealed in their confession. In 1960, to many people, the trial left questions for sanity. Similar to, In Cold Blood, many say it couldn’t have been solved without the help of the former cellmate of Richard Hickock. The cellmate once worked on Herbert Clutter’s farm and described it to Hickock; this leading to Mr. Hickock’s plan to rob the Clutter’s and murder any witnesses adding Perry Smith, also a former cellmate, would be of good help.These two…

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    murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous”. In the story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, General Zaroff needs to find a new animal to hunt. He loves hunting, but is bored of hunting the animals who live in the wilderness. Zaroff is in desperate need of a new animal to hunt, or else he will become the most dangerous…

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    Three Dozen at a Time “Not all those that wander are lost.” said by J.R.R. Tolkien. This quote refers to hunting because you are out in the middle of nowhere and people will think you are lost. Decoying and jumping waterfowl are similar and different in many ways including time, effort, and amount of equipment The time put into waterfowl hunting differs from decoying and jumping waterfowl. When decoying waterfowl you will need to have time to get to the pond you are going, setting up decoys…

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