The Bourne Supremacy

The movie, Bourne Supremacy, is the second movie in the Bourne series, which is directed by Paul Greengrass. The Bourne series is packed full of intense action and thrilling chase scenes that keep you intrigued at all times and Bourne Supremacy is an example of the outstanding and compelling storyline that goes throughout the series. Matt Damon is the lead role as Jason Bourne, an ex-CIA assassin that got out of the system and is trying to remember who he really is, because he has psychogenic amnesia and can only remember bits and pieces of his life as an assassin. Alongside Matt Damon are some other actors and actresses that did an excellent job in the Bourne Supremacy, like, Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons, a coordinator and logistics person for the assassins that worked for the CIA. Brian Cox played the part of Ward Abbott, the director of Treadstone, an experimental group, which Jason Bourne was apart of. Joan Allen was the part of Pamela Landy, a section director of the CIA who uncovered ties to Treadstone and the relevant traitor inside the CIA. The last big name is Karl Urban, who plays the Russian Assassin, Kirill, whose job is to hunt down and kill Jason Bourne.…

The Bourne trilogy, specifically Bourne identity focuses on man whom suffers from retrograde amnesia. The film starts with a man found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshots wounds in his back. He is rescued by nearby fishermen’s, and on this boat happened to be a doctor. The doctor finds and extracts two bullets from Jason’s back and small microchip that was lodged in his hip. After waking up he spends the rest of the film trying to regain his memory given that one cue. The cue…

Transitions, influenced by interactions with others, enable a person to overcome obstacles that restrain them to transition. Billy Elliot, the film directed by Stephen Daldry, and Jennifer Niven’s novel Holding Up The Universe both explore transitions through defying social standards and acceptance. Billy Elliot explores transitions of Billy entering a world of ballet in the disapproving society of Durham during the Miners Strike. Holding Up The Universe explores the transition of Libby Strout,…

Yarmouth, a town in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a great place to go on vacation and spend time with family. Only about 2 hours from Boston, it is located just 26 miles from the Bourne Bridge and 22 miles from the Sagamore Bridge. A day at the beach is a must when visiting the Yarmouth area, and there are several beaches to consider visiting. The most popular beach in Yarmouth, Seagull Beach, is also the largest. It is a very clean and beautiful family beach. It has a large parking lot, clean…

can’t widen in their [white people] favor” (158). Here, Guitar explains that violence is used in order to “keep the ratio the same” (155), so that the white race cannot overpower the blacks. Furthermore, Guitar justifies The Seven Days by explaining they do not kill just to kill, they murder to keep the world balanced. Guitar explains that if The Seven Days did not do anything about this issue, no one would. The Seven Days don’t want to kill, but it is necessary because the earth is already…

States. He emphasized the importance of ideology and political education, Malcolm stressed that the ideological struggle is just as important as the physical struggle during the civil rights movement. In Toward the African Revolution (1969), Frantz Fanon wrote, “Colonialism and its derivatives do not, as a matter of fact, constitute the present enemies of Africa. In a short time this continent will be liberated. For my part, the deeper I enter into the cultures and the political circles the…

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X During the Civil Rights Movement there were many different kinds of leaders trying to unite the black race and gain equality. Among those leaders, the most prominent and glorified was Martin Luther King. King was a minister from Atlanta, became the spokesman for the fight for equality. King stuck out more than others because of his non violent tactics, which involved peaceful protests, sit-ins and boycotts. Also, during this time there was another leader with…

Jersey Village High School/Lonestar College The Autobiography of Malcom X Book Review Megan Diese Ms. Branch U.S. History DC pd.2 3 May 2016 Malcolm X’s fight for black equality has been documented in his autobiography. This story of his life is presented through his first person narrative which only adds to his already strong voice. While growing up Malcolm learned a plethora of life lessons which he tried to spread up until his assassination. The Autobiography of…

1.) -Malcolm Little: In his childhood, Malcolm was a very aspiring young man, who dreamt of being a lawyer, and knew that it took more than what he was doing in Lansing. He also had a very good understanding how racism worked, and how white people thought of blacks. • “ ‘Well yes sir, I’ve been thinking I’d like to be a lawyer.’” –P. 38 • “All I knew for certain was that a lawyer didn’t wash dishes, as I was doing.” -P. 38 • “I was smarter than nearly all those white kids. But apparently I was…

squeamishness or fussiness about contact with Negroes was commonly identified as a lower-class white attitude” (C.V.W. pg. 88). Many whites had toleration for the blacks in the south; furthermore, interracial communities were created. Neighborhoods were no longer strict to one race, and public transportation was free to any American. Both the integration in public neighborhoods and the integration of public transportation support Woodward’ s thesis that states that segregation was a slow…