The Iron Giant

Gold has been mined for centuries, dating back to the times of Ancient Egypt. Back then, the mined gold because it was beautiful and also imperishable. They’d make jewelry, cups, and decorate tombs with it. The way people mined it in ancient times was by using a process called “sluicing”. They would make wood troughs with riffles set in the bottom to create a zone to allow gold to drop through. The box is then placed in a stream to channel water flow. Today, the method of sluicing is still…

While car buffs may be able to identify this sleek piece of metal as a custom yellow Lamborghini Countach LP500S, it is actually even more than that. This toy is a Transformer, meaning that with a few simple steps it can be transformed from a vehicle to a battle-ready robot. This particular transformer is named Sunstreaker. He was built in 1984, when the Transformers first hit the screen. He was part of the original Transformers cartoon series, along with his twin brother, Sideswipe. They became…

Steve was contemplating everything he had beheld today, while surreptitiously watching his team. His team? Did he, he wondered, have the right to call these unique group, his team? Scoffing to himself, he pushed his empty basket away and lowered his head in exhaustion. A good leader draws from experience and he had none. With possibly the exception of Thor, none of them had any experience, yet they followed his orders, even Thor and more surprisingly, so did Tony Stark. Thor was/is a Norse…

That night most of the Avengers left, the only to that had wanted to stay over was Natasha and Steve. Who had both said that they need a little break. The next day Nova walked down the stairs, but stopped as she heard arguing in the kitchen. "No, absolutely not. Clint she is not going there." Laura said sternly. Nova hears a sigh, "She won't be alone. Tony said Parker would help her out." "I'm sorry but wasn't Tony the one who told you that, the Peter boy split a boat in half? I don't want…

Phase Three of the highly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is drawing to a close with three films scheduled for this year, three for 2018 (one of which is the highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War part 1), and two in 2019. At this stage, there is only one movie scheduled after Phase Three, a supposed Spiderman sequel scheduled in 2019. With the end of the arguably largest phase of the MCU near, a lot of the major actors such as Chris Evans (Captain America) have been rumoured to be…

Steve Rogers, or Captain America, is a superhero from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He got his powers from a super soldier serum administered to him by Dr. Abraham Erskine in the 1940’s. The serum gave him super strength and other enhanced abilities allowing him to become the optimal soldier during World War II. Steve Rogers is like an epic hero in many ways. He has superhuman abilities, he is on a quest, and he is a strong and responsible leader. The first way Captain Rogers is like an epic…

America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The film made $200 million overseas before it released in the United States and China, the two largest movie markets in the world. Civil War puts Team Captain America against Team Iron Man with a couple of returning superheroes. We see Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) return to continue the Marvel Cinematic Universe storyline from Avengers: Age of…

The Cold War began from mistrust, misunderstandings, and misconceptions between both the United States and the Soviet Union. While World War II was happening the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britan formed allies to take down the Nazis. After the war, the Soviet Union had different goals for the future of Europe than the rest of the Western Allies creating tension. The death of President Roosevelt, who was a supporter of Stalin and replaced with Truman, who agreed heavily with Britain,…

As academics look at events to see the repercussions, what they were really about from the approach of the scholar sometimes they find contradicting ideas about a single event, which allows for further debate. To properly support the idea of the state analysis being the ideal idea for the Treaty of Dunkirk, and for the concentration of Security and Strategy, using the analyses of John Baylis, Cees Wiebes and Bert Zeeman, and Sean Greenwood to support the state analysis and show the different…

(Editors, 2016)Winston Churchill used to be the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 up until 1945 and he is one of those leaders mentioned in history for having a role during the cold war. He was one of the very first leaders to raise the idea of an iron curtain that was descending across Europe which was later seen as a factor that gave birth to the cold war. Winston Churchill delivered a speech explaining his feelings towards the soviet unions and how they were trying to take control…