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After reading, “Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 ” famous olympic gold medal rowing champion Joe Rantz contacted the author, Daniel James Brown, to discuss the central character of the book, who happened to be the champion’s childhood friend. On his deathbed, Rantz started to weakly tell Brown his life story, and Brown decided that his story could not go untold, and sat down to write “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin…

The Departed is a remake of a 2002 film Hong Kong action movie Infernal Affairs. The movies are both based on a real-life Irish American Gangster Whitey Bulger, who was captured on June 22, 2011. In January 2003 the film studio Warner Brother’s producer Brad Grey, and actor and producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million. The movie a drama, crime, thriller was produced by Martin Scorsese and written by William…

also hosted annual book burning ceremonies to get rid of the books, articles, really any piece of writing that was not Nazi approved, or that was written by Jewish authors; even some who were German natives. “students, along with brownshirted storm troopers, tossed heaps of books into a bonfire while giving the Hitler arm-salute and singing Nazi anthems.” Hitler wanted to create an empire and to do this he knew that he would have to get the youth of Germany on…

For my project, I will be doing the movie series Star Wars. This movie is one of the best figures in the science fiction world. This is because it is one of the most well known movies and has plenty of advances in technology, hyper space travel, and life on different planets. The ships they have in the movie have the ability to travel very far distances in space at the speed of light, something that we do not have figured out yet today. There are many different planets that have sustained life…

his entire life, he passionately preached his ideals to anyone willing to listen. He preached the ideas of giving up greediness and becoming one with nature, not flocking to the bus in which he perished and treating it as a tourist attraction. A trooper employed in the area of the bus said, “Obviously, there’s something that draws these people out here. It’s some kind of internal thing within them that makes them go out to that bus. I don’t know what it is. I don’t understand” (Saverin 2). …

D-Day, which occurred on June 6th 1944, marked the start of the allied campaign to liberate North-West Europe from Germany’s control. It is the largest amphibious attack in history, with over 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops landing simultaneously along a 50 mile stretch of 5 beaches in Normandy. The battle, codenamed Operation Overlord, spread across the beaches of Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, and utilised the latest technology available at the time. Stemming from Newton’s…

Native American reservations are a whole other world within the boundary lines of America; not many people are aware of the differences between the laws in state lines and the laws in reservation lines. Reservations for the most part, govern themselves like a state governs itself under the federal government. Additionally, not many people are aware of the injustices that Native Americans suffer every day due to these variations. In Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, injustices for crimes…

Throughout life, materialistic objects will come and go, holding little to no value as time passes on; although true, memories will never fade from one’s mind. The giant desktop monitor sits in a dark corner in the basement, and all the old and tattered clothes are in a box in the attic with no purpose anymore. These things fade out of one’s mind and the enjoyment that the items brought vanishes as quickly as it once existed. Certain objects, however, hold a special place in a person’s heart…

The United States has dependably been a country of outsiders—never more so than in 1917 when the country entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million troopers who battled with U.S. military in the trenches of France and Belgium, some a large portion of a million and about one out of each five men were foreigners. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, creator of the prize-winning history The Children's Blizzard, recounts the stories of twelve of these settler legends. Beginning with their…

Andrea Torres March 22, 2017 Global 10H How did the Treatment of Homosexuals Differ Due to Gender in Germany during WWII? The early thirties was the beginning of an era of prejudice and animosity towards those who had different religious beliefs, ethnicities, political beliefs, and sexual orientations in Germany. These minorities did not fit Nazi Germany’s agenda. This disapproval led to the attempted genocide, a mass murder and extermination of a particular group of people. The Nazi party…