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Jia Jiang had asked a man for 100.00 dollars yet when the man told him no he got scared and ran away. Looking over the video Jian Jiang told himself “What a wasted opportunity. Fear had turned me into a mumbling idiot” (Jiang 27).In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the lion said “I should have run myself I’m such a coward” (Baum, Denslow 31).Both Jian Jiang and the lion let fear rule their life and ended up losing out on opportunities. But instead of just focusing on that they wanted to self-improve. Jia Jiang started to ask why and the lion wanted to gain courage. In doing this neither of them would lose any more…

hard times or difficult events. William Wallace within the movie Braveheart captures that idea completely while trying to tell the story of how a group set out to overthrow foreign rule as well as shake up the feudal system. This piece sets out to take a historical event and turn it into a blockbuster hit through love, battles, and a martyr to root for. Although as many know that movies rarely hold up to actual events, Braveheart leaves room to find and dissect the true meaning of Hollywood as…

Beowulf In the poem, Beowulf, a warrior from Geats comes to help Hrothgar, the king of the Danes whose land is being attacked by a monster, Grendel. Beowulf is successful and kills Grendel. To show his bravery and abilities, he even kills Grendel without using weapons. However,Hrothgar is still in trouble, because Grendel's mother is now trying to get revenge. As the poem continues, Beowulf kills Grendel's mother in her lair with a sword that giants used. After the victory, Beowulf returns…

battlefield and worked tough in politics. William Wallace fought for not only the independence of himself, but also the people around him. Finally, there was William Marshal who was so…

For example, when William got captured he was brave as he stood up to the judge. The judge asked William, "Confess and you may receive a quick death. Deny and you must be purified with pain" (Braveheart 2:30:46). William had an opportunity to confess and pledge allegiance to the king but he refused. William said to the judge, "Never in my whole life, did I swear allegiance to him" (Braveheart 2:30:34). If William pledged to the king, his barbaric acts would have been for nothing. Wallace…

educational words about hardship times, that would stick within the mind forever, world needs something in larger scale. Mel Gibson gave the world opportunity of enjoyment and education at the same time, by producing a movie called Braveheart. The movie Braveheart is about a peasant boy of the end of the 13th century, William Wallace (Mel Gipson), that grows up into a warrior. After the loss of his father and his wife he rebels…

William Wallace He stands in front of his small army, gazing at them. Many of these men have heard mystical stories about him, such as being six or seven feet tall and having a very large sword (Wallace 700 2005). Stories have even said he could crush a man’s skull with his bare hands. As he looks at them, to prepare them for battle he says, “They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take away our freedom (Braveheart)!” Wallace probably never said these words in such a dramatic fashion,…

Harry Daniels was an honourary Métis member, leader, social activist, author, and actor who was born September 16, 1940, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Daniels spent over 40 years in the national and international Aboriginal political arenas, fighting for the rights of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Influenced by the Labour Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, he was one of the founding members of both the Saskatchewan Métis Society and the Native Council of Canada. He served as Vice President of the…

George C Wallace also known as “the fighting little judge” was born in the state of alabama in 1919, grew up as a farmer and took boxing when he was a young boy. He later than went to the university of alabama for law and graduated with a law degree in 1942. After school, he decided he wanted to join the u.s army air corps and fought in the world war 2 and then later being disabled from war. He fought in the war but then decided to return home to his wife and start his political life again. He…

The movie I picked was The Trench written and directed by William Boyd. It was released in the United States November 22, 2000, and starred Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The movie starts off in the summer of 1916 and shows the British Army getting ready for the Somme Offensive. It opens up with some information on the setting, “while hundreds of thousands of soldiers massed in the rear, a small force was left to hold the trenches” (The Trench). The movie gives us an…