Gladiator Julius Mitchell ENG 225 Prof. Jonathan Beller 13 March 2011 What would you do if you were engaged in a twelve year campaign; you have a wife and son who are waiting for you‚ but you are asked to be king and leader of your country? Would you refuse your king‚ and turn your back on your country‚ for the sake of two? Ridley Scott‚ director of Universal Pictures “Gladiator‚” brought to life‚ writer David Franzoni’s epic tale of Maximus‚ an inspiring and powerful Roman General
Premium Ancient Rome Roman Empire Gladiator
of Colloseum. I’m going to fight along with other gladiators to entertain Roman high class society. I find it very ironic. I’m supposed to kill for entertainment of people I hate. But I need to focus on more important things. Like the freedom I’ll get if I will survive. I know the chance is so small‚ but that’s all I could’ve hoped for. And I’ll fight for it with all my strength. During all this time I’ve spent here I got to know other gladiators. I’ve met Flavius‚ who became a good friend of mine
Premium English-language films Debut albums American films
Rome started in 753 B.C. and ended in 476 A.D. Rome is most likely the reason why the United States is like today. Trade was vital to Rome and the city of Rome itself has tremendous environmental advantages. They had Gladiators‚ horse racing and theater. Rome’s government was the most helpful. The Roman’s trade imported a whole variety of materials like beef‚ corn‚ glassware‚ iron‚ lead‚ leather‚ marble‚ olive oil‚ perfumes‚ purple dye‚ silk‚ silver‚ spices‚ timber‚ tin‚ and wine. The main trading
Premium Roman Empire Ancient Rome Roman Republic
Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in the writing process? A. Think about your topic B. Think about your audience. C. Try exploring statergies. D. Write your first draft D When you think about your audience‚ you consider- A. possible publication B. Your intended readers C. auditory details D. all of the above B When you consider your audience‚ you also- A Adapt your tone and vocabulary to suit them. B. Try to choose very sophisticated words to give your writing
Free Writing Sentence Writing process
Although composed centuries apart‚ both Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator explore the similar idea of ambition‚ through their villainous characters Macbeth and Commodus. Macbeth composed in 1606 for King James delineates a noble soldier’s character transformation from an ambitious individual to corrupted tyrant as supernatural Witches and Lady Macbeth ignite his desire for power. Similarly‚ Gladiator’s vicious antagonist is a malevolent personage‚ whose desire to be loved transforms
Premium Macbeth
Good sound is the foundation of any music venue. Poor sound can ruin the audience’s enjoyment of the concert. Good sound enhances a concert‚ creates interest‚ and commands attention. So I’ll make a review of the most important gear of the Live Sound Equipment and it’s different types. So let’s start with the mics as they are the first source to pick up an acoustic signal and transform it into electrical‚ which will be driven down via XLR cables to the mixing desk and back to the PA system and the
Premium Loudspeaker Microphone Sound
INTRODUCTION Sound is a mechanical wave an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid‚ liquid‚ or gas‚ composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard‚ or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations. Sound is a sequence of waves of pressure which propagates through compressible media such as air or water. (Sound can propagate through solids as well‚ but there are additional modes of propagation). During their propagation
Premium Sound Wave Acoustics
The happiest sound in the world; a precise description given to a 1965 American musical film entitled The Sound of Music. It is in fact an exceptionally successful and well-known film at the time of its release. Others considered it as the high-point of the Hollywood musical. It is a triumphant film produced by 20th Century Fox that exemplifies award-winning cinematography‚ well-refined music and wholesome theatrical plays and performance. The story itself‚ the actors and actresses are indeed remarkable
Premium Actor Theatre The Sound of Music
Assignment 4 Task 5: Business Plan for a CD Production Unit 39 The Sound and Music Industry GC: P4‚ M4‚ D4 Write a business plan that describes and explains the process of creating a CD master of a multi-track recording‚ based on your own sound recording and production project (Assignment 5 Task 1‚ 2‚ 3). You must include all key stages‚ including pre-production and planning‚ production (recording)‚ and post-production (mixing and mastering). You must outline expected income and expenditure based
Premium Management Marketing Project management
Mark Strage Prof. Polyne Sports Race and Politics 05/15/13 Modern Gladiators Football is an inherently flawed sport. It calls upon men to sacrifice their bodies and minds by using their heads as battering rams over and over again. In his Offensive Play‚ a 2009 article in the New Yorker‚ Malcolm Gladwell explains “much of the attention in the football world‚ in the past few years‚ has been on concussions—on diagnosing‚ managing‚ and preventing them—and on figuring out how many concussions a
Premium American football