Summary of Rizal The film started with a scene showing Rizal writing a letter. The letter contains his thoughts that the Philippines has a serious illness and that it is plagued by the Spanish domination over our country. Crisostomo Ibarra was also introduced in the film‚ and it is Rizal’s alter ego. Ibarra had been forced to have two personalities because of the worsening problem in our country. Rizal had published books such as the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo‚ as his weapons against
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“Nineteen-Thirty Seven”‚ writes of a girl named Josephine. Her mother had been in a group of women‚ whose generation had crossed over the river separating the Dominican Republic from Haiti‚ to escape the reign of General Trujillo. Her mother‚ after being imprisoned for many years‚ dies‚ and she goes with another woman from her mother’s group to see the prison guards burn her body. Josephine‚ at the end of the chapter‚ says‚ “Let her flight be joyful… and mine and yours too” (Nineteen-Thirty Seven‚ 42). In
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Graceling takes place on a large land mass‚ dubbed "The Seven Kingdoms". It is split into 7 different sections each controlled by a king and/or queen. The kingdoms are (in order from tops to bottom) Nander‚ Wester‚ Middluns‚ Estill‚ Sunder‚ Monsea‚ and Lienid. Kasta‚ the main character‚ comes from Middluns‚ a kingdom ruled by one named Randa. Po‚ a character Katsa later meets‚ derives from Lienid. Katsa is a Graceling‚ one of the rare people in her lad born with an extreme skill in a certain "category"
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MyTheory Essay Why Me? Caw! Caw! In Evan Hunter’s screenplay‚ “The Birds‚” Melanie Daniels is being attacked by birds because she is a stranger to Bodega Bay. This is because the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay‚ the birds target areas where Melanie is‚ and the birds attack people who Melanie knows. To start with‚ the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay. First of all‚ the birds attack Melanie Daniels because she
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In 2009‚ astrophysicist‚ Dr. Satnam Tsurutani in India informed geologist‚ Dr. Adrian Helmsley about the biggest sun eruption that happened very recently which caused significant increase in the Earth core’s temperature. Dr. Helmsley went directly to the White House and showed the report to the President’s Chief of Staff‚ Carl Anheuser. After a year‚ President of the United States‚ Thomas Wilson‚ met with other world leaders to make preparations in order to save humanity by constructing arks at
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1954 movie The Seven Samurai‚ directed by Akira Kurosawa‚ and its 1960 remake The Magnificent Seven‚ directed by John Sturges have many similarities; for example‚ the plot of both movies entails farmers hiring mercenaries to help fend off bandits that annually pillage their farms. The two movies also have differences like the characterization of the bandits in The Magnificent Seven as opposed to The Seven Samurai. One of the main similarities between the Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven is the
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Today‚ I would like to introduce a film to all of you. It is called ¡§Seabiscuit¡¨. The story background was the Great Depression in America. In 1937‚ America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. The economy had come crashing down‚ and millions upon millions of people had been torn loose from their jobs‚ their savings‚ their homes. The most brash of peoples was seized by despair‚ fatalism‚ and fear. This is a story about a country whose dreams had been shattered
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Peter Travis creates a brand new look on the Movie‚ October Sky directed by Joe Johnston by reviewing the movie for Rolling stones in february 1999 . He discovers the movie to be very unique and refreshing from the movies directed at that period of time. He considers October sky’s optimistic look on life to be way more necessary for common people than those Cynical outlooks of other movies. Traver states that the movie is based on the autobiography “The Rocket boys : A memoir “ written by Homer
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“If a nation’s literature declines‚ the nation atrophies and decays.” (Ezra Pound Quotes) Ezra Pound was not a man of many words‚ but he certainly did have a knack for turning simple words into something beautiful. Pounds’ poetry was influenced by his fascination with Benito Mussolini and the Fascist movement‚ the time of his stay in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and the concept of Imagism. It is safe to say that Ezra Pound did not live a boring life growing up. He was born on October 30‚ 1885 in Hailey
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