The perspective of Captain Nemo can be complex. It can change in an instant. The perspective of captain Nemo to the ocean can be obscure. It doesn’t say much of the perspective of Captain Nemo to Professor Aronnax too. The perspective of Captain Nemo to the people on land‚ on earth can be brutal. Captain Nemo is a perplexing character. The captain’s view to the ocean is always grand. Captain Nemo’s “land” is the ocean. The ocean is his life. The book states that Captain Nemo had been in the ocean
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The story of Captain John Newton (slave trader)- Captain John Newton started his life on the sea at 11 years old‚ while sailing with his father who was a merchant vessel captain. After his father retired from sailing John Newton became part of the service and served on the H.M.S. Harwich in 1744. He found the living conditions unbearable and left service as a deserter. He was later captured‚ demoted‚ and publically embarrassed. John was then turned over to serve as an indentured servant
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Captain James Cook‚ FRS‚ RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer‚ navigator‚ cartographer‚ and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean‚ during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands‚ and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is considered the most important award of the ceremony. While there are those who think that the other nominees should win the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture‚ Captain Phillips is a fantastic and well made movie based on a true story. The Academy Awards Ceremony of today is far from what it was when it first began. The first Academy Awards ceremony took place out of the public eye during an Academy banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (“History of the
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Abraham Lincoln: “House Divided” Speech The House Divided speech took place on June 16‚ 1858 in Springfield‚ Illinois. It was recited by Abraham Lincoln as he accepted the Republican Party nomination as a representative of the United States Senate. The primary issue throughout the course of this speech was the heavily controversial issue of slavery. In 1854‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed; this act allowed citizens of new territories would decide whether or not they should have slavery‚ which
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One of the last major events of the novel “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” is the massacre of the Italian troops by the Nazis in the September of 1943. Whilst the Acqui Division was able to delay their capture‚ they were eventually overpowered and brought to the back of a brothel to be executed. Every man in the barraged was shot to death except one. At the last moment‚ Carlo stepped in front of Captain Corelli and used his enormous body to shield his friend from the fire. His thick frame was able to
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I read the speech given by Sir Winston Churchill on June 4‚ 1940 to the House of Common is the UK. Churchill gave this speech as he acted as Prime Minister. The speech was delivered after the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army at Dunkirk. Churchill started by delivering an account of the last few weeks‚ outlining the heroic actions of soldiers from the Army and Royal Air Force as they desperately tried to stop the advance of the German Army into Belgium and France
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takes place in a rural area in north spain in 1944 after the civil war or the fantasy settings takes place in an underground kingdom in a fig tree. The plot is that a young girl named Ofelia and her ailing mother have to go to her moms new husband’s house who happens to be a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. Ofelias mother is kind‚ mild‚ beautiful and gentle. Ofelia’s father a tailor died and her mother is left alone to take care of her in an uncertain city so she marries
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creative peak in the early 1970s‚ beginning with the release of Captain Apache (1971)‚ produced and distributed by Benmar Productions of England and featuring Lee Van Cleef (High Noon‚ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) as the eponymous protagonist. While the decision to cast a white actor in the film’s lead role and have him apply red makeup to increase his authenticity would be considered exploitative and harmful by contemporary standards‚ Captain Apache is an incredibly atypical character for a western
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Independence Day speech Respected teachers and all my dear friends‚ The day 15th August of every year is a golden day written in the history of the world. We got freedom on this date and it is a day worth a celebration. When we celebrate it hoisting the flag‚ playing our National Anthem with fervor‚ distributing sweets‚ we need to sail back into the past to remember and pay homage to the builders of our nation. My dear friends‚ We were the privileged lot to have been born in free India
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