(The Rainbow Troops) is a 2008 Indonesian film adapted from the popular Indonesian novel by Andrea Hirata. The movie follows a group of 10 schoolboys and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra. The film is the highest grossing in Indonesian box office history[1] and won a number of local and international awards. The Rainbow Troops was a 2008 Indonesian
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Our Troops Should Come Home There is much controversy surrounding the war in Iraq‚ both in terms of its legality‚ its practicality and its current course. Within all of these elements there are arguments to be found that suggest that the troops currently in Iraq should indeed come home. The main argument for bringing home the troops is that they shouldn’t have been there in the first place‚ as no weapons of mass destruction were found‚ and they are now doing virtually nothing to help the situation
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1. Lexington and Concord: The first battle of the Revolutionary War‚ fought in Massachusetts on April 19‚ 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists’ military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord‚ advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen‚ and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord-Lexington Road. Paul Revere‚ on his famous ride‚ had first alerted the Americans to the British movement
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Qualities of a troop commander on operations today. Encapsulating ‘A leader is a dealer in hope’ (In the Service of the Sultan) is perhaps the most effective quote from the set reading for summing up the role of a troop commander on operations today. Obviously the task‚ that is‚ the job that needs to be accomplished by the troop commander and his troop vary on a day to day basis and (depending on the conflict or situation) can be incredibly diverse. Despite this fact the responsibility of
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An observation investigation into whether or not dominance hierarchies exist in a troop of Captive Squirrel monkeys Introduction Darwin (1859‚ as cited in Darwin‚ 1909) proposed the idea that species of animals have evolved through survival of the fittest and in doing this form a social group in order to increase their chances of survival against predation. Drews (1993) defined dominance hierarchies as the pattern of repeated‚ agonistic interaction between two individuals‚ characterised by
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considered as the topic of this paper to explore how the author shows the personalities of main characters in The Rainbow Troops. In addition‚ it is used to gain insight the ways these personalities are shaped that make each of the main characters come to life. Concerning with the portrait of life‚ this paper is going to reveal children portrait in Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops through psychoanalysis‚ an approach that concerns about personality and psychological world of human beings by Austrian
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The United States needs to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their reasons for being at war are invalid because American company in the foreign countries is insubstantial; the U.S. government cannot afford the continuous costs of war‚ and has lost sight of aims. It is time to bring our forces home. American presence in their countries is not making a significant difference. Military and foreign policy experts agree that there is no military solution in Afghanistan‚ and that “any
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United States Interventions Issue #1 United States Troops in afghanistan Source: Greg Bruno‚ The War in Afghanistan Just after the September 11th‚ 2001‚ attacks on American soil that took down the World Trade Center‚ America was already planning how to take down the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden‚ the one who planned the attacks. We discovered his location in Afghanistan only months later‚ and the thought of an invasion was on everyone’s minds. The United States led multiple offensives
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Drug Use in the Military: Is it affecting Our Troops? When Elvis Presley was stationed in Europe during his military service‚ his fellow soldiers introduced him to amphetamines and other stimulants used to help keep them alert during long‚ boring patrol duties. Elvis became addicted to the little brown and green pills – and brought the problem back home with him to Graceland. The King’s death decades later (as a result of a prescription drug overdose) opened many people’s eyes to problems of drug
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Cambodia and with foreign countries. In detail‚ from DRV’s point of view‚ they expected a final settlement which would contribute more advantageous to the Indochinese revolution. Indochina was one battlefield‚ hence only the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Indochina and the respect for independent‚ neutral and securing recognition governments of Laos and Cambodia could be satisfactory. Particularly‚ the DRV negotiator submitted an eight-point plan which were (1) France recognizes the independence
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