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Film Review (The Money Pit)
268 Words - 1 Pages.... movies he has performed before were The Man with One Red Shoe, Splash, Bachlor and etc.
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young couple just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly.
Alexander Godunov plays Mac, the antagonist who interests in Anna and created conflict between the young couple by lying or saying that Anna slept with him when she was drunk.
The plot of the story is not very special, but the actors use funny expressions and skill to deal with the unstable house to make the movie more interesting. Sometimes Tom Hanks is over acting and they exaggerate to m ....
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Confucius 3
646 Words - 3 Pages.... for the tax paying peasants. It trained its followers in generous giving, traditional rituals, family order, loyalty, respect for superiors and for the aged, and principled flexibility in advising rulers.
Confucius was China's first and most famous philosopher. He had a traditional personal name (Qiu) and a formal name (Zhoghi). Confucius's father died shortly after Confucius's birth. His family fell into relative poverty, and Confucius joined a growing class of impoverished descendants of aristocrats who made their careers by acquiring knowledge of feudal ritual and taking positions of influence serving the rulers of the many separate states of ancient China. Confucius ....
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Industrialization 2
672 Words - 3 Pages.... growing, causing them to look extremely young, 17 years old boys would look 12. Owners were very greedy, they refused to pay for people safety for the mere fact that it would cut into their profits. They also gave very low wages for very long hours. Some had 12 hour days for 6 days a week only earning 10 cents an hour, $5.50 a week. Children would only earn half that.
This was also a time of Immigration. They came because they wanted to get away from war, famine and religious persecution. They wanted to come to America, The land of the Free, a place for equality. This was all true in America, if you had money, or where the white man. These immigrants surely weren't. They we ....
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Mrs Smith Sux
1162 Words - 5 Pages.... and to justify religious beliefs, capitalism, and military conquests.
Darwinism greatly impacted the scientific world purely through its specific doctrine. The enlightenment had paved the way for rational thinking and observation. People were willing to accept scientific data as fact and they were able to objectively consider theories that went against the church. Because of the story of creation, Darwinism would have been immediately rejected only a few centuries earlier. People used Darwinism as a weapon to strike at the validity of the powerful religious institutions of the period. It was because of the many drastic changes in the beliefs of the people and the advance ....
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Berlin Wall Book Review On The
788 Words - 3 Pages.... It first started out as a border made of barbed wire and cement posts. Soon the supply of cement was running out, so streets were being torn up to make the wall. West Berliners looked on in disbelief at the overturned trees, trenches, and barbed wire. Yet they couldn't do anything about it because on the opposite side was guards with guns pointing directly at them. After the work on the wall was completed, it was 10-13 feet high. If it were straight, it would have been 103 miles long.
On the communistic East side there was another smaller wall. The land inbetween these walls were extremely dangerous. Guard patrolled this area with guns. This didn't stop people from ....
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The Indians And Losing Their Homes
1375 Words - 5 Pages.... taken from them, they have no where else to turn but violence. Violence towards the people who stole away their security while replacing it with fear and apprehension.
The Sioux tribe of Indians were a breed of people entirely different from the white man. They believed in spiritual guidance, but not spiritual worshipping. This was a major conflict to what most other people in the United States believed. They did not believe in any Bible or other books to tell them what to do, they lived by the theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to be split into two parts, the spiritual and the physical. The spiritual was concerned with only the essenc ....
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Ceasar Vs. Louis 16th
1355 Words - 5 Pages.... French rulers did. “His father’s death spared Louis XIV the beatings and abuse usually given to French princes” (Buranelli 23). His mother and Marzarin, the cardinal, raised him. He had tutors who gave him an education. Marzarin taught him everything he would need to know about court ceremony, war, and the craft of kingship. It is obvious that Louis has been brought up very different than other young kings. That is what might account for his unique style of ruling. When Marzarin died in 1661, France was shocked to find out that Louis refused to select a first minister (Michael 73). He wanted to rule alone. He chose Jean Baptiste Colbert as h ....
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Gulf War Illness
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Although the Persian Gulf conflict ended in 1991, some eighty thousand veterans of the war are still suffering from unexplained health problems including chronic fatigue, joint aches, memory loss, rashes, bleeding gums, tumors, and intestinal and respiratory illnesses. They attribute their suffering to wartime service in the Gulf, though past Pentagon investigations concluded that there was no evidence to link their ailments to wartime risks such as oil-well fire smoke, vaccines, or chemical agents. Originally, the cause of these various symptoms was assumed to be post-traumatic stress, but the persistent and varied nature of the symptoms resisted that label. Pressure fr ....
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