Steven Spielberg, an assimilated American Jew had never dealt with his ethnicity on film before, and critics, who never thought him so dark or wrenching, were floored by the results. ... To make Band Of Brothers even more realistic, Simon Atherton, armourer, and his crew read books, interviews, journals, and anything they could find describing the actual soldiers, what weapons and ammunition they had with them on D-Day and what changed over the course of the campaign, and all helped to keep in with total continuity. ... We often measure how realistic media is by comparing it to something t...

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As we all have heard of the murdering man by the name of Adolf Hitler, we are reminded of what he did during WWII to such blameless people. ... His Nazi belief also thought that other races were "sub-human." ... It really shows how cruel an individual's mind can think when they are being influenced by the rest of the world to be in control. ... As people who live in this society even today, many would think the same and just be thankful that they weren't a Jew so that they didn't have to go through all of the tragic experiences that they had to experiment. ... This is a part of...

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The Romans, the Mongols, the British and the Spanish empires and many more have all made us who we are today; from one empire another one was given birth to, but also as the culture, language, and food and even combat transformed and developed. ... The world has developed and changed in languages and also cultures. ... This made a great impact creating a bomb that can easily blow up a whole city; with such strong power, and, if the owner doesn't take careful consideration about how to use such a monstrous weapon, it could end terribly or be used for the wrong purposes. ... If it wasn'...

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The intriguing theme of human frailty has made an appearance in many works of historical and contemporary artists, with some works even causing disturbance within the audience. ... The world illustrated in Painting 1977 relates to what teenagers may feel and think about the world today. ... Individuals are continuously trying to fit in with society, following what society thinks is acceptable and in turn losing their sense of identity and individuality. Painting 1977 portrays what makes up Booth's personal and cultural identity: his childhood involving him growing up in a war torn country...

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The scar symbolizes how human nature can destroy paradise by simply entering it. ... Simon says to Ralph, "I just think you'll get back alright" (111), as if he could foresee his own death, just like Jesus did. ... Although it may seem like his motives from the beginning were evil because he showed savagery so early on, he too thought he would never become a savage. ... We're English, and the English are best at everything" (40), which depicts how Jack has evil within him, even if at first it was not visible because he is "English." ... Put together the change in the boys'...

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So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. ... Smallpox was a virus that everyone thought that was gone for good, the last case documented in the United States was in 1949 and 1977 was the last reported case in the world. Even though the virus has been eradicated, there is a strong fear that terrorist will make new strains of smallpox that we have yet to make a vaccine. ... In this section I plan to propose two critical questions that should be at the forefront of every country when they think about getting the...

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The prevailing intellectual state in the mid to late nineteenth century was one of change. ... Although new philosophy is not a new or even rare event in history, the ideological changes occurring in the latter half of the nineteenth century were markedly different from those in the past because science enhanced their credibility. ... As the nineteenth century came to a close, Europe had been exposed to new ideas, made credible through scientific evidence, and began to think differently about themselves and about their nations. ... Here there can be no step backward. ... We can pursue this...

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Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... Almost all of Eastern and South-Eastern was under the control of the Soviet Union, but the allies urgently sought to change this. ... Transportation was made even more difficult by the fact that the Germans had destroyed 56,000 miles of main highway and 90,000 bridges. ... Additionally, changes were be made to the Polish provisional government in order to allow for a more democratic environment. ... He was unsuccessful however, as the Poles refused ...

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