The story focuses on a central character, Benjamin Martin, who is played by Mel Gibson. ... "When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget that America was built upon the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of African people and it is criminal to say otherwise" Lee added. ... The portrayal of children shooting riffles is their main concern. Two of Benjamin Martin's sons are taught to hide in the woods and fire at the passing British soldiers. This scene is followed by one in which one son expresses his joy of killing the soldiers and the...

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The death of the main female character's German lover, merged with feelings of angst and resentment towards her family for not accepting her choice, led her to suffer from an identity crisis because it was difficult for her to define herself as a woman without the presence of her lover. ... Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ... The main character, Oskar,...

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It is therefore under the influence of these values that the characters within Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, are constructed. ... One man who influenced the creation of the characters within Frankenstein was the philosopher and social critic, Jean Jaques Rousseau. ... Shelley's disgust at the philosopher's cold-hearted abandonment of his five illegitimate children by Therese le Vasseur, an illiterate working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein, and all male characters in the novel, inhabit t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate