;0) Key Concepts Love, Prejudice, Despair, Hope, Poverty, Sacrifice, Selfishness, Church Summary The film is a true story portraying the McCourt family battling unemployment, their father's alcoholism, poverty, prejudice and infant mortality over a 15 year period, from 1935 to 1950, initially in New York and then for most of that time in Limerick. ... It chronicles the family's passage through the years as hope gives way to despair, as sacrifice reaches its limits, and as youthful ideals finally find fruition. ... He directed the recent Evita film-musical starring Madonna,...

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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... The father of the new objective school was the great Leopold von Ranke. ... Turner, emphasized social and economic factors in explaining historical development, as did the "new history- of James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. ...

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Battle at Mystic When the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, they originally met a group of natives who helped them adjust to the new land, and despite the kindness of the natives, the English still considered them savages. ... The emotions kept rising between the Pequots and the Puritans, and on May 26, 1637, the English decided that it was time to end their war with the Pequots, and attacked their village at Mystic. ... In May 1830, nearly two hundred years after the war with the Pequots, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced the tribes into territory west of the Mississippi. ... Go...

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He hoped, he said, that firing on the prayer group would teach them to "leave me alone (Torr 7)." ... His fellow students also recognized his violent nature, for they "jokingly" voted him as "Most Likely to Start World War III (Frontline)." ... I entered the main commons of my school and found every student starring at the big screen TV. ...

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