bomb known as the Revolution ahead. One of the first Acts passed was the Stamp Act. .
The Stamp Act was the first direct tax levied on the colonists and even though this Act .
had been around since 1694, when it was introduced to the colonies it created much .
controversy and violence in the colonies, particularly among the most influential .
members of society. The Act enraged some members of the colonies and later the Stamp .
Act was lifted. This was not the end of the problem, when one year later the same .
situation arose and during a protest the British sent troops and three civilians were killed. .
This would come to be known as the "Boston Massacre".
In the years before the Revolution and after the French and Indian War, British .
economic policy toward the colonies was more burdensome than previously had been .
imposed. Americans responded by exerting their rights as British subjects, ultimately .
leading to armed rebellion, as their protests were unresolved. The British Parliament .
treated the American colonies with arrogant disrespect in the colonists" view. The British .
believed the colonies should serve the Empire without question. This strained .
relationship could only lead to conflict, but who would lead this Revolution? Samuel .
Adams was outraged by the incident in Boston and he felt that the British troops should .
have no right to station themselves in Boston. He brought fourth the Mutiny Act, which .
disallowed the troops to station in Boston, but the "British military authorities were .
determined to post them in the heart of town until the citizens had been thoroughly cured .
of their weakness for rioting"(Werner D. Kirk, The American Revolution. Pg.55). The .
defiance to the imperial government had been established, when Samuel Adams and .
other radicals established "committees of correspondence" in many of the colonies. The .
East India Company was given exclusive rights to sell it's tea directly to American .
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Franco Zeffirelli's interpretation of "Hamlet" with Mel Gibson is a bit physical and upbeat. Gibson seems not to give us a true Hamlet, although we do get the notion that there is nothing wrong with him till his father dies and his mother marries his uncle. ... Mel Gibson's "Hamlet" was extremely straightforward and a highly edited version of the original film. I noticed that the castle was much more ravishing and glamorous in Mel Gibson's Hamlet and the mood in the films seemed to alter. ... We also see how Mel Gibson portrays "young Hamlet" as a moody -miserable yet clever ...
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", is a direct adaptation of the passion story as it appears in the bible. ... However, it is not hard to understand why Mel Gibson made this movie. ... Mel Gibson does not pull the camera away from any of brutality that occurs throughout the story. ... I was also able to understand why Gibson made this movie. ... Through out all of the controversy, Mel Gibson does a great job in directing his first movie. ...
The character of Hamlet in the film with Mel Gibson seems to be an accurate portrayal of Hamlet in Shakespeare's play. ... Mel Gibson did a great job in playing the role of Hamlet for many reasons. First, Mel Gibson does a wonderful job by not giving way by not revealing the secrecy of his madness to anyone. ... Emotions are seeping out of Hamlet in the play and Mel Gibson does an excellent job in showing this in the movie. ... Mel Gibson really did an excellent job in portraying the character of Hamlet as it was in Shakespeare's play....
The film begins at the end of the America vs. ... For instance they viewed a mother be killed in front of her child because she would not stop screaming for help from the American soldiers. ... Mel Gibson, The Patriot is known for one battle where he had killed 30 men in a brutal and disgraceful manner as a form of revenge. ... It had escalated to the point that the colonies no longer wanted to have any relations with England, they wanted Freedom, which lead to the American Revolution. ... After Gibson enters the war he goes around recruiting men, not to be a part of conventional warfare but i...
The film begins at the end of the America vs. ... For instance they viewed a mother be killed in front of her child because she would not stop screaming for help from the American soldiers. ... Mel Gibson, The Patriot is known for one battle where he had killed 30 men in a brutal and disgraceful manner as a form of revenge. ... It had escalated to the point that the colonies no longer wanted to have any relations with England, they wanted Freedom, which lead to the American Revolution. ... After Gibson enters the war he goes around recruiting men, not to be a part of conventional warfare but i...
"The Passion of the Christ" is a film directed by Mel Gibson that was written by Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald. ... Gibson wanted to make it clear to the audience what horror and pain Jesus went through and the price that he paid for our sins. ... I think that through this movie Christians and Jews can have a better understanding of one another. Gibson himself has said " not a single person has expressed that kind of an emotion. ... No matter what anyone thinks of Mel Gibson or the movie, I believe that he made this movie both as an act of devotion and in order to impact the secular cultu...
Braveheart Braveheart, which was released in early 1995, is by far one of the best, if not the best, action film of all time. ... In this film, William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, leads the Scottish people to victory their English enemies. ... The most interesting change that Mel Gibson, who also directed this movie, made was to make it quite obvious that Edward II was a homosexual. ... There could be many reasons for the change that Gibson made in history for the film's plot, but regardless of the reason, it brought Gay Right's groups to an uproar. Now, although there...
But whether it is Mel Gibson or Ethen Hawke who stars in the movie, essentially, it is still Hamlet. ... Mel Gibson vs. ... I personally think Mel Gibson is a better actor in all cases, but Ethen was just disappointing, that is all I can really say. ... Mel Gibson made this scene seem real. ... Mel Gibson was able to handle this scene much better. ...
The film would as well be extremely controversial because not everyone has the same opinion about what happened during Jesus" last twelve hours of life so Mel Gibson should not have tried to recapture this moment according to the people that do not share the same view as Gibson. The movie is excessively controversial for the reason that different religions have different points of view on the subject and these people believe Gibson should not have made this movie so as not to offend anyone's beliefs. ... This is not the point that Gibson intended to send though that is the way it was i...
