is almost killed. Captain Jim Kirk gets in trouble by Admiral Pike, his authority and Kirk get his ship and position taken away from him. During this time, John Harrison, or better known as Khan, has a diabolical plan to take over Starfleet and the world. Khan bombs a Starfleet base in London. Since this tragedy occurred, it was protocol for high ranking officials to meet. During this meeting, Khan attacks them, and kills Admiral Pike. After this, Admiral Marcus, the head of all Starfleet, authorizes
of the enemy. Every city and castle feared the appearance of siege engines, especially the devastating counterweight trebuchet. This powerful gravity-driven engine could reduce a city’s walls to rubble. Infantry and cavalry alike feared the awesome pike formations of the Swiss and Landsknecht armies. Essentially a really long spear, the pike’s very simplicity provided a remarkable tactical versatility in many medieval battles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#mediaviewer/File:Trebuchet_Castelnaud
prison. This man is called Pike, and has a reputation for being a fighter. His reputation is not that well however, because it seems that he loses more fights than he wins. He is sitting with an African-American man and another man by a fire, Eddie and Van. He quickly became friends with Eddie, and realized that Van was more trouble than he was worth. He and Eddie hitched a train to the West, looking for jobs as cowherds. They reach a town on the edge of the frontier that Pike has visited in the past
Albert Pike Arkansas’s Confederate poetic Masonic Lawyer and Commander at Pea Ridge "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike Carved at the home of Albert Pike's statue at Third and D Streets in Northwest Washington are the words, "philosopher, jurist, public speaker, writer, poet, student, soldier." Born in Massachusetts, Pike was six feet tall and weighed 300 pounds, an imposing image even without his
Look into the Christopher Pike Christopher Pike’s real name is Kevin Christopher McFadden (von Ruff). He was born November 12 of 1954 in New York City, New York. He grew up in California and attended college for a short amount of time before he dropped out where he then worked different jobs. Some of the jobs Pike worked was house painting and computer programming. Pike started writing books in 1985. Christopher Pike is his false name, which is mostly used by an author. Pike is a popular author in
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and The Wild Bunch (1962) are both critically acclaimed western films, regarded as some of the best in their genre. They are both different however in their portrayal of the western myth and the characters therein. This essay will compare and contrast these movies focusing on firstly their depiction of the national identity and mythology of the old west. Secondly, it will look at the differences of the portrayal of different character types, with specific reference
Zook and Patrick Kelly, the Irish brigade, along with John Brooke's brigade in reserves Throughout the intense fighting, Colonel Cross was seriously wounded being shot in the stomach while bringing his troops through the waist high wheat, now Sergeant Phelps takes command. Furthermore, Colonel Zook is knocked off his horse and also shot in the abdomen and dies while trying to advance his men through the field. However, notwithstanding the loses, the three brigades push the Confederates off the hill
Samuel Gridley Howe shaped his place as a prominent member of the abolitionist movement. He was invited to speak at Faneuil Hall with Parker. Faneuil Hall was where major participants in the abolitionist cause gathered and gave speeches, in order to raise funds. Howe travelled to raise money, aided the abolitionist movement, and offered his time and resources to help those in need. He travelled to Europe to raise money and used this skill to help the Massachusetts-Kansas Committee with fundraising
One of the most important part of the Star Wars movies is the lightsabers. Every lightsaber is different from the next because the lightsaber is made for the owner. A good description of what a lightsaber can do came from the Star War website and the article “Lightsaber – Info” “In the hands of a Jedi, a lightsaber is almost unstoppable. It can be used to cut through blast doors or enemies alike. Using the Force, a Jedi can predict and deflect incoming blaster bolts, and reflect them back at the
barrel of the musket to... ... middle of paper ... ...n the hand, he then advanced within the 28th Foot and he was shot again but this time in the groin and right again in the chest. A group of soldiers then carried him out to the rear. Canadian had kept firing on the British until they were all driven back. The French army retreated into the city. Montcalm has who been shot and was carried on later died. Wolfe didn’t want to get any medical attention and they laid him on the ground. Someone
Recurrence and Resolution in Preston Sturges Film The Lady Eve The first scene begins with a medium shot of the lover’s usual meeting place on deck, where a cheerful and whistling Charles (Hopsie) paces up and down waiting for Jean to appear. The camera focuses on Charles pacing and whistling while diagetic sound is heard from kids playing on the deck and a bell ringing in the background. There is a change of focus when two men walk right in front of Charles while he is pacing back and forth. Muggsy
Fincher’s best. Based on the novel of the same name by Gillian, who also wrote the screenplay, “Gone Girl” stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, a Missourian who seems despondent with his lot in life. Things soon shake up for him when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on their fifth anniversary. As the police and Nick look for his apparently kidnapped wife, we soon realize Nick may not bee so innocent. One of the
player is hitting fast and good shots and the opponent taps every ball in until the other player makes a mistake. The attitude of the other player is what may cause this type of tennis player which I like to call “the dinker” to be victorious in her matches. Next, this is my favorite category because this is very funny to me. The grunter. Its easy to tell if someones grunts and “come ons” on a tennis courts are natural. This player though, is something else. Every shot shot this girl hits, the grunt becomes
for their crops from the landowners. They placed armed guards outside the doors to protect those inside. Two white men, a sheriff, W.A Atkins, and a railroad worker, Charles Pratt, showed up at the front of the church and shots were fired. Nobody knows who fired the first shot," says Little Rock lawyer and author Grif Stockley, who grew up in the Delta and wrote the book on the Elaine race riots. But there is plenty of evidence to say whites attacked blacks indiscriminately, he says. "I use the term
The story of King Arthur is widely known, either his beginnings told in The Sword in the Stone or how he led the Knights of the Round Table. While there are many version of his story T. H. White’s written version and Disney’s animated version of The Sword in the Stone are two of the most recognized versions. Most movies have the ability to embody the original intent of the book they were based upon. Disney’s movie version of T. H. White’s rendition of The Sword in the Stone, however, while portraying
New technologies such as submarines, multiple-shot weapons, and exploding bullets aided the northern manufacturing economy. Handguns played a major role in the Civil War as far as weaponry was concerned. For instance, the most popular sidearm in the Union army was the Colt Army model 1860, which was a .36 caliber. The Army model 1860 was remodeled after the 1848 Dragoon, which was used in the Mexican War. The Colt model 1860 was a .44 caliber six shot weapon weighing two pounds eleven ounces. During
hawking. Their hawk flies away hoping it will find a rabbit and sadly it flies into the forest and sits in a tree. Kay gets aggravated and storms off while the Wart decides to recapture it. He stops under a tree where it had landed and the Wart gets shot at by an arrow. He runs through the forest and finds a knight named King Pellinore. King Pellinore is on a quest for the questing beast which is a magical animal. King Pellinore hears the beast and dashes off to find it leaving the Wart behind. The
2015, p. 103). Hitchcock often worked with bombshell blondes like Grace Kelly Ingrid Bergman, and Tippi Hedren who all shared similar characteristics. In Fincher’s most recent film Gone Girl (2014), the main character Amy Dunne, played by Rosamund Pike, portrays the Hitchcock blonde. She is spoiled by her moneyed upbringing and is always put together. “Hitchcock was a master of using actors with whom the audience can sympathize despite their role as an unsympathetic character” (Kohn, 2015, p. 99)
evidence of this war ranged from the draft where young men were voluntold to enter the armed forces, Veterans were coming home with horrendous injuries and many soldiers never returned to their loved ones. The Wild Bunch main actors are William Holden (Pike), Ernest Borgnine (Dutch), Robert Ryan (Thorton), Edmond O’Brien (Sykes), Warren Oates (Lyle), James Sanchez (Angel) and Emilio Fernandez (Angel). The Wild Bunch is a western film that takes place in 1913, during the height of the Mexican Revolution
The Hatfields and McCoys is a family feud built upon many factors. It was a feud over mainly family pride, and it involved alot of violence. The feud mainly happened in the 1800's; that was the origin date of the feud. However, the feud still occurs to this day and is still very heated at times. The original families were very loyal and would kill for each other, and this was the main cause of this decade-long feud. This feud is arguably the biggest and probably most well-known feud in America