In the beginning of the movie it shows the fallout of the economic crisis in the European Union and a more controlled Russia. The increased deployment of U.S. troops leaves the America’s land unprotected. The morning after a mysterious power outage, swarms of invading North Korean paratroopers and transport aircraft attack the city. Jed intends to fight and the others agree to join him, calling themselves the Wolverines after their school mascot. The North Koreans retaliate by bombarding the surrounding woods to destroy the Wolverines' base. The Soviet Union gave the producers an obvious target for movies like “Red Dawn.” The enemy was clearly defined.
Is your heart still in the right place? Has a story ever run with it and broken it, with tears running down your face? If you have read Where the Red Fern Grows, it has definitely happened, making your heart buoyant with happiness and and break with tragedy. The strong-willed Billy, with his faithful redbone hounds, the brawny Old Dan and the brainy runt Little Ann, toy with your emotions as you follow them through their adventures and their tragic losses. Even though the movie based off the book is meant to be similar, and is, there are still differences between them.
Americans during the 60s lived in constant fear of nuclear war, especially after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film shows how easy it is for one person to destroy the world in a nuclear firestorm if governments are not careful enough. Ripper’s argument about fluoridated water also reflects the belief of some Americans that fluorine was actually a Cold War weapon by the Soviets to turn American communist. General Jack D. Ripper himself also served to present an American stereotype along with General Turgidson. They both seeked to destroy the Soviet Union without any care to logic or human life. Turgidson, in particular, reminds me of Patton, who wanted to invade the Soviet Union after WWII, and MacArthur, who wanted to invade China during the Korean War. Both of these generals epitomize how people thought of Americans as zealously anti communist and violently stupid. Additionally, Dr. Strangelove and his proposal for fallout shelters show how much the Cold War interfered with Americans’ lives with the constant duck and cover drills and shelters for nuclear war. Finally, the captain of the B-52, King Kong, also represents American stereotypes with his southern accent and his patriotic final act of sitting on top of the bomb while it is falling down towards the Soviet Union. When he found out about the orders, he did not question them and went down fighting. Many people regarded Americans as gun toting southerners who were just as patriotic as they were trigger
In the text “Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about their Religious and Cultural Perspectives” by Inés Talamantez, the author discusses the role of ceremonies and ancestral spirituality in various Native American cultures, and elaborates on the injustices native women face because of their oppressors.
The movie Seabiscuit is based on the true story of Red Pollard and his achievement of self-fulfillment through his success as a jockey. At the start of the movie, Red is an unimportant, self-doubting boxer and jockey who has never experienced success in his life. As the movie continues, Red meets two other men, Charles Howard and Jim Smith, who feel as though they have no purpose in life. Throughout the course of the movie, these three men are able to use their passions and motivation to become a successful horse racing team. By the conclusion of Seabiscuit, Red, Charles, and Jim have changed from depressed, unhappy men to an inspiration for all of America. Seabiscuit is a uniquely American film because it tells of the fulfillment of the American dream through Red Pollard and his coworkers, who rise from a life of depression and failure to an inspiring life of success.
The film uses a number of themes showing our less admirable responses to the Cold War period of the 50's and 60's. This time period was one of fear in which nuclear annihilation was ever-present in the minds of Americans and Russians. Kubrick chronicles the time period with its playing up of the arms race gaps by creating "Doomsday Device Gaps" and "Mine Shaft Gaps" to ridicule the two superpowers ever-increasing competition to have the most of everything. This constant drive to ensure that we had just as much destructive capability as the Russians drove both countries into huge amounts of debt. A large part of the national debt can be attributed to military over-spending. This competition to have to most weapons also gave us the capability to destroy the world many times over.
First Person Narrative in Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford. The author, Richard Bradford, uses first person narrative in his novel Red Sky at Morning. His story unfolds through the eyes of Josh Arnold, the strong-willed, independent son of Frank Arnold, a respected and wealthy man in Sagrado, New Mexico during the times of World War II. When Josh was two, he began to become immune to things like Indian fire and ringworm, which was the primary cause for their summerhouse in Sagrado.
I recite, “success doesn't come easy, success must be earned, success requires determination.” Everyone has an endeavour to become extraordinary. In spite of this, many people do not possess the obligatory attributes to accomplish an aim or motive in their lives. In the film “October Sky,” Homer Hickam the protagonist overcame a sequence of calamities along his journey to become a successful rocket fabricating engineer. He clawed his way out of an ‘unenlightened cave’ where coal mining was his only fate. Where there lacked serendipity, there was no hope for someone as impecunious and unfortunate as him to become successful. The two utmost points of discussion I will address consist of Homer overcoming adversity and a connection through a powerful quote. Homer Hickam overcame
The book Red Rising written by Pierce Brown is an epic story showing how one event can change someone's prospects so diversely that it can lead to them going to the extreme. The main character Darrow, a sixteen-year-old man of the Lambda mining crews in the colony of Lykos on mars. Darrow is a red in this society enslaved by the golds. Darrow is a man who knows what needs to be done and knows that you can’t accomplish anything without hard work. Darrow is a simple man working to give his family a happy life. But he soon begins to lose everything, his dreams, his prospects, and his wife. Soon he begins to believe that the only dreams he has left to believe in aren't even his own, they are his wife’s. This is what drives Darrow to fix the world and the dystopian society that rules it.
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a novel about a youth called Henry Fleming, and is based during the Civil War. When young Henry joined the army and prepared for his first battle , he thought of himself as a coward. When he was marching with the regiment one day they stumbled upon a dead soldier’s body, That made him fear the battle and wonder if he had enough courage to fight. He started to run with “fear and dignity” according to him. When Henry saw the enemy approaching he stood there as if they were to stop and retreat. He saw one of the soldiers fixing his rifle and according to Henry the soldier looked very courageous when all of a sudden the soldier got his rifle and started running away. He found himself
How does the writer create tension and suspense in The Red Room? The writer is able to create tension and suspense through various ways in the short story ‘The Red Room’. The opening sentence in the story immediately mentions the supernatural, which immediately tells us that this is a gothic story. The first sentence is dialogue, but we do not know who is speaking.
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that illustrates the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the perspective of the cross. The illustration comes together in a dream. The rood or the cross communicates with the Dreamer, to give him hope in the future return of Christ and eternal glory. Additionally, the rood encourages the Dreamer to share his dream with others and point them to the cross. This poem is meaningful to me because it prompted me to reflect on the cross and what it represents. It is a symbol of God’s love and what He did on the cross, so we could be saved from our sins.
Harper awoke to the sound of hushed giggles in the dorm. In the moonlight she could see that the older girls across the room were dressed like they were about to go dancing with boys.
When answering the questions corresponding to the film, I find myself with mixed responses. Pertaining to the topic of why we went to war with Mexico, I feel that the answer differs whether you are looking at it from the Mexican perspective or from the stance of America. Ultimately, the reason that we went to war with Mexico is because of the American desire to expand the country to the west coast.
The novel Deathwatch by Robb White (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books, 1972. Print) is set in the Death Valley area of California. Ben, a college student who works as a guide during the summer months, has been hired by Madec, a wealthy, businessman, to lead him to bighorn sheep which live in the desert mountains. Although at first these men have a common purpose for being in the area, the death of a prospector reveals their individual differences.
Therefore, the Cold War was the result of the ideological, economic, and military contest that shaped American politics, economic life, cultural, and social developments in the 1940s throughout 1950s and the 1960s (Schultz, 2013, p. 429). Nevertheless, the atomic, power and the communism threats were the leading, basic mistrust in the Cold War. The Berlin Crisis was the