Captain America: The Winter Soldier (CA:TWS) was the long awaited sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (CA:TFA), which was released in 2011. It features Chris Evans as Steven Grant Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. The Black Widow, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, a.k.a. The Falcon, and Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier. The movie takes place two years after the events of The Avengers (2012). Steve is still struggling to adjust to modern times, after being asleep for 70 years. He works in Washington D.C. for the espionage agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). Joining forces with the Black Widow and the Falcon, Steve struggles to expose a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D, but he and his team soon come up against an unexpected enemy. Captain America: The Winter Soldier can be rhetorically analyzed in perspective of message, purpose, and audience.
There are many messages and themes in CA:TWS, including those of Honesty, Government Corruption, the effects of being a POW (for over 70 years), and the effects of PTSD on Veterans. But none stand out like the message of Right vs.
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Wrong, Good vs. Evil. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the main focus is the dismantling of SHIELD, and within it, HYDRA. HYDRA is a neo-Nazi para-military terrorist organization that peaked during World War II in Nazi Germany, but was supposedly dismantled after Captain America went under the ice. But with the start of S.H.I.E.L.D., things started going awry, and it all started with Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was the recruitment of former Nazi scientists to work in the United States. One of the most prominent was former HYDRA scientist Arnim Zola. After joining S.H.I.E.L.D., Zola began to rebuild HYDRA inside S.H.I.E.L.D. Which is where problems started. For over 70 years, HYDRA grew, like a “beautiful parasite” inside S.H.I.E.L.D, secretly feeding crisis and changing history. Their aim was to create a society that would accept the fascist “New World Order”, which basically meant murdering millions of people. The purpose of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is to show the audience that nothing is ever truly as it seems, and that power corrupts. For example, the supposed death of Bucky Barnes in 1945. Because of the experimenting that Arnim Zola did to him when he was a Prisoner of War, Bucky was able to survive the fall off of the train. Captured by HYDRA, given a metal arm to replace the one he lost in the fall (and that the cut off), and a completely unsafe amount of electroshock therapy, he was soon transformed into The Winter Soldier. For over 70 years, he was used as a weapon in HYDRA’s name, until he escaped at the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. in 2014. Another example would be the deception of Alexander Pierce to literally everyone around him. Alexander Pierce was the Secretary of Defense, a member of the World Security Council, and a major head of HYDRA. He is first introduced in CA:TWS as the Secretary of Defense; one step above Director Fury. At first, he seems to be just “doing his job”, but as the storyline progresses it becomes clear to the audience that he has ulterior motives. The arrest for Captain Rogers for “withholding information” about the death of Director Fury is the first crack in his seemingly perfect mirage. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is rated PG-13 by The Motion Picture Association of America's standards, so it’s safe to assume that the general intended audience of this film is anyone 13 year or older. Though that does not stop parents from taking their 7 year olds to see it. More specifically, though, it appeals to Marvel Cinematic Universe fans, as it is part of Phase Two of the MCU. There are tons of emotional appeals within this movie.
For example: after the fight with Captain America on the bridge, and the reveal that The Winter Soldier, is in fact, Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes, a.k.a. Bucky, we see the Winter Soldier sitting in the electric chair, having his metal arm repaired and looking dazed and confused. Alexander Pierce walks into the vault, and beings questioning him. At this moment, we are shown exactly how horribly Bucky has been treated. When he doesn’t comply immediately, Alex slaps him and demands an answer. He whispers “The man on the bridge. I knew him.” Alex clearly doesn’t want him to remember anything but his mission, so he orders The Soldier to be mind wiped. He’s clearly in pain, and you just can’t help wanting to reach out to him and save
him. It’s safe to say that Captain America and Steve Rogers are not the same person. Captain America is a national hero, who gives orders and stands tall against his enemies. Steve Rogers, on the other hand, is a smartass boy from Brooklyn, who doesn’t take any of your crap. He throws it back in your face.
The dogs of war by Michael Paterniti is an informative and heartwarming article about handler Marine Corporal Jose Armenta and his dog Zenit. And how handlers and dogs are trained without each other and how they are trained with each other. The way that Micheal Paterniti writes is excellent and well written but it is even better with the pictures, the pictures tie everything together.
Guy Sajer’s The Forgotten Soldier is a work notable not only for its vivid and uncompromising account of his experience as a member of the Wehrmacht in World War II, but also for its subtle and incisive commentary about the very nature of war itself. What is perhaps most intriguing about Sajer’s novel is his treatment of the supposedly “universal” virtues present within war such as professionalism, patriotism, camaraderie, and self-sacrifice. Sajer introduces a break between how war is thought about in the abstract and how it has actually been conducted historically.
The astonishing book, the Wednesday Wars, takes place in Kentucky in the 1960’s during the time of the Vietnam War. Education and social is in a different style then known today and religion played a big part of the people’s lives. The protagonist feels he is different from anyone else because he is the only Presbyterian in his class and on Wednesday's when all the Catholics go to Catechism and the Jews go to Hebrew school he is alone with his English teacher. And he believes for this reason and many untold of his 7th grade English teacher, Mrs.Baker, hates him and his guts. When he addresses this issue to his family his mother assures him that the teacher doesn’t hate him,his father tells him to be good to Mrs. Baker because she was related
In this excerpt from an email written to friends and family, an American soldier describes what it is like to live in Iraq while serving his country. The Soldier describes his living conditions thoroughly and offers many examples. Through the usage of rhetorical strategies like imagery, chronology, and he puts the reader in his position, he tells of his experience and his attitude towards it.
People in such intense situations, such as war, often have to emotionally shut themselves down in order to not let the effects of their actions hinder their duties. They create a stronger bond with their fellow troops and weaker regarding all other form of life. "Kiowa and Mitchell Sanders picked up the baby buffalo. They hauled it across the open square, hoisted it up, and dumped it in the village well."(681) They are disregarding the effects that it may have on the local people that must drink from this well as one of their main staples of life. It is desensitization like thus demonstrated that may cause those telling a war story, from experience, to embellish parts to evoke the intended feeling. After all that is the point of a story, to stir up a feeling, or to teach a moral.
Do The Right Thing has impacted greatly my views on racial tension and rivalry. I have always believed the words of Martin Luther King Jr. when he speaks of peaceful protest, and I had not considered Malcolm X’s approach. This film has made me realize that although violence is not the answer, sometimes actions must be done to create respect that was never there to begin with. This film belongs in every curriculum and every home movie collection because it will spark debate and allow you to explore and understand others’ thought processes and ideas. There were always be conflict that needs to be brought to light and even if it is not between races, and Do The Right Thing shows the delicacy and intensity that any conflict may have. This is what makes it a timeless film.
When civilians look at the men and women in the military, they think of strength, courage, and freedom. When those same men and women get out, civilians should treat them with respect, honor, and dignity. In their own minds however, it may be a different story. A loss of strength, a lack of courage, and a never-ending battle within that keeps them all but free. In the music video “Wrong Side of Heaven”, FFDP successfully argues that homeless veterans and veterans with PTSD need assistance. Through the use of visual aspects, literary devices, and symbolism, FFDP shows that their music video holds a strong argument.
Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder need to receive better care, because post traumatic stress disorder is curable, damages relationships, and veterans made many dramatic sacrifices. The health care for veterans needs to be more easily accessible.
Many people question if Guy Sajer, author of The Forgotten Soldier, is an actual person or only a fictitious character. In fact, Guy Sajer in not a nom de plume. He was born as Guy Monminoux in Paris on 13 January 1927. At the ripe young age of 16, while living in Alsace, he joined the German army. Hoping to conceal his French descent, Guy enlisted under his mother's maiden name-Sajer. After the war Guy returned to France where he became a well known cartoonist, publishing comic books on World War II under the pen name Dimitri.
“Man O’ War was the kind of thoroughbred that brought you closer to divinity than most people had been before.” This quote by an unknown describes Man O’ War well; “Man O’ War was America’s legendary thoroughbred race-horse” (“Man O’ War 1917-1947”) and was the type of horse that taught his rider, the people around him, and the entire world that if you keep pushing you can reach any and all goals. Man O’ War was a loving horse that made many feel as if they were getting closer to God. To most people, Man O’ War was a work of art that was brought down to them straight from God because he was perfect; he was a gorgeous stallion that seemed to most as unbeatable. Man O’ War raced his heart out and dominated every race he was in, even the one race he lost. Man O’ War was an important figure in the 1920s American history because he changed the perspective of horse racing forever.
The events that were portrayed in “Black Hawk Down” drastically affected the U.S.’ foreign policy during the 1990’s. The U.S soldiers went into a country in East Africa called Somalia. They went into the one city, Mogadishu, to capture top lieutenants of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The mission was only supposed to take an hour, but it ended up lasting the entire night into the next morning. It was a short war that the U.S. never wanted to get into.
There have been some religions (ones such as Islam and Christianity) that could have once defended war in a time where defense of their own was all that mattered; however, there are other religions (ones such as Taoism and Buddhism) that have chastised and disapproved the very idea of war at all accounts possible. This is because each different view on war by any religion matters on the type of beliefs and rules it follow, and it these various religious views on war I have come across through the documents given that I will discuss throughout this essay:
Flags of our Fathers gave the audience the feel and visual of the experience during the war and the aftermath effect the war had on the men who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. Including, the success and struggles from the soldiers and their families. Also the movie depicts the story behind the famous picture of the flag that was raised in Iwo Jima. America: A Narrative History gave readers an informational overview of the war and the great changes the war had for America including how the Great Depression and how it came to an end.
The Thirty Years War was a series of conflicts, not-knowingly involving most European countries from 1618 to 1648. The war, which was fought mainly in Germany, was started when Bohemian Protestants furiously attacked the Holy Roman Emperor in terms to impose a restriction on their religious and civil liberties. By understanding the Thirty Years War, you will notice the notable religious, political and social changes. The changes paved the religious and political maps of Europe. Not only did this war affect the religious and political demographic, it caused populations to perish and lose large amounts of their goods. What was known as a religious battle, turned out to be a political feud in competition of which state has the greater power affecting men, women, soldiers and civilians. “[The bohemians] had no idea that their violent deed would set off a chain reaction of armed conflict that would last thirty years and later be called Europe’s “first world war” of the modern era.” When the war ended, the lands were defiled and over 5 million people were killed.
The military will tell you that a patrol is an organization and is not a mission, so a patrol is a noun, and not a verb. A patrol is typically an independent organization put together for a specific purpose.