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Film Review (The Money Pit)
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 268

.... Bachlor and etc. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young couple just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly. Alexander Godunov plays Mac, the antagonist who interests in Anna and created conflict between the young couple by lying or saying that Anna slept with him when she was drunk. The plot of the story is not very special, but the actors use funny expressions and skill to deal with the unstable house to make the movie more interesting. Sometimes Tom Hanks is over a .....


Halloween: A Groundbreaking Film
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1362

.... in Halloween. The film opens with a long, single-shot introduction that takes place on Halloween night, 1963. A young Michael Myers watches as his older sister, Judith, sneaks upstairs for a quickie with a guy from school. After the boyfriend has departed, Michael takes a knife out of the kitchen drawer, ascends the staircase, and stabs Judith to death. The entire sequence employs the subjective point- of-view, an approach that writer/director John Carpenter returns to repeatedly throughout the movie. Only after the deed is done, do we learn that Michael is only a c .....


The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
Number of pages: 15 | Number of words: 3997

.... in their stand for equality. Though countless women fought the many battles for women's rights only a handful stand out in peoples memories. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and died in 1902. During the eighty-seven years of her life she accomplished many goals and over came numerous obstacles. Elizabeth attended Emma Willard's School in Troy where she obtained her education to the fullest extent possible for girls in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she was chosen as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery C .....


African-American Troops In The Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1651

.... 1863, when it led the unsuccessful and controversial assault on the Confederate positions at Battery Wagner. In this desperate attack, the Fifty-fourth was placed in the vanguard and over 250 men of the regiment became casualties. Shaw, the regiment's young colonel, died on the crest of the enemy parapet, shouting, "Forward, Fifty- fourth!" That heroic charge, coupled with Shaw's death, made the regiment a household name throughout the north, and helped spur black recruiting. For the remainder of 1863 the unit participated in siege operations around Charleston, before boardi .....


The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1791

.... During the early development stages of our country, there came a time when the overpowering mother country of Britain imposed a new system of taxation to control the colonies and the colonists. The Sugar Act of 1764 was the first step in bringing the new taxation system into affect. The Sugar Act, which replaced the Molasses Act of 1733, was designed to raise income without regulating the trading system that the colonies had established. Soon, Britain began to establish methods of taxes without any method of representation of the colonies and this angered the colonists. Th .....


The Salem Witch Trials: First Person Point Of View
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 440

.... of us in the forest. We were all as guilty as she was, yet it was so easy to hold her responsible. I can’t believe that we would do something like that. I regret so much of what happened. I wish that I could go back to that day and have put and end to the horrible things that were going to come. Abigail was so persistent and intimidating, and no one wanted to go against her. We were all too afraid that if we had said something, then she would have killed us. I feel that Abigail is the one responsible for all of the chaos that occurs in Salem ten years ago. If I had .....


Our Country And The Affect Of Changes
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 748

.... wanted to have a new form of government. They were fed up with the British's way of running things they decided to take matters into their own hands. By demanding the British to step aside, they were changing their form of government, and symbolically, a whole lot more. This document also states some changes the people wanted to see in their rights(p110-111). This immediately points to the fact that the Americans desired to change their way of life. This choice the people made in supporting the Declaration of Independence would later become the backbone of what our nat .....


American Exceptionalism
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2655

.... opinion regarding exceptionalism in America to emerge that encompasses both sides. The definition of American exceptionalism is as ill defined as the philosophy itself, stemming from centuries of writings that convey more of an overtone than a tangible explication. Yet, Lipset has no trouble asserting that American exceptionalism takes the form of "liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire," all characteristics of Americans, from the revolutionary period to modern times. Thomas Massaro, a -reviewer of Lipset's obviously controversial book American E .....



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