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    friends and the world around you on Facebook” (Zuckerberg, 2013). This website has been a breakthrough for social interaction on the internet. A film is the last on my citation list, so let’s make it an awesome movie. Nothing is as awesome as Full Metal Jacket. In the beginning of the movie, a boot-camp officer actually makes a cadet choke himself with the officer’s hand, (Kubrick, 1987).

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    An Unexpected Turn I woke up to a ray of sun shining through my bedroom window, birds chirping and the harmony of silence. I slipped out of my warm blankets, stretched out and yawned a big yawn then went to my bathroom looked into my green foggy eyes and tried to clean them by splashing cold fresh water across my half awake face. I grabbed my toothbrush laid some toothpaste on their and brushed away. I cleaned myself up then went into my closet and changed my pajamas into a gray t-shirt and some

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    As i step through the metal detector it goes off frantically, alerting the TSA that there is something metal on me. “Please take a step back and empty your pockets and remove any metal jewelry you have on you”. I did as he asked and remembered about my silver plated chain that i was wearing on my neck. I stepped through the machine again with no problem. This is my second business trip in a month. I’m attempting to get a promotion from my boss as i’m running low on money. It’s not easy to feed 3

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    Forrest Gump is instantly scolded upon incoming inside the sphere once he salutes his commanding officer; the Vietcong would possibly are wanting. Another example is that the beating of a marine United Nations agency is slow to control absolutely Metal Jacket gets overpowered by his entire unit. They claimed he needed facilitate along with his motivation. In most of the films, the troopers inside the unit became nearer as time passes. The only real antagonist to the cluster is typically the unit leader

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    Can history be learned through Hollywood films? I would say yes. But one would have to know there history fairly well in order to know where the fact stops and the falsehood begins. For example in Apollo 13 Thomas “ken” Mattingly after getting the German measles was yanked from the crew and after hearing of the oxygen explosion on bored went back to NASA and spent most of the last of the movie in a simulator. That was not what really happened. Mattingly actually went to work in several different

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    conflicts of the twentieth century. Debate as to why so many American soldiers died for a goal that was not achieved. Many directors have attempted to recreate the disturbing realities of the war through films like The Deer Hunter, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. While others were criticized for creating an unrealistic depiction of it like The Green Berets. “” Marine Captain Bret Shomaker observed, “When John Wayne got killed, that’s it, he just fell down… Now, in the Vietnam movies these guys see, there’s

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    Narrative “Do you understand the importance of this plan?” “Yes. It will be done.” Madame Defarge exited the tavern and made her way towards the Manette household. There were so many emotions going through her. Rage, panic, lust, and even a bit of fear. “Going for a walk Madame?” asked a Jaque. “Yes, I just needed some fresh air. The Wine Shop has been exceptionally busy this afternoon.” “I was actually heading over there myself, have a nice walk.” After the beheading of the King, Madame Defarge

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    for which she wore a “sweater full of holes” and

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    “Paint It Black” is a song written by the English rock band, The Rolling Stones. It is a song representing bleakness and depression through colour-based metaphors. It describes the severe grief of someone caused by a sudden or unexpected loss of a loved one. The individual sees their entire world “painted black” and even wants the sun “blotted out.” It is often claimed that Mick Jagger, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, was inspired to write this song after reading James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses

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