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    George Lucas Imagine a boy walking down the street on a crisp Halloween night. He walks by many people and comes across many characters with blasters and whips. He asks the characters what movie they got their costumes from, and they told the boy they were from two very famous movie series. He decides to watch the movie series and he loves it. These series of movies are Indiana Jones and Star Wars, two of George Lucas’ many successful series. George Lucas has had many acknowledged accomplishments

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    Google Maps v9.13 Gives Users Power Over BusinessesFans following the release of the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens movie have already fallen in love with BB8—the cute little “ball-droid” that can be seen rolling around for a few seconds in the teaser trailer, which you can watch here. With just a few seconds of screen time, BB8 became an internet sensation, as debates involving its literal “roll” in the newest Star Wars installment-- is it a real robot? If so, how does it work

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    Star Wars is not (only) a movie for children. Apparently, the "Star Wars" saga might be interpreted as a simple tale for children and adolescents. However, going beyond such bias the business created by George Lucas is far from being a mere superficial and trivial leisure activity. This paper will show how by analyzing some relevant evidence of the Star Wars impact on different industries. To help me in this task I chose three reliable sources of evidence, the first one is about the turnover generated

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    block-buster movie today. The only thing that set Star War apart from other modern movies today is its ability to make people feel like that they could be in the galaxy far, far away and the uniqueness of its characters. It’s no coincidence that Lucas started to draft his Star Wars plot – which centers on a group of rebellion fighting a corrupt government – at the time the Watergate trial begun. It’s hard to ignore the connections between American politics and Star

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    Democracy In Star Wars

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    Since I was 4 years old, Star Wars has been an active force in my life. What began as a method of entertainment grew into something that shaped how I view the world. At a first glance, Star Wars is simply the story of a farmer-boy given a quest to save the galaxy. From an analytical and historical perspective, it is so much more. Despite the general resentment for the “prequel” movies, the movies have redeeming values in terms of symbolism. The beginning of The Phantom Menace depicts a society torn

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    George Lucas’ Star Wars saga is an extremely well known cultural phenomenon with a fan base spanning generations. The saga contains themes of nationalism, fascism, and colonialism just to name a few. The original series also displays the theme of The Hero’s Journey an idea taken from mythologist Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I argue that the controlling force of the galaxy The Galactic Empire serves as a form of settler colonialism among almost all planets in the Star Wars

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    Steven Spielberg is a world-renowned and one of the most successful movie directors of all time. He has won 2 best director awards. Also, he was 4 Oscars and another 14 nominations. Which if you ask me, that is a very impressive achievement. I have a question “What made Steven Spielberg into the amazing director, and storyteller he is today?” Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 14, 1946. To an Arnold Spielberg an electrical engineer working on computers, and Leah Adler

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    Set in outer space, the plot of Star Wars was mainly about Luke Skywalker on a quest. Space has always been a place people have fantasized about, but not everyone is able to turn that fantasy into reality and make a movie out of it. However, George Lucas did, and that forever changed the movie industry. In fact, Star Wars is now one of the most popular movie series in the world. The making of Star Wars not only influenced the world technologically and culturally, but it also led to the creation of

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    far, far away there was Star Wars, an American epic space media franchise, best known by a film series created by George Lucas. Star Wars was not created out of the blue, but based on different historical references like WWII, the Cold War , Vietnam War, Ancient Rome, and 19th Century African American Slaves. These historical references where the ones that inspired George Lucas to create the storyline of Star Wars and its content. These references historically connect Star Wars with real life. WWII

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    Over the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, technology had an important impact on the movies that came out during those years. One example from the topic area of movies is Star Wars. There were Star Wars movies made in each of these three decades, and they were very different due to changes in technology. The first Star Wars movie made in 1976. In this film, the graphics were blurry and the special effects were not great. However, this was not just this movie, but all movies made during the 70s, as the technology

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