amazing-- these are the best words that fit the movie. If you are a big fun of action movie, road movie or friction movie, the Mad Max: Fury Road is the movie one should never miss. The storyline of the movie is simple and straight forward, and the dark side of humanity showed in the movie is also intriguing. In the future not far away, the nuclear war caused by the lack of water resources break the world apart and the lands are lead by several tyrannical rulers. Max is one of the last free men in
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The Middle Ages Do you know the chivalry of the knight? Do you know the famous Notre Dame de Paris? And do you know the martyr Giordano Bruno? I believe many of us at least have heard something about these. And they all share an identical time label. That is the Middle Ages. And today, I will introduce the Middle Ages in 4 parts: its history, religion, culture and economy. First is about the history. The Middle Ages is the second stage of the European history in a traditional division which
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independence. A Period of knights and ladies, of valour and good faith, which gives life to some of the highest ideals mankind has ever known. It has introduced us to concepts such as chivalry and courtly love, pure expressions of spiritual essence. Of these ideals poets and authors wrote with lively passion, embroidering them in poems such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or The Wife of Bath. Although its poet remains unknown, the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight remains instilled in our
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Greenlee 1 Aiesha Greenlee Mrs. Parker English 102 08/11/2010 Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus: Knowledge is Powerful or Fatal Everyone has heard of the old saying, “knowledge is power” which is true in some cases. There is some knowledge that should not be obtained. This is known as the forbidden knowledge. It is described as books or any other information that is restricted. Christopher
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battle. If it hadn’t been for the soldiers’ support, Basil and Vere wouldn’t be standing right now. He turned towards the ferry in wonder, amazed at the quick response and order the soldiers presented. However, one figure stood out amongst the armored knights: a beautiful woman dressed not in ceremonial clothes, but rather in a shirt, leather guard, pants, and boots fit for combat. Her brown hair was tied into a high ponytail, reaching just past her
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Medieval knights were the middle ages military. Knighthood was awarded to members of nobility. Normally a man must have been born the son of a knight in order to become one. At the age of seven or eight, a young knight would be sent away from home to begin formal knight training, in preparation to dominate the medieval battlefield. In this training, the most commonly used weapons for war were swords and the lance; by horseback riding knights wearing body-covering armor. In addition, the knights were
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When tourists they see the irie , no problem Jamaica. Happy people, big houses next to the ocean , the beautiful bleach white, soft sand. What they don’t see is behind the mirage, the not so irie Jamaica. I have though. Whenever my family and I go to Jamaica we spend the first week in the real Jamaica. The one with people living in the gully, the one where stray dogs are everywhere. The one that I enjoy the most. Whenever I get my blackie mango and sugar cane I look like a child opening their Christmas
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Chapter 1: The End and Beginning Prologue Facing the young girl and her little sister, the armored knight raised his sword. To have mercy was to take away a life in a single strike. Struck by the sunlight, the sword glistened high up in the air. The girl shut her eyes and bit down on her lower lip. Her expression showed that she never wished for this situation. She was simply accepting it since there was nothing she could do. If the girl had power of some sort, she would
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From the opening crawl, we learn that Finn, Poe, and BB-8 are on the planet Lothal (from Star Wars: Rebels) meeting with an unknown arms dealer in an effort to gather supplies for the rebellion. After searching for some time, the trio is unsuccessful until they ask a bartender who points them to a bounty hunter known for working with the arms dealer; the bounty hunter states that the man they are searching for is named Caelum Binardown (Benicio Del Toro) and offers to show them where he is…for a
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Chapter 17 Ten percent plan This plan was an attractive deal for Southern people by Abraham Lincoln. It was said that that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union if 10 percent of its voters made a grave promise of reliability to the Union. RADICAL REPUBLICANS These people were members of Republican Party during the Civil War. They did an overwhelming effort to secure rights for liberated slaves during Reconstruction. The Wade–Davis Bill In 1840, two Radical Republicans, Senator
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