The most renowned filmmaker of his era, Martin Scorsese virtually defined the state of modern American cinema during the nineteen seventies and eighties. A consummate storyteller and visual stylist who lived and breathed movies, he won fame translating his passion and energy into a brand of filmmaking that crackled with kinetic excitement. Working well outside of the mainstream, Scorsese nevertheless emerged in the seventies as a towering figure throughout the industry, achieving the kind of fame
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ejected from a plane in a Martin-Baker ejection seat, thus saving your life. The founder of the company, Sir James Martin, was invested at a very young age with assembling and inventing mechanics. Starting out selling small oil engines, Martin was approached by his friend, Captain Valentine Baker, who soon became his business partner in “Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd.” Being a trained pilot, Baker took to testing out the prototypes of planes and engines built by Martin. However, upon testing the
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individual can be powerful enough to change the world. With confiction, determnation and willingness to hold strong to your beliefs, one person can make a differance. Martin Luther and Susan B. Anthony are examples of significant people who stood for their beliefs for the greater good of man and changed the course of history. Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany on November 10, 1483 and died in Eisleben, Germany February 18, 1546. In his brief 62 years of life, he managed to make a monstrous
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Good morning and welcome back to the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent. This is Elyssa Pocock broadcasting live from Europe in the 15th century. One of the most significant inventions during the renaissance period was the movable type printing press. This invention created one of the Western world’s first major printed books, the “Forty-Two Line” Bible. Today I have had the privilege of interviewing the creator of this important artifact, Johannes Gutenberg in his home town of Mainz, Germany. Mr Gutenberg
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Trough out history, differences on religions, and fight for dominance power and land has been the main cause of war. The 30 years war, named after its length of war during 1618 to 1648 is the only war that was solely fought for religious reasons between European powers of that era. The thirty years was is considered a religious war because the growth increase in religious intolerance and religious rivalries which led to be the sole cause of the war but as the war progressed it became less about
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John Winthrop’s message to his followers was basically the foundation of their colonization in the Massachusetts colony. In his sermon, Winthrop establishes his beliefs and thoughts on how the colonists were going to survive in the unknown land. Winthrop wished to maintain peace among the colonists and continue to follow their true religion beliefs. He also wished to create a thriving community that others could look up to (he called it “city upon a hill”). First and foremost, we have to understand
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Charlemagne’s was hailed as “Charles Augustus, Emperor of the Romans because many of his followers and subjects proclaimed that Charlemagne restored the Roman Empire in the west through his actions and accomplishments. Although his subjects believed that he restored the Roman Empire of the past through his actions and accomplishments, it makes me wonder how accurately did he restore the Roman Empire and why did it not endure after his death. Charlemagne did not restore the Roman Empire to its fullest
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on his own and steer the church in a brighter direction. Martin Luther was his name. It all began with a man whose name was Johann Tetzel. He went around town trying to sell some indulgences to people and claimed that it would help them be saved. Martin Luther really disagreed with this logic and felt that no such thing was right to do. He then wrote a 95 thesis about all the questions he had and propositions he wanted to debate. Martin Luther had a huge one in mind. He realized that in the Church
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Tartuffe, a man who was a vagrant- is a cunning opportunist who postured himself as a man of grandiose piety- imbued with the ability to speak with God , in order to earn Orgon’s trust – the ultimate goal of climbing out the cliffs of poverty. Orgon is a rather complex character, having always tended to his servitude of the king and other significant matters in a rational demeanor- which raises the question of how an intelligent and well respected man such as Orgon deteriorated into a vacuous puppet
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Dear , Martin Scorsese I liked many of your movies like Taxi Driver, and Wolf of Wall street and I think that The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World should be turned into an motion picture film with my rewrite because it has good suspense and shows a lot of action that I know the audience would love to see in an movie. The first part I like about the Story is how Esteban is kind of mystery to everyone and nobody understood where he came from and how he got there so I think it’s a good idea to start
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