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Nature of Revolution in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers

In three pages this paper examines the events that ignite into revolution as captured by filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's interpretati...

Analysis of Gillo Pontecorvo's Film The Battle of Algiers

before viewing the motion picture. The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History says that the Battle of Algiers erupted due to the ...

Review of Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969)

Portugal, which makes more sense from a historical perspective, as Spains colonial possession are the most prominent, Brazil being...

Shaping History Through Cinematic Narratives

rather how it appears to the person that is hearing or viewing the story. Does the narrative appear to distort or change what ha...

Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo

fury of those eighteen minutes of fighting, however, stemmed from the courage of thirteen days in which 189 brave souls fought for...

Algeria and French Colonialism

constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...

Film The Battle of Algiers

an organization led by the people of French Algeria in opposition to the racist imperial control of the French. The FNL sought an...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

18th Century Tension Between Great Britain and France

In six pages this paper examines the tension between these countries during this time period resulting for the battle for New Worl...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Philosophical and Aethetic Comparison of 'Schindler's List' and 'The Battle Of Algiers'

This is a 5 page paper that considers two different cinematic filmmaking approaches to specific battles, one from a Third World pe...

Strategies in the 1777 Battle of Saratoga

This paper examines the American Revolution's Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and how its strategies resulted in this being a pivotal m...

Comparative Analysis of the Films A Door to the Sky and The Battle of Algiers

Heritage and culture as presented in these films are contrasted and compared in five pages. There is no bibliography included....

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

In five pages this paper discusses combat in the Somme, Waterloo, and Agincourt and considers what these battles reveal about huma...

American Revolution's Battle of Yorktown

In twelve pages this paper discusses the influence of the French and how this affected the outcome of this battle which ended the ...

The Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg

The battle at hand is what is the focus of attention of this five page report that makes use of five references. The Battle of Get...

Scientific Revolutions and the Perspectives of Thomas S. Kuhn

of practitioners" (Davidson, 1997, p. 13). The existing paradigms of the science community, according to Kuhn, are established vi...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

The Battle Over Same Sex Marriages

that the basic needs and desires of a society to maintain stability and social order are often very influential in where a society...

The First Battle of Manassas

who actually owned, or had access, to these railways had power in terms of transporting troops and supplies that would go directly...

Battle of Dien Bien Phu Between the Vietminh and the French

In five pages this battle that brought an end to Europe's involvement in Vietnam is examined....

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara'

In five pages the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of author Michael Shaara is examined in this text review...

The Greatest Military Leader

One of the leaders who is always mentioned when discussing leaders in general and military leaders, in particular, is George S. Pa...

Primitive Cultures in Documentaries Cannibal Tours, Onka's Big Moka, and Dead Birds

In six pages this paper discusses human nature's dark side as revealed in this trio of primitive culture documentaries....

European History and Class Struggles

In five pages changing social class is examined from the time periods of the Scientific Revolution until the Enlightenment and fro...

Robert Frost/Semi-Revolution

the kingdom of Bohemia from the Catholic Holy Roman emperor have now been discredited" ("Rosicrucian"). Nevertheless, Frost obviou...

The Battle of Cowpens

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Transforming Tejas Into Texas

In four pages this paper discusses the massacres that characterized the Texas Revolution and features the Battle of the Alamo in a...