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Windtalkers

I would definitely NOT recommend this movie for the faint-hearted. It is full of death and blood. This movie is about the Navajo code and it's role in WWII.

The movie begins with the battle of the Solomon Islands, where the main character, Joe Enders

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Letters from Iwo Jima

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Letters from Iwo Jima is a movie about the invasion of Iwo Jima. The movie is portrayed through the Japanese soldiers’ perspective. The language that the movie is in is Japanese. At the beginning of Letters from Iwo Jima there are Japanese archeologi

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March 10 Thursday

Today, I got screwed. It took four tries to get a computer to work, and then I took notes for 20 minutes, and five minutes before the end of class BAM dead computer. So don't dock me for this one Mr. Bruns . . . tell your kids to plug in the computer
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Assigned Blog-Saving Private Ryan

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The movie starts out with an old guy in a cemetary with his family, and you don't know who he is until the end of the movie. You later find out that he is Private James Ryan from Iowa. The movie then flashes back to Normandy at Omaha Beach. Miller wa

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Saints and Soldiers

I watched the movie "Saints and Soldiers."

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This movie was about these American soldiers who are fighting in World War 2 and had just survived an attack.  Two of the soldiers are escaping from the sight where the attack had happened and two more Americ

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Assigned Blog- Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda group found in Islamist was found in August of late 1989. Al-Qaeda operates as a network.

 Most of the world thinks of Al-Qaeda as a

terrorist organization.

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Al-Qaeda's History and what they do: They have

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Assinged Blog- History of Afghanistan

     The history of Afghanistan started around 2000 to 3000 B.C. It has been invaded and taken over by a new government a great number of times in recorded history. As for modern times, Afghanistan has seen many suicide bombings of governments offici

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Assigned Blog #6- The Great Raid

                                                                 The Great Raid

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     The beginning of this movie depicted many scenes from World War Two and talked about how many U.S. soldiers became stranded and had to surrender to Japanese soldiers.

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Movie Blog Assignment 2 - Life is Beautiful

 

The movie I decided to watch was Life is Beautiful. It's an Italian movie that takes place in Arezzo, Italy, 1939, years before WW2.

 

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This very annoying guy named Guido (he's Jewish Italian) comes to Arezzo wanting to start a bookstore. The begining

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Assigned Blog: Casablanca

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The movie takes place in Casablanca in 1941, and it mostly takes place in Rick's Cafe. At the beginning of the movie everything is pretty normal until a group of soldiers come in and start looking at anybody's passports who they think looks suspicous

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WW2 movie blog (2)

For my ww2 movie blog i watched Life is Beautiful which was made in 1997. It starts out with a man named Guido Orefice. Guido is a Jew who lives in Italy the movie takes place during ww2  times. Early in the movie Guido and a young woman named Dora f

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Secrets of War

This is a four part History Channel thing and I watched the first two. The first part was about spies and how German intelligence worked and that it was led by two guys. The second part was about Tools of Deception. It was pretty cool in explaining a

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