Lieutenant Philip Caputo was just a young boy from Westchester, Illinois when he joined the marines. Philip was sick of the safe, suburban existence. He also joined the marines partly from the patriotic tide of the Kennedy era. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960. By the time he fulfilled his 3-year term, 24-year-old lieutenant...
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“Mr. Smith, would you like to escape?” 5 men are being held captive in Virginia during the Civil War when one of these men, a sailor by the name of Pencroff, asks Cyrus Smith, the engineer, this question. Cyrus, Pencroff, a reporter named Gideon Spilett, Cyrus’s previous slave, Neb, Harbert Brown,...
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Picture this, you are a young man, your mother is a cocaine addict, your father is nowhere to be found, and you have multiple brothers and sisters, and to top it off your homeless. This is a young Michael Oher’s scary reality. Until one fateful day, Michael gets the chance of his life. He...
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“They heard the awful slap of bullets into flesh and heard the screams and saw the insides of men’s bodies spill out and watched the gray blank pallor rise in the faces of their friends, and the best of the men fought back despair” – Mark Bowden Black Hawk Down Black Hawk Down is...
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Bethany Hamilton, played by AnnaSophia Robb, lives a dream life with her family on the beach, surfing daily with her best friend, Alana, and competing in surfing competitions. Everything appears to be perfect until a tragic event turns her life upside-down. One seemingly regular day transforms into a day she will never forget. While...
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