A hundred and ninety four minutes epic historical movie entitled “Kingdom of Heaven” was released in 2005. The movie directed and produced by Ridley Scott and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is a story about the struggle between Muslims and Christians for control of Jerusalem. Both of them fight in order to claim the city of Jerusalem as their land. The story begins when Godfrey of Ibelin was looking for his son. He found out that his son lives in a small village in France, and that he is a blacksmith named Balian. Godfrey makes an apology to his son for the reason that he left him since a long time ago. As an apology, Godfrey asks Balian to move to Jerusalem so he can start a better new life with his father. Balian makes a decision to …show more content…
For me, all of them gave an example of how the leader is concerned about his people’s life. As a Christian, King Baldwin IV respects his religion so he also respects Muslims. He was struggling with his illness and still fight to protect his people. Balian of Ibelin makes a decision to ensure the safety his people and not to sacrifice more lives in the middle of war. In Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott gives a new perspective of Muslims in Hollywood movie. As a Muslim, I feel that this movie is an example of Hollywood movie that does not portray Muslims as villains. The movie showed that Sultan Salahuddin as a Muslim leader who has a great-hearted personality. Sultan Salahuddin does not act as a villain who will kill Christians without any reason. He started to fight Christians since Guy de Lusignan and Reynald de Chatillon attacked his people. So he tried to make a defense in order to protect his people from Christian’s attack. In the end of the movie, there is scene that shows how he respects Christians. It is when Sultan Salahuddin put back the cross symbol in the altar table at the castle. So beyond the debate or the conflict that is happening, in my opinion, it would be a wonderful life if all of our leaders in the world sincerely truly fight for humanity. Does it matter for a religion when we can life together in harmony
Going through hardships and challenges in one’s life is very important for growing. Mary T. Martin Sloop demonstrates how she got through certain obstacles, in her book, Miracle in the Hills. Mary and her Husband, Eustace, overcame the obstacles of having no doctors, few teachers, and no electricity. The Sloops moved to the mountains of North Carolina in 1909.
Stonewall Jackson, a leader of the Confederacy, told his troops to stop shooting. He felt guilty and in that moment he realized that what he was doing wasn’t morally justifiable. Even while having her life in danger she kept waving the flag to show what side of the war she supported. All three were merely ordinary people who came across a moral dilemma, whether to stand up for what they believed in and do something that might cause them danger, or let others suffer. Thankfully, they all chose to stand up for what they believed in and save many lives in doing
The story begins with Charlemagne's army fighting the Muslims in Spain, and the last city standing is Saragossa. Roland bravely offers to lead the rear guard. Pagans attack them at Roncesvals and the Christians are overwhelmed by their sheer numbers. Seeing how badly outnumbered they are, Roland is asked to blow on his oliphant by another officer to call for help from the main body of the Frankish army. Roland proudly refuses, saying that they need no help because the rear guard is strong enough to hold them.
“War is hell,” said William Tecumseh Sherman. In war, men are driven to the very limits of their sanity watching others die by the droves in horrific and gruesome ways. In the movie Jacob’s Ladder we meet Jacob Singer, who was a soldier in Vietnam who managed to survive the horrors of war, only to find bigger horrors waiting for him at home. He finds himself in dissolution as he is constantly having to decipher what is reality and what is just in his head, all the while constantly flashing back to a day in Vietnam he can’t remember fully, and to top it off he is being hunted by demons. Eventually, Jacob discovers that he and his battalion had been experimented on by the army, and that he actually died in Vietnam after being stabbed by a fellow
How does Hill create a powerfully dramatic sense of fear and tension in this extract? In Susan Hill 's book "I 'm the King of the Castle", some of the main themes are tension and fear. Hill uses many literary techniques to create a heinous and dramatic atmosphere (following the theme of gothic literature), while still keeping a sense of dark excitement. Kingshaw 's fears and feelings are conveyed using a selection of linguistic techniques, letting the reader see deep into his thoughts.
“Death is a distant rumor to the young” (Rooney). The idea of death is often an afterthought to individuals. One does not simply wake up every day of their life and contemplate their own passing or that of another. “The Road Out of Eden”, a short story written by Randall Grace, is about a group of children that face torment from a bully. The children make a rational decision to end their suffering by murdering the bully, their first encounter with death.
The common thought that people have about Disney is happiness and merriment. Ridley Pearson provides an opposing view in the book “Kingdom Keepers II” by showing the darkest parts of what we thought we all knew. Pearson allows this to occur by taking the reader through the lives of kids who work as DHIs(Disney Host Interactions) that become holographic people that fight the villains. Pearson not only does this to show his opinion, but he uses it to intrigue the reader enough to want to keep reading. This fictional fantasy about Disney and Disney parks are mysterious and allows an appeal to readers.
The names of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. are known worldwide. They have lead many fighting what they believe in. One man many people think of when being a leader to fight for his beliefs of the people is Jesus Christ. Jesus is loved by many and hated by the powerful, just like these three other men, but their is one comparison that has been made to a certain protagonist of ancient times. In the epic poem ,Beowulf, the protagonist, Beowulf, is a leader who fights for the betterment of society while being the one that many look up to.
The most important decision of a leader is the style of leading they decide to use when inspiring others, or providing a vision for the future. By looking at the past, it is proven that some leadership styles are guaranteed to be more effective than others. The leadership style of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights provides significant evidence of how different styles of leading can turn out to be a major success or defeat. Malcolm X’s leadership style included using violence to protest against violence and unequal rights, as well as supporting the segregation of African Americans and the whites. Martin Luther King’s style included nonviolent marches and protests against violence, and peacefully fighting for integrating
This idea allows people to think about Arabs as evil and untrustworthy people because of the representation in the media. Another example is generalization toward the men and the image of countries in the Middle East. The men in this movie are shown to always carry swords and wear turbans. Men are depicted as violent people.
In the movie Kingdom of Heaven, there were many inaccuracies throughout the film. Although the movie did follow the lines of the Second Crusade, things throughout the film turned out to be fictional. Some of these inaccuracies are how the love interests played out between Balian and Sibylla, those are not correct for the actual Crusades. Another inaccuracy is how people lived longer than they were supposed to after being wounded. Adding on to how people were wounded, they had medicine in the movie that they did not actually have back then.
Today, Martin Luther King is regarded as the greatest example of tolerant and successful fighting.
“Godotmania” Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot completely changed our perception of theatre as a whole, thanks in part to the unique and unusual path it took on the wide map of theater. It is perhaps those two words, unique and unusual, that best describe everything we associate with the drama, from its obscure plot and characters, all the way to the stories told of its curious production history. It is safe to assume that when Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot was first released, nobody had expected that a nonsensical ‘adventures’ of two senile old men and their ludicrous inactivity would go on to have such an impact on theater. Ever since its release, the play had been treated as somewhat of an outlier, giving headaches to producers and actors alike. However, the few that had successfully tackled the production of such an absurd drama, can vouch for its importance.
‘The children of heaven’ is the movie which is based on the feelings of children for their family and their needs. The movie has depicted poverty of a family and how it acts on the psychology of the children. The movie is basically from Iran. It has subtitles. Good lord!