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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

... she tried to gauge what it was that Mrs Randerson aspired to. “You know how the Americans are with their children. They are like you – their childr... ... is to them. My friend who works for Fox keeps saying,” – Jasmin put on her best American accent – “‘Jazz, what the hell are you Brits playing at? W... ...ease stop,” said Sam, trying not to cry. James had made her watch several horror films with him, and each time it had given her nightmares. Now it f... ...at could happen to harm her if she approached Emma, 98 but a million horror films were conjured up in her head which told her to wait for Harde... ... Also, we need to get some white coats or something.” “What?” “Don’t you watch films? Put on a white coat in a hospital and you can go anywhere, d...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ublic Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described as a "very charming adventurer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer... ...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...ro" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercenaries and guerrilleros in the 19th century we... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ...the kitchen. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experi...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...st. There he rested, sheltered from the humid sun by peeling posters for lachrymose Turkish films. He pushed the crib outside the penumbral circle a... ...e, from another world and don't belong. She used to tell us about Gamliel the Sage and his adventures that always had an object lesson with his scr... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...to find it again and even invited some of his friends to go along on the adventure. They sang and danced all along the way. They didn't find that p... ...l find it impossible not to keep a positive attitude about all of life's adventures. One of the first areas I applied my new,found understanding o... ... THE POWER IN YOU 120 there were twenty, three million native,bom, adult Americans who could neither read nor write. These millions were called "fu... ... created them for you-your mind with its imag, ination. Life's really an adventure. In order to make it excit, ing you've got to use your brain. Yo... ...e was involved in. He also made it a point of taking me to screenings of films, plays, and other activities. Howard's nourishment went a long way i... ...dia's independence. It was faith that helped Martin Luther King, Jr. open American so' ciety to people of all races, creed, and color. It was faith...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ying to fill 200 television channels with 24/7 programs, open several new films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on ... ...me. “We wonder why your film producers insist on producing violent films when the research indicates that violence is not necessarily more po... ...ly more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so much easier fo... ...ight be learned, we want to foster ethical behavior so we have no violent films. “We agree with your psychologist Bandura that much of childr...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...ACE — “5-4-3-2-1-Touch down! . . . and Gulliver returns. The greatest adventure in human history! Commander Lemuel Gulliver the 16 th has co... ...nia desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of the greatest human adventure in history, even greater than that of his illustrious ancestor... ... you lonely?” —“Like my famous ancestor, the first Gulliver, I lusted for adventure. But the adventure into the unknown world by his sailing ship ... ... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...untain. They haven’t used that figure for years but you still see it in old films. Just beyond it is a western town that has been used for years. ‘D... ...town that has been used for years. ‘Dr. Quinn’ was shot there. Hundreds of films, television shows and commercials have been made in the area, on K... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...e a man of the cloth. It wouldn’t have surprised me to find him starring in films, coaching football, or becoming a gigolo for some rich European pr...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

... entire universe, by creating immortal beauty. n. The Odyssey is not an adventure tale but is a book of wisdom (every great culture has one). We ... ...egata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films}, Published by the Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995).... ...es, particularly the Etruscans, were convinced that the Odyssey was not an adventure story but rather was a book of wisdom. What is wisdom? The ar... ...s we know today; this is the mystery of the next type of possible artistic adventure, that gathers its vital impetus from humanity’s nagging desire ... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ...iegata in 41 film”{Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift explained in 41 films} , Published by Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995). W... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...gata in 41 film”, {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films} , (Published by the Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome, 1995)...

...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decisi...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...e late 90s in China the entrepreneurial types often pirated clothes, music, films. They had decided to beat free enterprise at its own game. The gove... ...her cut or re-do the scenes with tobacco in them. We are a large market for films so we command respect and compliance by the film producers. ... ...ng for more enjoyable ways for our children and adults to learn. Cartoons, films, video productions, books discussion groups, lectures, and many more... ...o productions, books discussion groups, lectures, and many more avenues of adventure leading us to understanding ourselves and appreciating our unive...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ..., full employment, and Norman Rockwell—a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave fo...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...h. Science supports this unspoken assumption. It portrays animals in Nature films as savage-violent killing-murdering things… acting in insane fren... ...aten alive. Therefore they prey on the deep human fear of dying to sell their films by focusing upon violent gruesome aberrations. The one-side... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...tus based upon their ability to entertain others about imaginary monsters and adventures they never had. So… by their egos being falsely rewarded ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...em of government-funded corporations in the Middle Ages. Their swashbuckling adventurers had even more freedom and scope to rob, rape and make a pro... ...applauded and praised and admired as their efforts being the bravest and most adventuresome and noblest of all human endeavours in all history is a ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...c pub- lications, including several books. His primary books are Some Science Adventures with Real Magic; Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence ... ...nguages, and the most extensive media and text archive of lessons, books, and films on the Internet. All the material is offered free through the si... ...rough the site (www.kabbalah.info). Bnei Baruch recently established the Ari Films production company, producing documentaries and edu- cational fil... ...y using the wisdom of Kabbalah. Our progress in researching reality is a real adventure. We can begin to feel our past and future, and discover that... ...e Know?, offers a good exam- ple of that concept with a story about the Native Americans who PA RT I I I : P E RC E P T I O N O F R E A L I T Y 122 ...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...ng his familiar behind the waistcoat amazedly, to tell him how such a mis- adventure could have occurred to him of all men, when a glance below his ch... ...n of a stranger entangled. Pitiable to reflect, that he was not one of the adventurer-lords of prey who hunt and run down shadowed heiresses and are c... ...n the irony of a judicial leaning to the side of the single- minded social adventurers, under an assumed accord with his audience; concluding: ‘So the... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...92 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer... ...wrong with relativity is its usual interpretation. This book, BEGIN THE ADVENTURE, 2004, is the last in a trilogy starting with THE LIGHT BARRIER,... ...ly is "reality." I am, however confident that much of my research in thin films is performed under the rubric of STR, my ignorance of "reality" notwi... ... a perfect focus for our first manned and womanned ('manned) interstellar adventure. If we are ever to reach the stars we must first get our heads... ...s the way it would happen. The Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Europeans and Americans all wanted to be first to reach another star; and a healthy, fie... ...ngOnline.com at: http://www.publishingonline.com/en/catalog/book.jhtml?id=americanR-motta- proceed\ingsOTSIC&_requestid=313. [7] Editors, Ad Astra...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...o reunite its fracturing populace, the semi-failed state often embarks on military adventures (cloaked as "self-defense" or "geopolitical necessity... ...'). Many analysts have paid attention to the fact that Afghan as well as non-Afghan adventurers like bin Laden, have always been very talented at ex... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...h of equipment - can publish a Webzine, author software, write music, shoot digital films, design products, or communicate with millions and his wor... ...rs and recorded employment growth. In the absence of efficient capital markets and adventuresome capitalists, some developing countries have taken ... ... - let me be the nitpicker and set up the framework for our intellectual Christmas adventure. One can discern the following relationships between ... ...echnicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jungle of our Play-SuperStation(TM) tho...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa... ...ploaded Pi to a million places. . . Q. Why are stand-alone images (e.g., films, photographs) and sound excluded or rare? A. We have tried some, bu... ... be the nitpicker and set up the framework for our intellectual Christmas adventure. One can discern the following relationships between the Law an... ..., these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jungle of our Play-SuperStation(TM) thou should k...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...estructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms... ... a man of science at all. . . . I am nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer.” (Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900) "If you br... ...an's best and childhood friend. They grew up together, shared secrets, emotions and adventures. Yet he lies to Truman constantly and under the Direc...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...estructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms... ... a man of science at all. . . . I am nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer.” (Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900) "If you br... ...an's best and childhood friend. They grew up together, shared secrets, emotions and adventures. Yet he lies to Truman constantly and under the Direc...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...t, constantly changing relationships and sensations, marriage experiences, adventures in the virtual world created by mind engineers. Convention-break... ...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ...of our village haven't yet started imitating them and wearing such things. Films shown on TV also have many bad behaviour models, but luckily the youn... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...s. fruit and trap small game for food; at the same time, this was a daily adventure in nature which still contained diversity of life. Today, boys of... ...e. Today, boys of their age are more interested in videos and games, where adventures take place in a totally unreal world. Houses and compounds are s... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e ra- 6 The Second Jungle Book vines burned up to broken wires and curled films of dead stuff; the hidden pools sank down and caked over, keeping the... ...told Mother Wolf and Father Wolf as much as they could under- stand of his adventures among men; and when he made the morning sun flicker up and down ... ... feel- ings after swallowing a seven-pound lump of Wenham Lake ice, off an American ice-ship, in the days before Calcutta made her ice by machinery; b... ...y used, and found him drinking after a heavy kill. Mowgli told him all his adventures from begin- ning to end, and Bagheera sniffed at the ankus betwe... ..., who drew very well in the Inuit fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end. When he a...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,... ...d, more than anything else, was loving people. As our fragmented families have broken off from our root families, usually in search of jobs or advent...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ... to a printer. She was tired of trying to keep me out of mischief, and the adventure of the measles decided her to put me into more masterful hands th... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ... ...g Strait whale fishery and the shop talk of the veteran exercises of that adventure bristling trade through catching catfish with a “trot line” Sunda... ...conspirators, horse jockeys, bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists,...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...other, My very own knight!” And after this fashion, adventure to seek, Was Sir Galahad made—as it might be last week! ...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

... be rational and instead do what we want to be doing, then where would the adventure be in our lives? Best of Freshman Writing 12 Chris Hanney Delawa... ...The ex- ecutives of T wentieth Century Fox had seen Lucas’s previous film, American Graffiti, and vowed to pro- duce Lucas’s next movie. Lucas made a ... ...ces across the country and soon becoming the most successful film in North American history. In 1978, Lucas began production of the second chapter of ... ... advanced and cost-effective. For the next sixteen years, even without new films, the Star W ars universe continued to expand, gaining more fans every... ...hose made for the first Star Wars trilogy so popular in a time when sci-fi films aren’t widely liked? The answer could be as simple as the flashy comp... ... however. The very setting of this movie is symbolic of our way of life as Americans. This movie, as its title may suggest, is set in space, a place t... ... or ever was, just a movie with a cult following. Unlike many other sci-fi films and series, it isn’t restricted to a small select group of fans. It i...

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