I Have a Dream speech Martin Luther King .Jr
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The lesson of Afghanistan? everyone from the giant dorm room bitch session that is the internet should take a good look at what real oppression looks like!
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The Sting
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The Sting (1973) Director: George Roy Hill
“Not only are you a cheat, you’re a gutless cheat as well!”
★★★★★
After Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 Director George Roy Hill, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman teamed up again, this time for a faux 1930s gangster film about an elaborate sting operation in Chicago. They researched a variety of old Hollywood gangster films from the 1930s and developed a color scheme of muted browns for the film. The Sting is a wonderfully original movie -throughout the film the audience is giddy to watch down and out grifters become the heroes as they scam a scammer. Each ploy that unfolds in the film is delightful and in the end the audience is the true victim of “the sting” -as our expectations are subverted. The idea for the story came from David S. Ward who was inspired to research and…
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Patton
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greatest performance in the history of film
Patton (1970) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
“I love it, God help me, I do love it. I love it more than my life.”
★★★★★
Released at the height of an unpopular war in Vietnam, Patton is a powerful cinematic contemplation of the incredible, albeit controversial, legacy of General George S. Patton. The script was written by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and General Bradley’s memoir entitled A Soldier’s Story.
George C. Scott delivers one of the great performances in all of Hollywood history as General George S. Patton, “old blood and guts,” the gruff, recalcitrant, disciplined, well-read, profane yet virtuous Allied leader. Apparently the role was offered to numerous other leading men such as Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, and John Wayne, but it is impossible to imagine anyone else besides George…
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Selection Bias: Will You Make More Going to a Private University?
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The Walras-Marshall Divide in Neoclassical Theory
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Hayek on Social Evolution and the Origins of Tradition
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in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, history of economic thought, liberalism, Marxist economics
The Socialist Calculation Debate | Steven Horwitz
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle
The First Crusade – The People’s Crusade – Extra History – #1
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of religion, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Crusades
The Hero Of Tannenberg – Paul von Hindenburg I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24
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in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: abolition of slavery, economics of slavery
Italy in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
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