... general during the height of the Roman Empire. Upon winning his latest battle against barbarians and bringing peace to the Empire, Maximus craves nothing more than to return home and farm with his family. However the aging Emperor, Caesar Marcus Aurealius sees in Maximus the next leader of Rome. He decides to bestow the title on the war weary general, passing ... his demise as both him and Maximus die in the fight. I selected this movie because I heard it was interesting and action filled. I was impressed with the many action scenes. The plot was well thought out although not without it...

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• Grade Level: High School

... about this secret organization I decided to escape from my master's plantation. So, the night of the 21st of October of 1832, I escaped from the plantation and went to an isolated farm. There I met Harriet Tubman. She was an African American who fled slavery and then guided runaway slaves to freedom in the North. Both of us and some slaves began the ... cruelty and injustice our nation was showing to the slave, and praying God to let me do a little and cause my cry for them to be heard." Uncle Tom's Cabin plot follows the story of Uncle Tom, a religious and faithful slave, as he is sold...

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• Grade Level: High School

... an all white Methodist family that believed in "christianizing the slaves for a better time ahead" (10). "So their own Negroes might be saved, the Turner's held prayer services on their farm and took the blacks to Sunday chapel" which also denotes how the Turner's felt about religion" (10). Nat's family and other slaves at the household agreed that he was meant ... in which the southern and the northern slaveholders felt. In the south, they felt that they should have someone to blame, so they "linked the revolt to a sinister Northern abolitionist plot to destroy their cherished way of l...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School