The movie I had to review for criminal law and procedure is the 'Pelican Brief.'; At first I was unhappy to get this movie because I have never heard of it before. After watching it I was glad to get a movie that was interesting to me. The plot of the movie is as follows: In the opening scene of the movie they show Denzel Washington who is a reporter named Gray Grantham interviewing a Supreme Court Justice named Rosenberg. Then a scene later they show Darby Shaw, who is Louisiana, in a law class. The next thing that happens is a person who's name was not given goes to a hotel and was given an envelope with a picture of all the Supreme Court Justices in it and just two of them circled. About Two minutes later both of them were murdered. One …show more content…
Who happened to be a clerk for Justice Rosenberg. Shaw then tells her professor who she is having an affair with that she is going to try and find out who murdered them. They show the President talking with his advisor and they are saying if the FBI can not solve who killed the Justices then maybe they should get someone else. After a while they go back to Gray who is on the telephone, with an unknown person at the time, and is talking about the murders and the person on the telephone is saying that he knows who killed the Justices. He traces the phone call to a pay phone and then goes there and takes pictures of him, which comes in hand later in the movie. Then Thomas is going to met his friend Gavvin Verheek at a bar which he gave him a copy of the Pelican Brief that he received earlier from his girlfriend Darby. Next thing that happens is the guy Gavin takes the brief to his boss and his boss gives it to the President's advisor whose name is Fletcher Coal, tells the president it would be wise for this to disappear. The President agrees and talks to the head of the FBI and they stop investigating it. They stop investigating it, but Gray isn't. The next thing that happens is that Thomas and Darby are out eating dinner and …show more content…
Two people come up to her and tell her that they are police officers and ask her name and she tells them. Then she figures out that she is the one that was supposed to be in the car. She reaches out to Gavvin for help. All this time there are people trying to kill her. After finally setting up a meeting point in a fair telling him what to wear he is murdered in his hotel room. Darby did not know this meeting an unknown man with a red hat on at the fair. Right about when she is about to be murdered by the man who killed Gavvin he is shot in the head. Back to Gray, he is on the phone with the man who tells him he knows who killed the Justices, and the man wants to meet him. He then calls back and says he doesn't want to meet him. As soon as he hangs up the phone another call is coming in and it is Darby. She asks him if he has heard about the Pelican Brief. He says no and then they decide to meet at a hotel in New York. Finally Gray flies up there from Washington DC and meets her. She tells him the whole story about the Brief and the murders. This whole time the President and Coal are trying to get them both killed. Darby tells Gray that she will be leaving the country. He gets home and there is a message that says that she has left
1. What led to the rise of the spirit of “Manifest Destiny” in the 1840s, and how did that spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?
photographs of the pictographs and talking about them to several people. His second visit to the
United States is a country that has problems with gun control, and this issue has many debates between whether or not people should be allowed to carry a gun on them. This free county not only for speech and religion, but also allows people to have the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment of the United States was written by our Founding Fathers,“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (Government). The main purpose of the Second Amendment when our Founding Fathers wrote this amendment was to help the American citizens to defend themselves from the government at that time, and other countries from invading their properties. However, the Second Amendment could be the opposite of what our Founding Fathers wanted it to be in the twenty-first century, because many criminals are taking advantage of the right to carry guns, which in example results with the purpose of showing off with their friends, revenge for their gang’s members, or try to be like their favorite hero in the movie they had watched. On July 20, 2012, a massive shooting occurred inside of a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The tragedy happened during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises which killed twelve people and injuring seventy others. In response, this alarmed our government to rethink about the current gun control law in America. In A Well Regulated Militia by Saul Cornell, the author informed to his audience the different views of gun ownership in early America, which part was the most important part of the debate, how did slavery affect the debate over militias in the South, the Continental army officer’s views, and the arguments be...
to Europe to try to persuade the British to accept a military alliance should the
From western expansion to foreign imperialism the United States has always been an expansionist country. Early America’s focus was to conquer the natives and obtain western land within North America, but in the latter of America’s history, specifically in the nineteenth and twentieth century, foreign imperialism became the new focus. America’s activity in foreign imperialism was a continuation and departure of the United States’ early expansionism. It was a continuation in terms of manifest destiny, the spread of Christianity, and by the concept of “the city on a hill” and a departure in terms of foreign involvement.
This battle took place in Manhattan and was commanded by Colonel Robert Mcgaw. The fort had 8,000 soldiers and held as much as 34 guns, 43 cannons, and important resources. On November 16, three British ships holding 3,000 men all together sailed up the Hudson and shot open fire at the fort. Finally, on November 18, the British successfully captured 3,000 of American soldiers and took all of the supplies/artillery. This was a very important battle for the British who gained tons of artillery and resources while holding a strong position in New York.
A well known journalist “John O’Sullivan” was the first one to use the term manifest destiny. The phrase manifest destiny was first used in an issue of the democratic review. Manifest Destiny was basically saying that the U.S had the right to take what they want. The U.S wanted the land out west. This is what started the westward expansion.
The Louisiana Purchase was the largest land transaction for the United States, and the most important event of President Jefferson's presidency. Jefferson arranged to purchase the land for $11,250,000 from Napoleon in 1803. This land area lay between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. The purchase of this land greatly increased the economic resources of the United States, and proved Jefferson had expansionist dreams by doubling the size of the United States. Jefferson believed that the republic must be controlled by ambitious, independent, property-holding farmers, who would form the incorruptible bedrock of democracy (LaFeber 179). In order to complete his vision the country needed more land.
Coined in 1845 by journalist John L. O'sullivan the term Manifest Destiny outlined the idea that it was America's God given right to spread to the western territory bought in the Louisiana Purchase and beyond. Already swept up in the excitement of expansion, the people of America took up the term quickly, using it as yet another incentive to populate new lands in pursuit of riches. Manifest Destiny was used often to give reason to the nation’s imperialistic activities of conquering the west, including its justification for the war against Mexico in 1845- 1848. (Acuna 222, 226). America's desire for economic power and military prowess, as well as her wish to keep up with ever-expanding technology pushed her people west, with O'sullivan's Manifest
Before Thomas Jefferson ever entered the presidency, he believed in the “Empire of Liberty.” He wrote in a letter to a friend that “Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North or South, is to be peopled.” His motives for the intense eye on American expansion were greatness for his country, as well as for himself. He was disgusted with the idea of North America being divided into nation-states like Europe. His goal was for the ideals of the American Revolution to spread over the whole continent. He passed and helped pass some of the legislation that helped early America expand. He co-authored the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which allowed for states to be made from the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River. Jefferson’s desire for exploring the lands west of the Mississippi had been around for fifty years. Jefferson’s father was a member of the Loyal Land Company. After American Independence, there were four plans to explore the west; Jefferson was behind three of those plans. The Louisiana Purchase divided the political country, before and after the actual purchase. I intend to show these sides by examining documents from Jefferson, his colleagues, and the opposition to the Purchase, as well as international deterrents to the Purchase.
The Great Plains were once home to a wide variety of nomadic Indian tribes. These tribes relied on buffalo for food, clothing, weapons and shelter. Eventually people from the east decided to move west with the hopes of securing new land and making more money. Buffalos became the pioneers’ source of food and fun. The settlers left the landscape littered with the decomposing remnants of their prey. Due to the mass hunting of buffalo, their population vastly decreased. In the image from Harper`s Weekly, the audience can see a white buffalo hunter, who is in the process of skinning his prey. This picture illustrates certain praised virtues and stereotypes of the American West.
Manifest destiny is defined as the Americans ability to take over another’s land because god told them to expand on the land. During the nineteenth century, manifest destiny could be related to many Indians tribes which included the Navajo, Apaches and Yavapai people. Manifest destiny relates to these tribes because the American’s came to the lands that were owned by these tribes, and took over the land. Manifest Destiny in its rights was violent; the Indians didn’t give up the land easily they fought for the land. The Americans would be able to profit off the land that was taken. They were able to use god as the excuse to take over the lands; however we see that the manifest destiny was a cover for their true intentions which were by using greed to take over the land.
One of the largest and most wealthy countries in the world, the United States of America, has gone through many changes in its long history. From winning its independence from Great Britain to present day, America has changed dramatically and continues to change. A term first coined in the 1840s, "Manifest Destiny" helped push America into the next century and make the country part of what it is today. The ideas behind Manifest Destiny played an important role in the development of the United States by allowing the territorial expansion of the 1800s. Without the expansion of the era, America would not have most of the western part of the country it does now.
What is Manifest destiny?, and who had it helped? These are some questions you may be asking yourself if you don't know much about what it is. The manifest destiny made a big impact on territorial expansion and has gained a fortune for the nation. Manifest destiny is a slight phrase used to describe the logic and emotion behind Americas policy of continental expansion that gripped the United States from 1815 to 1845.
The Movie, The Patriot, was a rousing and vigorous Revolutionary War epic from the view point of a family full of revenge and strong wills. This movie began with the majority of colonists angered. This part of the movie caught my attention and intrigued me to keep watching until the last minute. I especially enjoyed the heartbreaking moments and the realistic war scenes in the movie. Although I liked those aspects of the movie, the storyline was exceptionally good as well. To understand this historical fiction movie, a historical background is needed. If a person does not understand what is meant by “Taxation without representation,” then the subject of conflict will not be understood. The plot of the movie began to develop when Benjamin Martin’s son, Gabriel, was captured by British troops. Benjamin Martin was a former hero of the French and Indian War, but he renounced fighting so that he would be able to raise his family in peace. Attempting to save his brother, Benjamin’s other son stood up to the British soldiers, but was killed in the process. Benjamin, only wanting to save Gabriel, ended up fighting in battle, rescuing Gabriel, and killing the murderer of his other son. After all of this happened Benjamin realized the importance of being involved in the war, so he sent his other children to live with their aunt in order for he and Gabriel to join the army. Once they became part of the army, Benjamin became a general and lead his colonial militia, including Gabriel, into trifling battles. During battle Gabriel was killed, which deeply depressed Benjamin and made him so distraught that he does not feel like fighting anymore. His feelings stayed this way until (while at the camp) he saw the Brit that killed Gabriel. Benjamin then killed that man and understood at that moment why so many men had been dieing. Because of this, Benjamin became extremely patriotic and decided to move on with the Americans because he then had something to fight for. Everything that happened kept me on the edge of my chair wanting to know what was going to happen next. Overall, I thought that this movie was very moving and vigorous.