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EVENT: Columbus sets sail at the Port of Palos with 17 ships in search of Eastern Asia and the riches that await there. / FACT CHECK: This event is of the most historically accurate and I cannot find anything inaccurate about it. / CONNECTION:This event re-enacts the start of a voyage to discover the amazing land we live upon today. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I feel like the movie was really good in showing what the world was back then. But the movie didn’t show a lot of the hardships and would skip time. -
EVENT: Lincoln is shot in Ford Theater by a man named John Wilkes Booth. / FACT CHECK: The information given by the movie is historically accurate considering all we are given is the information that he is shot. / CONNECTION: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln made the government realize the low security against assassination attempts and you can see the change in government security. / RATING:⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐I feel this movie is very historically moving and portrays the events very well in the film. -
EVENT: Bill and Ted enlist the help of Billy the Kid after helping him in a bar fight. / FACT CHECK:Billy the Kid never fought in a bar fight with people named Bill and Ted. / CONNECTION: This event really shows how much the world back then affected the future of Southern states today. /
RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I think the movie was decent but the special effects were a little lacking in sound quality which made it less interesting for the watcher. -
EVENT: Sam Krichinsky enters the United States for the first time and is in awe at the fireworks. / FACT CHECK: Considering these characters are fictional there is almost nothing factual about this scene. / CONNECTION: I think these really reflect how different immigration was before 9/11 and how little security there was. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I think this movie had a lot of potential but fell off as there was not much story progression and the ending was a bit bland and basic. -
EVENT: The US 77th Division charged into the Argonne Forest with the thought that their flanks were covered. / FACT CHECK: This is a historical event that happened in real life and is very accurate. / CONNECTION: This movie really shows how underdeveloped our militant equipment was in the 1900s and shows how far we've come in the past 100 years. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This was a good movie when it comes to the story but the special effects were kinda lacking for a 2000s movie. -
EVENT: The Joad family leaves their house to drive to California for fruit picker jobs. / FACT CHECK: During the Dust Bowl over 200,000 people traveled to California looking for work in the “promised land.” / CONNECTION: This movie shows how powerless the poor were against rich contractors back in the 1900’s. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I think the story was developed well but progressed either too slow or fast most of the time. -
EVENT: The Tuskegee Airmen become an official division of the army. / FACT CHECK: While this was not showed in the movie it was implied that the Tuskegee Airmen were created in 1941. / CONNECTION: It’s weird to think that the Air-force didn’t exist back then and was just a part of the army. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This movie is a 5/5 for me it’s a very good story and the story going back and forth from Junior in prison the the missions for the red tails got me pretty excited and I enjoyed it. -
/EVENT:Solomon Northup was kidnapped by two men and awoke in chains. /FACT CHECK:Considering this movie is based off the book that Solomon wrote, I can safely assume that this is historically accurate. /CONNECTION:This movie illustrates an unlikely reality of escaping a slave kidnapping and what people really don’t know is stuff alike still happens in today’s world. /RATING:⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐This movie greatly illustrates what horrors of being a slave were like for some people and had good wound makeup. -
EVENT: MLK started marching with a group of people from Selma to Montgomery. / FACT CHECK: This most definitely happened accurately like in real life and was one of the most influential changes for African Americans in America. / CONNECTION: Todays world still has problems similar to these that are faced everyday without change. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This movie had amazing cinematography and was a true masterpiece in my eyes. I loved the history aspect and it really shows how important this was. -
EVENT: Forrest watches the TV as it shows the first man to ever land on the moon. / FACT CHECK: This is very accurate because the video on the TV actually happened. / CONNECTION: It’s interesting to see how far we have come from landing on the moon to now even sending robots to Mars. / RATING: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This movie showed a lot of character development and showed the main protagonist’s struggles and how he overcomes them nears the end of the movie. -
I was born on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006. -
My uncle, who came from kentucky to visit, taught me how to ride a bike. -
I graduate from Clintondale High School on May 31st, 2024 on a Friday.