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Second Punic War Southern Italy
1,067 wordsHannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the bottleneck strategy at Lake Trasemene. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. Hannibal's first battle took place when he was only nine. He went on an expedition with his father, Hamilcar Barca, to conquer ...
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Point Of View Buffalo Bill
1,311 words... put in the ambulance. Once in the ambulance he murdered the drivers and escaped nowhere to be found. Even though Clarisse was off the case she didn't give up. Hannibal said, "We covet what we see everyday. " Clarisse and her friend figured out the first person that Buffalo Bill killed was someone he knew. She went to that house and found out that the dead girl knew a lady that sewed professionally, and she went to that house. At the same time the FBI was at another house where they thought B...
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Hannibal Crosses The Alps
1,256 wordsThe march of Hannibal across the Alps onto Italy is thought to be legendary. Having read this book, that mere sentence is reiterated to its full extent. He had to fight his way through a Roman army, cross the Pyrenees (themselves a difficult range of mountains), then fight his way across southern France, for this area was under Roman control, then cross the formidable Alps. The scope of this accomplishment is often overlooked for Hannibal did much more than cross the formidable Alps. Hannibal Cr...
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Close Up Shot Point Of View
1,396 wordsJonathan Demme, the director of Silence of the Lambs, and Tak Fujimoto, the cinematographer, do an excellent job in portraying almost every aspect of cinematography to make this movie suspenseful and gripping. Various motifs of camera angle, shot duration, movement, point-of-view shots, on-screen and off-screen space, and framing allow the viewer to better feel the intensity and reality of the scenes. In addition to motifs, there were certain scenes in the film that portrayed Demme's directing a...
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One Of The Greatest Thirty Seven
1,281 wordsHannibal, Invader From Carthage by Robert N. Webb is a biography that focuses on and highlights the life and times of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. Hannibal is best remembered as the courageous warrior who led an army of thousands and thousands of men, thirty-seven elephants, and a number of horses across Spain, the Alps, and Italy, on a mission to conquer Rome. The author does an admirable job showing different views of Hannibal. He quotes other historians and poets throughout the course ...
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Second Punic War Set Up Camp
1,568 wordsHannibal was great Hannibal Hannibal: Hannibal was great Carthaginian general. He is remembered for his great tactical skills on the battle field and as a great military leader. Born in late 247 BC, was the eldest son of Hamilcar Barca. In 237 BC, Hamilcar took his nine year old son, Hannibal, to the alter of a Carthaginian god and made him swear eternal hatred to the Romans. Hannibal and his father then left for Spain. The center of Carthaginian power in Spain was the city of New Carthage. Hann...
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Second Punic War Set Up Camp
1,286 wordsIn 237 B. C. , Hannibal Hannibal In 237 B. C. , Hamilcar Barca took his nine year old son, Hannibal, to the alter of a Carthaginian god and made him swear that he would always be an enemy to the Romans. Hannibal and his father then left for Spain. The center of Carthaginian power in Spain was the city of New Carthage (modern Carthagena). Hannibal saw firsthand his fathers techniques for war (Green 9). When Hamilcar died in battle in 230 B. C. , his son-in-law, Hasdrubal, became general and conti...
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Makes The Reader Make The Reader
1,430 wordsOne book I could and have read many times over is Hannibal by the highly acclaimed thriller writer Thomas Harris. This book is a stylish, smart journey through the two relationships between Hannibal Lecter and his counterparts Mason Verger and Clarice Starling, its style of writing such that it makes it very difficult to put down, I speak from personal experience having read the 103 chapter book in a space of a few days, it was extremely gripping and exiting. One of the thing that most struck me...
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