Atish Shrestha APUSH January 8‚ 2013 Glory Glory is both an awe inspiring and heart wrenching movie about the first all black volunteer company to fight in the civil war. The movie starts off with Col. Robert Gould Shaw leading a company of soldiers in Antietam which suffers heavy losses. Soon he is promoted to Colonel and given command to the 54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry; the first all black regiment. The first volunteer to sign up is an educated black man named Thomas Searles
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Glory: The Movie Essay The most memorable moment in anything is what sticks to you. It’s something that you can never forget because it touched you so much. In the movie‚ Glory there are so many memorable moments‚ you could write a book about them. So‚ I chose a moment that stuck to me‚ personally the most. The most memorable moment in the movie for me was the Battle of Fort Wagner. The most memorable moment in the movie for me was when Kernel Robert Shaw chooses
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The movie Glory is about a union soldier who is injured in the battle of Antietam. He goes back home and decides to command the first colored regiment. The story focuses on several main characters‚ Colonel Robert Shaw‚ Private Trip‚ Sargent Major John Rawlins‚ Major Cabot Forbes‚ and Privates Thomas Searles and Jupiter Sharts. At first the men resent the Colonel because they think his parents got him the job but over time he earns their respect. The regiment has to struggle under the discrimination
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HIST 151 sec. 20 Prof. W.M. Sarf Term Paper: Glory 1989 Glory was a film directed by Edward Zwick. The movie showed the first full black regiment under the command of historic hero of the Federal Union Army‚ Robert Gould Shaw‚ from how it was created and how it achieved fame. The setting of the film is the beginning of the Civil War in 1862. Robert Gould Shaw twenty three years old is a son of a wealthy Boston Abolitionist. Shaw registered to fight for the Federal government during the Civil
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Glory: Hollywood vs. History Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment‚ one of the first official all black units in the United States during the Civil War. It’s an inspirational story of how a young Union soldier‚ Robert Gould Shaw‚ is offered the chance to lead an army unit that will change not only his life‚ but the lives of many other Americans. Glory does a great job of capturing many of the feelings towards the black soldiers during the Civil War. The film is based off
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HMXP Mr. Stokes November 3‚ 2013 Glory For many Americans‚ the Civil War is but a distant event in our nation’s past‚ remembered only for the sake of passing an exam or impressing your peers at a dinner party. While this pivotal war may have taken place generations before us‚ its significance reverberates even today. Within this war fueled by racial disagreements and political issues‚ one platoon stood up against the waves of injustice to boldly fight for their inalienable rights. When filmmaker
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Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (during the Civil War)‚ directed by Edward Zwick. It stars Matthew Broderick‚ Denzel Washington‚ Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman and it was produced in 1989. The movie is based on Robert Gould Shaw’s personal letters‚ This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein‚ and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard. I watched this movie over winter break with my friends. The movie was released on February 16th 1990 and it made about $26‚828‚365. The movie
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The movie glory focuses on the 54th massachusetts regiment of all black soldiers during the civil war. It is based on letters sent by Robert Gould Shaw‚ who was born in Boston on October 10‚ 1837‚ to his parents. He was born to wealthy abolitionist parents‚ who had been aquainted with such people as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe and the famous abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. The movie starts off with a war scene where Robert Gould Shaw (played by Mathew
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Glory movie review The 1989 movie Glory by Edward Zwick is about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry army for the Union army during the civil war. The movie was about a federal army that was one of the first African American armies and the hardships the endured due to their race. Throughout the movie the soldiers are first given small manual tasks but then are finally able to fight in the war. The movie shows how the men were trained to fight in combat but how they were given little supplies
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The movie Glory is about a story within a historical event‚ which is known as the civil war. It is about Africa Americans fighting for not only our country‚ but also their own respect. The movie is also about how whites acted towards Africa American people. Although the North was essentially fighting the war to abolish slavery they still did not see the African Americans as equal. There are several questions one must ask when reviewing this great film. The movie is very factional with what is going
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