of sparta a heroic king‚ the Author is Helena P. it’s about how king Leonidas led the 300 Spartans to war and how they train their sons to be strong and become a Spartan. From the moment of a Spartan girl or a boy came into the world‚ the military and the city state were the center of every Spartan citizen’s life. Both male and female babies were determined by city state if they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the infants were too week or sick‚ they were abandoned in the country side
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300 and America “Freedom isn’t free at all‚ that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.” These words were spoken by Queen Gorgo‚ wife of King Leonidas‚ in the movie 300. She speaks one of the basic philosophies of the Spartan nation‚ and even though they lived thousands of years ago‚ their principles still impact America today. Most influential movies are a product of the current events happening at the time‚ and 300 is not an exception. There was a distinct significance in the
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behaviour by different individuals can be identified. Incident I Though military activity was forbidden by Spartan law during the Carneia festival‚ King Leonidas decides to prepare for war with Xerxes before the Persian king and his troops could advance to Sparta. He knew that he would not get the support of the politicians to get the bigger Greek army to follow him. Therefore he chose 300 Spartans who had sons to carry on their names to be his bodyguards and decides go to war. His vision and strategy
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When the boy was born... ... like all Spartans‚ he was inspected. If he’d been small or puny or sickly or misshapen... ... he would have been discarded. From the time he could stand‚ he was baptized in the fire of combat.
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300 Gender The film industry has created the conventional gender roles of society into their movies; A majority of films have supported some of the male and female stereotypes. In the history of the film industry‚ the role of men is primarilythat of the stereotypical working class man or hero‚ while the roles of women are primarily portrayed as being somewhat inferior to men. In the 1930s through the 1970s‚ men held the leading roles in films while women played smaller roles. Men were typically
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The Spartans sacrifice Yesterday‚ three hundred Spartans lost their lives. They were fighting against the Persian army. They held out for three days before one of them told the Persians how to defeat them. No word yet on who it was. Whoever it was died anyway though. Persia continues to advance. Every Spartan there knew that they were only meant to slow the Persians down. However‚ they had bigger plans. One Spartans journal stated it better than I could. “We do not think
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they are outnumbered. I find this appalling! To us Spartans there is no surrender or retreat. In all my years in training I was told to come back with my shield or come back on it. I can see no other option but to fight or die‚ to consider any other possibility is a disgrace to myself and to my family. Tomorrow we will meet the Persians at the pass at Thermopylae. While we are strong‚ and smarter in military techniques‚ we have only 300 Spartans and no defense of the pass has ever succeeded. From
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300: A Movie Evaluation Many people hear that the movie 300 is a historically inaccurate movie of fantasy and write it off as a bad film. However‚ the story and its underlying message‚ the symbolism‚ and the cinematography makes 300 the greatest movie to ever hit the big screen. The Story and its underlying message of 300 is the first aspect that really catches the viewer. 300 is told by the narrator‚ Dilios‚ who was sent back from battle by King Leonidas to relay the word of what the king and
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but as a Spartan I could support the conquering of other people to become slaves. The slaves did the hard work and were treated harshly‚ but if they worked hard enough they could buy their freedom. In Athens‚ the slaves could have lots of jobs like tutors‚ but could never be free. Also in Athens they used the sea harbors to trade to make money. Athenians’ land was not that good‚ so they could not farm as much. Athens had huge marketplaces called Agora‚ where they used coins to trade. Spartans like life
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In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting the events that took place in the movie 300 to the real events that were recorded throughout history by many historians that have studied these events of the one of the strongest Hellenic city-states Sparta. The movie 300 was set in the spring of 480 BC when the Persian King Xerxes was trying to follow in his fathers footsteps who continuing his master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states‚ arrives in Hellas. The previous attempts by the
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