"300" Movie

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead a Army of well over 100,000 (Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170,000 army) men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited for 10 days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw left with no options he moved. The battle lasted for about 3 days and after which all 300 Spartans were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected as a local shepherd named Ephialtes defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks.

Fences

“Fences” is a story of the playwright August Wilson in this story Wilson is involving African-American experiences. Fences is about a black man (Troy) that cheating his wife with other woman. She gave born a child of Troy. Six months later, Rose receives a call from the hospital. Troy's baby was a girl, and Alberta has died in childbirth. When Troy comes home with the baby, Raynell, he asks Rose to act as the mother. She agrees to this for the sake of the child, but tells Troy that he is now a "womanless man." Cory returns after years later as a Marine. At first he refuses to come to Troy's funeral, but after Rose admonishes his rebellion and after he and Raynell sing an old song of Troy's, he concedes. Gabriel comes and tries to open the gates of heaven, by blowing on his horn. This fails, and the gates only open when Gabriel does a traditional African dance.

"The Story of an Hour"

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a story about a woman that have heath problem, in the other hands her husband past away. She is thinking that with this death of her husband she will be freedom to do whatever she wants. At the same time, she has a hearth attack, and died. At the end of the story, the doctor says that what very funny died because everybody that has hearth problems died for something sad and she died of happiness and ironic of life.

The White City

“The White City” a poem that related the cruel reality of how lived the people after Civil War in 1920, in this poem the author compares the heaven is some occasion is at the same time a hell, for black people at that time. Where blacks people fight for they rights.

Memory Unsettled

"Memory Unsettled” by Thom Gunn this poem is about a man that is very sick. He wants that when he died people remember him. On the poem his friend related one time when he go to visited him, with a very sick hothouse cough. And this bring memories how at that time his friend help him. In this piece Gunn wants that the readers live what he is living and feeling with the death of his best friend. This is a very good poem where you can appreciated the relationship between two men, and how the other feel the death of this other without help him.

“Spirit” in my opinion are speculations about such question involved the positing of belief in a supernatural being, who created and in one way or another governs the universe. Much of this, in my opinion is speculations, because until today the scientific community doesn’t have a truth prove of all this. I think spirit and Gods are created by religions to invite people to believe it. In addition, many of them suggest that humans was created by Gods, but until today no natural laws required that life or the particular human form of it would be an out come of at operation

"Homage to my Hips" by Lucille Clifton

"Homage to my Hips" by Lucille Clifton is a poem about how a man gyrate his live with a big hips. Clifton tried to say the form that change the life of a man with a big hip, don’t care where that going or what they wants to do. These hips are powerful hips that gave power to the body of the man transport him to a high level.