National Health - National Health

Advantages: Important film in film making history
Disadvantages: Contraversial. I don't agree with the views of the film, a little too long

...The Birth of a Nation is a black and white silent film from 1915. It?s not a film I had heard of before, and the reason I watched it was because it was on the film list for a course I am taking at university. The film is based on a novel by Thomas Dixon called ?The Clansmen?. I had read up a little bit about the film before I started watching it so I wasn?t as surprised as I might have been about the content. The film was (and still is) controversial for promoting white supremacy, and I thought most of it was quite racist! The film was regarded as a very important film in its day as it used many new filming techniques which hadn?t been seen before. This is one of the main reasons that it was chosen as part of my course. I found the film interesting as I had never seen anything like it before, although I understand why it is seen as... Read review

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Advantages: Nation boundaries, All ages from prehistoric to modern
Disadvantages: None

...Rise of Nations is a real time strategy combined with a turn based tactical game. It was released in May 2003. --- the BASICS --- In RoN, the player is challenged to take over the world following individual battles. In addition to the campaign, gamers can also choose to play maps against AI or online opponents. In this game, the player have to gather resources (food, wood, coin and metal; oil later in the game) and amass knowledge in order to build / upgrade units and advance through the ages, while fighting against the enemy. There are 8 ages of the game - Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Gunpowder, Enlightenment, Industrial, Modern and Information age. With each age come better units and more powerful vehicles / ships. --- the AGES --- (Ancient) This is where the standard game start. During this age the units are virtually useless... Read review

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...This review is written on the good old National Health Service, which as we all know is a wonderful institution. But first off, I just thought that you would like to have a little history lesson on how it first all started off. So, if you are all sitting comfortably then we shall begin. The National Health Service as we know it today, only came in to being in 1948 after the end of the Second World War. This was as a result of so many poor people who were not poor to start with, who all paid in to private health care previously. However as they had lost everything as a result of somebloke who called himself Hitler, they could no longer afford to pay for anything. Therefore, the NHS came in to being on a free at point of delivery of health care type thing. Which is a load of bull, as if it free at p.o.d. then why do we all have... Read review

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