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If you've never seen a blacksploitation film, here's a short primer. In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, and starred in a film called Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss (yes, five s') Song. It was filled with sex, drugs, pimps, and numerous jabs at "The Man" who'd been "keeping the brother down". When this became a hit in the black communities, tons of new films were churned out to capitalize on this momentum. Shaft, Dolemite and Coffy were some of the biggest hits, but there were tons more that covered every genre, like chop-socky flicks (Black Belt Jones), horror (Blacula), and even westerns (The Black Bounty Hunter originally known as Boss Nigger).
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The Year 1986, the moment; Bill Buckner's error in Game six of the 1986 World Series which created one of baseball's greatest comeback dynasties. By allowing that softly grounded ball off the bat of Mookie Wilson, bounce and skip between his legs as it rolled straight down the first base line. He made it clear that the curse of the "Bambino" would continue to devastate Boston Red Sox baseball.
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Lenin by Robert Service is an academic biography covering the life and events surrounding Vladimir Ulyanov; better known as Vladimir Lenin, father of the Russian workers revolution. The book begins with the opening chapters focusing mainly on Lenin's family lineage from both his father and mothers sides. This was in my opinion critical, because it revealed to the reader a few unknown facts about Lenin's background covered up by the Soviet government as to forever make him an infallible working class hero. Among things revealed were Lenin's ties to the Jewish community on his mother's side, which makes perfect sense in the context that later in life he worked very closely with the Jewish working class. It also gives us a glimpse at how Lenin came to be brought up in a semi-wealthy environment, thanks to his father's governmental position in education. It should also be mentioned that after the author's introduction, he gives us a complete listing of all the known Ulyanov family members, along with a short list of the variations of names, and nicknames that Lenin had over the years. 
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Okay, okay. It's got repetitive combat, weak voice acting and the game world changes irrevocably as you progress. I've heard all the complaints and it took me a while to play this game, but I'm glad I finally did. 
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Throughout The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House, I kept wondering when the book that was thinking about burning in my backyard was going to become scary. Yes, Steven A. LaChance is a new author to the field and yes, he is writing a novel based on supposedly real life events. But, his work is dull and dry. It does not speak of true life or of the experiences brought on a haunted house. All in all, it lacks in the element of entertainment and realism. It's almost as if LaChance doesn't know where to begin and where to end. I wonder if he ever sat down and wrote out an outline for his novel.
In the book Atomic Diplomacy, Gar Alperovitz offers an in-depth look at the diplomatic strategy used by President Truman from March 1945 through August 1945 and the impact the successful testing of the atomic bomb in New Mexico had on it. Alperovitz incorporates a great variety of sources into his argument and steadily builds a case against the necessity of the use of atomic weapons. The use of the bomb, however, was not the focus of Atomic Diplomacy. Alperovitz, at the time of publishing (1965), strives to examine the measurable impact the possession of the bomb had on Truman's strategy when dealing with the Soviet Union and how this diplomatic strategy set the stage for the Cold War.
Rockstar makes some of the best games in the world. Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Max Payne; they even made ping-pong compelling! The San Diego developer got their feet wet in the western genre with 2004's Red Dead Revolver, but they really dove into the deep end with this year's Red Dead Redemption.
In the book Among the Dead Cities, philosopher A.C. Grayling examines the morality of area-bombing in World War II, focusing on Britain's Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). A philosophy professor at the University of London, Grayling encourages his audience to consider the merit of the bombing campaigns in what can be described as a 'philosophical vacuum'. He urges readers not to compare or justify the actions of the Allied bombing against the atrocities committed by the Axis Powers, but to look at the bombing campaign alone. 
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