Thursday, December 10, 2009
Film Lesson Mountains of the Moon
The film Mountains of the Moon was a very interesting movie because it showed two famous trying to find the source of the Nile River. They were Richard Francis and John Hanning Speke. They hired porters to transport supplies, and sometimes during the night they got attacked, or their own porters stole and deserted them. There were also other hardships like misquotes that carried deadly diseases like malaria. Also there were many other bugs that were pests like beetles, like when John Speke gets one in his ear. The weather was very hot and dry and very hard to survive. The reason why Lake Victoria is still named after the British queen is because at the time Great Britain had the power over that area of Africa. Europeans were a lot more advanced then Africans due to the fact that they had binoculars, telescopes and especially guns. And once they were able to get quinine and machine guns, they were easily able to takeover Africa, the africans just had basic spears.
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