Slideshow of 15 Greatest WW2 Movies of All Time

The World War Two is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

So, seventy-one years past, we can learn the most widespread and horrifying war throughout the history of mankind through films and television programs. However, picking the best, top-notch World War II movies was no easy task – there are so many excellent films to choose from, from old classics to newer movies about this war. Hera are the selected 15 Greatest WW2 Movies of All Time, and while we know you won’t agree 100%, you should find some of your favorites on the list.

15. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Jude Law
Ed Harris
Rachel Weisz
Joseph Fiennes
Bob Hoskins
Enemy at the Gates features an amazing cast in Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes and Bob Hoskins. While not loved by all, this World War II entry is an interesting story about the conflict between two snipers – a tense war drama that just barely makes our list because 1) Jude Law is a bit too pretty and 2) the accents need a little more work.
14. The Thin Red Line (1998)

James Caviezel
Sean Penn
Adrien Brody
Ben Chaplin
George Clooney
John Cusack
Woody Harrelson
Elias Koteas
Nick Nolte
John C. Reilly
John Travolta
The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick’s excellent adaptation of James Jones’ fictionalized memoir, brings to life the story of young soldiers during the battle for Guadalcanal. While The Thin Red Line may be lighter on action than other war films, (and some argue a bit of a snoozefest), it still manages to masterfully tell the story with stunning performances by the often overlooked James Caviezel and always-brilliant Sean Penn as Private Witt and Sergeant Welsh. This war movie makes our list for the emotional connection between the soldiers who form the bonds of family while fighting for their survival.

13. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Gregory Peck
David Niven
Anthony Quinn
The Guns of Navarone is an action film at its best, with Gregory Peck leading his ragtag crew on a mission most impossible. With a cast that includes heavy weights Anthony Quinn and David Niven, Guns of Navarone’s caper includes action and suspense – and never falls short on the entertainment spectrum.
12. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Martin Balsam
Joseph Cotten
E. G. Marshall
Tatsuya Mihashi
James Whitmore
Soh Yamamura
Jason Robards
More than just fun to say, Tora! Tora! Tora! is a much more competent retelling of the events of Pearl Harbor than that crapfest 2001 film starring Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale (don’t get us started on that mess). Tora! Tora! Tora! does justice to the history of this World War II event by giving both an American and Japanese viewpoint to the story.

11. Catch-22 (1970)

Alan Arkin
Martin Balsam
Richard Benjamin
Orson Welles
Art Garfunkel
Jon Voight
Anthony Perkins
Bob Newhart
Martin Sheen
Buck Henry
Purists will argue that the film version of Catch-22 can’t hold a candle to the Joseph Heller novel it’s based on, but the movie still holds a place on our top 15 WWII movie list. Alan Arkin, Jon Voight, Buck Henry, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, and Orson Welles star in this tale of a guy who pretends he’s insane to get out of the war. Only, as the title of this black comedy tells, it’s a no-win situation.

For the remaining ten greatest WW2 movies of all time, I plan to present them with PowerPoint presentation, and convert it to video with the help of Moyea PPT to Video Converter, and then I upload the PowerPoint video to Slideboom and YouTube. So you can watch or share them if you like. Enjoy!

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Moyea Back to School Sales Promotion Catches Numerous Users’ Attention

Since the launch of the Back to School Sales Promotion at the beginning of August, lots of emails embedded with the links of reviews and uploaded videos have been sent from the users across the world.
Shenzhen, P. R. China (August 31, 2010) – In the past month, Moyea Software Co., Ltd. (“Moyea Software”), an innovative provider of multimedia presentation solutions, has its hands full with the links of the articles written and submitted by their worldwide users and videos converted from the users’ PowerPoint documents with the help of Moyea PPT to DVD Burner Edu Edition (Try it now: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-dvd-education/) and Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu Edition (Try it now: http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video-education/) as the release of the back-to-school sales promotion activities lasting from the start of August to the mid-September to welcome millions of teachers and students coming back to school.
Martha, who has been an American educator for the past 31 years, travels around the East Coast of USA and shows her PowerPoint to children in local schools. “The aim of the PowerPoint is to raise awareness and funds for cooperative educational efforts in the USA and Africa.” She mentioned it in her review, entitled Showing a PowerPoint on an iPad (http://www.marthatcummings.com/blog.html), of the PowerPoint to Video Education product of Moyea Software.
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After the approval of Moyea’s staff, Martha is honored with a FREE download link of the registered edition of Moyea PPT to Video Converter Edu Editon. In other words, Moyea Software makes a contribution to the cooperative educational efforts in the USA and Africa indirectly.
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Back to School 2010: Coping with the First Year of College

September is coming, which means the new term will begin. Autumn is a season of harvest, and I wish all the students, no matter you are in primary school, middle school, or college, could treasure every day in school.
Here is an article about how to cope with the first year of college, and I hope it can give you some help.
We’re coming up on back-to-school time, and for thousands of young people everywhere, that means taking their first great big step into adult life: college. Going to school, whether you stay at home or travel across the country or around the world, can be terrifying. It can also be your life’s greatest adventure.
What you do in your first year of college can have a big impact on the rest of your college years – not to mention on the rest of your life. A few missteps might be possible to undo later on, but too many wrong moves and you might well find it impossible to recover later. Blow off too many classes, for example, and your grades will suffer – and no matter how much you reform your ways in ensuing years, your GPA will always suffer. Do poorly enough, and you might find yourself on academic probation or even thrown out come the end of the school year!
It doesn’t have to be that way. And your first year doesn’t have to be an endless drudge, either. What’s important right now is not that you bury yourself in schoolwork until you bleed, sweat, and crap knowledge, but to establish a healthy balance of academic work, social activity, and just plain living – a balance that once established, you’ll find easy to maintain through the rest of college and into your future.
Here, then, are my 15 tips for making the most of your freshman year:

• 1. Get organized. Get yourself a sturdy file box and a set of file folders, and set up a folder for each class. Start using a planner, and keep a to-do list. Unless you’re heavily into computers, I actually don’t recommend you use software or web services to manage your schedule; most of the time, you won’t have easy access to a computer which means you won’t use those tools when you need them most. Develop a note-taking strategy and use it religiously. Keep every paper you write, every syllabus, and every handout – you never know when you’ll need to challenge a grade, prove you finished an assignment on time, or recall a book title from a previous class.
• 2. Plan ahead. By the end of your first week, you’ll know when almost every assignment for the semester is due – put those on your calendar and write down a set of milestones (with due dates) you need to accomplish to finish them on time. There’s no reason you should be stressing over papers or big tests the night before they’re due. Start making good use of your time at the beginning of the semester and approach your due dates calm and relaxed. (By the way, if you think you do your best work when a deadline is bearing down on you, you’re probably wrong. Your problem isn’t the lack of a deadline; it’s a lack of motivation. Get motivated now – or seriously re-think why you’re in college, before it’s too late.)
• 3. Eat right. College students often gain weight in their first year. Without mom and dad buying the groceries and planning your meals, and with easy access to pizza, microwave burritos, and cheese fries, it’s easy to lose track of just how many calories you’re consuming. Try to limit the fast food and late-night delivery, and maintain a varied diet. You can still have that meatball sub now and again, just try not to live on them.
• 4. Sleep well. It’s ironic that the time in our life when we need sleep the most is the time when we’re most tempted to skimp on sleep. Adequate sleep is essential for college students. Believe it or not, it’s when you’re asleep that most of the work of learning happens – that’s when the brain processes and files away the stuff you stored in short-term memory in your classes the previous day. It’s also important for regulating your metabolism – every hour of missed sleep is like eating an extra meal! (Which is one reason for freshman weight gain.) Losing sleep causes stress, which affects performance on tests and quizzes. And, of course, consistently going to bed late makes it increasingly likely that you’ll oversleep and miss those early classes.
• 5. Talk to your professors. College students tend to be intimidated by their professors. Don’t be. They’re there to help you, and for all but the meanest and laziest professors, that extends well beyond mastery of the course material. Visit a professor during his or her office hours just to chat now and again. Tell them about a book you read that deals with their course material, or ask for recommendations. And, of course, ask for help, whether with a tricky point in your readings or with big life issues – if nothing else, a professor can point you in the right direction to find the resources you need.
• 6. Join something. Sign up for a sports team, even if it’s just intramural Frisbee. Join a club, or a fraternity or sorority, or the student council. Taking part in some sort of extracurricular activity will keep you socially active (a lot of first-year students feel isolated and overwhelmed), provide an outlet for nervous energy, and maybe even teach you something new. And they don’t look bad on your resume, either.
• 7. Call home. Make sure you keep in touch with your friends and family back home. Though you don’t believe it now, you’ll start growing apart from your high school friends this year, but you don’t have to let go too easily! Friends and family can really help ease the transition by grounding you in a world that’s familiar and comforting. Because they know you better than anyone else, they’ll also know when something’s wrong – often before you do!
• 8. Speak up in class. College is interactive. Ask questions, answer the professor’s questions, and share your opinion as much as possible. Now is the time to break free of your high school conditioning – there are no points for sitting quietly anymore.
• 9. Use the library. There are so many resources available in the library – magazines, guides to local places, databases, leisure reading, videos, and of course, the books you need for your papers. Learn as much as you can about your library, as soon as you can. Talk with the librarians about the resources available in your field. Check out the resources you can access remotely – so you don’t come up stuck when you realize you need one more reference in the middle of the night.
• 10. Relax. Make a point of taking it easy now and again. Take a no-study day. Go to the park. Party. Go shopping. If you don’t do something non-class related once in a while, you’re going to burn out. Remember: balance is key. Study enough, and live enough. No more and no less.
• 11. Use the gym. Many college campuses have gyms that are available free to students (or at a very low cost). Pizza, late-nighters, and early classes sap your energy pretty quickly – working out, swimming, or having a run can help recharge your batteries (And, of course, fend off that first-year weight gain.)
• 12. Use public transportation. Get to know the public transportation system in your college’s town, especially if you’re living on-campus. Leave the car at home, if you can – public transportation is easier on the wallet (no insurance, no gas, and no maintenance) and in many cases your school ID will get you free rides everywhere. And while you are likely too young to drink legally, if you do get drunk or high somewhere, taking the bus instead of driving home might well save your life, or someone else’s.
• 13. Walk a lot. Walking is good exercise, of course, but it’s also a great way to learn the lay of the land. Explore the hidden corners of your campus, as well as the city or town around it.
• 14. Get a job. You’ll feel a lot better about college if you’re not always struggling to make ends meet. Plus, a job can help you meet new people and be a good counterbalance to your course load. A part-time job at a local business or on campus is ideal, especially if you can find something related to your field of study. A few hours a week, maybe 10 or 15, if you’re really organized, is ideal – you’re working for pocket money, not to support a family. Not everyone can manage this, so be honest with yourself and quit if you start falling behind. (This point assumes you’re not paying your way through school. Some students have to work, but even so remember: school is your first job.)
• 15. Don’t get a credit card. You’ll get bombarded with apparently sweet credit card deals almost from the second you step on campus (many college bookstores put credit card flyers in the bag with your textbooks!) Consider that credit card companies have fought hard for the right to turn a large profit from fees for being overdrawn, missing payments, or going over your limit – now consider how they expect to make a profit from you. Even if you never do anything to earn a penalty fee, you’ll end up paying way more than however much you charged in interest and annual fees. Stick to a bank account and debit card.

Note: Freshman fifteen is the weight gained by college students in the first year of study at college or university. Undergraduate students typically gain up to fifteen pounds during the freshman (first) year.

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Wallpapers of 2010 FIBA World Championship: Giant Get-Together

The 2010 FIBA World Championship is hosted by Turkey. There are 24 competing teams across the world qualified for the final tournament, which runs from August 28 to September 12, 2010.

The FIBA World Championship is a world basketball tournament for men’s national teams hosted quadrennially by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). It is considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament.

Spain National Basketball Team is the reigning World and European champions. We would like to know whether they can do as well as its National Football Team in 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa in this summer.

It is a pity that many basketball superstars cannot play the games, such as Manu Ginóbili from Argentina, Pau Gasol from Spain, Andrew Bogut from Australian, Andrei Kirilenko from Russia, Dirk Nowitzki from Germany, and Yao Ming from China.

Here are a group of wallpapers themed at Giant Get-Together created for the World’s Greatest Basketball Event - 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Giant Get-Together - Anderson Varejao (Brazil)

Giant Get-Together - Andrei Kirilenko (Russia)

Giant Get-Together - Andrew Bogut (Australia)

Giant Get-Together - Carlos Arroyo (Puerto Rico)

Giant Get-Together - Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)

Giant Get-Together - Ersan Ilyasova (Turkey)

Giant Get-Together - Hidayet Turkoglu (Turkey)

Giant Get-Together - Hidayet Turkoglu (Turkey)

Giant Get-Together - Joel Anthony (Canada)

Giant Get-Together - Kobe and Pau

Giant Get-Together - Kobe Bryant (USA)

Giant Get-Together - Kobe Bryant (USA)

Giant Get-Together - Kobe Bryant (USA)

Giant Get-Together - Kobe Bryant (USA)

Giant Get-Together - Luis Scola (Argentina)

Giant Get-Together - Mehmet Okur (Turkey)

Giant Get-Together - Pau Gasol (Spain)

Giant Get-Together - Tony Parker (France)

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