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US soldiers making friends with Iraqi children in the streets To pass time soldiers would play soccer with children out in the streets and form close bonds with them
US soldiers having to put out a lot of bomb threats The main danger in Iraq was the constant bomb danger putting all the citizens at risk
The harsh heat that the soldiers had to face…

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Discrimination in the south Throughout the movie, the main characters are denied the right to equal opportunities in the workplace due to their race.
Launch of John Glenn The film shows the collective efforts taken by the team at NASA to successfully launch astronaut John Glenn into orbit and make him the first American to orbit the Earth.

Education barrier between people Mary Jackson is shown to have trouble trying to get the education…

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The fact that at the start of the movie he made $3,000 per fight but in the middle only made $50 This shows that the economy was on the decline and many people were losing money and that they made a lot less.
When Braddock was looing for work and only a few people were selected for a job Many men needed money to help…