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      This is one of a few incomplete pages on this site. Once the content is written in the same style and tone as the other provided content, then the completed piece will be even more successful. This particular movie is also a more contemporary work, which makes it very relevant to the topic overall.

    1. So Attack the Block is your everyday, textbook invasion story: aliens invade, trouble is caused, people die, humans fight back, and we get a somewhat happy ending. But what makes the aliens scary in a contemporary context? After all, this movie was just released in 2011, so what new fears can be found here? Well actually, the movie is quite helpful in telling us what it’s not about after Dennis and Pest so eloquently put it, “Hey, this ain’t got nothin’ to do with gangs!” “Or drugs, or rap music, or violence in video games.” So if the aliens don’t represent these imaginary fears, what is real enough to be scary? The fights a struggling lower class are put through in order to survive in their society which has stacked the odds against them? Sounds possible, especially when you realize that the aliens don’t attack or kill anyone outside of the impoverished lower class, aka those who li

      Here invasion stories is defined by the fears it arouses within the reader. The film becomes bigger than just an invasion story where aliens attack humans; it touches on a bigger picture such as pinpointing political themes that deeply affect the people.

    2. Here is the obvious summary of the film. This is very much needed for the reader who isn't familiar with this particular film. Avisual is provided to make the page aesthetically appealing.The author stays consistent with this effective design and style

    1. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers “(1956). AMC Networks, n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2016. “McCarthyism.” Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2016. Saporito, Jeff. “Was “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Intended as Political Allegory.” ScreenPrism, 5 Feb. 2016. Web. 30 Mar. 2016. “The Cold War.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. JFK Library, n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2016. Image: Theatrical release poster via Wikipedia

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    1. but what makes them so culturally important and why have they survived for so long? Project Invasion hopes to answer this question and hopefully give people interested in these narratives more information about what makes an invasion story an invasion story.  

      Here is the posed question that the authors intend to answer through the featured invasion stories. Even if this About Page isn't the static front page, the reader can still identify the information being presented. What the reader can take from this information is that through the sites illustrations, he/she will be able to understand what an invasion story is and what kinds of invasion stories exists.