Neil Winton

40 years ago now (A New Hope was released in ’76)

signle

lightining

trilodgy

is chipping away the mess that the prequal trilodgy has left in its wake

Now don’t

harcore uber fans

that are

emperor, in-fact

(!!!!!)

was and still is one

all time favourite Star Wars characters of all time

most of all

I love the plot intricacies that are so clear to old fans, and yet the stories are easy to understand for new-comers to the Star Wars world (Padawns), furthermore though, the feeling of these episodes are far more important than any other contributing factor.

re-created

epsidoes

trilodgy.

You actually root for Anakin now, rather than hating his high pitched voice (in the case of Episode 1) or hating his blatant poor acting (in Episodes 2/3), and once again, there are decent bounty hunters (take a bow Cad Bane and Aurra Sing).

always annoying Jar Jar Binks, but even his appearences are majorly less annoying,

mission

and I think

At first, no questions were asked about child or parent, but a distinguishing  token was put on each child by the parent. These were often marked coins,  trinkets, pieces of cotton or ribbon, verses written on scraps of paper.  Clothes, if any, were carefully recorded. One entry is, "Paper on the breast,  clout on the head." The applications became too numerous, and a system of  balloting with red, white and black balls was adopted. Children were seldom  taken after they were twelve months old.

apprentice

The new Hospital was described as "the most imposing single monument erected by  eighteenth century benevolence" and became London's most popular charity

In 1756, the House of Commons resolved  that all children offered should be received, that local receiving places should  be appointed all over the country, and that the funds should be publicly  guaranteed. A basket was accordingly hung outside the hospital; the maximum age  for admission was raised from two to twelve months, and a flood of children  poured in from country workhouses. In less than four years 14,934  children were presented, and a vile trade grew up among vagrants, who  sometimes became known as "Coram Men", of promising to carry children from the  country to the hospital, an undertaking which they often did not perform or  performed with great cruelty. Of these 15,000 only 4,400 lived to be apprenticed  out. The total expense was about £500,000, which alarmed the House of Commons.  After throwing out a bill which proposed to raise the necessary  funds by fees from a general system of parochial registration, they came to the conclusion that  the indiscriminate admission should be discontinued. The hospital, being thus  thrown on its own resources, adopted a system of receiving children with  considerable sums (e.g., £100), which sometimes led to them being reclaimed by  the parent. This was finally stopped in 1801; and it henceforth became a  fundamental rule that no money was received.