Mental Airstrikes: Film Analysis
Mental Airstrikes
A popular image of a boy in an ambulance has been circulated for the past couple days. Angus McDowall from “The Huffington Post” described the five year old’s face as “an expression of incomprehension on his dust- and blood-caked face”. The boy’s name is Omran Daqneesh, Omran is a syrian boy, and like much of the Syrian population. Caught in civil war. Omran’s older brother Ali Daqneesh was wounded in last Wednesday’s airstrike, pulled from rubble and rushed in an ambulance, Ali died due to internal bleeding and organ damage. After this sad and compelling story was put out into mainstream media, the voices of the public began re-emphasizing the five year civil war in Syria. Warplanes from both Syrian and Russian forces …show more content…
have been bombing the east side of Aleppo since the advances the Syrian rebels have made on the city. These airstrikes have left 448 civilians dead this month. I found this article interesting because of the involvement of larger countries in the war like the U.S. or Russia. Me growing up in Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) I had always heard political talk about how the U.S. just took control after the Spanish/American war and gave us “rights” but didn't really give Puerto Rico the option to choose and somewhat crippled the commonwealth with legislations.
Alexander Newell
Leach
Honors English 2
08/20/16
The Millennials STD Countries all over latin america have suffered from a new and widespread epidemic that will have an effect on future generations to come. This disease is the Zika virus, it can be spread by mosquito or through sex. While it’s already hit other countries hard in latin america, there have been reports of Zika infection clusters throughout florida, mainly in the Miami area. The diseases symptoms are mild to unnoticeable in both males and females, not only to mention that they carry the disease for months. On the other hand the true victim is the carrier's child. Zika can cause severe neurological defects in developing fetuses, a stunting of the skull and brain called microcephaly. An expert who looked at the infants of mothers who carried the Zika virus predicted that infants with the disease would have a very limited life expectancy. The author of the article Kelly McBride Folkers from “The N.Y. Times” was mainly trying to put an emphasis on safety for future parents (mainly millennials). This is what Kelly had to say on how we can prevent the spread of the disease “ we should focus on what we can control. We can choose to use condoms... To wear bug spray every time we go outside and to consider postponing having a baby until the Zika vaccine is available.”. I choose this article because it is a growing health concern and I came from a country where the epidemic has also taken place, it was interesting to read and find out more about the epidemic.
Alexander Newell
Leach
Honors English 2
08/20/2016
Morris from America “Morris from America” directed by Chad Hartigan, is a film about a boy named Morris and his father Curtis who had recently moved to Hiedelberg, Germany.
Morris is a 13 year old african american who aspires to become a rapper, his dad Curtis is a widowed father and coaches professional soccer. The film emphasizes the road of boyhood to adulthood with his dad being a guide through all the mess. Morris is advised by his German tutor to attend a youth center activity to make friends, at the youth center he encounters racism, mostly since the Germans consider themselves free from ancestral bigotry so racial comments don’t appear as taboo. He encounters many stereotypical assumptions, like being a drug dealer or being a good basketball player. At the youth center he also meets Katrin, a slightly older german girl for which he falls for. Although Katrin has a boyfriend, she genuinely loves Morris and pushes him to the brink. Whether or not she completely embarrases Morris or pushes him in the right direction, it helps Morris discover himself as an individual. The writer of the review A. O. Scott from “The N.Y. Times” praised the actors how they handled the father-son relationship “the love between them is the beat that drives the movie’s flow”, says Scott. I personally choose this article because I had seen the film and I’m really into the Hip Hop/Rap
culture.
A popular image of a boy in an ambulance has been circulated for the past couple days. Angus McDowall from “The Huffington Post” described the five year old’s face as “an expression of incomprehension on his dust- and blood-caked face”. The boy’s name is Omran Daqneesh, Omran is a syrian boy, and like much of the Syrian population. Caught in civil war. Omran’s older brother Ali Daqneesh was wounded in last Wednesday’s airstrike, pulled from rubble and rushed in an ambulance, Ali died due to internal bleeding and organ damage. After this sad and compelling story was put out into mainstream media, the voices of the public began re-emphasizing the five year civil war in Syria. Warplanes from both Syrian and Russian forces …show more content…
have been bombing the east side of Aleppo since the advances the Syrian rebels have made on the city. These airstrikes have left 448 civilians dead this month. I found this article interesting because of the involvement of larger countries in the war like the U.S. or Russia. Me growing up in Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) I had always heard political talk about how the U.S. just took control after the Spanish/American war and gave us “rights” but didn't really give Puerto Rico the option to choose and somewhat crippled the commonwealth with legislations.
Alexander Newell
Leach
Honors English 2
08/20/16
The Millennials STD Countries all over latin america have suffered from a new and widespread epidemic that will have an effect on future generations to come. This disease is the Zika virus, it can be spread by mosquito or through sex. While it’s already hit other countries hard in latin america, there have been reports of Zika infection clusters throughout florida, mainly in the Miami area. The diseases symptoms are mild to unnoticeable in both males and females, not only to mention that they carry the disease for months. On the other hand the true victim is the carrier's child. Zika can cause severe neurological defects in developing fetuses, a stunting of the skull and brain called microcephaly. An expert who looked at the infants of mothers who carried the Zika virus predicted that infants with the disease would have a very limited life expectancy. The author of the article Kelly McBride Folkers from “The N.Y. Times” was mainly trying to put an emphasis on safety for future parents (mainly millennials). This is what Kelly had to say on how we can prevent the spread of the disease “ we should focus on what we can control. We can choose to use condoms... To wear bug spray every time we go outside and to consider postponing having a baby until the Zika vaccine is available.”. I choose this article because it is a growing health concern and I came from a country where the epidemic has also taken place, it was interesting to read and find out more about the epidemic.
Alexander Newell
Leach
Honors English 2
08/20/2016
Morris from America “Morris from America” directed by Chad Hartigan, is a film about a boy named Morris and his father Curtis who had recently moved to Hiedelberg, Germany.
Morris is a 13 year old african american who aspires to become a rapper, his dad Curtis is a widowed father and coaches professional soccer. The film emphasizes the road of boyhood to adulthood with his dad being a guide through all the mess. Morris is advised by his German tutor to attend a youth center activity to make friends, at the youth center he encounters racism, mostly since the Germans consider themselves free from ancestral bigotry so racial comments don’t appear as taboo. He encounters many stereotypical assumptions, like being a drug dealer or being a good basketball player. At the youth center he also meets Katrin, a slightly older german girl for which he falls for. Although Katrin has a boyfriend, she genuinely loves Morris and pushes him to the brink. Whether or not she completely embarrases Morris or pushes him in the right direction, it helps Morris discover himself as an individual. The writer of the review A. O. Scott from “The N.Y. Times” praised the actors how they handled the father-son relationship “the love between them is the beat that drives the movie’s flow”, says Scott. I personally choose this article because I had seen the film and I’m really into the Hip Hop/Rap
culture.