Although this movie mainly concentrated on the Los Angeles walkouts, it also depicted a well-known Chicano organization called the Brown Berets; the Brown Berets were known for their militant and nationalistic ideology that was often unsuccessful in bring attention to their cause, which was giving better higher education for Chicanos in Mexican-American neighborhoods.…
This past weekend a close friend of mine encouraged me to go see the documentary 9500 Liberty that was playing on Friday. Honestly I only went to be nice to my friend however as I sat and watched the documentary I quickly became very engaged. The film was about a county in Virginia which was trying to implement laws which negatively affected the steadily increasing Latino community in the area. This documentary was fantastically done and was very emotionally gripping. I was really upset because of the racist comments that were said by the Caucasian residents. It became a very ugly battle which surpassed the original purpose of the whole issue.Throughout the movie I was constantly becoming more and more angry at the behavior of the opposing…
Q5. How do you think the filmmakers want the audience to respond? Is there a social justice message? If so, what is it?…
I dearly love the film and maintain that it's one of the great pictures from the last 10 years. I don't know what the director of this movie (Spike Lee) intended the moral to be, but my take on the film has always been that NO ONE does the right thing, and this is the cautionary element of the movie. The racial message about racial injustice is very deep and one that every race should see. The climax of the movie is very powerful and deep. The heat is blazing, tensions are running high (especially racial ones), and under this kind of pressure no one behaves according to common courtesy and decency. The entire film is a chain of uncontrolled outbursts of anger that lead to everyone's misery.…
So the movie sketches many notable points at various locations. The movie reviles that all the characters working in the movie are narrow minded either they belong to the white community or the black community. The movie shows that both the parties are trying to inserting their cast or the community but no one is trying to promote the humanity. At individual level both the parties are trying their best for this…
The filmmaker shows the progress of SNCC, and SCLC, and the Civil Rights Movement, as they fought for equality in the United States. As a whole they met nonviolent, and hostile hurdles, but persevered all obstacles to defeat segregation and earn…
“ I will fall like an ocean on that court! Fear nothing, Elizabeth.” - John Proctor, “The Crucible” pg.45. John Proctor tells his wife, who is accused of witchcraft, that he will not stop until he frees her. This can be compared to the Majestic, Peter Appleton, the main character in the movie, was accused of being a communist. He was driving after he was told he was blacklisted. He crashed his car into a river, he lost all of his memory and washed up in a small town. The people in the town thought he was a soldier, who was lost in the war. He took up a alias of Luke Trimble. I think that the story the Crucible is comparable to many parts of the movie, the Majestic.…
Reading about the San Francisco State College Strike, it became very clear how racist and hypocritical the U.S. educational system was. Students, faculty members and community activists had to fight hard for equal access to higher education and a new education curriculum that would include studies of the history and culture of all people including ethnic minorities. As Asian Americans were facing similar systematic discriminations, they joined other racial groups to initiate and support the student-led Strike. Government officials viewed students’ demands as too extreme and their activism just a fashionable movement to disrupt the system. As a result many students got beaten, arrested and jailed.…
In this paper, I will state my reaction on two videos, Eye of the Storm and A Class Divided. These videos are inspired from Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher, who tested a group of her students in teaching them about discrimination. I definitely agree with Elliott in her process of teaching people the importance of ethnicity and discrimination.…
Talents need to be recognized without stereotyping, prejudice or discrimination. In the movie the teenage boy had a hard time proofing himself as good writer, he's been told he can't be a good writer because he's from Bronx, this clearly portrays stereotyping and prejudice by his English teacher. He's been discriminated by his friends, they ignored him, just because he was smart. The teenage boy has hard time making friends with his own kind, the was told he not the same as them because he's from the Bronx, this is stereotyping and discrimination. Overall the he was judged by, where he came from and his color, and not what he has to offer to the school and the community.…
The movement to “Take back the schools” was a movement initiated by a group of Chicano students demanding for a change in their schools system in East Los Angeles California. The 1960’s was a time when Mexican American students were suffering from neglect and discrimination in their schools. It was obvious there was a problem with the school system of education only one out of four chicanos was completing high school. Students were separated into different classes by their IQ scores. Students with a lower IQ were put into shop classes instead of being put into the academic tracking where they would be prepared for college. The dropout rate from school was really a push out rate of Mexican Americans dropping out from school how it’s mentioned in the film. Their culture was not addressed and their schools were not doing much for them. Their academic advisors would set them low for their future by advocating how service jobs like the ones their parents were doing were a practical choice for Mexican Americans.…
The movie East is East takes place in Salford, Manchester in the early seventies. The family Kahn owns a fish and chips shop on the corner.…
The film “East is East” is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Damien O'Donnell and released in 1999. The story is set in a British household with a pious Muslim father and an English mother in Salford in 1971. George Khan, the father, forces his family to follow the Pakistani lifestyle, but his seven children, who were born in Britain, see themselves as British and reject the traditions. This results in many tensions and conflicts. In the following I am going to shortly sum up the plot as well as to give my own opinion on the film.…
The poem, The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling is about India versus England. With the use of military, England took over India.…
East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father, George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways, but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole lives in Salford, England, they feel like Englishmen and think of themselves as Englishmen. There is only one of the children that follows his father’s religion, Maneer Khan, whom we later see in the sequel, West is West. The two films has several…