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    Camp X

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    Camp X Camp X was a Canadian espionage school for special agents who participated and operated in the “Secret War” during the Second World War between corrupted German power. Agents and students volunteered or enrolled in this training camp were taught a wide variety of skills and techniques that were proved useful in World War Two. Camp X was Canada’s defining moment because it trained many agents and allied units‚ played an important role in victory of World War II‚ and had a highly sophisticated

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    Speech Given by Malcolm X Though almost half a century has passed‚ the Civil Rights Movement remains one freshly imprinted in not only the history books of US schools but also in the minds of countless Americans. Albeit‚ American society has come quite a ways in the acceptance of the individual - regardless of sex‚ age‚ creed or ethnicity - prejudices of different sorts are still to be found throughout every one of the United States of America. The Civil Rights Movement fought

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    Malcolm X

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    very bottom of the American white man’s society‚" until "in prison- I found Allah and…it completely transformed my life." (150) He became involved in the Nation of Islam‚ led by Elijah Muhammad. It was at this time that Malcolm took his first step towards his belief of non-integration with the white people of America. When he was released in 1952‚ he renamed himself Malcolm X in keeping with Elijah Muhammad’s belief that American blacks should give up their "slave names." The "X"‚ he said‚ "Replaces

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    Moonlight Film Analysis

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    African American Experience Film: Moonlight Description: Moonlight is a 2016 movie that follows the childhood‚ teenagehood and adulthood of Chiron Harris‚ a gay African-American. It starts with Chiron as a shy and vulnerable kid growing up in Miami. Chiron is an only child and lives with his mother‚ who happens to be a drug addict‚ his father is absent in the story. One day when he is trying to escape from bullies‚ he is found by Juan‚ a man that will get close to him and will serve as a father

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    Philomena: A Film that Questions What You Believe In and Yet Answers Why You Do Among the many good films of 2013‚ this one has to be on my top 5 list. Directed with passion by Stephen Frears‚ Philomena is a film that questions your beliefs regardless of which religious sect you belong to. As a little exposition‚ Philomena Lee (Judi Dench)‚ way back 1952‚ was impregnated out of wedlock and was therefore sent forcibly to a convent where she gave birth to a son she named Anthony. She and other young

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    Homeless: Film Analysis

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    Film review “Nobody wants to be homeless‚ it doesn’t even come across their minds in five years from now I would like to be Homeless” (Inocente). Inocente is a short documentary film about a 15 year aspiring artist who is homeless. She resides with her Mother and three brothers in San Diego‚ California. Inocente attends school and her class mates are unaware that she is homeless. She will not tell classmates that she is homeless because the fear of mockery and shame. Inocente has been homeless

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    PTSD: A Film Analysis

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    PTSD is portrayed significantly throughout this film and shows the raw accuracy of how it can affect people in multiple ways. Rae had PTSD because she had been sexually molested by her stepfather; because of this catastrophic event‚ it produced psychological suffering throughout her life. Ronnie had PTSD‚ which was created by any tremendous noise. Regrettably‚ the film does not give an insight as to why this disorder had evolved‚ but the viewer can infer what may have occurred in his life. Lazarus

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    Disney’s films benefited the government in generating pro-American war propaganda in an effort to increase support for the war. More than ninety percent of Disney’s employees were dedicated to the production of these educational films; he also made films for each branch of the United States military. Throughout World War II‚ Disney studio manufactured four hundred thousand feet of educational war films‚ which is equivalent to sixty-eight hours of film. Disney designed insignia that

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    The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers‚ David and his sister Jennifer‚ somehow being transported into the television‚ ending up in Pleasantville‚ a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville‚ with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour‚ mise-en-scene‚ camera shots

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    In his Book Black Film‚ White Money‚ Jesse Algeron Rhimes makes an interesting parallel. He declares “Edison initiated mass film viewing with the introduction of the large-screen projector in New York City on April 23‚ 1896. Less than one month later‚ on May 18‚ the U.S Supreme Court formally sanctioned “Jim Crow” segregation by formulating its anti-Black “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson”. He adds‚ “ Racial segregation and mass film viewing are siblings‚ if not forever squabbling

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