17 October 2012 Early American History Reaction Paper A Reaction in American History The History of America interests not only me‚ the world on a grand scale. America was a form giver to many of today’s governments looking at what we did in the past things that if you looked upon them today you would say that these are just normal things‚ but in the time period this happened this is nowhere near normal‚ it’s abnormal. Population growth‚ mannerisms‚ transportation‚ a split country
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effort to learn about this man‚ could see he was special. He was charismatic‚ honest and righteous in his quest to open the eyes of Black Americans‚ to the deception they had so long believed; that integration meant equality. He was Malcolm X and he frightened white Americans; this irrational fear was not based on evidence shown in Malcolm X’s behavior or history‚ it was an idea spread through mass media and internalized by society. CRITICAL CULTURAL THEORY Mass Communication: Living in a Media
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AMERICAN HISTORY X American History X (1998) illustrates how segregation is aggravated by missing father figures as well as the herd mentality of the characters in the film. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ’s concept of the herd mentality states that people need a concept or a worldview to adopt in order to give meaning to their lives. This herding of people who choose to adopt this certain ideal or ideals in effect causes the stifling of individual thoughts or creativity because everyone
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American History X definitely has the x-factor ‘American History X’ from 1999 is an American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. It premiered in USA in the autumn in 1999 and became a huge hit and won several awards including best movie of the year. On the day that his older brother is due to be released from prison‚ the student Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) turns in a paper praising Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to his Jewish teacher Murray (Elliot Gould)
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These are just a few areas of what the movie American History X touches on. The primary sociological behavior displayed in this movie is deviance‚ which is defined as an individual going against the norms of society. Norms are a standard to a particular society or group as displayed here with race. The father in this movie‚ Dennis Vineyard‚ was a firefighter who worked for his community and while putting out a fire was killed by African American drug dealers. While raising his children‚ he
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Rizal X Reaction Paper I had a lot of preconceived ideas of what the plot of Rizal X would be. Based at the content of the promotional posters scattered all over the campus‚ I thought that Rizal X would just be another one of those plays that try to portray a modern day Rizal with modern day problems. So I was pleasantly surprised at how the play turned out. It was quite interesting and refreshing to see a play without a linear plot get successfully pulled off. The manner in which they correlated
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American History X I chose the movie American History X because of it’s brutally graphic examples of racism‚ hate‚ and deviance. This movie “crosses the line” of the norm of society and digs deep into theories of prejudice and deviance. American History X shows the importance of what happens when the cycle of affluence is not broken and an impressionable young teen follows in the footsteps of hate. We have all been there it is just to what degree or extreme; the views that we have today on race
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American History X is clearly a film dealing with racism. The interesting thing about this film is the way in which the subject is treated. First of all‚ it is obvious that‚ though racism is always a difficult subject to deal with‚ American History X presents it without any reservations or dumming down. Second‚ the film’s figurehead for racism‚ Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton)‚ is not an unintelligent redneck racist as films often portray them‚ but is in fact well-spoken‚ charismatic and intelligent
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Danny’s history teacher (Elliot Gould) explaining to the principal‚ Dr. Sweeney (Avery Brooks)‚ that Danny wrote a book report on Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. The teacher tells Dr. Sweeney that he is offended by Danny’s gesture and he wants to see him punished‚ declaring that Danny was pressured into writing the paper by his older brother Derek‚ although Sweeney assures him that Derek was not involved. Instead‚ Sweeney asks the teacher to leave and asks Danny to step in.Danny then puts an American flag
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