American lit 1 Prof. foster May 21‚ 2011 Final paper What is American about American Literature? Consider at least 3 texts from the semester in your three-page response. How do these texts reflect the development of a national sensibility? What is American about American Literature is that American authors write it. It is also the cultural and social values of American. In American literature it includes the setting of America‚ the ideals and events that have taken place in America that shape
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a prolific‚ er‚ American sniper‚ and his endeavours on and off the battlefield during the Iraq war. It’s a heavily lethargic adaptation of a heavily controversial book about a heavily divisive ‘American Hero’. Not to say that the flick itself is wildly patriotic – though the ending tries its best to disprove that – but nor is it an anti-war film‚ as director Eastwood haplessly attempts to argue. Which is where American Sniper’s greatest fault‚ among many faults‚ lies; it’s a film that is too afraid
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In the 1970’s‚ there were many films being released that played a vital role of molding the cultural and social tension in American society. Moreover‚ there was no shortage of producer willing to interplay that tension. The 1960‚ was a time of custom cars‚ teenagers cruising the strip showing off their works of art‚ picking up girls and learning the gossip of the week. Rock and roll music was at its peak. It only made since to release a film in the early 1970’s‚ just before all this would change
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The American President PolSci 001 1. How influential are the decisions of a President in times of war? How do you relate the powers of the President to declare Martial Law? * Being the leader of a country‚ a President’s decision can greatly affect the present situation that the country is facing. Whatever decision he makes can sum up his abilities towards leading his people. It influences the people with the President’s decision in terms of support or disapproval. Support in the sense
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Film Response #1 “American Tongues” Synopsis: The video American Tongues is a documentary‚ illustrating the aspects of geographical linguistics within the United States. A dialect or an accent means the words we use and how we pronounce them‚ and in this case the language is American English. Variations of English that result in local dialects are discussed‚ reasons for dialect differences are given‚ and attitudes about dialects are shown in the video. There are several ways that dialects form
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In the documentary “Two American families” you see the struggle that the two families go through to grasp the American Dream. Their struggles teach us about the difficulty in achieving the American Dream. The documentary Two American Families relates to concept of the American dream‚ and how the two families the Stanley’s and Neumann’s are working for a right to a basic freedom. The Stanley’s and Neumann’s families are just two families hardworking families from the Midwest‚ who are currently going
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African American directors are not highly compensated for their work because some people consider some of their movies “too afrocentric”‚ which results in them not being able to get sponsors to help pay for their movies. Many Black directors are not highly sponsored by investors. According to The Washington Post‚ “Many sponsors are white and they are not interested in their movies or in the current black experience or the black culture” (Harwell). It isn’t just the Academy that votes for who wins
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Orientalism in American films is often times overlooked in its offensiveness compared to the stereotyping of other cultures. If asked to name films that you have seen where a race or culture was offensively portrayed‚ the first ethnic groups that come to mind are likely African-American and Latino. If this is true for you‚ why do you think Asian stereotyping isn’t as noticeable or striking to you as other stereotyping? If not‚ what experiences can you attribute to shaping your point of view? As
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Family can be defined as a basic unit of society that normally consist of parents living within the same dwelling as their children. Across the world there are many different family types and family dynamics including but are not limited to‚ married couples‚ single parent households‚ and LGBTQ+ families. The video Two American Families- PBS follows two different families from Milwaukee Wisconsin are throughout their lives to depict how their families had to change and adapt to overcome problems they
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African American Crime Films Menace II Society is a film from the African American crime genre; it was released in 1993 due to the success of recent low budget films targeted at black audiences. For example Sweet Backs Baadassss Song (1971) a low budget independent black movie‚ that tells the tale of a black outlaw‚ who is trying to better his community‚ by battling corrupt and racist policemen. The film cost $500‚000 to make but produced a gross profit of $10million in the first year. This lead
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