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    Bend like Beckham” is a British-themed film about an 18 year old named Jess Jules who is infatured with playing soccer but her family forbids it because of their religion. Their religion is “Punjabi Siks”. They follow by their customs and want her too as well. Jess is at the top of her league in the soccer team she secretly joins. She does all that she can to make it to her practices and not let her family find out. Until one day her dad follows her and sees that she is actually pretty good at it

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    Thesis Essay On Religion In a 2003 movie called Bend It Like Beckham‚ the main character is an 18 year old‚ Indian girl named Jesminder Bhamra‚ who is born into the Sikh religion and wants to be a top soccer player. Unfortunately‚ that means she would have to go against the traditional customs of not only her culture but her religion as well. When Jess is giving the opportunity to achieve her goals of playing on a women’s soccer team‚ her sister’s wedding seems to oppose her ultimate goal. Every

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    Analytical Essay - Bend It Like Beckham In the movie bend it like Beckham‚ the discourses relating to sexuality and gender shows how the social expectations of women interfere with their desires and roles in society‚ and this creates a demarcation between family members. It also suggests how homosexuality has become a big part of the modern society‚ but that the prejudice and negativity associated with both of the adolescent girls in the film‚ Jess and Jules and the fact that they love soccer

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    herself to become leader‚ even though her grandfather opposed. However something that sets the Whale Rider plot apart from Bend It Like Beckham was the heavy focus on the Maori culture. The Maori culture has a heavy influence in this story which also leads the Paikea into making the necessary decisions about her leadership. Although there were many contrasts‚ Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider shared many similarities between their individual plots. One similarity between plots was that both of the

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    English Essay (prejudice) In the two texts Deadly Unna? written by Phillip Gwyne and Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinda Chadra the theme of prejudice is significantly explored. Deadly Unna? is the story of a young boy Blacky who is made to overcome prejudice in his small town of the Port. Bend it like Beckham is set in London and is the story of Jess a young Indian girl whose infatuation is football‚ much to her parent’s discontentment. The key theme of prejudice is greatly explored in both

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    My two texts are “The Namesake” and “Bend it like Beckham”. Our prescribed text‚ Jhumpa Lahiris “The Namesake” explores the link to belonging in detail. The emphasis is on Gogol Ganguli. Gogol struggles with a sense of belonging to his family and his Bengali culture and heritage throughout his life in the course of the novel. Born and raised in the U.S.‚ while his parents spent their entire life in India following Bengali culture and practices and moved on to America as young adults. Gogol must try

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    Lana Sara  IB English HL  Ms. Terry   May 18th‚ 2014  “Bending” the Rules  Cultural clashes are common in our world today. When two cultures come together‚ it  would become difficult to integrate without losing original traditional and cultural values.  Cultural clashes affect the lives of the younger and older generation by changing their personal  views‚ which causes conflicts. The younger generation would have to incorporate the values of  another culture‚ while still maintaining their cultural identity

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    It’s interesting when we look at media and wonder if it all Depends on the Attitude of the author‚ producer or publisher when it comes to looking at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ was voted ‘Best Comedy of the year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983

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    and theme of each scene of Bend it like Beckham. Gurinder Chadha displays her techniques through a variety of shots while maintaining a steady wide shot and a medium shot of the scene. Theme includes Family‚ hardship and parental expectation. This creates a realistic shot making the scene entreating to watch. This technique is shown throughout the shot where a scene of Jess is practicing to become a good housewife as it was expected by every Indian parent. Another scene like a long shot of the soccer

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    Bend it like Beckham and Educating Rita could relate in these ways • In Bend it like Beckham the Indian tradition of women getting married‚ having children and taking on domestic duties-e.g. cooking etc. relates to Rita how she is expected to live in the same sort of way but wants to break away from that social status and live her own life. • The scene where Jesminder first plays soccer with the team. The coach asks her "where do you play?" and she replies "in the park.” It shows her naivety this

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