Introduction I had the opportunity to watch the film‚ Boyz N the Hood. While watching this film I was able to make connections to not only cultural problems which happen inside of the classroom‚ but problems that happen without. Throughout the entirety of this film the viewer is face to face with the decisions that make each character who they are and ultimately shape their future. What I noticed from an educational standpoint is that students need three things to be successful‚ the first being a
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The setting of Boyz N Tha Hood‚ is also a dominant factor as to why the characters develop into who they are. The film is set in the low-income areas of Los Angeles‚ California in the early nineties. At this point in time‚ the City of Angels was notorious for street crime and violence‚ as well as its harsh‚ discriminatory police officers roaming the streets. Because the characters Tre‚ Darrin‚ and Ricky develop in this sort of environment‚ vice is a reality that they have been constantly exposed
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Boyz n the Hood Boyz n the Hood is a vivid video representation of what life is like for those who live in the hood. There are two families that were the focus within the movie: The Styles and The Bakers. The director of the movie‚ John Singleton‚ wants his viewers to compare the lives of the individuals within the movie to their own lives so there could be a change in our society. He discretely expresses the importance of a good upbringing by a fatherly figure. I believe that this made the
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person playing the part is usually a Latino. When we see a person playing a successful business person‚ they are usually male‚ and Caucasian. When we see a criminal playing a role in a movie‚ they are usually African-American or Latino. The movie‚ Boyz in the Hood (1991) is a perfect example. Our society’s main source of entertainment is the television. When we see a pattern in certain roles people play‚ we start to believe that this is the way things are in real life. I believe the media plays the most
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Andres Velasco BOYZ IN THE HOOD It was the year 1984 in the city of South Central Los Angeles‚ which kids are exposed to violence every day. These kids are stripped from their innocence by seeing theft‚ fights‚ and killings from the streets. What affects them in the long run is growing up with feeling that life will not get better for them‚ and juveniles live up to the reputation into being the type of person they grow up seeing whether it be a gang member or drug dealer. The movie shows broken
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Boyz N the Hood and Black Freedom Fighters in Steel have many common themes between them. At first they don’t seem to have anything in common‚ but as you look at the two they relate very much and in many ways. In both the movie and the book black Americans came together to fight a common struggle and lived in area filled with poverty‚ racial comments‚ and stereo typing along with hate‚ violence and racism. They both have characters that have dreams and hopes of a brighter future and accomplishing
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Off the top of my head‚ one movie that had a impact on me was Boyz-In-Da-Hood. The film was about a young man who had made an agreement with his mom...that if he kept getting in trouble he had to go live with his dad. Upon living with his father‚ he was exposed to things he didn’t see living with his mother. His father was quite the intelligent man‚ and was able to keep him out of trouble. Some of the lessons his father taught him stuck with me to this day about how to be leader‚ He spoke on Gentrification
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A (Grand Theft Auto).” “The boy JD was a friend of mine til I caught him in my car trying to steal an Alpine”‚ another friend of Eazy’s JD was a crackhead trying to steal Eazy’s stereo to get more money so he can purchase more drugs. Although Boyz In Da Hood was released in 1988 automobiles have always been a big and popular topic artists usually talk about. In many of Eazy E’s verses the he repeats “Cruisin’ down the street in my ’64”
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Boyz in the Hood" is a film that protrays social problems in South Central Los Angeles. Tre‚ Ricky‚ and Doughboy are the main characters in this film that grow up together in their neighborhood or as they called it "the hood". All three characters struggle with different internal issues which helps them grow as young men. Tre is a good student who has dreams of furthering his education by going to college. With guidance from his father‚ Tre learns responsibilty and character. Ricky is an outstanding
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Kyle Hughes Broeckel ENG.1510 Comp. 1 17 March 2013 Summary of “Boyz n the Book” In her article‚ Mary Grabar‚ author of “Boyz n the Book”. The article begins to explain the enrollment into a college by gender‚ as told by Department of Education‚ they recorded in 2005 the total fall enrollment made up to be 57 percent and knowing that gender discrepancies will increase in further dates. Grabar explains how women tend to excel in an English career and men typically in a mathematical‚ engineering
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