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    Danelis South                                                    October 19‚ 2017 11th grade If you can’t accept yourself for who you are‚ then what makes you think you could accept others? The director of the filmCrash” uses duality in order to argue that wherever there is class difference‚ there is lack of acceptance. Sometimes this reflects a lack of self acceptance. From the start we can see that class difference and lack of acceptance creates chaos. First‚ we see the scene where the politician’s

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    Madison Mitchell English 401-14 October 19‚ 2008 “Crash” This movie was very captivating and it made you think of the impacts people have on each other. In every scene of this movie‚ one person always leads to another character‚ whether it be a Chinese man being ran over by the inner city car thief‚ or the rich wife of Rick Cabot being “unhappy” all the time against other races than her own. This movie sets examples for others not to follow‚ basically concentrating on the different stereotypes

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    Crash Character Analysis

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    Crash” Character Analysis Emily Nostrant SUNY Fredonia 2015 The character I chose to analyze was Jean Cabot‚ who was played by Sandra Bullock. I feel that she really embodies all the topics we have talked about in class so far. The first time we see her‚ she and her husband‚ are heading to their car. While walking she catches a glimpse of two African American males and holds on to her husband harder and gives them a slightly disgusted look. She thinks that because she is a white women

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    The film‚ ’Crash’‚ is about how Paul Haggis forces us to see other people’s perspective through racially prejudiced actions. Racism is the belief of different cultures‚ this is usually to do with one person who thinks their own race is superior and have the right to dominate or to rule others. Historical racism is where there were no rules when discriminating other peoples races and had no consequences for their actions‚ most of the time the outcome comes to physical abuse and even death. Modern

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    Loren Wilkinson – 4/7/2011 Crash Essay Project In the filmCrash”‚ there were repeated examples of prejudice and discrimination displayed by a variety of characters. While considering the film in concepts set out in our assigned reading of chapter 11 - Race and Ethnicity (Macionis‚ 304-333) several areas we had covered were clearly evident. I decided to focus on the prejudice and discrimination displayed toward blacks and Hispanics in the film. The first example that struck me was the common

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    Mongol Crash Course

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    1. List the four characteristics of herding/nomadic groups brought up in the Crash Course  Video.    ­ They aren’t Jack Kerouac‚ they don’t produce manufactured goods‚ they live close to  nature and harsh conditions‚ and they are more egalitarian.    Complete the following chart:         What     Why     Migration     They move around  according to the weather.  They move in order to feed  their animals.  Trade     They would trade with the  near by settlers.   They traded in order to get 

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    observing your surroundings‚ what is the first thing that pops into your head? Do you think about what you are going to eat for lunch after you get done walking or are you more likely to judge the people around you based on how they look? In the movie “Crash” it really shows us how every race judges one another. It doesn’t matter what race you are‚ how rich or poor‚ or how well you speak a language‚ we are all quick to judge depending on looks alone. Two people from the movie really stuck out to me; the

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    During the movie Crash‚ I was bewildered by the racism in the movie. I kept thinking about all the offensive language and racial slurs the characters were using to offend the other characters. There were a couple people that stood out in my mind. These people were really the only honorable people in the movie in my opinion. So‚ if we are stranded on an island and I got to choose three of the characters with me there would definitely be some guidelines to follow. You would have to have good morals

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    did this when they created the 2004 movie‚ “Crash”. Actually‚ they could have made this movie without the actors ever speaking because the facial expressions were enough to tell the entire stories. There are several stories told over a two day period in Los Angeles involving many inter-related characters brought together by stereotypical situations. The storyline includes a black police detective that cares for his heroin addict

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    Black Like Me and Crash

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    Black Like Me and Crash In 1959 John Howard Griffin‚ the author of the book Black Like Me‚ disguised himself as an African American and decided to go live out in society to see what it would be like to be a black man. The book Black Like Me is his documentation of that experience. His story spread around the world and he got a lot of praise from people around the world‚ but he also got a good amount if hate from the white power groups who were quite prevalent at the time. Now‚ much time has passed

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