Three Messages From The Color Purple (An Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple) Alice Walker once said‚ “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” In her novel The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker shows a theme of powerlessness‚ until the very end‚ where the protagonist prevails. Throughout the story‚ the reader experiences multiple plot twists and emotional scenes. Alice Walker shows three predominant themes in her story The Color Purple. The first message
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article‚ The Color of Mayhem by Michael Marriot‚ I found out that over the years issues of this and many other video games have risen dramatically. Racial stereotyping‚ discrimination‚ and violence were explained as the most looked at. Parents are suspecting kids are learning ways from the game they are playing. Is the video game actually giving kids the wrong image or is it all just for fun? The screen crackles with criminality as a gang of urban predators itch for a kill. The scene erupts into
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’The Hurricane’ Film Review How is it possible for an innocent person to be wrongly excused and reprimanded all because of their pigment or race? How can a supposed ’justice system’ allow a man to be put behind bars for nearly 30 years for a crime he did not commit‚ solely because he is black? ’The Hurricane’ evokes‚ explores and answers these questions and more in a dramatic‚ meaningful manner. By the end of the film there is no question in any viewer’s mind of how hard it was to be a black person
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Philomena: A Film that Questions What You Believe In and Yet Answers Why You Do Among the many good films of 2013‚ this one has to be on my top 5 list. Directed with passion by Stephen Frears‚ Philomena is a film that questions your beliefs regardless of which religious sect you belong to. As a little exposition‚ Philomena Lee (Judi Dench)‚ way back 1952‚ was impregnated out of wedlock and was therefore sent forcibly to a convent where she gave birth to a son she named Anthony. She and other young
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COLORS “Ding.” That all too familiar tone plays again‚ signaling all marines that are on base and in uniform to snap to the position of attention. At 0800(8:00AM) every day‚ all marines in uniform that are wearing a cover must stop whatever they are doing‚ get to the position of attention‚ and salute to the raising of the American flag. Morning colors is a very significant part of every marine’s day. It is a custom and courtesy that is also one of our many military traditions. Morning and
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Quote(with Page reference) Commentary or color analysis Chpt 1 Pg 22 “Inside the crimson room bloomed with light….the lamp-light‚bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair‚ glinted along….”(22) As Nick enters the room to his cousin living room he is shown a sense of a dark red almost meaning of a content of what is in the room almost like he is used to the high class living of small parties. He mentions the yellow of miss baker hair as if he can see that she is
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dropping open. You took my sister Nettie away from me‚ I say. And she was the only person love me in the world (Walker 202).” “You was all rotten children‚ I say. You made my life a hell on earth. And your daddy here ain’t dead horse’s shit. Mr. reach over to slap me. I jab my case knife in his hand (Walker 202-203).” Throughout the entire story Celie is strong and loving. Celie marries Mr. (Albert) so Nettie doesn’t have to. “Nettie here with us. She run way from home (Walker 17).” “He say one night in
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starring Dustin Hoffman is not only critically hailed as a one of the greatest films of all time‚ it is also one of the most financially successful films of all time.1 Although initially looked over by the established Hollywood elite‚ the film found a home with an underrepresented and frustrated youth culture that was taking root in the 1960s. Its success lay in its effective portrayal and communication of the generation gap from a youthful perspective. Its box office reception as well as its critical
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------------------------------------------------- Significant Quotes Act IV Shakespearean English | Modern English | Double‚ double‚ toil and trouble; Fire burn‚ and cauldron bubble. Act IV‚ Scene i‚ Line 10 | “Double all the troubles and hardships of men. Let the misery of Scotland increase as the fire burns and the cauldron bubbles.” | Significance: The purpose of this well known quote is to communicate to the audience the witches’ intentions. The witches chant this line all together
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future directors would follow with his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach”. Although there were a plethora of western films made before 1939‚ the film “Stagecoach” revolutionized the western genre by elevating the genre from a “B” film into a more serious genre. The film challenged not only western stereotypes but also class divisions in society. Utilizing specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography‚ John Ford displays his views of society. The film consists of many cliché western characters. There
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