REFLECTION PAPER ON THE MOVIE “AMISTAD” Amistad was based on the true story of a group of Africans that were kidnapped and sold as slaves. They revolted against their captors and win‚ but are later defeated by a group of Americans. Upon arrival for their “trial”‚ they are represented by an attorney who wins their case several times over but due to corruption and fear of civil war‚ they are constantly denied their victory until they finally win out at the supreme court as they were represented
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ROOTS * is an organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil. * a part of a plant body that bears no leaves‚ and therefore also lacks of nodes. * is the beginning of the vascular system pipeline that moves water and minerals from the soil up to the leaves and fruits. FUNCTIONS OF ROOTS: * Underground (usually) * Anchor the plant in the soil * Absorb water and nutrients * Conduct water and nutrients * Food Storage ROOT SYSTEM: 1. Tap root system
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In the 1997 movie Amistad‚ Steven Spielberg illustrates the events that took place in 1839 on the Spanish ship‚ The Amistad (La Amistad). The movie travels through the events with vivid and powerful emotion. The slaves‚ even though they could not speak English‚ undoubtedly demonstrated their intense longing for freedom in Spielberg’s version of the historical event. The setting of Amistad proved to be frequently accurate. The backdrop of the movie was unfailing to the period in which it occurred
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D’voya L. Wilks Wilks 1 Carlos Pettigrew AP Language November 27‚ 2012 Amistad Assignment The speaker of the film “Amistad” is David Franzoni. Since this fact was not identified verbally during any part of the movie‚ and I was not able to view the credits‚ I went to the World Wide Web to find the author for the movie. The subject of the film “Amistad” would prove to be freedom and everyone’s right to the acquisition to such freedom despite opposition. This is proven throughout the
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La Amistad Decades of Hollywood’s interpretation of our nation’s past struggles and triumphs have both aided the American people in empathizing and understanding our predecessors‚ as well as helping to skew our views of the reality of the past. Often times in Hollywood’s retelling of historical events‚ truth is manipulated by filmmakers to accommodate necessities in storytelling such as character development‚ plot devices and alterations that allow a story to unfold within a 2 hour time frame
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Amistad Research Paper Through watching the movie Amistad‚ I realized that it was really tough for the Africans in the past. They were being treated like animals‚ lived under poor conditions‚ not being fed well and get thrown into the sea if they’re ill. Furthermore‚ they were being sold as a piece of item. Africans had to go through a lot‚ in order to have the freedom they’re having today. The case Amistad is a good example about how Africans fight for freedom‚ and how this case changed the Abolitionist
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Soc/His 340 Ethnic Relations in America Rosado 5/28/13 Amistad Amistad was a very touching film about the struggle that the Africans faced during the slave trade. As we have talked about in class watching these movies in the light of the class is very impactful. I originally watched this movie as part of a history class. I watched in as a series of events that impacted the civil war nothing more nothing less. Now as I watched it again in light of the class the Amazing Grace‚ I started seeing
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In April of 1839‚ a ship (La Amistad) carrying hundreds of native Africans from West Africa were captured near Sierra Leone‚ and sold into the Spanish slave trade. On July 1st ‚ while traveling across the Atlantic‚ the slaves led by Cinque‚ began a revolt on the high seas that ended the lives of the ship’s captain and crew‚ leaving two planters Ruiz and Montes‚ that were transporting Cargo (supposedly slaves) on the ship‚ to navigate the ship back to Africa. Instead the men purposely tried to steer
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Amistad‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ displays the fierce determination of 53 African abductees and their compelling desire to return home. Led by Cinqué (or Sengbe)‚ a man longing to see his wife and son in Sierra Leone again‚ the men aboard the ship La Amistad rebelled against the Spanish slave traders who guarded them from escape. Using sugar cane knives stolen from cargo aboard the ship‚ the Africans defeated the gun-wielding Spaniards. With ambitions of returning to West Africa‚ they eventually
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The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839‚ a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists‚ Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey)‚ who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the
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