lecture. The good thing about it‚ is that I learned quite a lot that I didn’t know about‚ but the certain ones that caught my attention was five of the topics which is about discrimination dealing with police brutality which leads to today society‚ the movie Bamboozled using satire‚ the history of slavery dealing with Harriett Tubman also known as the gangster‚ Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr the activists. To begin with discrimination dealing with police brutality‚ in this society African Americans
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In this movie the main character Jim Carroll was part of a winning high school basketball team. He had a promising future and numerous schools looking at him for collage scholarships. Jim and his friends all devilled in what some would consider minor drugs. Weed‚ prescription pills‚ and slowly began to progress into more harsh drugs like inhalants‚ cocaine and eventually heroine. The addiction itself was a slow progression that started out just because he was out with friends and everyone else was
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Plot and Structure: Crash takes place in a modern day Los Angeles in the time span of approximately 36 hours. The plot of the movie is told between multiple characters‚ all of which are of different class and backgrounds but all share prejudice towards people who aren’t of the same race. All of the events unfolding are in chronological and sometimes simultaneous order. The movie begins with one of our main characters‚ Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle) Waters and his partner/girlfriend
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The documentary‚ Babies depicts four babies‚ each born in a different situation and location. It illustrates how children learn the same basic and essential information at a young age regardless of where they are born. These things include‚ building motor control‚ talking‚ walking‚ and developing a general understanding of their surroundings. The babies are Ponijao from Namibia‚ Bayar from Mongolia‚ Mari from Japan‚ and Hattie from the US. Each baby is exposed to a different environment from the
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Louie’s life started out‚ troubled‚ but what got him out of it was running. In the movie for Unbroken they only skim past the running part of his life. The movie shows that he was falling behind in the Olympic race‚ but by the end of it‚ he speeds up and becomes the first American to cross the finish line in that race. Louie would have never been the runner‚ he was without Pete because Pete wanted to find a way for Louie to stop stealing and fighting. On page thirteen it says‚ “If Louie were
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The movie Glory showed the differences between whites and African Americans‚ however‚ it also showed the similarities. Both races were fighting for freedom but not for the same reasons. Robert Shaw son of a wealthy man got awarded the position of Colonel for the 54th MA Regiment. Surprised by what had happened Shaw was second-guessing of accepting this great honor. With the help of his dear friend Forbes he accepted. Shaw offered Forbes a position. Forbes then started working at private. The beginning
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balance on it.” In the movie Argo (2012)‚ there is a major problem between Iran and America. In 1979‚ the American embassy in Tehran was attacked by Iranians and they captured several Americans were taken hostage. However‚ six managed to escape to the Canadian Ambassador’s home and the CIA was to come up with a plan to retrieve the Americans out of the country. So they put Tony Mendez‚ a CIA specialist‚ in charge of the rescue. He comes up with a plan that requires creating a fake movie that will be shot
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Racism in "Crash" Physical Characteristics and racial differences are distinguishing traits that keep people in our world apart from each other. Crash is a movie that showcases prejudice and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles which is a city with the cultural mix of almost every ethnicity. Crash is a perfect analogy of how the different people intersect with others in society. The movie crash shows differences between the lives of different people. It displays the interactions of
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Chapter 2 Chapter 2: The Wall Street Crash and the causes of the Great Depression in the USA The Wall Street Crash and the causes of the Great Depression in the USA This chapter has three aims: to give an account of the Wall Street Crash; to examine the causes of the Great Depression; and to consider the effects of the Crash. It considers the events leading to the Crash and examines how healthy the US economy actually was before it by looking at some of the underlying causes of the Great Depression
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Gandhi was a small Indian man that faced the British Empire’s policies of injustice‚ discrimination‚ and colonial control without using a single punch or bullet‚ or in any way using violence as a weapon. The fact that he defeated the British Empire by winning Indian Independence is considered as testimony that Gandhi should be given the status of being remembered as a ‘great man’ in history. Gandhi began his work against the injustices of the British Empire when he was still a young man in South
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