PLAY vs FILM - ESSAY When a fictitious text is composed‚ it is ultimately a contextual reflection on the cultural‚ historical and social conventions of its time. David Williamson’s play ‘The Removalists’ (1971) and Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 film ‘Training Day’ both explore the abuse of authority‚ but both texts do so in very different ways. First and foremost‚ the composers of each text want the audience to consider the corruption that occurs in authority‚ particularly within the police force. In ‘The
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Malcom X in the 1930s-40s preached about how African Americans were treated differently and view unequal and unworthy in the eyes of others and his beliefs are still relevant in today’s news. III. My cousin Lance was killed by white supremacists and crooked cops in Birmingham before I was even born. Malcolm X’s preachings along with the other Civil Rights Movement leaders were to prevent events like this from happening. IV. There are many African American individuals who were killed by white supremacists
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Tan Jing Zhi WRIT 340 Assignment 3 10/30/12 Prof. William Gorski The Departed: A Quintessentially American Story Have film makers today run out of original ideas and ways to artistically express their individuality? With the recent slew of film remakes and adaptations of classics such as King Kong‚ The Manchurian Candidate‚ and Ocean’s Eleven‚ it would appear that the film industry has had to reach into the past to seek inspiration for their new works. Critics may claim that in the capitalistic
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I was at the medical centre on Friday for my monthly check-up. After three long years‚ Im finally expecting another baby. It has been a long wait. Every month‚ my hopes were raised as high as a tsunami wave‚ but each time they crashed down on me‚ thirty-six times in all. I felt as if God was punishing me but I wished that He would punish me more severely in another way. One thousand days passed before a little seed grew inside me. A lady with a big belly came in after me. She took a clear plastic
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Underage drinking has been a major issue in the United States and can be severely solved by just simply lowering the drinking age by 3 years and will drastically reduce the thrill of breaking the law for teanegers. Teenagers are rebellious and know it if the drinking age were 18 they would not consider breaking the law because there is no fun if the law were to get lowered. Reducing the law will also stop the manufacturing of false id where teenagers deliberately disrespect the law. The high
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Sociology 101 11/17/05 Subculture Paper In today ’s lifetime‚ there are numerous different cultures that are continuing to develop. We look at culture as a way of expressing behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of human work. But with these ways‚ our cultures are being divided into countercultures‚ which are typically carried out by the younger generation with values or lifestyles in hostility to those of the established culture. A subculture social group within
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The Big Sleep: Analytical breakdown The big sleep represents our class’s first exploration into what is known as “Hardboiled” fiction. The advent of Hardboiled literature means an escape from classic detective novels where all we find are ingenious investigators and mind numbing puzzles designed to impress and surprise us. In such novels‚ the protagonist is often observed from a third person point of view; where insight into the (genius) mind of the protagonist isn’t revealed till the end of the
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Bibliography: Martrinez‚ Andrew. “Ex-cop‚ gang members still at large.” The Monitor 26 Sept. 2006 <http://www.themonitor.com/>. Simferopol‚ Russia. 04 Sept. 2006. Transcript. Lexis-Nexis. U of Texas – Pan American Lib.‚ Edinburg‚ Tx. 14 Nov. 2006 <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/>. Siegel‚ Larry
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the forest‚ watching their flock fly away without them. This is what Melinda’s‚ the main character in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ life is like. Melinda was raped the summer before freshman year and no one knew‚ she then panicked and called the cops causing her peers to believe she ruined the party‚ and because of this Melinda isolated herself and became stuck in a void of depression‚ which caused her to be incredibly quiet and melancholy. Her friends and family do not understand what it is that
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Alcohol hasn’t always been so easy to get. You couldn’t always just walk into a liquor store and buy your favorite brew. People have been making their own alcohol for generations and generations. This all started when prohibition ended the legal sale of alcohol‚ this meant if you wanted your liquor fix you would have to start making it yourself‚ or rely on buying it from others illegally. This is where bootlegging came in to play. Bootlegging was goods illegally sold and distributed‚ without proper
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