Introduction To The Topic American History X is a great film that portrays prejudice‚ stereotyping and conformity. Prejudice is negative attitudes toward others based on their gender‚ religion‚ race‚ or membership in a particular group. Prejudice involves beliefs and emotions that can turn into hatred. Having an opinion or idea about a member of a group without really knowing that individual is a part of prejudice. Some people make judgments about a whole group of people without knowing very much
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Detailed Summary The story begins with a black and white flashback of the moment when Derek commits the murder of the two young Afro-American’s. Danny wakes up to see one of the men standing by the front door but can’t see whether he is armed or not. He goes to tell his brother Derek who is in bed with Stacy‚ his girlfriend. Derek takes a semi-automatic pistol and sees two blacks and one in the car ready for a getaway. Derek plunges out of the front door and shoots the first Afro-American several times
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consequences of racial profiling. The movie American History X is about a neo Nazi group based in the United States‚ and how their cult discriminates Jews and colored people. Throughout the movie as told in the narration by Danny Vinyard we learn that before going to prison Derek‚ Danny’s older brother‚ was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. In film‚ many racial profiling can be spotted. In Broadway plays‚ colored people
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behavior was learned from his brother Derek and his Derek’s deviant behavior was learned from his father and Cameron. As you see in the movie Derek once didn’t have all that hate in him. There was a scene in the movie when Derek was explaining a homework assignment to his father about him writing an essay on a black man. Derek seemed excited and interested in the class. Derek father said things that possibly could have influenced the way he thought. Derek father told him not to get so caught up
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happened in this movie. Derek had to embrace the aspects of being in a situation that he was not comfortable with and do the best that he could with it. Even though he had a swastika tattoo on his chest‚ the prison officials forced him to work with the black man. Being in prison changed the way that Derek thought and he changed his way and was no longer practicing in or for the KKK. The movie American History X is about two brothers‚ Danny and Derek Vineyard who skinheads. Derek was the older of the
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the ending of the film revealed a change in the character of Derek from a hate-fuelled racist to an open-minded person who finds his mistakes. Kaye uses black and white cinematography; non-diegetic sounds and also costumes to support his message that ‘hate is baggage’. When comparing the portrayal of the beginning and final scenes of Venice beach‚ the murder Derek which had committed to that of the murder of his younger brother – Danny‚ and also Derek’s initial appearance to that which was changed
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Summary The movie American History X is about a guy named Derek. When he was a teenager he lost his father because a black man killed him. He grew up remembering that his father did not like colored people at all. He got involved in neo-Nazi movement. The neo-Nazi group did not like that refugees were coming over the border and taking their jobs. They also did not like that the black race was taking over Venice Beach. Derek was incarcerated for three years because one day they were at the basketball
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History X‚” Danny and Derek. These two boys have seen and done it all when it comes to hate groups‚ as both were members of a neo-nazi hate group. Neo- Nazi hate groups use authoritarian‚ scapegoat‚ normative‚ and exploitation theories to justify their hate‚ discrimination‚ and torture of anyone who isn’t a part of the “supreme race‚” or white. Boy Danny and Derek end up in this life from an early age. Parents are one of the biggest‚ if not the biggest influence on a child’s life. When Danny and Derek
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confused young men called Derek and Danny. The father of Danny and Derek was murdered by a black man when he tried to out put out a fire in a slum. The "White power" leader in town‚ Cameron Alexander sees Dereks potential and recruits him as the leader for a neo-National socialism gang. One night Derek kills two black men who tries to steal his car. Dereks goes to prison for three years. While Derek is in prison‚Danny goes in the same footsteps as his older brother. Danny writes an essay on "Mein
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The brothers‚ Derek and Danny Vineyard‚ were raised along with their two sisters by their parents in Venice‚ California. Derek was the eldest of the children‚ Danny the third child.
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