I never wanted any of this. You know that‚ right? I didn’t choose any of this.Where do you think evil comes from? Do you think people decide to be bad? Do you think the devil knows who he is? Do you think it’s all his fault? I didn’t choose to be this way‚ okay? I need you to know that. But I also need you to know that I don’t regret this. Pleading not guilty doesn’t always mean you didn’t do it. In this piece‚ an 18 year old girl on trial for murder decides to defend not the fact that she murdered
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If this had been the case‚ Brandon would! have never been in the bar trying to get out of town and thus would have never met John Lotter‚ his eventual assailant. INSIGHTS What a powerful role for Hilary Swank to pull off. From what I understand from documentaries and other information related to Brandon Teena‚ this movie was profoundly similar to the circumstances that took place. I have a few qualms however regarding the actions of Brandon Teena in the film
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Stephanie Rennie Class Project 2 March 27‚ 2012 Boys Don’t Cry The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense‚ sad‚ and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank‚ is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community. Gender identity disorder
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addresses what he feels to be an important issue in today’s contemporary American society. Why are we so afraid to speak up when we have a problem? Though consideration of the message is written‚ which is a fairly simple piece to read and understand the closer look in
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temperature the people around him told him not to bring it up. Why ‚ because american shy from conflicts in general. The next example was a movie‚ which was out of focus a simple moving of the film could have fixed it‚ and all someone had to do was ask to get it fixed but everyone hoped someone else would do it. They get out of the
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stand in the freezing cold as it rains and drip drop drip as the rain falls on you‚ your nose red as a tomato and your finger tips frozen as ice waiting for a bus‚ do you agree with me or not? As you just wait for the big bright lights to shine fiercely and to glow in the distance as you wait patiently. Trains are better but they still have negatives just like buses‚ with trains you just can’t even be a minute late because the train is just not going to wait‚ as you are running 100 miles per hour just
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I have been talking to my Mom about Hip Hop songs she has listened to‚ and after listening to some‚ I heard one that was quite interesting. This song‚ Don’t Fight the Feeling‚ by Too $hort. The song follows Too $hort‚ and his efforts to seduce Barbie‚ a women from the rap group The Danger Zone‚ whom is just not down to be his toy. This song is very explicit‚ but has its own charm to it‚ in very weird way. In the intro of the song‚ Too $hort right away calls this women a ho‚ and tells her that all
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Lana‚ who accept and love individuals who belong to the LGBTQ community‚ and who strive to make them feel more included in society (Boys Don’t Cry). Kimberly Peirce does a great job informing the audience about the stigma and abuse transgender people have to face from other members of the society through Brandon’s experiences with verbal‚ physical‚ and emotional abuse (Boys Don’t Cry). In the movie‚ Brandon Teena‚ born Teena Brandon‚ was a transman from Lincoln‚ Nebraska (Boys Don’t Cry). While he
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Boo didn’t have a mean or crazy bone in his body. As the story goes on Boo starts putting himself
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of mindset to have during a conflict? Positive thinking is the best way. In the Anne Frank play‚ Anne had always been a generally happy young girl and her attempts to make being in hiding bearable and so that she could enjoy it‚ was almost completely natural for her. Positive thinking is the best possible way to deal with conflicts. There are multitudes of ways that people can argue against the positive effects the positive thinking can have. In the play‚ the Van Daans didn’t have a positive outlook
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