English 110 October 21‚ 2013 “Do the Right Thing” Essay In Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” he questions his characters to “do the right thing”. This then becomes the essential theme of the movie. The movie focuses around a neighborhood in Bed-Sty‚ Brooklyn and its community made up of mostly African-Americans and Puerto Ricans. The center focal point in the movie is a pizzeria business‚ Italian owned‚ called Sal’s Famous Pizzeria. The owner Sal and his two sons‚ Vito and Pino‚ work there along
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town.2 He seems to be a person who is not quite happy with his job‚ which we see in the way he thinks. He is kind of sarcastic‚ but also quite pessimistic.3 He doesn’t seem like a person who enjoys his life‚ and he finds it difficult to deal with the things he experiences at work‚ therefore he goes to a bar after work‚ and we get the picture that he goes there quite often since his wife‚ without him telling her that he is there‚ calls him at the bar. It is also kind of ironic that he‚ as a police officer
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Response to Literature: “What Happened During the Ice Storm” Humans over a period of time become selfish‚ greedy‚ and uncaring. But if you strip a man of all these things‚ you get something truly remarkable. The result is the pure innocent hearts and minds of mankind’s most honorable group‚ the child. In “What Happened During the Ice Storm” a short story by Jem Henyen‚ we find several farm boys covering a group of pheasants with their jackets in a selfless act of kindness. It’s an icy storm winter
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In Do The Right Thing this type of behavior is demonstrated through the demeanor of Sal and his son Pino‚ who are both reluctant to identify with the predominately African-American neighborhood that they operate their business in.Although Sal and Pino do not identify
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reinvesting. The transition from this type of capitalism into middle capitalism occurred in 1790. This transition consisted of a change in the labor force which was now factory workers‚ who were responsible for making material things. The third
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In Do The Right Thing‚ Sal is the Italian-American owner of the neighborhood pizzeria. Having owned the shop for twenty-five years‚ Sal and his pizzas are known by everyone. On the surface‚ he seems like a nice and accepting person. But there are several instances in the film that seem to suggest that Sal may not be as accepting as he appears. For one‚ Sal always refers to the black customers as “them” and “they.” He also refers to hip-hop music “jungle music” multiple times. Additionally‚ early
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Do The Right Thing Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film. The movie takes place Brooklyn‚ New York and tells a story of the racial tension in the neighborhood from white‚ blacks‚ latinos and italians. This films shows how each race has deals with race in the neighborhood and how it is handled. There are three main business that dominate the neighborhood which is a storefront radio station‚ convenience store owned by a korean couple and a Sal’s famous pizzeria which are white
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"Do the Right Thing" Jason Smith Film Studies‚ April 2002 Right off the bat Spike Lee’s ideology is apparent in his film "Do the Right Thing". In the opening credit sequence Rosie Perez is dancing to the Public Enemy song "Fight the Power" from the album Fear of a Black Planet. The main theme of the song and dance is frustration and anger at the status quo. "Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps…Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check…" is one example of how the songwriter (Chuck D)
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Doing What is Right Did you know that doing what is right could sometimes be potentially dangerous? In my 8th grade Language Arts class‚ we read a book named To Kill a Mockingbird. The book takes place in a town named Maycomb during the 1390s. In the book‚ an African-American person named Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white person named Mayella Ewell. However‚ after looking at the evidence during the trial‚ Tom is definitely innocent. However‚ in the jury’s final decision of the trial‚ Tom
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A City That’s Doing Something Right Statistics predict that the global population in the year 2025 will be more than eight billion‚ and almost four billion of these people will be living in cities in developing countries. Population growth causes overcrowding. Overcrowding
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