producer Sembene Ousmane is a very emotional and inspiring movie. At the beginning of the movie girls are made to have female genital mutilation done which they know is very dangerous and painful. When four little girls run away from a purification ceremony where they get cut‚ they escape to Colle‚ a woman who refused to have her own daughter Amasatou circumcised. Colle Ardo is an everyday hero in Burkina Faso and by the end of the movie she saves the girls from having to get female genital mutilation
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CRASH The movie tells stories about racism between whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Koreans‚ Iranians‚ cops and criminals. The different levels of the rich and the poor‚ the powerful and powerless are also shown in the movie. The lives of the characters crash against each other. The most people feel prejudice and resentment against people of other groups. The movie started with a cars accident and argument of a Chinese women‚ a police and a Latino women. A black cop has an affair with his Latino girlfriend
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The critically acclaimed‚ private eye‚ "blaxploitation" film Shaft‚ directed by Gordon Parks‚ can be described as a "fresh"‚ "hip"‚ and described by the New York Times one of the best 1‚000 movies made. The movie opens with private eye John Shaft walking around New York city ’s Time Square‚ only to visit a shoe shine parlor where he is informed that two armed thugs from Uptown are looking for him. The police Lieutenant Vic Androzzi is also informed about the thugs and comes to question Shaft at the
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captain of the British Army Sir John Lindsay‚ who was raised in luxury‚ richly educated‚ becomes the father of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay who’s born to a slave mother. While the purpose of the movie can be simply about the difficulties of love and how can people understand the issue that love has no color‚ the movie isn’t only about
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but not always making sense. Curley’s wife dreams of being a movie star‚ and this keeps her married‚ if unhappily‚ to Curley‚ but her dream is actually a delusion‚ and while promising much‚ never actually delivers. George and Lennie are sustained throughout their troubles by their dream of a farm and escape from the migrant worker’s life‚ and while it could have happened‚ Lennie kills Curley’s wife‚ thus making their dream impossible. The poem describes hope as a tangible thing that is constant
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The movie Philadelphia stars Denzel Washington and Tom hanks as two young thriving lawyers in the prime of their career. It begins with Denzel and Tom in a mediation session about a case that they were both working on‚ so this is how they get to know each other. In the movie Hanks works in one of the top firms in Philadelphia. It is clear that he is loved by all the staff and even his bosses. One evening the senior partners of the firm invite Hanks in their office and offer him the chance to litigate
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The last drop of sweat my body has to offer slowly falls from my forehead onto my two-year-old neatly pressed black concert dress. In the first oboist’s chair I sit‚ horn neatly propped in my lap‚ as I wait for the conductor to walk onto stage. My slightly trembling hands make physical the instinct to run‚ hide‚ offer some excuse and exit stage left. My mind flashes to the earlier part of this day‚ filled with practice and reed-making‚ in preparation for the moments about to unfold. Doubt‚ worry
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10 October 2012 MISSION TRIP July came more quickly than I had planned. Before I knew it‚ it was time to go on the mission trip I had nonchalantly signed up for at church over the winter. Even after going to the informational meeting about the trip to North Dakota‚ I was still less than enthusiastic. I had Signed up only as a favor to my parents so I could put some more volunteer hours on my college applications. I was disappointed to find out that only one of my friends was coming
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Ben Jonson I. Background The poet‚ essayist‚ and playwright Ben Jonson was born in 1572 in London‚ England. His father‚ a minister‚ died shortly before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. Jonson was raised in Westminster and attended St. Martin’s parish school and Westminster School‚ where he came under the influence of the classical scholar William Camden. He left the Westminster school in 1589‚ worked briefly in his stepfather’s trade as a bricklayer‚ then served
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In the memoir Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi‚ Sookan changes from someone who is scared and oppressed‚ and becomes someone who is strong-willed and determined. As the story plays out‚ this change is shown in many moments‚ but three are when grandfather dies‚ when the Japanese leave Korea and the war ends‚ and when their mother is separated from them. When Sookan’s grandfather dies at the beginning of the book‚ it shows how dependent she is on her grandfather. She is extremely devastated
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