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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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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The first part of this movie highlighted the people of Legos who are currently living and working in the local Olusosum dump. This city within a city of sorts‚ is filled with citizens making their livelihoods by sorting through the trash to resell the valuables found. This is a densely populated area experienced rapid expansion‚ even with the unfavorable‚ dangerous and unhealthy conditions. Throughout this movie two specific people were highlighted and followed on their daily journey. The two men
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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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GATTACA‚ a movie representing the flaws in the human code and having the option to have the perfect human being‚ takes place in a dystopian genre where the director Andrew Niccol takes our interpretation of the world and makes it a perfect society in the movie. The main character Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space‚ but is grounded by his status as an "in-valid". He is told in the beginning of his life that he will only live upto the age of 30 causing him to be
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“Nell” During our linguistics’ classes we watched “Nell”‚ a movie about the discovery of a Doctor who found a young woman that lived isolated in the middle of a forest. In the movie we could watch how she has to face for the first time to other people and the way that she uses to communicate. This woman was like a little wild girl whose mother‚ for some reason‚ went to live in an isolated cabin‚ far from civilization. That woman‚ Nell’s mother‚ suffered from paralysis in half of her face‚ so
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Michael Jackson. Michael Joseph Jackson was a man who went under the name "King of Pop" he was an American musician‚ and one of the most successful entertainers. His unique contributions to music‚ dance and his personal life‚ made him a prominent figure in popular culture for four decades. Timeline: Aug. 29‚ 1958: Born at 12:13 AM as Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary‚ Indiana‚ to Katherine Esther Scruse and Joseph Walter Jackson. 1962/1963: Michael becomes a member of the Jackson 5 along
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Summary The movie I chose‚ takes place in the‚ “not too distant future”‚ where parents choose their children in a lab based on how healthy they will be. This is a report on the moral dilemmas that this film proposes to the audience. The main character struggles with his identity and uses another to gain access to a job of his dreams. This society in the future uses geneticists to choose embryos that have the best characteristics of their parents. The story follows the young life of Vincent‚ who
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The author of the essay is a man who goes by the name of Walker Percy. The title of the essay is The Loss of the Creature. The main problem that is being addressed in the essay is that with a preformulated idea in your head you will not see anything as what it truly is. You will see it as a comparison of what you expected against what you think you see. A few of the examples that were given include a couple who goes to the Grand Canyon‚ a couple who got lost in Mexico City‚ and a young boy who goes
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In the 1997 movie‚ Gattaca‚ Vincent Freeman is an invalid born into a valid world. This means his parents decided not to pick and choose the ideal genes in the process of conceiving him‚ causing Vincent to be born with heart problems‚ asthma‚ and myopia. He then makes the decision to become Jerome Eugene Morrow and pass himself off as valid in order to achieve his dream of traveling into space. In the movie‚ there is a clear divide between the valids and invalids‚ revealing many connections to sociology
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