The title of the book I selected is “Gang Leader for a Day”. In this story‚ Sudhir Venkatesh decides to pay a visit to a low poverty-stricken project in hopes of getting people to complete a survey poll on urban poverty. Venkatesh portrays himself in the book as an inexperienced and unaware graduate student looking to gain inside information on living life in the projects of Chicago. Sudhir Venkatesh was determine to gather information that would explain what life was like for people living in these
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An important theme from the film “Freedom Writers” directed by Richard LaGravenese is the theme of understanding‚ respect and tolerance. “Freedom Writers” is an amazing and inspiring film set after the Rodney King Riots in L.A. the film is based on a true story about the experiences that the students from room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School went through. The variety of camera work used throughout the film helped portray how the characters demonstrated the importance of showing tolerance‚ understanding
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Portrayal of the Truth in Hollywood Films Most people are likely to relate Hollywood with money. If a person lives in the Hollywood area‚ people assume she or he is probably rich. If she or he is a Hollywood movie star‚ the person probably makes a lot of money. Therefore‚ to follow that line of thought‚ when Hollywood producers make a movie‚ they make it just for money. And some filmmakers do seem to make films only for the money the movies will earn. The action movie "Die Hard"‚ the
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Drive When I saw the trailer to Drive‚ I wasn’t to thrilled to see it. The night it came out‚ my friends asked me to see it. I said yes but my decision was based on the fact that Bryan Cranston had a roll in it. I had pretty low expectations walking in but when I walked out I remember telling myself “that is one of the best movies I have ever seen”. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what about the movie I really liked. It wasn’t until a second viewing‚ through seeing the movie from within‚ that
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Introduction This proposal presents a request for funding from the West Vancouver Recreation Commission to assist students in the Job Preparation Program at west Vancouver Community College to operate a summer day camp for school children‚ aged 8 to 12. Included in the proposal is a discussion of four factors related to the development of the summer day camp: Scope of the Project‚ Day Camp Activities‚ Estimated Cost and Estimated revenue. If approved‚ the student worker involved in
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Eddie Cavelli Professor Cooper English 304 30 April 2013 The artifact I chose is the 2009 film‚ “Sin Nombre‚” directed by Cary Fukunaga. In Spanish‚ the title translates to nameless‚ or without a name. The film revolves around the struggle of Honduran immigrants attempting to escape the hardships of everyday life to start fresh in ‘El Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling
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City of God Essay City of God takes place in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. More specifically in a sprawling slum‚ or favella referred to as the City of God. This is a derisive name‚ as the audience learns‚ in that this is a place certainly devoid of anything to do with religion‚ peace‚ or tranquility. The main story revolves around Rocket‚ a well meaning young man who grows up in this chaotic world. Rocket has plans to escape the city by becoming a photographer‚ even though he has normal teenage problems
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Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists
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Violence in Chicago The truth of the matter is that Chicago is in a crisis and has been for some time now. There are some great people and great organizations who are trying to end the violence in Chicago‚ but it hasn’t been enough. More actions need to be taken by the higher authority in order to make this beautiful city a safe one. Just between 2011 and 2012‚ crime rates in Chicago rose a staggering 38 percent (The New York Times). It is apparent that not enough action is being taken to protect
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America was not prosperous or united during the 1920’s. Although there were reasons to show that The United States were prosperous during this time‚ there are stronger arguments and ‘harder’ evidence to show that most of population were neither prosperous nor united. These arguments are‚ the collapse of the American economy in the late 1920’s and the countries economical situation‚ prohibition and the truth in society a large part of this being racism. There are signs of prosperity and unity in
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