Fruitvale Station is the true story of the 22-year-old Bay area resident‚ Oscar Grant. He spends his New Year’s Eve trying to do better but as the day progresses he begins to realize that it isn’t going to be as easy as he thought. Towards the end of the movie‚ Oscar and his friends ends their night of celebrating their New Year in a confrontation with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. Unfortunately‚ that was Grant’s last encounter. In my opinion‚ the movie Fruitvale Station is an accurate
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Fruitvale Station Fruitvale Station is a film that depicts the life of Oscar Grant who is an African-American male living in a system of racial profiling‚ social injustice‚ and economic challenges. For most young African-American men the ability to rise above these problems are often difficult because of the limitations that the system places on them. Oscar has experienced frequent feelings of anger and which results in thoughts that trigger impulsive behaviors‚ and hostility. For young African-Americans
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The movie Fruitvale Station was a movie that is very relatable to what is going on in today’s society. Oscar Grant was trying to do right by his family and to get his life back on the right path. His demise was brought by a police officer who racially profiled him and took his life. This movie will bring out strong emotions from a person who watches it‚ because you become connect with Grant and when he is murdered it feels like you have known him your whole life. Throughout the movie the audience
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external plot and begin reading between the lines we find underlying meanings and themes that ultimately build the premise of the story. All of Shakespeare’s writing invites the audience to indulge themselves in the themes present in his plays. The abridged version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet strips that away to make room for the main plot and subsequently shorten the story. The removal of key lines lead to the underdevelopment of character‚ theme and it overall takes away from the beauty of the
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The Legislative Branch The legislative branch is the most powerful branch in government. The legislative branch is in charge of making and passing laws. They have the power to override a president’s decision‚ stop laws from being passed‚ and basically control all decisions the governments makes. The legislative branch‚ also called the congress‚ consists of the House of Representatives and the senate. The reason for two houses of congress is to balance out the concerns of smaller but more populated
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Directed by Ryan Coogler‚ Fruitvale Station is based on a true story that portrays the last day in the life of a 22- year African-American named Oscar Grant. The story is based on the events leading up to the death of Oscar‚ who was shot and killed on New Years by a Bart police officer in 2009. Questions of police brutality and racial profiling were raised do to the fact of the real-life video footage that was shot at the time. Throughout these events of Oscar’s day‚ he had run into many incidents
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went ahead and read about what they do and I am a little surprised with the supreme court‚ but I will start with the Executive Branch‚ then Legislative Branch‚ and last the Judicial Branch. Within the Executive Branch‚ it’s power is within the President of the United States to act head of state and commander in armed forces. The President enforces laws written from Congress and appoints the federal agencies‚
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the president in the executive branch revitalized the importance of that section of government and the essential power the executive branch possesses. Throughout history‚ there have been many fights about which branch of government is the most important and society says each section has their own exceptional duties which make each one special. Due to Montesquieu’s idea of checks and balances the government tried to make all the branches equal. The executive branch was unintentionally made the most
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Government Legislative Branch There are many important parts in the process of the legislative branch. The legislative branch creates laws‚ and during that process many things must happen. The bill must pass majority votes for the House‚ the Senate and then the President must sign the bill into law. If the President vetoes it‚ the Senate can override it. The legislative branch is very complex but important to our country’s government. The most important step of the legislative branch is when a bill becomes
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judiciary branch of the federal government has contributed and molded our American beliefs in this great nation. This branch of government is respected because of the code of conduct that the judges‚ no matter how conservative or liberal. The language of the court as well as the uniform of the cloaks that judges wear has most probably contributed towards this widespread respect. Throughout the history of the United States‚ I noticed a pattern of “cause and effect” that our judiciary branch had practiced
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