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    forward in areas such as knowledge and technology‚ there are still many displays of ignorance and stupidity that make people wonder if progress is being made at all. Lorraine Hansberry‚ the praised playwright behind A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window‚ has experienced both the good and bad aspects of humanity and expresses it through her work. Although the majority of the characters and plot of A Raisin in the Sun suggest that humanity is repetitive‚ Hansberry uses some of her

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    Movie Review and Analysis of Communication Styles of the Characters Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy‚ Sidney Poitier‚ Katharine Hepburn‚ and Katharine Houghton. The main characters: Sidney Poitier - Dr. John Wade Prentice Katharine Houghton - Joanne ‘Joey’ Drayton‚ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Drayton Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton‚ wife of Matt Drayton Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton

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    done. But once actors start appearing on screen‚ THE JACKAL doesn’t just slow to crawl... it comes to a halt. A glimmer of hope shines when Sidney Poitier arrives‚ but left with a small scrap of a role‚ that glimmer is snuffed out. Opening with a scene which is quickly forgotten‚ Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora‚ HEAT) and FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (Poitier) try to arrest a Russian terrorist (I assume‚ as they never quite tell us). The Russian terrorist ends up dead‚ and as cliched as it might

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    A Raisin in the Sun: Comparisons between Film and Play A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. The drama explores the human experience in the Chicago ghetto of the 1950’s. It was adapted into a film in 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation that was also written by Lorraine Hansberry. The film was intended as an interpretation of the play with many similarities‚ but there are several distinctions that allow each of the versions to stand as an independent work. When reading

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    Roshawn Been Ethics 300-02 Denzel Washington “I’m very proud to be black‚ but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background‚ my genetic makeup‚ but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” – Denzel Washington. Some may say he is intelligent‚ while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer

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    physical restraints holding him hostage‚ Chris proceeds to kill each family member one-by-one. The mere thought of a young Black man killing a white family on screen would have been unthinkable in the era of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. For all of Sidney Poitiers’ pathbreaking work in the service of civil and human rights off-screen his onscreen persona was often mitigated by an unshakeable calm‚ an ability to keep lethal rage at bay in presence of white opposition. Chris’ escape from the Armitage house

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    Related Text Scaffold 1: Six degrees of Separation Aspects/Concepts of Belonging/Not Belonging These should be concerned with belonging/not belonging to location‚ relationship‚ society‚ ideas‚ events‚ people‚ modification of belonging over time‚ choice to belong/not belong‚ barriers to belong What is learnt from the text about the aspect? Concept in your own words Technique (2-3 techniques) Example of technique Effect of the technique on the responder Why has the composer chosen to represent

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    Throughout the 1950s and 1960s‚ television quickly became a popular and greatly desired entertainment system in America. Although expensive‚ the television was still found in over fifty million American homes. Socially‚ the television not only embellished what the time period believed to be the the “ideal” family‚ but the new technology also helped pull African Americans closer to a world without racism‚ segregation‚ and prejudice. As well as social benefits‚ the television greatly impacted the

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    A Raisin in the Sun Character Analysis: Renowned play writer Lorraine Hansberry is credited for many screenplays around the mid-ninetieth century such as‚ The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window‚ To Be Young‚ Gifted‚ and Black‚ Les Blancs‚ The Drinking Gourd‚ and What Use Are Flowers?. However‚ Hansberry’s most famous work‚ A Raisin in the Sun appeared in 1959 and went on to be the first play ever produced by a black woman on Broadway. The play is said to be based on her trials and tribulations in

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    The Hollywood movie "Guess Who" (2005) is a remake of "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner" (1967). Both film’s premises are about the same situation of an interracial marriage. The original revolved around a daughter bringing her black fiancée to meet her white middle class family. This was a touchy and even controversial subject in 1967 but the film became an award winner. The 2005 update switches the roles around and with a stroke of genius we now have a white fiancée meeting a black family. Personally

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