I influenced important leaders and political movements. Leaders of the civil rights movement in the US‚ including Martin Luther King‚ drew from my writings in the development of their own theories about non-violence. I inspired anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa‚ Nelson Mandela. The British musician John Lennon even referred to me when discussing his views on non-violence. I inspired them‚ I can inspire you‚ I can inspire the new world. But I don’t just inspire. I put
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This movie is about Aibileen‚ who is one of many black women in the US South who work and raise the children of the prominent or well to do White Southerners. Aibileen with her best friend Minnie and a bunch of other maids work with an inspiring writer Skeeter to write a book of interviews about what it’s like to work for White families from their (The Help’s perspective). The Message of this film hands down is courage‚ courage to stand up and do whats right no matter what the consequences maybe
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between the original Clash of the Titans movie and the book. One similarity is that he slayed medusa‚ however in the story medusa is sleeping when he killed her and in the movie she is awake. Also‚ in both the movie and the book Perseus goes to Jappa although in the story Hermes helped him and in the movie a man named Amon helped him. In the book Cassiopeia compares Andromeda to the Nereids‚ but in the movie she is compared to Thetus. Both the book and the movie have a kraken come to get Andromeda who
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The Fat Black Woman Composes a Poem In order to understand the underlying messages that Grace Nichols was trying to send out through her writing‚ one must understand the context of “The fat black woman composes a poem” as well as the context of the entire book. The first and strongest context is racial context in the form of post-colonial racism in the United Kingdom (where she was residing at the time). Throughout the book‚ Nichols shows what it was like to be a minority at the time and how she
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A Civil Action Essay Jay Lee 9-8-09 In the movie “A Civil Action”‚ the environmental problem was that trichloroethylene and silicone was placed into the water in the town of Woburn. It happened through a tanning company pouring chemicals on the hides of animals and it seeping out. The company also placed a lot of barrels with the dangerous chemicals into the ground and it seeped out into the wells of the town. The damage it caused to the environment and to the people was a huge amount. It
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The film The Matrix presents and deals with many interesting philosophical issues. Here I will discuss a particular scene from the film‚ namely‚ the ’red/blue pill’ dialogue between Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Neo (Keanu Reaves). This dialogue can be considered as dealing with a philosophical thought experiment: Nozick’s (1974) experience machine‚ and questions that arise from it. Namely‚ would an individual‚ after coming to know that they are not actually directing their own life‚ but are
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The film 13th explores race‚ justice‚ and mass incarceration in the United States. The film mainly focuses on the history of how racial inequality came to be in the United States. Also the film mentions that in the United States’ prisons there are inordinate amount of African-Americans. Additionally a variety of different political activists and public figures from different backgrounds gave their view from Angela Davis‚ Bryan Stevenson‚ Van Jones‚ Newt Gingrich‚ Cory Booker‚ and many others. In
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Ukulele Lives Happily Ever After We have read many love stories and fairytales which all had a ‘happily ever after’ ending. It was never easy for the lovers to get together because there was always something that would come in between them. Even then‚ they would not give up and would fight until the very end to be with their true love. Keeping that in mind‚ the short film ‘Lava’ is similar‚ as it talks about how two Volcanoes ‘Uku’ and ‘Lele’ are lovers and wait for a very long to be with each other
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Detropia Although prior to the film‚ the viewer may have heard of the situation in Detroit‚ it takes a film as poignant as Detropia to really get outsiders to empathize with its problems. Director Heidi Ewing uses contrasts to illustrate the variety of challenges Detroit faces but to also highlight those actively seeking out solutions. Through the interviews‚ camera angles‚ and audio Detropia shows the viewer that though the situation may look bleak‚ there is still life in the Motor City. The
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July 26‚ 2012 Argumentative Essay “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” In the article “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” Gene Marks‚ the author‚ offers steps to solve the problem that black people face with education. He emphasizes that good grades‚ studying really hard‚ going to a good school and taking advantage of every learning opportunity is the key to success. He gives a wide range of ways to find resources and to find all the help needed. Although Marks is not a poor black kid‚ he knows that inequality
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