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Summary The movie American History X is about a guy named Derek. When he was a teenager he lost his father because a black man killed him. He grew up remembering that his father did not like colored people at all. He got involved in neo-Nazi movement. The neo-Nazi group did not like that refugees were coming over the border and taking their jobs. They also did not like that the black race was taking over Venice Beach. Derek was incarcerated for three years because one day they were at the basketball
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races to tell his older brother‚ neo-Nazi Derek‚ about the young blacks breaking into his car in front of the house‚ whereupon Derek gets his gun and with no forethought shoots the youths in their tracks and he forces the other man to put his mouth on the curb‚ then brutally kills him by stomping on the back of his head‚ crushing his mouth against the curb. Danny watches in horror as this unfolds. The police arrest Derek as he smiles at a shocked Danny.. Derek having already been influenced by the latent
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The film I chose to do my reflection paper on is called American History X‚ and is one of my all-time favorites. The movie is about a man named Derek Vinyard‚ an impressionable young man who becomes involved in a “white power” gang after the murder of his father. After Derek’s incarceration‚ his younger brother‚ Daniel Vinyard‚ idolizes him and begins to go down the exact same path. Throughout Derek’s time in prison he realized that he was manipulated by a man named Cameron‚ and his entire outlook
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another and rejected each other because of the skin color. But no one is born with such hate‚ it is learned. There are many ways one can learn‚ but the movie focuses on two ways‚ rhetoric and Socratic dialect. Derek Vineyard‚ a former skinhead‚ becomes a victim of these forms of teaching. Derek Vineyard is introduced as a vicious murderer who possesses pride in his hatred towards minorities. He is sent to jail for killing three African
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process of change in the beliefs of Derek Vinyard. He begins the film as a violent young man and due to his father’s racist views he then develops his own‚ Derek is portrayed as becoming the leader of the Neo-Nazi organisation and claiming his leadership at a basketball game against the local blacks. There are two protagonists in the film‚ also coming from two perspectives; Derek is looked upon by his younger brother‚ Danny Vinyard who follows the footsteps of Derek ‘People look at me‚ and they see
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1690s was an extremely dark time in American history. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were killed during the hysteria. The events that led to this hysteria caused the people of Salem to be deeply affected by this terrible time in our history. With that in mind‚ the outcome of these trials caused people to be killed even if they were innocent. Historians believe that this time in our history was immensely unfair and no one had a fair trial
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neo-Nazi brother Derek. Derek‚ played by Edward Norton is the leader of the local skinhead gang in Venice Beach‚ California. Derek was sent to prison for committing a hate crime against a black man‚ who tried to break into his house. Danny decided to continue down Derek’s path of becoming a white supremacist while he did time for the hate crime. Derek’s mother played by Beverly D’Angelo visits Derek while in prison and tells Derek about his little brother following in his footsteps. Derek realized the
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abilities because we want to be the best‚ so we don’t think about how it can affect the people around us. This is exactly what happens in the story‚ “MVP‚” by Clare Mishica. Derek wants to be the most valuable player on his basketball team instead of Cole so much that he forgets to be a team player. When Cole gets hurt‚ Derek realizes how much more important the trophy and being a part of the team is than getting MVP. Teamwork is always more efficient than trying to achieve something individually
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about his brother Edward Norton‚ known as Derek Vinyard‚ and the simplicities of skinheads and how they are subjected into this type of life style. Derek is one of the main leaders of this particular organization‚ consisting of young white supremacists in southern California. Derek is working under the main leader of one of the most respected white supremacists klans. The main leader of this particular organization is known as Cameron. Cameron sends Derek to be the spokes person
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