The movie 13th which is directed by Ava DuVernay and is featured on netflix primarily focuses on how the thirteenth amendment in the constitution has allowed for mass incarceration and criminalization to occur. Furthermore‚ the documentary demonstrates how the loophole in the thirteenth amendment was abused after the Civil War since many African Americans were arrested for minor crimes such as lottering. The documentary also argues that this was often used as a tactic to ensure that economic system
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In this movie I learned a lot more about the struggles and breakthroughs of the deaf culture than I already knew. I didn’t know nearly as much as I thought I did. I found out that some deaf people were forced into speach therapy because hearing people thought of sign language as a bad thing. I also learned that deaf people don’t always choose to sign some choose to read lips. Not all deaf people have kochlear implants and even though some do it doesn’t allow them to "hear" everything. I was also
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In the movie Platoon it takes place during the Vietnam War‚ it describes how soldiers come together to get the job done and try to make their way back home in one piece‚ but in all of this how they lose the sense of right and wrong in the instinct to stay alive. Even though they all come from different walks of life they joined together as a solid unit of brotherhood. The loss of humanity is so strong in the killing of innocent women‚ children‚ and men‚ and the rape of children is something that
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The movie Gandhi starts off with the assassination of Gandhi on January 30‚ 1948. He was killed because of the split of Hindus and Muslims into Pakistan and India‚ instead of trying to keep the country united (which was impossible at the time). The story then jumps back to Gandhi early in his life‚ when he is a practicing attorney. He is traveling in South Africa on a train and is thrown off because he refuses to give up his first class seat. The conductor wants him to move because he is Indian.
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as humans. The white people accept that they have the same feelings. White People want that black People have the same rights. The white People want that everyone treat the black People well because they understand that they have feelings. In the movie “Glory” is between the Shawn and Kendric the following conversation.
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Summary of Rizal The film started with a scene showing Rizal writing a letter. The letter contains his thoughts that the Philippines has a serious illness and that it is plagued by the Spanish domination over our country. Crisostomo Ibarra was also introduced in the film‚ and it is Rizal’s alter ego. Ibarra had been forced to have two personalities because of the worsening problem in our country. Rizal had published books such as the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo‚ as his weapons against
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Wit: Death Thou Shalt Die Vivian Bearing is a sophisticated scholar. She is a university professor in seventeenth-century poetry‚ who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her oncologist‚ Dr. Kelekian suggests an experimental chemotherapy to be used on her‚ which would consist of eight full doses. Vivian agrees to the treatment‚ so the story begins. When watching the movie Wit‚ I related this movie much to what I had previously learned in high school. In high school‚ I learned about the Kubler-Ross
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The acknowledged Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis uses his novel‚ Zorba the Greek‚ as a means to present philosophical ideas to his audience. In his novel he explores many different themes and ideas‚ some of which stem from his greatest inspirations. Two of these philosophical ideas are Epicureanism and Dionysian nature. Epicureanism is a theoretical system founded by the philosopher‚ Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.)‚ who held that happiness should be valued as life’s highest good and that the best way to
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for further development‚ into the hands of a group of well educated scholars who are generally referred to as University Wits. They were responsible for providing Shakespeare the right foundation so as to raise English Drama to the highest point and make it the greatest literary force of the Elizabethan age. In the tradition of Drama that was received by the University Wits there was a marked tendency of realism in comedy and tragedy‚ and the consequent casting off of the personified characters
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The Demonstration of Wit in The Odyssey In Greek literature‚ many writers include an epic hero‚ with many heroic qualities. In the epic poem‚ The Odyssey by Homer‚ Homer portrays a captain named Odysseus‚ who needs to use his wit to get himself and his men home to Ithaca by ship. Odysseus and his men face different obstacles that require Odysseus’s great strength in mind‚ so that they may pass through safely. Although Odysseus faces several hardships‚ it is Odysseus’s wit and aptitude‚ not his physical
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