During the International Education Week, the International Program in Foothill held a event, which was to watch a movie, called The Fight to Forgive. Professor Hansell suggested me to take part in this event, as she knew that I would like to do this extra credit assignment. I am so lucky that I do not have classes on Friday, so I can attend this event. In addition, this movie is about the refugee, the topic I have learned from in this class.
On November 22, 2013, I went to the Appreciation Hall, where the event located. This event started at noon. In the beginning, Mrs Largent briefly talked about what this event was about. Later, I saw that the movie maker and one of the refugees in the movie were also in the hall, which impressed me. After the briefing, the movie started playing for around 90 minutes. The movie is about six boys, who were born in Liberia, were forced to become child soldiers in the civil war in Liberia. The reason I say they were forced, because the commander talked in the movie that, those boys had no choice, but kidnapped to become child soldiers. Being as child...
In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he recounts his incidence of meeting a dying Nazi soldier who tells Simon that he was responsible for the death of his family. Upon telling Simon the details, Karl asks for his forgiveness for what he helped accomplish. Simon leaves Karl without giving him an answer. This paper will argue that, even though Karl admits to killing Simon’s family in the house, Simon is morally forbidden to forgive Karl because Karl does not seem to show genuine remorse for his committed crime and it is not up to Simon to be able to forgive Karl for his sins. This stand will be supported by the meaning of forgiveness, evidence from the memoir, quotes from the published responses to Simon’s moral question, and arguments from Thomas Brudholm, Charles Griswold, and Trudy Govier. The possibly raised objection, for this particular modified situation, of forgiveness being necessary to move on from Desmond Tutu will be countered with the logic of needing to eventually find an end somewhere.
Ralph Nader, Mark Green and Joel Seligman, in an excerpt from Taming the Giant Corporation (1976, found in Honest Work by Ciulla, Martin and Solomon), take the current role of the company board of directors and suggest changes that should be made to make the board to be efficient. They claim the current makeup of the board does not necessarily do justice to the company because “in nearly every large American business…there exists a management autocracy” (Nader, Green and Seligman, 1976, p.570). The main resolution they present is to make the board more democratic with the betterment of the company as its first priority. Currently the board no longer oversees operations, or elects top company executives and they are no longer involved in the business operations to the extent they should be. Nadar, Green and Seligman argue that that all of these things need to be changed. For a corporation so large to be successful there must be separation of powers just as there is in any current government system ( p.571). They claim this is the only and best way to success (Nader, Green and Seligman, 1976, p.570-571).
This movie is based on changing the lives of Mexican Americans by making a stand and challenging the authority. Even when the cops were against them the whole time and even with the brutal beatings they received within one of the walk out, they held on. They stuck to their guns and they proved their point. The main character was threatened by the school administrators, she was told if she went through with the walkout she would be expelled. While they wanted everyone who was going to graduate to simply look the other way, the students risked it all and gave it their all to make their voices
Vince Lombardi is a well-known football figure; he has had many accomplishments in his career and is well-know for them. He changed the way the game of football is played and coached; that is why it is important to explore his early Life, starting career, and ending career and death.
...when it comes to the depiction of interracial interaction in Hollywood films. and given that the movie was created in the midst of World War II, well before its outcome was clear, the scene below depicting the collective pride of Morocco's French citizenry in opposition to their Nazi occupiers, is truly amazing.
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While the film’s running time is only a short 32 minutes, Resnais captures the rise of Nazi ideology all the way to the liberation of the camps, sparing no horrific detail in between the two. The documentary shows
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In our world today every country has their own set of avowed and ascribed identities for it's population. An avowed identity is one a person gives to themselves, a woman might say she’s a sister or a wife. The opposite of that is an ascribed identity, or how society sees someone. For example, a rich person could be perceived as a snob. To ascribe someone with an identity is to judge them based on societal norms. The entertainment industry in America is no different then it's parent culture. Both men and women in this industry have identities placed on them, and they change based on their career. Women are given more negative ascriptions than men in the media. That is how Americans identify people they read about, with the identities the media gives them. Women are more negatively perceived that men in the music and fashion industry because of their ascribed identities in the media, and gender roles in our nation.
Funneled through the narrative of a series of thought provoking scenes in which Algerian revolutionaries bomb Parisian civilians, the film apparently caused such a stir between the morals of revolution compared to or related as terrorism. Such controversy created a movement, created dialogue, civilian participation, the film did what most art does and heavily involved the recipients giving exposure to the artist’s agenda. If the director's intention was to give light to certain agenda, then why would he choose film, which according to Benjamin is littered with absent minded participates, unless it is quite the
involves a refugee named Jean Valjean, who is released from prison but violates his parole to start a
This essay will reflect on the key concepts I have learnt to date through Explorations in Sociology. My learning will be demonstrated by defining the key concepts and linking them firstly to personal experience and then to recent media articles. I will reveal how my thinking has altered as I look at the world through my “sociological glasses” by highlighting questions I have asked and how I have attempted to answer them through sociological concepts and theories. I will follow the learning as covered chronologically: social structures & social interaction focusing on roles and status, culture and socialisation and class and social stratification. The media articles I have chosen to assist my learning include; an inquiry into child abuse by the Catholic Clergy, a documentary called Miss Representation and one social researcher’s take on class in Australia. By examining each topic this essay will demonstrate my understanding of key sociological concepts and how they have affected my point of view when confronted with issues through media articles.
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