How accurate do you think the film is in portraying the ancient Spartans and their peculiar society and culture? Based on the reading on the ancient writing in the Plutarch on Sparta book and reviewing the 300 film, I don’t believe the film is very precise in portraying the Spartans and their peculiar society and culture. Growing up in Sparta was very harsh given its corresponding customs. However, this does not go to stay that the movie had absolutely nothing in common with the information presented in the readings. On the other hand, there were numerous aspects brought up in the readings that were absent in the movie. For instance one thing was during the discussion of the examination of newborn males. It was mentioned “that is why women …show more content…
The agoge system “forced a boy to fight, starved him, made him steal and if necessary kill” (300). Lastly, per the beginning process, he would be plunged into the wilderness to fend for himself and return a man. For example, the child was tested and thrown into the wild in the cold winter with barely clothes on and no shoes. If the boy was to survive he would become a great Spartan warrior. Furthermore, another very extremely factor to consider is the role that women in the Spartan society and culture. Men were forced to leave their families at a young age to endure rigorous training in preparation in becoming well-developed Spartan soldiers. Women carried the most important role of having to bear children so that Sparta may be continuous in the future. Females had the privilege of staying with their families, but were also subjected to their own form of rigorous training in preparation for giving birth to healthy, strong infants. As Plutarch explained regarding Lycurgus towards the women, “First he toughened the girls physically by making them run and wrestle and throw the discus and javelin. Thereby their children in embryo would make a strong start in strong bodies and would develop better (Plutarch’s The Life of Lycurgus PG. 17). There was no mention of this or any comparable aspect of the film. This goes to show that no individual person had it easy growing up in the great city of
Males were expected to enter the agoge in order to train to become warriors, while women were expected to stay at home and raise the children. In regards to women and marriage, Diomache – Xeones’ cousin – made this statement: “…this is not a woman’s world, cousin. It never was and never will be.” (Pressfield, 293). In early Greek society, as was custom in many early societies, women were not technically able to choose their husbands. The men were to choose whom they desired to marry, and the women were simply ‘given away’ to that man. It was also undeniably important that parents give birth to a male child. While females did have a role in society, males were recognizably dominant within Spartan society. Women simply were not allowed to serve in the military at this point in history, so male heirs were needed to continue on as a successful warrior society. In Gates of Fire, the idea of male importance plays out through Dienekes and his family. Dienekes technically does not have a male heir, and therefore was not (originally) chosen to fight at Thermopylae. However, through a series of events, Dienekes deceives the krypteis into believing that he had a male child out of wedlock. While he did so to save the child (his nephew, it should be noted) from impending death, his decision had lasting repercussions: since he was believed to have a male heir, he was now eligible to be chosen to fight in the Battle at
The movie Dope, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, follows the story of Malcolm through his senior year of high school in the Inglewood California. He lives in a poor neighborhood, with only his mom, yet he still strives for greatness. He has a couple of friends, and they all love 90’s hip hop culture. They try to do their best to stay out of trouble and away from bullies. Malcolm sees a girl he likes and ends up following her to a drug dealer’s birthday party. When the cops bust the birthday party, he unknowingly goes home with all the drugs and the gun that the drug dealer owns. This sets off a wild chain reaction, as he now has to sell these drugs to payoff the supplier, who happens to be the Harvard Alumni that Malcolm’s needs approval
The movie Shock Doctrine revolves around the concept of the same name. The film begins by discussing psychological research on the effects of shock therapy. It is evident that a person under extreme stress and anxiety commonly experienced during a crisis functions and performs inadequately. It is noted that the studies are conducted by a man by the name of Milton Friedman, from the University of Chicago; the studies took place in the past, and some of the subjects are still recovering in the aftermath. From this research, interrogation techniques were learned and the concept of the shock doctrine was formed. Essentially through causing a crisis, the population of a country can be shocked into complying with accepting laws that favors the United States and capitalism. This theory coexists with Friedman’s belief in that government regulation is bad, and through a crisis a country would better itself with deregulation. The video uses Chile as an example and shows how America allowed a crisis to occur in Chile, through coups, interrogations and subterfuge. In the end a new government is formed that allows capitalism. Unfortunately afterwards violence and riots occur, as the rich gain most of the wealth and poverty rises. In addition to Chile, Argentina, Russia and even Iraq underwent the shock doctrine. Almost in every account, poverty rises and violence ends up erupting. The movie ends by showing how the US was in the process of the shock doctrine, and still is but the population has taken notice. Protests such as Occupy Wall Street are some of the initiatives necessary to bring awareness to the problems of class inequalities in order to prevent capitalism from benefitting the rich and increasing the wealth gap among the classes.
In ancient Greek society women lived hard lives on account of men's patriarch built communities. Women were treated as property. Until about a girl’s teens she was "owned" by her father or lived with her family. Once the girl got married she was possessed by her husband along with all her belongings. An ancient Greece teenage girl would marry about a 30-year-old man that she probably never met before. Many men perceived women as being not being human but creatures that were created to produce children, please men, and to fulfill their household duties. A bride would not even be considered a member of the family until she produced her first child. In addition to having a child, which is a hard and painful task for a teenage girl in ancient civilization to do, the husband gets to decide if he wants the baby. A baby would be left outside to die if the husband was not satisfied with it; usually this would happen because the child was unhealthy, different looking, or a girl.
In her 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow paints one of the most well-known manhunts conducted by the United States, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. The film’s ending presents the death of bin Laden as a glorious moment in American history. After the U.S. Navy SEALs team enters bin Laden’s room, they quickly locate the target and precisely shoot him to death. “It’s okay,” whispers a member of the SEALs team to the women and children crying in the corner of the room, who are innocent bystanders of bin Laden’s evil scheme. As the team successfully accomplished the mission, the audience sees a team of national heroes that have not only skillfully killed America’s greatest enemy but also treated the innocent with care and respect. In this way, the film depicts targeted killing missions as safe, secure, and fast procedures that are built upon careful research and analysis.
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
Women in the ancient world had few rights, they differed from country to country or, in the case of the women of Athens and Sparta, from city-state to the city-state. The women of the city-states of Athens and Sparta had profound differences in their roles in the political and the daily lives of their families and their cities. When it came to the difference in levels of power and the rights of women, Sparta was a leader in its time. At the same time, their rights as citizens were almost the same. While they did not take an active part in politics, they had opinions and ideas like women all over the world. Their thoughts, deeds, and opinions rarely recorded or if they were, the male historians or philosophers of the time recorded them. What were roles did the women in ancient Athens and Sparta? Were they citizens, did they have personal freedoms? On the other hand, did they in a time when the beginnings of democracy were happening were they less than a second-class citizen? The misogyny and patriarchal societies continued throughout the ancient and classical periods only beginning to change in the Hellenistic era.
One of the greatest responsibilities a woman had in Classical Sparta was giving birth to the Spartan males. Through physical training when a young teen with the Spartan boys, the women needed to be healthy and strong to produce healthy children capable of going through the agoge training. “…By athleticism they made sure that their children would be up to the standard of physical fitness demanded by the Spartan system.” (H.Michell, Sparta). The Spartan mother would prepare the young Spartans prior to the agoge; she would have minimal interaction and supply minimal clothing and
However, they had many more freedoms in the domestic sphere, as well. Spartan women, unlike their Athenian sisters, were allowed and even encouraged to be seen in public. They participated in sporting events alongside their male counterparts, often in the nude. Unlike in most of Greece, women in Sparta did not marry until they were about eighteen (Hibbison 2), and they often married men who were roughly the same age, usually in their early 20s.The idea was that women who married when they were sexually mature would be able to bear healthier and stronger children. In the event of her husband’s death or a divorce (which a woman could institute), a woman was free to remain single and had no obligation to remarry. It is theorized that Spartan women even had a say in who they married, which would have put them far ahead of their time; however, it is not known for certain if this is true. This theory is mostly based on the fact that Spartan women had so much say in the other aspects of their married lives. Another interesting aspect of Spartan domestic life was the “lending” of wives. Paul Cartledge writes, “Husband[s] might actually ‘lend’ [their wives] to another man for the specific purpose of procreating legitimate offspring—for that other man’s household and lineage. As for the wives in these cases, they are said to have welcomed such an arrangement...since it gave them the chance to manage more than one household” (Cartledge 169). Women were given the chance to become part of another family through this process. Because most marriages in Sparta did not involve any type of emotional or romantic attachment, this was not considered immoral, and women would happily bear children for several men, as it gave her more power and status. It is important to note that Spartan women likely did have a say in this, however, because in most other societies, they would not have. Spartan women had many rights in the domestic
The film, “Iron Road” improves the viewer's understanding of the pushes and pulls that brought china men to Canada, what was happening in china at the time, the CPR, the working conditions and racism. China was an economically unstable country in the mid-1800s. Two wars, the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion took the lives of millions of people, natural disasters such as floods created complications with food production. Social stability declined, gangs and bandits threatened villages, the result was severe poverty and starvation. Impossibly high rents and taxes consumed the farm's profits, faced with such dire conditions, many peasants moved away from their farms Guangdong, to look for work. The competition for jobs was intense, and the
These sports included wrestling, boxing, foot racing, and gymnastics. They got this strength, so they could protect their husbands land and their own land if they had it. Additionally, the women in Sparta could protect their city-state if they needed too. Since the women in Sparta grew up similar to how the men grew up, they could do much more with their lives. For instance, they guarded their husband’s property while they were at war in case of invaders, and in case the slaves ( helots) revolted. The women in Sparta had many more rights, than other Greek
Unlike other Greek city states, women played an integral role in Spartan society as they were the backbone of the Spartan economic system of inheritance and marriage dowry and they were relied upon to fulfill their main responsibility of producing Spartan warrior sons. These principle economic systems affected wealth distribution among Spartan citizens especially among the Spartan elite class. Spartan women led a completely different life than women in most other ancient Greek city states, as they were depended upon to maintain Spartan social systems. In a society where the state is more involved in home life women had freedom of movement and they were permitted to communicate with men who were not their husbands. Women had domestic responsibilities including the maintenance of homes and farms when the men were on campaign, while the typical Greek female responsibilities such as weaving were delegated to slaves. Girls were raised much like Spartan boys as they were made to go through physical training insuring their success in fulfilling their most important role in society, child-bearing. The few primary sources on Sparta and Spartiate women, namely Aristotle, Plutarch, Herodotus and Xenophon were historians who lived after the prominence of ancient Sparta; therefore, the facts regarding the women’s influence in social, economic and political issues must be carefully interpreted and analysed with help from secondary sources.
...ation of the women. The victorious Greek army in the Women of Troy does not seem to have any moral compunction in using the women as slaves or their concubines. In this process, they not only insult the citizens of the city of Troy but dehumanize the womanhood itself.
The Three Here’s for Cooking The romantic comedy, Today’s Special, expressed the worries of Indian parents becoming at ease. Also, expressed the struggles a parent faces in search of a better life, the passion and dedication going unnoticed in the work field, and the connection between friends, a lover, and family. However, the film centered its attention more on the development of Samir’s “cold” cooking within the Indian food, with the help of Akbar. In addition, the main actors in the film looked the part and associated with the main idea of the culture of an Indian family. For instance, Samir’s appearance showed he had drifted away from his family’s culture and developed a professional understanding and love for the cooking industry.
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a Steven Spielberg science fiction drama film, which conveys the story of a younger generation robot, David, who yearns for his human mother’s love. David’s character stimulates the mind-body question. What is the connection between our “minds” and our bodies?