The movie Babel was an interesting movie that was able to capture many different cultures, and social classes. The movie took people from many different cultural backgrounds, and told a story in which their lives were interwoven though a tragedy. The movie was more than entertainment, as it not only addressed different cultural conflicts but also examined intercultural matters. In the movie we are introduced to two children Mike and Debbie who are being watched by their nanny Amelia. Due to the shooting of their mother in Morocco the two children are left in the care of Amelia longer than originally planed. This causes a problem for Amelia who had planed to go to her son’s wedding on the other side of the border after she finished watching …show more content…
The border patrol agents question Santiago and Amelia about the two children, as they don’t have proper documentation. The phrase “they don’t look like you” comes up when Amelia says she is the children’s aunt. This causes the border patrol to stereotype and typecast the two Mexicans. They believe that Mexicans are trying to kidnap the children, and that they might be smuggling drugs or people across the border. Santiago is very proud of his heritage, and gets offended with the behavior of the border patrol. Santiago is a polychromic person and his behaviors clash with border patrols monochromic behaviors. Being a polychromic person makes Santiago want to deal with multiple tasks at the same time, and this comes off as combative. Santiago acts rashly when confronted with the risk of arrest. This causes him to endanger not only his life, but also those in the car. In this case it is not as much culture but personality style that causes conflict between the characters. The movie Babel is a great case study movie that offers a few in-depth character and cultural analyses. It shows how different cultures can get into conflict and also work together in the face of despair. Knowing how other cultures interact within themselves, and other countries is imperative to reducing conflict, and learning to work with
“Se Habla Español,” is written by a Latin author, Tanya Barrientos; and Amy Tan, a Chinese author, wrote “Mother Tongue”. In both literate narratives the authors write about their experiences with language and how it impacted their lives. In This essay we will be discussing the similarities as well as the differences in the stories and the authors of “Se Habla Español” and “Mother Tongue”. We will discuss how both authors use a play on words in their titles, how language has impacted their lives, how struggling with language has made them feel emotionally, and how both authors dealt with these issues.
The movie, Loving, directed by Jeff Nichols is based on a true story about Richard, and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple fighting for their rights to stay married, and be able to raise their family in the state of Virginia where in the 1950’s it was illegal to be married to a race other than your own. Richard Loving grew up in a small town called Caroline County in the state of Virginia, where he met Mildred and knew that he would do anything to be able to call Mildred his wife. Richard proposed to Mildred on an estate of land he bought for them to raise a family on one day. Mildred agrees to marry him, but unfortunately, they are aware that in the state of Virginia it is illegal for them to get married because of their anti-miscegenation law. They agree that they will go to Washington, D.C., where they will be able to become legally married. In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving became legally married in Washington, D.C. When they return home to the State of Virginia they are harassed by the Caroline County police and thrown into jail because they got married outside of the state that they reside in, which is illegal in Virginia. Richard is set out on bail, but Mildred is forced to stay in jail for several more days. Richard and Mildred’s case was presented before a judge to decide the ramifications of their actions.
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
Jezebel is a dramatic, romantic film set in 1852 in New Orleans, Louisiana and based on the play, Jezebel, by Owen Davis Sr. who collaborated with the other writers - Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Robert Buckner, and Louis F. Edelman to create this award-winning movie. Jezebel was filmed in 1938 with William Wyler as the director and producer, along with Warner Bros (“Jezebel” IMDb and “Jezebel” Wikipedia). This movie depicts themes of pushing against societal rules, out of rebellion or progressive thinking, and the consequences these actions bring. The yellow fever epidemic was also a running theme throughout the film. During the 1930s, art forms depicted life very plainly because of the Great Depression in the United States. Therefore, the movie’s interpretation of the historical affairs that occurred in this period is mainly accurate with emphasis on New Orleans’ genteel societal rules of the 1850s and on the epidemic of yellow fever.
The film goes into basic information about many of the worlds’ countless distinct languages and language families and how they are diversified throughout the world. The film highlights how a single ancestor language can evolve into a variety of unique languages. These languages divide and change until eventually they become mutually. Many of these languages can be traced back and included in language families. Not all languages can be traced back so easily and because the mutually unintelligibility is so high, similarities to other languages cannot be found.
?Life Is Beautiful? gives the audience a vivid look into what happened during the Holocaust. Roberto Benigni plays a very upbeat, carefree bookstore owner. His wife, who is not Jewish, and his son are forced into a concentration camp. They are deported on a train with many other Jews. From the point the get to the camp, Benigni shows the audience what it was like for the Jews. During selection, his wife is separated from him and his son, along with his uncle. The movie shows the Jews working where there are hot furnaces having to haul around heavy objects all day. It also shows the German?s being cruel in a verbal way to the Jews. At one point in the movie, Benigni returns late to his bunk where his son is waiting. Another man in the bunk informs Benigni that everyone was nervous he would not return. This shows the fear that the Jews had to live with every day while they were contained in the concentration camps. This would be good ...
The fundamental conflict that led to their arrest and unfair trial was a clash between Mexican-Americans and the dominant White American culture. Acting as a host, El Pachuco is the spirit of the ideal, defiant Pachuco and serves as Henry’s Reyna’s alter ego throughout the play, intermingling past Mexican culture with the current Zoot Suit culture. El Pachuco serves as a corrective to illustrate the heavy biases that the court and media displayed throughout the 1940s against Chicano people. Through his constant interjections during the courtroom scene, and his final confrontation with the reporter at the conclusion of the play, he points out the injustices that Mexican-Americans had to endure. El Pachuco highlights each point in which the court discriminates or treats the Zoot Suiters unfairly.
The first topic that is found in the movie that was taught in class is conflict. Conflict is expressed disagreement over perceived incompatible goals. Although it may seem it, conflict is not always a negative thing. Conflict is needed and can help growth of relationships. Many conflicts are started because people have different conversational styles. In class, we learned that there are guidelines that one should follow in order to help prevent conflict or help solve it. The guidelines include clarifying goals, helping others save face, using constructive criticism skills, using empathic listening skills, monitoring nonverbal be...
Miguel resides with his mother, father and grandmother. He is a 16 year-old male Latina of Mexican ethnicity. His parents are legal immigrants from Mexico but met and eventually, got married after they arrived in the United States. His mother is pregnant, which means that Miguel will soon have a sister. Miguel has been struggling academically even though he loves literature and writing. At home Miguel’s family speak Spanish but Miguel is fluent in both English and Spanish. He has been having challenges with his identity, which is the reason he identifies himself as “Chicano-American and not Latina.
Precious is an African-American female who is currently impregnated by her biological father for the second time. She is sixteen years of age and can neither read nor write. She constantly suffers pitfalls at her young age. She is heavily obsessed and is subjected to abuse at the hands of her vicious, dysfunctional, abusive, and unemployed mother. With the proper support from an engaged principal, teacher, and social worker, Precious’s life turns into the positive.
Before the civil rights movement could begin, a few courageous individuals had to guide the way. Dr. Vernon Johns was one of those individuals. Dr. Vernon Johns was a pastor and civil rights activist in the 1920s. Johns became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1940s. During his time as a pastor, Johns preached many sermons on how African American people were being treated not only in the community but in society. Johns on multiple occasions upset his community through his ideas on social change. Through a sociologist perspective, many sociological concepts were displayed in The Vernon Johns Story. Some of those concepts included: ascribed status, conflict theory, deviant behavior, alienation, and
Take a moment and think about how difficult it is going through an unexpected change having to do with leaving your old life, your hometown, and even your house by force. Well, that's what you call a sudden change that may leave a long-term effect on a person. Based on true story, In the book Night, movie called Life is Beautiful and article named “ The Journey to Europe: One Syrian refugee’s story” all show terrible experience through sudden changes of a person due to Religion and way life is going on in their own hometown that changes a person for life, but after going through the change they're able to continue a normal life.
The movie I chose to review was The Help. The Help takes place in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. The movie focuses on the lives of two African-American maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson. Aibileen worked for a family who had a young girl that she helped to raise. The other maid, Minny, got fired from the first house we saw her working in because she used the homeowners’ bathroom without their permission. She ends up finding work with Celia Foote, who is not very popular among the other women in the town. After Minny found out Celia was having complications with her pregnancy, the two became very close. Celia even spent a whole night cooking a meal for Minny.
Film Analysis - The Notebook Introduction The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
Language is defined as the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other. Language is an essential part to humanity; it is what we use to communicate with one another. Language is what makes humans distinct. Although, it is not solely for communication it is more than that. Language is power, and it is a power no one can take away from you. It is evident in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” that language is an essential part of life, not so much in the “The Tempest.” Both works suggest that language is power and liberation, but Gloria Anzaldua believes that language is what makes her, her, where Caliban believes language does not. It is interesting to see that both stories have language as a theme, but go about them in different ways.