How Is Annie Related To The Movie Essay

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The movie Annie (1982)- Growing up as a child this was one of my favorite movies to watch. It’s about an orphan that beives her mother and father placed her in an orphanage by mistake and believes they are still alive. Mr. Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a rich man decided to advance his image by allowing Annie to live at his home for a week. Annie convinces Mr. Warbucks to help her find her parents. So Warbucks places a search for them and offers a reward, which brings out many frauds. Towards the end Annie realized the truth behind her parents and learns to value Mr. Warbucks and realizes he makes a good father and lets him adopt her. This movie teaches the importance of how family can be created, even if they come from different worlds and how individuals can change and adopt. This movie helped me value the importance of adoptions. It wasn’t until I started working in the legal field that this movie helped to shape my caring values by helping those in need by creating families. At my law firm I currently handle thee adoption procesess from beginning to end. I love doing adoptions and prove-ups with the courts so that …show more content…

It is based on a young black boxer who is being wrongfully imprisoned for murder and whose life was ruined by racism. While in prison he writes an autobiography. An African-American boy and his friends decide to read the book. They then become convinced that he is innocent and are motivated to prove it. This movie shows the value of good people stepping up to the plate and doing what is right, despite the consequences. This movie also helped shaped my values because I like to advocate for those who I think are innocent and I do that by taking a few cases pro bono with my firm. Which means me and a criminal attorney at my firm are denoting legal work without charge for a client to help them out with their criminal case, if we can prove

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