Political and Social Action in the early 1990s
This movie portrayed the racial injustices that were taking place in the early 1990s within California and throughout the world. The riots that were occurring in 1992 in California continued to increase the racial divide in schools and in the community. The acquittal of a police officer in the Rodney King trial caused an uprise of racial tension. In addition to racial tension gang violence continued to be on the rise and seemed to continually widen the racial divide. Public school systems were a major part of educational injustice for various students, but majorly for the students who were a part of integration programs. Parents chose integration programs as a way to get their children a better
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Throughout the movie loyalty to an individual’s group, whether family, friends, gang members, or race was constantly addressed. Loyalty relates to my future ministry because of the important confidential nature of counseling. I have to remain loyal to my client’s need for privacy, unless it will be harmful to themselves or others. I also have to be loyal to their need for space involving certain issues. Racial injustice was also a recurring theme throughout the film. The racial injustices that I viewed tended to be specific to educational injustices. The educational injustices tended to affect minority groups who were lower income. The injustices affected this group the most because they had little to no money for private school and no option to home school their child. The only option that lower class parents had for their children overcrowded public schools during this …show more content…
Freedom Writers touched on many issues that occurred in the 1990s and unfortunately are still occurring at the present time. Freedom Writers inspired me to approach my counseling ministry in a new way. An approach to counseling that I plan to utilize was inspired by this film. I plan to implement journaling in my sessions with clients as reflection methods for them. The effect that journaling had on the students opening up to the teacher was very impactful. I believe that journaling will not only help those I counsel, but also give me a broader view into my client’s
Spike Lee is brand name when it comes to the film industry. When you try to ask any group of people their opinion about this man, you will probably receive numerous positive responses from the film community as well as the African American community. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) is a film that illustrates how racial conflict can become a reality while showing the repercussions that come with racial segregation. Spike Lee uses a number of tools to write and produce the film in order to ensure the message reaches his intended audience in the best way possible. The use of location, soundtrack, and dialogue is abundant in this film. Therefore, this film analysis paper is for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989). It is a film in which racial segregation ignites riots in a neighborhood dominated by the black population. The heightened scene of this film analysis is where Spike Lee throws a trash can and it is from this that hell breaks loose and riots begin.
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
In this movie, there are many scenes that resemble parts of the conflict theory. Throughout the entire movie, there are different cases of class struggle. Michael Clayton also does an excellent job at showcasing how the various conflicts develop between the classes. The movie also has a part where it contradicts the movie as well. It is a good movie to use to gain a better understanding of the conflict theory of crime.
... It states that there is different inequality socially and politically. Inequality is determined by people’s ideals of what they were taught and society projects as the superior and inferior races. This film shows that there is a way to change that if you make the other side see how they affect the people they are discriminating against.
One of the biggest issues depicted in the film is the struggle of minority groups and their experience concerning racial prejudice and stereotyping in America. Examples of racism and prejudice are present from the very beginning of the movie when Officer Ryan pulls over black couple, Cameron and Christine for no apparent reason other than the color of their skin. Officer Ryan forces the couple to get out of the car
The reason for recommending the movie is that the movie effectively arouses people’s awareness that race and racism do matter to them whether they are white, black, brown or yellow people. First of all, race and racism are still around the world even if most people have an ideology, believing that racism is long gone. The truth, however, is not what it seems to be. Taking the election of Barack Obama as an example, which brings people into a post-racial thinking, some glaring facts are actually being ignored. White Like Me precisely picks up the actual election results showing that although Obama won the popular vote solidly, it was not noticed by many that he lost the white vote by a big margin. The most significant case is that he only received 10% of the white vote in Southern states. Of course it does not mean that all whites voted against him just because he was black but undoubtedly it was the reason for some, clearly showing that racism still exists in which people should not ignore. Second, confronting the problems of race and racism is vital as the consequences can be very serious. Surely if people try to ignore and deny the history and decide not to talk too much about racism to avoid it, they do not actually help improve but worsen the situation. Besides, it is happening. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American, was shot to dead in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a white neighborhood watch volunteer. No sooner had Zimmerman been acquitted of second-degree murder in 2013 than a large scale of protests in over a hundred cities broke out. Racism indeed causes casualties and widens the gap between different races. People just cannot laugh it off. Last but not least, if there are solutions towards racism, people will know they are able to make changes to relieve the problems of racism. As mentioned by
The first social issue portrayed through the film is racial inequality. The audience witnesses the inequality in the film when justice is not properly served to the police officer who executed Oscar Grant. As shown through the film, the ind...
Mary Mebane used her own experience on the bus to show how segregation affected her life. Mary Mebane points out, white people “could sit anywhere they choose, even in the colored section. Only the black passengers had to obey segregation laws.” When Mebane was young, she saw a conflict on the bus. The driver asked a black person who sat in the ‘no-man’s-land’ to move back to colored section to give the seat for the white person who was standing on the bus because the bus was full. Segregation on the bus represented how white people unequally treat black people. When black people refused this driver to move, the driver try to send them to police. Black people were living in the shadow of racism and segregation at that time. However, that situation still affects school system and community now. Mebane asserts, “It was a world without option.” Black people have lower economic and social status because they are restricted to a small box because of segregation. “In Six Decades After Brown Ruling, in US Schools Still Segregated”, Dexter Mullins claims that in some schools like Valley West Elementary School in Houston, about 90% of people are not white people. These kinds of schools do not have enough funds to support adequate school resource to these students, and these students have lower opportunities to contact with cultural diversity. Both reasons negatively impact on the
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
For example, the prosecutor managed to keep blacks off the jury. This just proved that there is no justice in the legal system of the United Sates and racism and discrimination is still prevalent. Another label in the movie when the white lawyer struggles with his own feelings about race during his preparations to stand up for this black man in an all-white jury. Racial prejudices is the main point made in the movie, when we want to believe we are not color blind based off this film proved that the characters in their prejudices determined their
In a place of extreme torment, this teacher is capable of bringing a light of faith in her students and from her determination she is able to show that is worthwhile to make a difference. Now days education is only about standardized testing and teaching a curriculum, rather than becoming a role model to students and change their perspectives of life. Therefore this movie teaches the enormous value and impact that a teacher can have in someone 's life and encourages teachers to exceed the limits and make education meaningful for students. In addition, the film inspires to pursuit a better future. It demonstrates that there is always hope to achieve big dreams and overcome the impossibilities. Finally, freedom writers teaches the humanitarian lesson of helping those who suffered, and being the change that they need to see. It is about becoming a hero everyday in the simplest moments of
I’ve chosen this movie to speak about due to the fact that it hit very close to home for me. This movie shows how others were treated and still to this day are treated like nothing if you’re not them in certain parts of the United States. It shows how corrupt law enforcement was way back then and you still see it to this day. I honestly just don’t see the point of racism. It affects everyone around not just that person it’s being committed against.
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
The film Freedom Writers directed by Richard La Gravenese is an American film based on the story of a dedicated and idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell, who inspires and teaches her class of belligerent students that there is hope for a life outside gang violence and death. Through unconventional teaching methods and devotion, Erin eventually teaches her pupils to appreciate and desire a proper education. The film itself inquiries into several concepts regarding significant and polemical matters, such as: acceptance, racial conflict, bravery, trust and respect. Perhaps one of the more concentrated concepts of the film, which is not listed above, is the importance and worth of education. This notion is distinctly displayed through the characters of Erin, Erin’s pupils, opposing teachers, Scott and numerous other characters in the film. It is also shown and developed through the usage of specific dialogue, environment, symbolism, and other film techniques.