Rumble in the Bronx Essays

  • West Side Story: The Jets Vs. The Sharks

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    Maybe in Bronx, NY, there were other places that were better, and nicer looking. The Sharks could even go to a different city or state so they wouldn’t even have to see The Jets at all. They might even be able to find a better place in the Bronx and then brag about it to The Jets, although I don’t feel like The Sharks are those kinds of

  • Evan Hunter On The Sidewalk Bleeding Essay On Identity

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    imitating their actions. He began participating in jumps and rumbles, bringing pain and grief to many. ‘No, he thought, I can't be dying, not from a little street rumble, not from just being cut. Guys get cut all the time in rumbles’. If rumble members got cut often, it meant that there were other people dying and other people who have been or are being severely injured. As Andy participated in more events that were related to jumps and rumbles, he acquired the collective identity of a Royal and couldn’t

  • Colonialism in Jackie Chan Films

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    over 20 years Jackie Chan has been the biggest action star in most of the world. First becoming popular in his native Hong Kong in the early 80s, his popularity slowly spread across the globe, and finally hit the U.S. with the 1996 release of Rumble In The Bronx (1994.) Since then Chan has made three highly successful films with American studois and several more with the Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest. He is easily one of the most recognizable Asian movie stars or all-time. Jackie Chan’s movies are

  • Will Canada Become The 51st St

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    Is Canada going to be swallowed up by the United States? A political cartoon based on Pierre Trudeau's famous quote, 'Living next to you (the United States) is like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twist and grunt.'; was made. This means when something occurs in the United States, we too are affected. If the United States goes to war, because we belong to N.A.T.O., Canada would support their position. If McDonalds, an American

  • Break Dancing

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    graffiti artists. The name Hip Hop was first used in the early 80s by Afrika Bamatta; firstly it was used by MC’s as random phrase. Originally named b-boying it first started off in the Bronx located in the New York, where local gangs would ‘battle’ each other as part as meditation and to set locations for rumbles. It was mainly jumping around with stabbing and kicking motions that were aimed at the other gang to intimidate them. The main idea was that they would take it in turns the first person

  • A Brief Biography on Jackie Chan

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    Jackie Chan is a well known Chinese American Actor and a Martial-Artist, he is famous for his Martial arts movies and his techniques. From 2000-2005, Chan lent his voice to Jackie Chan Adventure for a cartoon role. Chan came on top of the box office for his third film of the Rush Hour series. He started his film career when he was at the age of eight years old, he appeared with some of his fellow "Little Fortunes", in the film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar in the late 1962. Jackie became an actor since

  • Jackie Chan Reshaping Martial Arts Through Film

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    “He’s a living legend, if you’ve never seen action. Who does all his own stunts.” Jackie Chan, known for his reckless stunts, comedy, and bizarre English, has introduced Hollywood to a newly perception and invented martial art that appeals to all sorts of audiences. He incorporates his knowledge from his younger days in the Peking Opera and China Drama Academy under the guidance of Master Yu Jim- Yuen, a famous Peking opera wu-shen performer, who is considered to be the grandfather of Hong Kong

  • Muhammad Ali Research Paper

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    Muhammad Ali was known to be the world’s greatest boxer of all time. Ali was raised in a Baptist home, but due to being discriminated against because he was an African American, he joined the Nation of Islam with other African Americans and converted to being an Orthodox Muslim. Ali went through a lot of hatred against him before and during his career as a boxer. It is truly incredible that due to the fact that his bike was stolen by someone when Ali was twelve, that he started boxing six days

  • Hip-hop, Reggae, and Politics

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    Hip-hop, Reggae, and Politics Introduction Music is an art form and source of power. Many forms of music reflect culture and society, as well as, containing political content and social message. Music as social change has been highlighted throughout the 20th century. In the 1960s the United States saw political and socially oriented folk music discussing the Vietnam War and other social issues. In Jamaica during the 1970s and 1980s reggae developed out of the Ghetto’s of Trench town and