The young lass meets the rest of the gangster who run the race track, and appoints them each
The young lass meets the rest of the gangster who run the race track, and appoints them each
My Favorite film or movie is Steel Magnolias. This movie is about the bond between a group of different women from different backgrounds with very different family structure and dynamics. It revolves around the death of one of the women’s children and how they come together to support each other and deal with this tragedy. The movie opens at Truvy’s Beauty shop, where Annelle, a kooky beauty school graduate is hired to work in the shop. Across town, at M’lynn’s home, they are preparing for her daughter Shelby’s wedding.…
After reviewing the list of films, it was with great ease that I selected, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. This made for television movie was adapted from the book written by Ernest Gaines. I selected this film for a variety of reasons. Primarily, I selected this film because I vividly recall reading the book and seeing the film when it was broadcast on television in the mid 1970’s. The Autobiography of Jane Pittman played by Cicely Tyson wasn’t just a fictional story, it was about heroism, courage…
A mixture between sweat and hard work enabled the young high school student to perform in profuse stage productions, both musical and theatrical. She took part in many lead roles including playing the orphan “Annie in Annie, and Alice in Through the Looking Glass”. All these aspects of passion involving the theatre inspired her to further her learning in Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Miss D was selected to be one of the 18 students taken on board to study at WAAPA to study musical theatre. Miss D also had the privilege to study with the Australian wolverine, Hugh Jackman.…
The movie Signs, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is a story about faith. The incorporation of the characters personal issues, and the various plots are all used to emphasize the message that everything happens for a reason. Shyamalan's film focuses on the Hess family that has suffered a great tragedy 6 months ago. Colleen Hess, Graham’s wife, and mother of their two children Morgan and Bo, passed away due to a fatal car accident.…
It is important to have a friend that you can depend on when you need it, to give you confidence and hope in your life. Nightjohn By Gary Paulsen is a great example of this. When sarny needs someone or wants to do something that she can't because she could get beaten, nightjohn is there for her. Even if there is a risk to take you can do it if you have someone to do it for.…
John Travolta main character from ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ and Olivia Newton-John singer of ‘Long Live Love’ from 1974 both starred in a romantic-comedy film, Grease. Also starred other famous actors including Stockard Channing who played Rizzo, Jeff Conaway who played Kenickie, Didi Conn who played Frenchie (one of the Pink Ladies), and Barry Pearl who played Doody (one of the T-Birds) This movie about young love was released in 1978. By Paramount Pictures and directed by Randal Klieser. A sing-along film based off of a musical with the same name from 1971.…
A few weeks ago we watched the film, Including Samuel. It is a documentary on the complexities of inclusion. It also touched on how inclusion works, and how more schools are starting to try and incorporate inclusion. While it is still a work in progress, inclusion is becoming a big part of life. Despite the fact the film was not perfect, they did a good job of stating how important and beneficial inclusion is.…
Save the Last Dance is a 2001 American romance that highlights the struggles of bias, prejudice, stereotypes and influence of cultures across race and ethnicities, that affects relationships and self-concept. Although the movie is a romance, this analysis will focus on multiple socio-psychological concepts. Three of these concepts are: paired distinctiveness, similar attraction, and informational influence are further explained through this film and applied in this paper. This film focuses on a white female by the name of Sara entering southside Chicago after the death of her mother to live with her musician father.…
Alcohol use is often glamorized in society and viewed as an acceptable form of socialization and fun. Thousands of youths, college students, and adults partake in this behavior in order to either fit in with their peers or find an escape for their problems. Although many individuals are able to keep their drinking within an acceptable limit, others often exceed the boundaries and enter dangerous territory. The movie entitled “28 days” exceeds an audience’s expectations in regards to correctly portraying the dark side of substance use disorders.…
The Story of Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Tuohy is a story full of strain and hardships. It takes a lot of courage and effort to create a relationship between two people that would normally never even look toward each other. Michael is an poverty ridden orphan who is ripped out of his deprived life and into the world of the rich, all because of his size. Leigh Anne is a rich white republican with a passion for football and her family. When they meet both lives are changed forever.…
This movie, directed by Joseph Sargent, drew the attention of numerous people thanks to the leading actors and actresses. Because of their off-screen…
IKWTCBS Essay Adversity, a word that simply means bad luck or a bad situation. Imagine being an eight year old African American girl living in the south in the year of 1969, that alone is a bad situation. In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou, Marguerite Ann Johnson is the eight year old girl that goes through countless hardships. She was moved from Arkansas to Missouri, to multiple cities in California, from living with her grandma to her mother then to her father then back to her mother. Marguerite doesn't exactly have the ideal or an easy life even for her young age.…
Sarty is a young boy that is troubled and confused on how he wants to live his life. He is fighting between common morals and loyalty to his family more certainly, his father. With Sarty being a ten year old boy, this decision tears the boy apart emotionally before Sarty realizes how he will live his life independently. Abusive father, Abner, believes he can manipulate his family to help in committing crimes to innocent families before Sarty becomes brave and wants to live his life how he believes he should. Fear, hope, and individuality push Sarty over the edge and allow Sarty to run away from his family and live his life how he chooses after staying loyal to Abner for so long.…
June Callwood, was social activist and journalist from Chatham Ontario, during her lifetime she wrote many different pieces, on a wide array of topics. At a young age she became one of Canadas most famous social justice activists. Her 2002 essay “Forgiveness”, talks about how forgiving is an essential aspect to living peacefully. This critique aims to break down the essays strengths and weaknesses and what could be improved upon. In this text, Callwood brings up multiple examples of when a person is given the chance to forgive someone else for their wrongdoing.…
This movie starts by introducing Claireece “Precious” Jones, a very miserable 16 year old living in urban Harlem who fantasizes about being “normal”. Her mother, Mary played by Mo’Nique, has a daily routine of watching TV, smoking cigarettes and cruelly oppressing her daughter by treating her like a slave, telling Precious that she wishes she would have abort her, and repeatedly telling her that she is nothing. The psychological abuse and manipulation is only underlying to the physical and sexual abuse that this character has endured, Precious is pregnant again for the second time by her father and is on the verge of being kicked out of school. It is not a single isolated incident, as we have learned in class, but a pattern of psychologically…