Background Information Cabrini-Green, one of the 11 public-housing high-rises in Chicago, was built in 1958 for Italian immigrants who-who were affected by WWII. This did not work out for the immigrants due to poor living conditions, so they moved out. Soon after, the Cabrini high-rises were transformed and were turned into the Cabrini-Green homes after people built the William Green homes as an add-on to the Frances Cabrini homes. Right after that happened, the Cabrini-Green homes became an extremely segregated place to live, due to the population being predominantly African-American. Most of the population of Cabrini-Green were single mothers, then children.…
The dog movie “The Champions” I found to be a touching and profoundly dramatic film about the pit bulls rescued from the brutal fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcon’s star quarterback Michael Vick. It chronicled those brave individuals that risk it all to save them, overcoming much pressure from PETA and the Humane Society to euthanize them. The film successfully exposed the prejudice and much misunderstanding while slowly eradicating the myths surrounding this breed. The documentary unfolds the journey of five of the dogs such as Handsome Dan, Jonny and Little Red to name a few, and their second chance on life and their supreme power of resilience and the true significance of the Human- Animal Bond. It features several rescue organizations such as Best Friends Animal Society of southern Utah, BADRAP centered in Oakland, California and individual families who reached out to these creatures with love and compassion.…
She tells her readers of her experiences when she and eight others integrated into Central High School. Integrating caused her to to lose all of her past fun activities, because if she was caught out in public, she could be badly injured. One day, Melba was walking home from Little Rock High School, when a stranger asked her if she wanted a ride. If it were not for Marissa, a bully to Melba, she could have been raped. “I couldn’t figure out what he was doing, but I knew that it had to be bad.…
Many of the characters have to reconcile their family’s past with individual futures requiring strength and fortitude. Through the subplot of Katia’s past, Christina raising a child on her own, Josie is able to deal with cultural adversity. Overall, it gives an insight how adversity can strengthen women, ultimately enabling them to become independent,…
7). The book then delves into the history that began the process of how the movie came about and includes a section where the director of the movie, Davis Guggenheim, talks about his own history of film making. Guggenheim then explains how he first refused to take on this project but then negated on his decision after realizing he was circumventing the situation of the failing public schools in his own neighborhood by taking his own children to a private school (Weber, 2010, p. 28). As this new project goes on Guggenheim explains of how he worked in humor into the documentary as with the facts that our schools lag behind in every subject then lead all countries in confidence and has the film quickly cut to YouTube videos of reckless acts of young Americans attempting ridiculous stunts that do not end well. The book then enters the lives of four children and the problems they and their families have encountered in their attempts to receiving a decent education.…
Liz Murray’s Breaking Night offers a stunning glimpse into the life of poverty and low class living for a young girl dealing with drug addicted parents. The fifteen year old girl was born in the Bronx, and throughout her schooling experience was taunted for her tattered clothes and lice infested hair. This eventually led to skipping so many classes she was put into a girls home, but when she arrived back to her family, everything finally unraveled. Eventually running away, Liz met friends that turned into the street family she would come to love and learn how to forge for food and ride subways all night for a warm place to sleep with.…
Gina Prince-Bythewood is not only a female director in Hollywood, she is also an African-American female in Hollywood, and it is clear to see how that affects her work in writing and directing. In my personal opinion she is one of the most underrated directors and screenwriters of our time due to her unique ability to combine excellent story telling with incredible directing. In all three of the films she has directed being, Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, and Beyond the Lights, she casted mostly African-American actors. When asked why there is such little diversity in Hollywood, her response really stuck out to me; she said, “Behind the camera, it makes no sense. In front of the camera, it makes no sense” (Elbert, 2014).…
The students also care going into Ivy League colleges. On the other hand, on the poor side of the Latino community we get the stories of Lola and Sofia. In this story we see that the older sister can’t even take school seriously because she has to take care of members in her family. We also she that in the poorer schools, especially in high school, kids suffer a lot from substance abuse, violence, and teachers or facility that never really cared about helping students. Unlike the upper class kids, Sofia only cares about going into a community college.…
Hollywood Goes to School Qiana M Fleming SOW412 SPRING 2018 INTRODUCTION This is a movie review based on a high school student named "Lucas" that had a nit for learning. He was an honor student and overachiever.…
The movie selected for this paper is Precious. The main characters involved are 16 years old Claireece Precious Jones, her mom Mary Lee Johnston, Social Worker Ms. Weiss, and alternative school teacher Ms. Blu Rain. The movie is about Precious who lives in Harlem along with her very abusive mother. Precious attends a Junior High School and is pregnant with a second child. As a result of her pregnancy, Precious is suspended from her Junior High School.…
This movie revolves around a Latin woman, named Flor, who has a young daughter and they have been deserted by her husband. As a result Flor chooses to immigrate to the United States from Mexico to be with their family and earn enough to support herself and her child. Flor works two jobs, within the local Latin community, while her daughter cares for herself much like a latch key child. When the child enters her teen years Flor decides that her daughter, Christina, would benefit from more supervision and sets out to obtain a job as a maid in the home of an American family that will pay as much as her two jobs have. The home of her new employer is comprised of a nuclear family which includes the father, a renowned chef and his wife, the mother…
The movie also sent a message that young women should be allowed to be educated and should also be proud of their education. That young ladies do not need men to define and provide for them. Ana’s character was a good student who proud of being smart and wanted to continue her education. Carmen her mother said that “ men don’t like smart women”. The movie showcased a smart, young, and confident girl who faced her family being upset with her to follow her dream of college and it is inspiring for young ladies to watch.…
The Film “Taken” by Michael Karounos tells us of Bryan, a retired CIA agent, who had lost his family due to his love for work. His excessive hours at work caused conflict within his marriage and home life. After retiring, Bryan moved closer to Kim, his daughter, as an attempt to reconnect. However, Kim got an opportunity to spend the summer in Paris with her friend. Bryan was against Kim going.…
The Film shows a positive outlook on inner city kids who are struggling to find their way. The beginning of the film depicts the true violence of the school by having a school shooting occur. The Film shows many graphic and intense scenes but it portrays the correct image of what these students go through. The film also showed positive companionship through a mix of races and a need to succeed. It showed a great comparison between Anne Frank and the students and helped relate to them.…
In Modern Times clip1, the first factory scene, we can see a lot of interesting film skills, especially the editing makes the movie more interesting by using different tips of editing and helps the audience understand the movie. From Modern Times Charlie Chaplin’s movie, we can see different between upper level and lower level (co-worker) during 1990 Modern Times people’s life. Modern Times portrays filmmaker as a mill-hand used on associate degree production line. There, he 's subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine associate degreed associate degree fast production line wherever he screws nutty at an ever-increasing rate onto items of machinery. He finally suffers a crack-up and runs amok, throwing the…