Strengths and Weakness in School Ties and Swing Kids By Leonardo Garcia
Around the 1930’s-1950’s there was a large movement of anti semitism in Germany and the United States. In these two films they present two different sides of a story one is about being the only jewish teen in a catholic high school in Michigan where anti semitism is a fairly common occurrence, While the other story is a movement against the nazi socialist party about their censorship of western culture, music, fashion, western movies, and dancing, with a group of teenagers a part of the movement called “Swing Kids” who watch forbidden western movies, dance swing, play swing music, listen to Jewish/Negro artists, refuse to cut their hair, and pick fights with the local Hitler Youth. But many people ask what is anti semitism but anti …show more content…
Bishop Fulton Sheen made such a stirring speech that 10,000 people converted to Catholicism. Then Billy Graham got up and did some inspired preaching and 10,000 people converted to Protestantism, then to close the program, Pat Boone got up and sang "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" and 20,000 Jews joined the Air Force!”(Charlie Dillon).
School Ties Weakness and Strengths
The movie School Ties is a very interesting film about anti semitism in the United States in the 1950’s about a jewish teenager (David Green) from small working class background being the star football player in his high school, he then gets a chance to join an elite private catholic high school where he must conceal his jewish identity to help the high school end their losing streak. The film itself is a message to the viewer about anti semitism and I will be
Around the 1930’s-1950’s there was a large movement of anti semitism in Germany and the United States. In these two films they present two different sides of a story one is about being the only jewish teen in a catholic high school in Michigan where anti semitism is a fairly common occurrence, While the other story is a movement against the nazi socialist party about their censorship of western culture, music, fashion, western movies, and dancing, with a group of teenagers a part of the movement called “Swing Kids” who watch forbidden western movies, dance swing, play swing music, listen to Jewish/Negro artists, refuse to cut their hair, and pick fights with the local Hitler Youth. But many people ask what is anti semitism but anti …show more content…
Bishop Fulton Sheen made such a stirring speech that 10,000 people converted to Catholicism. Then Billy Graham got up and did some inspired preaching and 10,000 people converted to Protestantism, then to close the program, Pat Boone got up and sang "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" and 20,000 Jews joined the Air Force!”(Charlie Dillon).
School Ties Weakness and Strengths
The movie School Ties is a very interesting film about anti semitism in the United States in the 1950’s about a jewish teenager (David Green) from small working class background being the star football player in his high school, he then gets a chance to join an elite private catholic high school where he must conceal his jewish identity to help the high school end their losing streak. The film itself is a message to the viewer about anti semitism and I will be