The movie I decided to analyze for this assignment is Blood In Blood Out. This movie is about two Latino brothers, Cruz and Paco, and their cousin, Miclo, who is half white and half Latino, and how their lives are affected by the pact they have to always stick together and fight for each other. Later on in the movie the guys are separated after many conflicts they encountered between each other and with others. Cruz turns to drugs, Paco becomes a detective, and Miclo goes to prison. There are many different forms of communication and relationships between the characters, and there is also a great amount of conflict, which is why I chose this movie.…
The life of a soldier in World War One was one filled with death, destruction, and atrocity. For many, the reality in which they existed proved too much for what one person could handle. A soldier often returned a different man, both physically and psychologically. In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road”, the main characters Elijah and Xavier are subjected to this reality. In contrasting the different personalities of Elijah and Xavier, one can demonstrate how war is experienced by individuals in very different ways.…
Another theme that is observed is conspiracy theories that progresses throughout the series. Alien abductions and paranormal activity in the show are not just mysterious extra-terrestrial imaginings. To give the narrative more complexity, The X-Files convolute its paranormal subject connecting it to government agencies. Mulder knows for a fact that the government is behind many of the crimes and is eager to uncover it. The link between the alien abductions and the government mirrors the anxieties of the modern world.…
Throughout this semester our class has been gathering information about the modern American military conflicts, either through book review or class PowerPoints. This newly gained information of our nation history has helped me create an understanding what leadership actually is and how certain people are able to have it. What helped me gather my view of leadership the most was the five leadership analysis on House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, We were soldiers once… And Young, The Last Stand Of fox company, Company Commander and Four hours in My Lai.…
He is someone I no longer know: Elijah’s Fall Into Savagery In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road the reader is introduced to the main characters Elijah Wesageechak and Xavier Bird. Both boys grow up transitioning from residential school, to the wilderness, and finally to the inhumanity of war. In the end, Xavier does not even recognize his childhood best friend. As the story progresses, the two go through many changes resulting in Elijah’s detrimental transformation.…
Guggenheim interviews two, education stricken, inspirable leaders. One being Geoffrey Canada, the founder, and CEO of Harlem’s Children Zone, an organization working towards increasing high school and college graduation rates. Guggenheim also interviews Michelle Rhee, leader of Washington D.C. public schools and the founder of Students First, an organization operating education reform concerns. When Guggenheim introduces Coffee and Rhee, he brings forth their credentials making them seem knowledgeable and trustworthy of this topic.…
all throughout the film. Right from the beginning of the film, the audience is shown colorful scenes of the fruit market, the colorful indigenous murals with positive messages (“No more war!”), and the native festival/dances happening in the neighborhood. These colorful images are part of Mexican culture, but it could also symbolize the LGBTQ colors, which is something that Latinos are not commonly known for accepting. The variety of colors usually represent positivity and happiness – something all Latinos want for their families. Although Latinos often live difficult lives in the U.S. due to discrimination, immigration issues, etc., Latinos look to God – or gods, from their ancestral past – and their families for support.…
Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity 's defining attribute (Cooper-Dowda).…
A top-secret program is tasked to replicate the original Weapon X experiment that bonded adamantium to the skeleton of Wolverine. The project is taken in a new direction: Dr. Martin Sutter recruits renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney to develop a clone of Wolverine. Also on the team is Sutter's protege, Dr. Zander Rice, who was raised by Sutter after his father was killed by the original Weapon X. Since the only genetic sample from Weapon X is damaged, Kinney is unable to salvage the Y chromosome. Kinney proposes the creation of a female genetic twin.…
These characters and people show corruption of power in the film. Sebastian Shaw is a powerful mutant who wants mutants to rule; he is power hungry and will do anything to gets what he wants. At the beginning of the film Shaw is a leader of the Nazis during WWII. He uses the power of his position to kill Eric’s mom in order to expose Eric’s mutant power. Sebastian…
In literature, stories in the same genre typically are compatible and comparable. While written in different forms of literature, the novel The Chrysalids and the motion picture The X-Men share indefinite similarities. The science fiction novel written by John Wyndham follows the life of David Strorm the protagonist of the story. David has the ability to communicate telepathically with a select group of children. This ability threatens his life and creates the theme of the inevitability of change, as the people in David’s community are afraid of differences in their society.…
The 1998 film American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, delves into issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity as it confronts us with the story of the Vinyard sons Derek and Danny. Reeling from the shooting of their father at the hands of a black gangster, Derek and Danny become heavily involved in a neo-Nazi gang. The movie sheds light on racial tensions and relationships both in everyday Los Angeles and in prison, which stabilize the concepts of race and ethnicity, as they rooted in stereotypes that filmgoers can easily pick out and understand. Derek finds himself easily blaming blacks and other people of color for the problems he faces, as well as what he perceives is happening to white Americans in general. “We're so hung up on this…
Ethics, morality, and basic human nature. All things that make the human race, human. It’s easy to say what exactly is right and wrong. But it’s harder to act upon those set rules. They’re more like guidelines.…
A morally sound future, led by some triumphant breakthroughs in education reform, has been sought after and arranged to bring to light mutant education. Solutions have been proposed to keep the peaceful co-existence of mutant and humankind. Found by listening to valid thoughts of opposition to Schools for Mutant Children (SMC’s) and those who have accepted the idea. SMC’s, are the beginning to a foundation set forth by the Mutant Child Education Reform Act (M-CERA). Careful thought has been put into not eluding the thoughts of all aspects of this issue at hand.…
Both Magneto and Professor X are fighting for the same thing – a world where mutants can live without fear and can be accepted members of ‘society.’ Throughout the film, the X-Men are called “freaks” and ostracized for their differentness. This parallels quite well with the Civil Rights Movement as African Americans face racial segregation and discrimination. Furthermore, the relationship between Magneto and Professor X demonstrates the rift in the rights movement and one of the reasons the movement was not as effective as it could have been (Cone 3). Fundamentally both these men want the same thing, but have vastly different ideas of how to achieve this end.…