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    black neighborhood, but Sal (Danny Aiello), has a famous pizzeria that he claims the whole neighborhood has grown up on. As the temperature rises, the tension begins to grow and explodes in racial violence. Lee THESIS The cinematography in “Do the Right Thing” is specifically directed in a way that stresses the racial conflicts among the characters. The different types of camera angles help express the relations between characters by using distance and movement. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), is a…

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    Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty is set in modern day Australia. It begins with multiple accounts of a brawl that took place at a restaurant. Those engaged in the brawl, according to witness accounts, are triplets, who are celebrating their birthday at the restaurant. Their names are Cat, Lyn, and Gemma Kettle. Three Wishes provides the backstory of the triplets leading up to the night they fought one another at the restaurant. The reader learns that Cat’s husband, Dan, has told her that he’s…

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    to begin. http://www.justjaredjr.com/2017/07/18/callie-has-a-serious-talk-with-her-moms-tonight-on-the-fosters/ For starters, Season 5's second episode, "Exterminate Her," gets underway tonight, July 18. In keeping with Just Jared's description, things get very intense. Maia Mitchell's character, Callie Jacob, is focused on making proper decisions and taking control of her life. She takes the first step by signing up to audit art classes at a college near the family's home. However, she has…

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    The movie Do the right thing opens with the song lift every voice which is the anthem for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP), this caused me to automatically think of the rational issues being face at the time of this film, the injustice and oppression the African American people have gone through, and seem to still be going through today in the age of freedom and equality. The film then moves on to a young lady dancing to the song “fight the power”, which was…

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    grandparents pool, played football in the front yard, and on rainy days I would play videogames with Jacob and do whatever crazy things Molly had come up with. Babysitting has definitely taught me many different things such as how to take care of and watch children like a hawk, how to discipline them by teaching them the right things to do, and how to be creative by finding different things to do. Watching Molly like a hawk is a necessity because she is very reckless and likes to “explore”…

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    This weeks films and article incorporated for the second week of ANTH 310 was fairly distinguishable. It, to me was the focus of culture, but not in the traditional sense. It was about a multitude of things that culture does to society in a grand scale, the way how a person 's culture affects another’s in a positive or negative way once presented to the individual, and ultimately how these perceived ideals of each individual 's culture clash. We as a nation have to address every person 's…

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    fellow black person named Mookie from the movie Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee testified the notion of white people being high up in the ranks. Many would say when he was dealing with this issue of…

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    In the movie “Do the Right Thing”, there were many issues present and many different ways to interpret every event. This movie’s central them was: what is the right thing to do? All of the characters in this movie faced that same question, and most of the characters thought they did the right thing in the end. The way the character’s view what they did depends on how they were brought up and the values that they share. This paper will discuss protest and causality as it relates to the movie.…

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    Do the Right Thing is a film that challenges the concept of morality. As the name suggests, many of the characters in it struggle to figure out what the right thing is. The film leaves it as ambiguous to what the right thing is. And because there were so many different people trying to figure out what it meant to do the right thing, everyone arrived at different conclusions to what it is. The answer to how Mookie knows what the right thing is is that he really does not know. Throughout the film,…

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    George kinda did the right thing, I mean there were other options but Lennie killed Curley’s wife, she scared him and Lennie really does not know his strength. Like what happened in Weed, that lady’s dress looked very soft and Lennie has a thing for soft things but she scared him and he did not know what to do so he held on to her dress, who could really blame him for that. Did George do the right thing? Well it was George or strangers, Lennie does not know his strength, and plus Lennie and…

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