Edward James Olmos

contributions of Edward James Olmos. Olmos has been accredited for being cast in diversified roles and representing the images of Hispanics in the U.S. media. By learning about Olmos’ early life, upbringing, and social activism, it will help us understand the ideas of racial discrimination in media and television. Edward James Olmos was a renowned actor for the Los Angeles community. On February 24, 1947, raised and born in Los Angeles, California. Olmos dedicated his early life as a social activist at his high school. Throughout his high school years, Olmos wanted to run for student body president for California Democratic Party Art Torres. However, he did not win the race for student body president. However, Olmos found interests with performing arts, as he became the lead singer for his band the Pacific Ocean. Olmos’ passion for performing arts resonated as he pursued acting during his early adulthood. Around the 1960s, Olmos pursued theatre arts when he acted in films that were heavily based in the Mexican American community. To give an example, Olmos branched out his skills as the narrator for Zoot Suit. Zoot Suit…

Lopez. Jennifer Lopez was the star of the movie and she fit the character well. She acted like Selena with an amazing personality and a goofy side. Jennifer learned how to dance like her and learned how to use her big smile to enlighten the crowd . Selena’s dance moves were showcased since Selena was known for her moves on stage and her rhythm. Jennifer showed how honest and fun Selena really was, she brought Selena’s personality to the movie ( Selena-movie,cast,and credits). Abraham, Selena’s…

In both Edward James Olmos’ film Walkout and Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman, the main protagonist of each story has gone through both a moral and psychological growth. The Latino backgrounds of both protagonists play a vital role in the development of their individual relationships with their ethnic and local communities. In Walkout, Paula is placed into a position where she must choose to ignore her cultural background and focus on academics, or embrace her identity and become an…

1. The films I watched were Stand and Deliver directed by Ramon Menendez and Walkout directed by Edward James Olmos. Both of these films are similar with one another in some aspects. To begin with, they both take place in Los Angeles and depict Chicano students’ struggles in education. First, they both portray student experiences with the language barrier at schools. To further explain, students first learn Spanish at home, as their first language. Later, when they attend school, these children…

Urban schools are most always portrayed in a negative light. Such is the case in the movie called Stand and Deliver which takes place in a high school in East Los Angeles during the 1980’s. This movie is based off a true story about a teacher by the name of Jaime Escalante, played by Edward Olmos, who worked diligently with a group of roughneck students because he thought that every student has the potential to learn. He believed that if the students and teacher had enough “Ganas” or motivation…

Edward Abbey's Great American Desert Environmentalist and desert-lover, Edward Abbey in his essay “The Great American Desert” warns readers about the perilous dangers of the American deserts while simultaneously stirring curiosity about these fascinating ecosystems. He both invites and dissuades his readers from visiting the deserts of North America through the use of humor and sarcasm. In this essay, he is rhetorically successful in arguing that the open spaces of the undeveloped deserts…

but as of 2008 when someone says the thing most often thought of are the werewolves from the Twilight Saga. In my opinion Professor Lupin from the harry potter series is my favorite of them all. Examples of werewolves from TV series are ones in True Blood, Teen Wolf and Vampire Diaries. Which brings us to the other end of the spectrum, Bram Stokers Dracula is probably the most often thought of example when someone hears of a vampire. Slicked back, black hair, with a flowing red cape and pale…

places anyone could ever suspect. Also, when Joseph Conrad states, “It was difficult to realize that his [the Director of Companies] work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom.” (Joseph Conrad, 2) he speaks of the working conditions to have the same terror and horror. This quotation allows the reader to understand that the working environments of the company may not be as normal or bright but have a darker side to it, which may represent the horror…

Postcolonial theory is built in large part around the concept of otherness. There are however problems with or complexities to the concept of otherness, for instance: otherness includes doubleness, both identity and difference, so that every other , every different than and excluded by is dialectically created and includes the values and meaning of the colonizing culture even as it rejects its power to define; the western concept of the oriental is based, as Abdul Jan Mohamed argues, on the…

The origin of Postcolonial criticism was marked, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by critics’ efforts to “undermine the text of colonial authority as well as to install a distance from the concepts of anticolonialist theory” (Parry, 2004: 67). It was referred to as ‘colonial discourse analysis’. Postcolonial criticism emerged with Edward W. Said’s Orientalism, it acquired the name ‘postcolonialism’ in the late 1980s. It is concerned with historical, political, cultural and textual outcomes of…