English-language films

Hi Dr. Livie, Thank you for all your help and the kind words you give me, and I am sure I will enjoy my life at Berkeley. My Ohlone journey is about to an end and I have my last request that hope you can consider. I saw my grade on Webadvisor earlier this week before the last several Essential Questions and the Final paper’s grade post, I was around 86% at that time and hope to see my final paper’s grade so see whether I can get an A. However, this class is invisible on Canvas since three days…

other. Themes such as identity, change, loss and the past’s reach into the present connect the texts of War Dances together. In several parts of War Dances, there is a strong rejection to people being defined or judged. Alexie realizes the power of language and how it also fails to completely capture the human experience at the same time. Masculinity is one of the themes shown in War Dances. Another important theme that I noticed in the book is fatherhood. The narrator is forced to deal with…

In the film “Fools Rush in”, the audience can understand that despite all the obstacles the lovely couple had to face later on in their relationship because of their background differences, they still managed to save their marriage and fall in love even more. Eighteen years have passed after this film was produced; yet it interprets how couples that come from different backgrounds can manage to make their marriage and family work successfully. Isabel Fuentes is a Mexican-American photographer…

Samir Moussa shared one of his success stories by narrating how he came about his music band name called SANDFLY. While he was in a jungles in Costa Rica, filming a documentary titled The “Hidden People”, a sandfly unknowingly deposited two parasites into his arm which cause deadly disease called ‘Cutaneous Leishmanaiesis’. He only noticed this, when he returned back to D.C. This particular disease has caused large number of people’s lives in many part of the world like India, Bangladesh, Sudan,…

I expected that the first thing I would see is a lover running to her lost love, just like how Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) runs to the airport to find Eric Messer (Josh Duhammel) in the American 2010 romance film Life as We Know It. Or anecdotes from my family members working overseas. Telling me stories of how the airport would be too restrictive, that the guards would scavenge for any flaw in their baggages, may it be contrabands or sharp knives. That the…

Soldier. As the movie continued John showed who he was and became a valued member of the Sioux community. In the film Dances with Wolves Lieutenant John Dunbar creates a close relationship with the Sioux tribe. John begins becoming closer with the Sioux when he started dressing more like a Sioux, with feathers and such. John Dunbar also took the time to learn the Sioux language. Once the Sioux felt comfortable with John Dunbar, they gave him the name "Dances with Wolves". When John Dunbar…

mixture between students was bigger. In Switzerland for example, there were only international event management students. In Vancouver, there was a mixture between (international) event management and (international) leisure management, both Dutch and English educations. Would you not be happy to meet new people and make new friends? Next to that, study trips are great for CV building. Employers value students…

“Other people’s lives are so different to mine” Turtles can fly, set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the border between Turkey and Iraq, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi. The film shows the struggle of the Kurdish people that are stuck under the rule of Saddam and how this affects the lives of the children. Firstly this essay will examine how the children in Kurdistan are forced to become adults at a young age, then it will analyse how education was considered useless and how that differs to the…

was you were only allowed to speak English in the school building. If someone caught you, they would send you home and you weren’t allowed to come back for the day. The funny thing was that when a teacher heard you speaking another language they often would say something like: What I don’t understand is probably not English or Could you say that in English that I can understand it. Mostly only the staff at the reception would cast you out for not speaking English. At AKSA, I think, would the…

compulsion is a facet of her mental breakdown. After taking a bath in scene two Blanche says, “...Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand new human being!” She is trying to scrub the past away so that she can start fresh (Language). After Stanley rapes Blanche and Stella does not believe Blanche, she has lost all of her sanity (Neary). Now Blanche hears the Polka music, echos of people’s voices in the room, and sees shadows appear on the wall. With all the mood swings…