Gran Torino

Introduction: The film Gran Torino (2008), directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski tells the story of a racist war veteran whose cold and bitter heart is thawed through his interactions with his Hmong neighbors by using classic film technique to explore the importance of family. This inspires a great change in the way he treated them, his own family and even himself. Eastwood uses the beginning and ending to highlight this change through symbolism, camera angles and dialogue.…

‘Gran Torino’, starred in and directed by Clint Eastwood, creates a euphoric quality to the ‘good old’ American traditional values through the fictitious events surrounding Walt Kowalski, a Korean War veteran who has recently lost his wife. Kowalski is ‘pissed off’ at the world. His anger is compounded by the fact that he is separate with his disrespectful family, his neighbourhood is overrun by the Hmong and that simply the world is changing, and by his opinion, for the worse. Clint Eastwood’s…

discoveries often challenge our assumptions and beliefs about humanity. Could it be said that as a resultant our faith and perceptions about humanity will change. Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” and “Home Burial” is a display of such. The 2009 film Gran Torino details the story of a racist Korean War Veteran Walt Kowalski who is sick of modern society, but makes a confronting and emotional discovery of the changing attitudes of humanity. The poem Mending Wall identifies that central to…

Max Weber’s ideas involving social class and the Protestant Work Ethic are a main message in Gran Torino. Weber explains the idea of social class being a complicated concept made up of power, prestige, and property. Power, meaning the ability to change people’s thinking to your own, or simply get your way. Prestige is a result of social status and property is what you own or economic situation. In my opinion Weber’s thinking is right, that the idea of social class is more complicated than Marx…

When you think of muscle cars what comes to your mind? In my mind Chevrolets, Plymouths, and Ford and Dodges of the late sixties and early seventies mostly come to mind. Many countries have made muscle cars and they have all failed to rival the American title as the muscle car capitol of the world. This is because America was obsessed with being a country of speed and in many ways till is that same way. Before companies cracked down on performance and safety regulations in the mid 70s companies…

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Simon Bolivar was a great liberator and excellent politician in Latin American. Under his wise leadership and advanced political thoughts, the Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Panama was liberated from the Spanish colonialism rule. He is ambitious a person wants to establish a liberal and democratic country where can bring the freely and equally right to people. Also, he thinks the global affairs require consultation and cooperation among all concerned parties, then he is dreaming…

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Simón Bolívar is one of the most famous marks in history. Marie Arana is the author of the book Bolivar American Liberator which is written about Simon Bolivar a rich man who was born in Venezuela. Though an orphan at a young age he was passed around family members who never cared about him but his wealth. Later, he fell in love and found what he really was meant to do. Arana does a great job telling Bolivar’s story with much research and unbiasedness. He was the liberator of much of the South…

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