Gregg v. Georgia

Transitions to a New World Cherokee ceremonial and burial rites are held very sacred and with highest of respects. The Cherokee Indians who are descendants of their sister tribe the Iroquois, lived in the southeastern parts of the United States until forced off their land and onto reservations during the mid-1800s. The Cherokees were forced to sacrifice many of their customs and rites, by the White European settlers which considered it Paganistic according to their Christian religion. Surviving…

Thousands of Indians died fighting for their belief in the tribal entity and divine cultures. The exodus of Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma, which resulted not only in the uprooting of their nation but the death of eight of every ten emigrants. It is as cruel as inhumane to compel the aborigines to abandon their ancestor’s graves and seek a new shelter from the other side…

The color purple isn’t a life that I have personally lived or seen others around me live but it is a life that can be experienced by others around the globe. The connection doesn’t need to start from one being sexually abused by the father but it can be a woman finding out who she really is after the worst has happened to her. A connection to the color purple can be one that comes from the movies. In Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family reunion Lisa Breaux, one of Madea's nieces, is engaged to an…

For centuries people have argued and questioned was the U.S (whether the U.S. was) justified in its treatment of the American Indians. From the information and the documents, I have read and informed I believe this statement is false. There were men and women such as John Ross, and Jane Gay who wanted to improve the Indians lifestyle and housing. Also, an Indian named Tecumseh that wanted people to fight against the Americans and believe they were not treating them well. John G. Burnett wrote…

The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker in 1982. The principal character and narrator of the story, Celie is a fourteen year old girl who encounters emotional, psychological and physical torment on account of the men throughout her life. She is impregnated twice by her step father Alphonso and sold to a chauvinistic man named Mister, who regularly beats and sexually assaults her. Henceforth, Alice Walker expands upon a focal topic of the novel i.e. the state of women and their normative…

Early America-Injustices faced by Native American's It is no long lost secret that the early American's had seized the land from those who had settled here first. The Trail of Tears, the Indian Removal Act, and many more incidents had gone underway demoting the place of the Native American's in society. As a result, the Native American ethnicity has become a minority. Many estimate as much as 30% of the Native American population had been shaved down by the diseases brought by the Trail of…

Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1970. 487 Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” is a story about different groups of Native Americans’ struggles against the invading United States government. Multiple battles occur where the Native Americans attempt to defend themselves against the government. Some are successful others are not. Many Indian civilizations are taken over by the government to allow for expansion. Many treaties are…

Individuals may encounter countless scenes, outrageous ideas, and most importantly a perfected conclusion. Nevertheless, when it comes to the motion picture “Requiem for a dream”, words and words may fill these pages, however nothing can truly clarify the depth of intensity and meaning towards such a realization. Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer; born in Brooklyn, New York in the 1960’s and being brought up in a conservative Jewish family surely…

Citizen Kane is undoubtedly one the world's most famous and highly-rated film. Its use of cinematic techniques, narrative techniques and experimental innovations in the areas of photography, editing, and sound brings the narrative to life and entices our engagement throughout the motion picture. Citizen Kane’s director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles. Throughout this essay, I will look at such cinematic techniques used in the sequence “Young Charles…

Quentin Tarantino’s work of director as a DJ Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino’s first film as a director and it became really huge. The film was made partly by reappropriating Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire, but it was better than City on Fire and became a classical one. While Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire was a typical Hong Kong feature film which included gangster loyalty, cops’ infighting and beauties, Reservoir Dogs was more like an artwork, a masterpiece. It jumped out of the threadbare…