La Haine

In 1808, Spain is taken over by Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon disposed of the existing monarchy and installed his brother, Joseph, as head of state. The resulting war against France and Britain lasted nearly to the Mexican Revolution as Napoleon’s government falls into disarray and the revolutionaries began to gain momentum. Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a middle aged priest living in the parish of Dolores. Hidalgo was a Crillo by birth, and had a pro-Indian sentiment. He organized his…

have never been written at all, on the basis of the author’s sex. Her experience with same-sex relationships, her feminist ideals, and her will for learning contribute to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s defiant nature, which shines through her writings. To start, the experience and support that Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz had with…

Drug cartels play a huge role because they threaten people in power by threatening to kill the individual or their family or to further their agenda. Likewise, “La mordida” does not only apply to police officers, but it applies to politicians, army officials, and individuals in power. Much of these bribes are from drug cartels. In Stephen Morris scholarly article, “Corruption, Drug Trafficking, and Violence…

to overcome these obstacles in these conditions and whilst everyone else either stays in the city or becomes part of the violence, Rocket is able to get out because he fights for what he wants to do which is be a photographer. On the other hand, La Haine takes a different approach. None of them really want to get out do they? They want to stay and fight. They really dont take another direction or look of the outcomes. Once Vinz wants to try to kill a police he tries to kill, but realizes he is…

In the novel the most cruel and heinous acts of racism was by the group ‘God Save America’. This group demonstrated several acts of blatant racism against the Arab community several times throughout the story. Their first act of racism and genocide was when they killed Yusef Arahmad an innocent Arab boy. As the police told Yusefs father “Yusef a ete tue devant le Silver Tower hier soir” (Policer officer, 205). This group killed several children and men without hesitation demonstrating how…

Journal 1: March 14, How the World Became Unequal: geohistory of colonialism Today in class we discussed what factors contribute to the formation of the Third World: illiteracy, poverty, and undernourishment. We then discussed why this came about; why is there so much uneven development? The key component to this problem is Neocolonialism: the idea that the freed nations from colonialism are politically independent, but they are economically dependent on their former mother countries. As a…

James Naremore writes about Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane as a “powerful example of film art” in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Wells opens the movie with a similar way that he ends it. The audience gets the view of a large fence, with a castle that looked “like the home of a sorcerer”, and on the fence, a “No Trespassing” sign. All awhile, there was eerie music playing in the background as the camera began to move over the fence and zoom towards the castle in the distance. This and the eerie music…

and rocks at cars going by. This was just a few hours after the “not guilty” verdict was reached in the Rodney King case and is the beginning of the 1992 LA riots. Governor Pete Wilson brought in the National Guard and the Los Angeles Mayor declared a State of a Emergency (Cole, 1999). Among the first murders of the LA riots were Matthew Haines, Dwight Taylor and Elbert. They were all killed by gunfire (Gerdes, 2014). Rodney King even weighed in and showed disapproval for the 5-day long…

In the movie Rize, an escalation of positive impact to a battle of two distinct styles of dancing, takes over the inner city of Los Angeles known as Watts. “Tommy the Clown” implements a company, and later a style known as “clowning.” that is taken up by adults and children of all ages, backgrounds, and physical statuses within the community. Based on an analysis of such a plot, the title “Rize” could be inferred to rhetorically describe the movement that this ‘clown’ began, “rising” from a solo…

Commercials often portray women as being submissive to men and objectify the female body (Kilbourne). In the film, La Haine, the lives of three men are followed over the course of a day. The men were portrayed as violent thugs that only caused trouble in their neighborhoods (Kassovitz, 1995). The media is a reflection of who we are and who we strive to be. This poses…