Paterson, New Jersey

In the opening of the scene the music very quiet and has slow tempo, this for the audience creates and establishes a very sombre and hopelessness feel to the scene. Throughout the rest of scene the music develops and begins to become louder as the tempo also increases, this establishes a much more different feeling when compared to the opening of the scene. It gives, us the audience a more hopeful perception of what is come for Rubin. It in the final moments of the scene, when the music is at its loudest and fastest, a voiceover of a boxing commentator say’s “In this corner, from Paterson, New Jersey, wearing the white trunks with black stripes, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter!” The words spoken by the boxing commentator are used by director as metaphor of what is to come from Rubin. The director compares Rubin entering the ring to him re-joining the fight for his freedom. Norman uses the voice over combined with music to level the audience feeling hopeful and optimistic as to what Rubin’s future…

boxing robe, is where the audience can fully appreciate what the director intended for this scene. We can that the gifted box was a symbol of hope that Rubin grasps on to and we understand that Rubin in his boxing robes facing the bars, signifies that Rubin is going to use his new found hope along with his fighting spirit and willpower to reinstate the battle for his freedom that was unjustly taken away from him. Throughout the parcel scene the use of voice-over and music is used by the director…

Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked…

“Lean On Me” is a very inspiring movie to watch just because of the way the producer John G. Avildsen put together the movie and based it on a true story. The story shows how you can take something that is negative and shaped it into something that is positive that can help others in the future. A conceited and unusual teacher returns as principal to the high school he had gotten fired from earlier to find it a place of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. The movie “Lean on Me” is a…

Stevan Jakovljevic Professor Avdeev Law 2010-05 Fall 2016 Case Brief Term Researched: Duty of Care Case Name: Howard D. Brunson (Plaintiff-Respondent) v. Affinity Federal Credit Union Legal Citation: 954 A.2d 550 (N.J. Super. App. Div. 2008) Date Decided: May 05, 2009 Legal History: Howard D. Brunson the plaintiff filed a four count complaint in the Supreme Court of New Jersey against Affinity Federal Credit Union and Wilcox for being liable to him for malicious prosecution (Count 1); That…

African-American spirituals are religious folksongs that developed from experiences of enslaved Africans in the American South during the colonial period. During that time, slaves were deprived of their freedom, language, families, as well as their connection to African culture. In fact, slaves owned by Christians were forbidden from practicing any religion, except Christianity (“African American Spirituals- Folk and Traditional Styles,” n.d., para 2). As Africanized Christianity became a part…

Technology, and media specifically, can distort what we see as reality. The news, television programs and articles make our society think outside their own values. The media can have a huge impact on our behaviors such as violence, sexual behavior and stereotypes. The impacts that the media has I feel are primarily negative. Yes, they can have a positive impact, but generally I feel it portrays the wrong idea, causing a very negative impact on those viewing. The media has a huge impact on our…

his take on how the loved ones would feel as they opened up these letters, “ Open the envelope quickly, O this is not our son’s handwriting, yet his name is sign’d, O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother’s soul! All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only, Sentences broken, gunshot wound in breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital, At present low, but will soon be better” (Shoptaw, 2010). I can see through this passage that he often…

student body of Seneca, have the ability to change your future by making some small changes right now. Carli Anne Lloyd was born on July 16, 1982, in Delran, New Jersey. After learning to play soccer at age 5, she developed her natural abilities by playing pickup games and practicing for hours on her own at her local field. Lloyd went on to star at Delran High School, where she was twice named the girls' High School Player of the Year. Remaining close to home playing for Rutgers University,…

felt as if she was part of more than just the "little dark room" in which she would spend her days in (Mansfield 257). Referring to the band as if listening to family, Miss Brill would listen to the band play every Sunday. Miss Brill visits the park so often she notices when the conductor wears a new coat. Miss Brill would "listen as if she wasn't to others conversations" (Mansfield 255). Miss Brill sense of eavesdropping helped her feel included and to "[sit] in other people's lives for just a…