Trevor Phillips

Based on the 1940 novel written by Raymond Chandler, Murder, My Sweet is a classic film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell (Philip Marlowe), Claire Trevor (Helen) and Anne Shirley (Ann Grayle). It was first screened on December 18, 1944 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Known for its remarkable faithfulness to the book source, Murder, My Sweet deals with blackmail, murderers, drugs and more, reflecting the corruption in society around that time. Murder, My Sweet sets a solid…

Are You Protecting Your Rights? “Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don’t like as well as those we do,” were words once said by Trevor Phillips. These words couldn’t be more true and relate more to the world today. It is so crazy to think that the U.S. has been fighting for civil rights for so many years and though it has come a long way they are still fighting for full equality. In the speech,”A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama, he talks about human…

they are less romanticized and are thus more dark and brutal. The last 5-6 years has seen a surfeit of such movies, many of them a must-watch, and prominent amongst them being: “127 Hours” (2010), “Life of Pi” (2012), “All Is Lost” (2013), “Captain Phillips” (2013), “Gravity” (2013), “The Martian” (2015)…

Super-diversity is utilised to refer to having a large number of migrants and people of different ethnicities in a society (Spoonley, 2014:2). However, despite this definition super-diversity is used in context to refer to religious and linguistic diversity as well. The term ‘Integration’ is known as “an evolving relationship between migrants and the host society” (Spencer, 2011:202). This term is less accepted in the UK, instead, they use ‘assimilation’ which is defined as “an expectation that…