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Jarrett Strickler Deborah Syrdal Hidden Figures 6 March 2018 Hidden Figures In the movie Hidden Figures, numerous acts of brutal racism and sexism are displayed throughout the film. During the movie Katherine and her two friends, Dorothy and Mary, overcome the struggles of working in a racist and sexist environment. Whether it be the male co-workers deeming the African American women incapable, or the other characters in the movie directly segregating the colored women in this film. Every…

Bookreport Half Moon Investigations Period 2 by Sam Liemburg A3C A. Key Facts: 1. The book is titled Half Moon Investigation 2. It's written by Eoin Colffer 3. Detective 4. Crime B. Characters: 5. The main character is a boy. He is called Fletcher Moon. He has brown hair, no facial hair and normal clothing. Below I have put a picture of a person that looks like him: young adult, brown hair, no facial hair and normal clothing. 6. The character isn´t very old. The only thing I know is that…

The industrial revolution in Great Britain The industrial revolution took place all around the world, from the 17th century to the late 19th. It changed the usual rural society into a modern and industrial one. The first country where the industrial revolution began was the Great Britain, as it has the legal conditions for this movement to take off. One of the most important reasons was the population rising. It doubled in less than one century. Even if it wasn’t the unique country with…

The philosopher Michel Foucault once described discourse as “Systems of thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, and courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak.” As masterfully presented by Foucault, discourse involves language and how individuals in certain communities, or “worlds” use language to communicate with each other. In part, language creates distinct discourse communities involving those who share similarities…

Identity and stereotyping to somehow very broad but very fundamental social fabric and anthropocentric concept. From both writers, identity is subjective but fundamental part of who we are as a human. No doubted about that for long period time humans’, from the very beginning civilization up to modern globalization world the two concepts had been raised in so many different perspectives and one of the controversial too. But one of the unique characters of both writer are chooses their thought in…

Orwell and Imperialism Abstract: I propose to conduct a research on Imperialism and it’s impact on both the colonized country and the colonizer. In order to a certain the economic, social and historical effects that it has on the nations involved in imperialism. I ultimately hope to find the seeds of imperialism under the mask of anti-imperialism through George Orwell writing “Shooting an elephant”. Imperialism is a policy, which was developed by the superiority and arrogance that could be…

production, and all of the variables that play along with farming, and the location, China was ultimately able to diffuse and maintain this Sinification throughout its region. • China is the only large nation to not be a heap and who has been politically united for centuries. Looking at the modern distribution of language (a large portion Mandarin), the Sino-Tibetan languages of the north overtook and spread into south China. Because of this, the diversity was unified much earlier than other…

In the film 'Mississippi Burning' directed by Alan Parker, there are many scenes that build up tension. One of which is the interrogation scene, where the FBI use a black man to threaten the mayor of Mississippi into giving evidence. It’s a scene where Parker uses lighting and sound techniques to build tension, making the watcher unsure of what happens next. The lighting techniques create a spooky atmosphere, whereas the sound techniques uses quietness, a different way to build up tension. This…

The term Whiteness is defined as a defined set of experiences or certain characteristics or personality traits that are attached to the white race and skin colour as a whole. In places with a majority or large amount of white people this term whiteness would just be a noun for the norm or native. This in comparison to other minority groups such as Black, Asian, and Hispanic would be considered the minorities. As talked about in many threads and books I have looked into online it seems that this…

Life is not fair anyone could be against you.During the book To Kill a Mockingbird they show how life really was back then during the depression. Not everyone was treated the same. Whether it was women or African Americans. They show social inequality and racism throughout the entire book. Some things today are the same as they were in the Depression era as shown in the book, but some things have come along and changed. In the book to Kill A Mockingbird they show racism toward all African…