...Crash is a movie that debut in 2004. This controversial movie displayed racism, ethnic relations, differences in social class and much more in Los Angeles, California on the west coast of North America. The movie showed the connection of people’s lives over a 36 hour time span. The 36 hour time span illustrates tense actions throughout the city and in each character’s life. The movie was approximately an hour and a half and displayed everything and more within that time. It interlocks the life of the white, the blacks, the Asian, the Spanish, the Persian, the rich, the poor and even the cops and criminals. Everyone is both a victim and guilty of racism. People’s impulses have been an issue within this movie. A negative impulse have been instinctive and their positive one could be and have been dangerous. This movie shows that everyone feels prejudice against other cultures, groups or races and somewhat resents them for it. The actions and feelings displayed and touched on throughout the movie are simply just the consequences. The first demonstration displayed in the film of racism or an act of racism came when a wife of an attorney, played by Sandra Bullock assumed that the two men walking towards her were to going to rob her. Though that became the case, she made an assumption based on color or ethnic background. I don’t believe that she should have based on the area that they were all in and the restaurant that they came out of. This displayed subjective reality. Subjective...
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...Emily English 1301, Assignment #3 October 25th, 2015 Crash Essay E.B. White once said, “Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” This nation has become a melting pot of people from different cultures, races, religions, backgrounds, classes, and beliefs. Prejudice is born from personal experience and from generalizations and beliefs about a particular group of people. In the movie Crash, the director does an incredible job illustrating prejudice in today’s world by showing examples in our everyday society, how our personal lives can often influence how we interact, and how sometimes our preconceived ideas can be shattered by chance encounters. Society is full of prejudice, people are judged on the basis of their race, class, sex, or religion. The movie Crash depicts the various aspects of prejudice by showing the causes and effects it has on different people and how they interact with each other. For example, in the beginning of the movie a wealthy white couple, Rick and Jean, is walking down the street and Jean moves closer to her husband when she sees two black men, Anthony and Peter, walking towards them. They notice the woman’s reaction, then they rob the couple at gunpoint and steal their car. Then, after Rick and Jean get home they have their locks changed, Jean gets really upset when she sees the locksmith is Hispanic and wants to have the locks changed again because she thought the Hispanic man was going to sell...
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...Movie Analysis John J. Sullivan Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on, September 19, 2014, for Heidi Croatt’s G141/COM1002 Section 01 Introduction to Communication - 2014 Summer Quarter. John Sullivan [Final Draft] September 19, 2014 The movie CRASH covers thirty-six hours of encounters between people of different races. Within that thirty six-hour period, interactions between strangers turn into heated racial arguments, full of hatred, fear, compassion and understanding. The movie portrays interactions between people of different races and some of the same race, causing tension and racial slurs. The movie illustrates that whenever race is an issue conflict in communication is inevitable. Communication through facial expressions/gestures is the only form that does not seem to have a racial barrier. Communication is an important factor in everyday life. However, in the movie, crash communication between the individuals created misunderstanding aggravated by racial differences. This is displayed right away in the first seen where two cars crash. Ria, a Puerto Rican detective who was driving her car, was rear-ended by an Asian woman. The following argument ensued, (Haggis, 2004) Motorcycle Cop: Calm down, ma'am. Kim Lee: I am calm. Motorcycle Cop: I need to see your registration and insurance. Kim Lee: Why? Not my fault! It's her fault! She do this! Ria: [approaching] My fault? Motorcycle Cop: Ma'am, you really need to wait in your...
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...Abstract The movie “Crash” was voted the best movie of 2005 for good reason, it deals with subjects that others were probably afraid to tackle. As the name implies it starts with a car crash, but in doing so reveals only one of the metaphors used in the movie. Other metaphors used in the movie allow us to view the culture shock that many people see on a daily basis, especially when dealing with different ethnicities, religions and races. Los Angeles is shown in its true colors where people live in a fast paced city where more than the cars move at a faster pace. These characters speed through their lives without notice of other people around them. It is as if some of them have blinders on that only allow them to see what they want to see. Until they “crash” into one each other. Crash is the kind of movie that makes you think twice about your actions, asking yourself tough questions, not just of yourself, but of those that are around you; could I have said that differently? Was I acting racist? Do I discriminate against those I do not understand? This is the sort of movie that has us looking deep into ourselves to do some much needed soul-searching. Crash, Boom, Bang Paul Haggis directed “Crash” with an idea that it not only exposes multi-social, but multicultural differences in order to give us a small window into a few of the interactions and how these interactions, good or bad, affect behaviors and lives, in a relatively small group of individuals. We are...
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...Jerry Spinelli’s book Crash, Crash changes a great deal in a long period of time in unexpected ways. When Crash was a child he was extremely aggressive and judgmental. Crash is like this when:“ ‘I don’t play with guns’ [said Penn] I didn't take it [...] and shot him right between the eyes” (Spinelli 13). It proves that he's very hostile and he doesn’t respect Penn’s “not playing with guns” belief, so it shows he doesn't respect others opinions. Since Crash beat him in water guns he will want to keep beating him, making Penn the victim of Crash’s pranks and later, bullying. Eventually, Crash becomes more egocentric and brutish than ever. After Jane rejects Crash in favor of Penn at a dance, Crash “took a quick half step [...] and rammed into...
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...Written and directed by Paul Haggis, the 2005 film Crash displays a 36-hour period where multiple people’s lives tie together in Los Angeles, California. The main topic of this film is race relations. With the film being centered around such a heavy topic, it didn’t receive much media promotion. As time passed, Crash became a commercial success grossing 55 million dollars on a six and a half million-dollar budget. The film begins with Graham and Ria, two LAPD detectives, being involved in a car accident. Once that scene concludes, the film goes into past tense and introduces more characters that will have their own encounters battling with race relations. Crash makes the viewer think: Are race relations this bad? If they are, how am I perceived? Is this how others of different races are treated regularly? In one of the earlier scenes of the film, Anthony and Peter, argue over...
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...SCHEDULE CRASHING This project consisted in the implementation of software based on the needs of the recruiting force. The project was scheduled to be completed in two years, but due to a schedule crashing the project needs to completed nine months earlier. The estimated cost of the project was $278,000. The goal of this schedule crashing is to finish the project nine months earlier, but at the same time, we want to stay within the parameters in order to save money in resources. We will move personnel from a different area to train them in order for them to provide the required training on the implementation. At the end of the project due to the crashing schedule, we will like to provide the same training that it was scheduled at the beginning of the project. In addition, we would like to evaluate the knowledge of the recruiting station within the time scope. At the same time, we do not want to neglect the end state of the project. The following constraints will be taking into consideration: first, the budget available for the project. Second, time allowed for training new trainers. Third, having issues with connectivity and fourth, be able to finish the project within the time allowed by the schedule crashing. The new estimated budget due to the schedule crashing is $320,500 which is an increase of $42,500. As the project manager, I will have to make sure that I stay within the budget, but also be able to provide the training require in order for the system to...
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...Ryan Peace Prof. Young Macro Econ Film Analysis on “Crash of 1929” Discuss 3 economic theories raised during the film. Economic Growth – positive. Spirits were high during the roaring 20s. New inventions and mass marketing encouraged people to spend and spend. Mass production made new technology affordable to middle class. New construction and automobiles were major factors causing the economic growth of the period. Price Level Stability – positive. The prices of stocks were easily manipulated by groups pooling together their money, or in some cases by just one man who managed a great amount of money and could single handedly drive the price of a stock up. Wealth without work – positive. People were paying just 10% of the price of a stock and borrowing the rest. If the stock went up like it had been during the earlier part of the decade they were able to pay their debt off with the increase, if it decreased however, they now owed the original 90% they borrowed, plus interest. And the original 10% was not worth anywhere near what they had first borrowed. What public policies did the government utilize during the 1920s that could have influenced the crash of 1929? Consumer credit. People were allowed to buy on margin. This was not such a terrible thing with tangible products, like appliances, but it was a disaster with the stock market. The value of a refrigerator is not going to decrease in an instant the way a stock could. Supply-side economics, the...
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...THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE STOCK MARKET CRASH An Introduction The stock market crash The stock market was created on 1792 to allow stocks and bonds to be traded “bought and sold”. A “stock market crash” is the steep fall of the prices of stocks due to widespread financial panic. America experienced an era of great peace and prosperity during the 1920s. After World War I, the so-called “Roaring Twenties” economic and cultural boom was fueled by industrialization and the popularization of new technologies such as radio and the automobile. Air flight was becoming common as well. The Dow stock average soared throughout the Roaring Twenties and many investors aggressively purchased shares, comforted by the fact that stocks were thought to be extremely safe by most economists due to the country’s powerful economic boom. Investors soon purchased stocks on margin, which is the borrowing of stock for the purpose of gaining financial leverage. For every dollar invested, a margin user would borrow nine dollars worth of stock. The use of leverage meant that if a stock went up 1%, the investor would make 10%. Unfortunately, leverage also works the other way around and amplifies even minor losses. In 1929, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates several times in an attempt to cool the overheated economy and stock market. On Thursday, October 24th 1929, a spate of panic selling occurred as investors began to realize that the stock boom was...
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...In this essay I will be discussing what affect ‘The Wall Street Crash’. There was many reasons for the crash and the crash had effect on all the people in America. I will be discussing the way the depression effected people. One reason why there was a depression was because wealth was not shared out fairly in the USA. Sixty per cent of American families were living below the poverty line. As a result many Americans could not afford to buy the products like vacuum cleaners and cars. By 1928 American factories were over producing. They could not sell their goods abroad because tariffs were high on American products. Factories had a cut production off by laying off workers. As result unemployment grew. Another reason for the depression was because farmers were experiencing serious problems. In the 1920’s farmers were producing too much food and it was going to waste. As a result food prices fell. Farmer’s incomes fell so they borrowed money from the banks. They also tried to produce more food which meant prices fell even lower. As a result farmers were unable to pay back the money they borrowed from the banks. The banks ended their mortgages and took their houses and their forms. Thirdly speculation and the Wall Street Crash caused depression. Millions of people had borrowed money to buy shares hoping to have better lives and become wealthy. People who had brought shares lost a lot of money. They could not repay the money they had borrowed from the banks. Hundreds of banks...
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...The Stock Market Crash of 1929 After World War 1, the 1920’s was the time of great prosperity in the United States. Due to the new technology the economy benefited greatly. In the years leading up to the stock market crash of 1929, the stock market had gained much popularity as a way of making money. Since stocks prices had been on the rise, they gained the reputation of being a safe way to invest. For instance, from 1921-1929, the Dow Jones went from 60 to 400. Investors were becoming millionaires in an instant due to the increase in the stock market. Some investors were borrowing a lot of money from banks. Many other investors made a big mistake, mortgaged their homes and invested their life savings in stocks. After the stock market quadrupled in value, the bubble burst and stock started to go down. The depression originated in the United States, initiating with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday and the red October). It quickly spread to almost every country in the world. What happen is that investment companies were deeply in debt with banks, they sold large amounts of their stock holdings in order to raise cash. Most of them went bankrupt, worsening the banks situation, which led the banks to bankrupt as well. The banks froze credit to companies, and then withdrew their investments from Europe, especially from Germany. The crisis started with the stock market, spread to the banks and then to production. According to economist...
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...THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE WALL STREET CRASH AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION The economic boom of the 1920’s came to a sudden end in October 29, 1929. In June 1929 prices of stocks and shares had reached new highs. The Stock Market seemed to be a quick and easy way to get rich. The Stock Market is the place where stocks are traded. More and more people wanted to ‘play the market’ (Buy and sell stocks). [pic] The Wall Street stock market (located in New York City) was not regulated .Anybody could buy shares and they could be bought ‘on the margin’-This is when the stock broker and the stock holder merge their money to buy stocks, for example, people could buy $1000 worth of stocks for only $100 and borrowed the rest from stockbroker. Buying on the margin became a common practice. People waited for the share prices to go up again and then resold their shares for a profit. It was usually easy to pay back the loan and still make money. The day of the crash: By the summer of 1929 there were 20 million shareholders in America and prices continued to rise. But in October 1929, things began to change. Some people realized that share prices had risen too high and wanted to sell before they fell. THE CAUSES OF THE WALL STREET CRASH 1. OVERPRODUCUCTION- New mass-production methods and mechanization Meant that production of consumer goods had expanded enormously. In fact, there was overproduction (more being made than could be consumed).The market was becoming...
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...Zachary Shelsby List and describe the causes of the stock market crash of 1929. Was the crash inevitable? Explain using examples from the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. It was the time of the Roaring Twenties; where in the wake of the War jazz music was becoming prominent, Art Deco became popular, and cultural dynamism was emphasized. The twenties also led the United States into unprecedented industrial growth, inventions and discoveries of major importance, as well as significant changes in US lifestyle and culture. Though must prosperity was achieved during the Roaring Twenties, much despair would follow by the end of them. The 1920’s saw an increase in consumer spending as well as a large increase in economic growth. The 1920’s was also an era dominated by Republicans. The Republicans took a rather conservative approach to the economy. They forged tight and close relationships between government and big business. President Warren Harding took the White House in 1921, when the United States economy was seeing the time of a depression. Runaway inflation and a high unemployment rate swept the nation. At the time of World War I the United States economy enjoyed prosperity because of the agricultural industry. With the increase of demand came the increase of prices. With the increase of prices came the increase of output used to supply Europe. With the conclusion of the War the American agricultural industry had a massive surplus of farm goods that by...
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...The first crash that stock in U.S has spent was the time in the the Great Depression. The United State economy entered the Great Depression in 1929, many industries have collapsed. But at the first, stock had continued to rise and reached to the highest number of share ever. When consumer confidence disappeared in the wake of the collapse of the stock market, the decline in investment spending and factory leaders and other businesses to slow production, construction and start firing their employees. For those who were lucky to still work, salary reduction and reduced purchasing power. Many Americans are forced to buy on credit falling into debt, and the number of foreclosures and repossessions rising continuously. Adherence to the gold standard, joining countries around the world in a fixed currency exchange, help spread the crisis from the United States throughout the world, especially in Europe. The second time was in 1987. In the crash of 1987, this...
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...In 1929 the Wall Street crash ended the economical boom and marked the start of the depression. The Wall Street crash was when share values fell dramatically this happened due to a number of reasons and in this essay I shall try and explore the main reasons for this. Overproduction was one of the main reasons for the Wall Street crash. During the boom businesses were overproducing which meant that they were making more than they were selling. This was because also due to the new way of manufacturing. Production lines were most commonly used which meant that they factories could make more product in a shorter amount of time and during the boom this was a good thing as the demand for products was great but as early as 1926 the demand for goods was decreasing but business kept producing as they had been as they thought that the demand would rise again but it didn’t as many people that could afford the goods had bought them earlier on and they didn’t need any more. Not everyone had benefitted from the boom and the groups that were poor could not afford the luxuries. Even farmers had been overproducing which meant that even food prices went down and so even farmer couldn’t make a profit. A drop in sales and product values meant that businesses had to fire many workers and many farmers lost their which mean that many people had less money to spend. After the First World War America introduced the idea of isolationism which meant that America had little to do with foreign policies...
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