...AIU Online University Abstract In this report we will be discussing an international movie that effectively communicates the cultural, values and norms of a society that is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst...
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...T***** AIU Online University Abstract In this report we will be discussing an international movie that effectively communicates the cultural, values and norms of a society that is different from your own culture. The movie chosen is the Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is based on a fictional book by John Boyne. Introduction Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity (Pinstonedu.com, n.d.). Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences (IMDb, n.d.). This movie really nails ethnocentrism on the head. By segregating the Jews in concentration camps with the fence that divides worlds of realism. On one side of the fence you have the privileged which are served the best wine, the best meals, a comfortable place to sleep, and life is good. On the other side of the fence, the worst in human brutality is obvious. They hardly have any food to eat; they have the worst...
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...house that looked so barren and empty. We thought we should liven it up. We rushed into our snow clothes like a kitten rushes to milk. After getting into our clothes we hopped what seemed to be 10 foot fence into the empty clearing. My first thought was that this was our kingdom and we were the kings, we could do whatever we wanted here. This untouched snow field was ours for the taking. My brother rushed a pile of snow into a large ball and I started a snow base. In my current state of building I hadn’t realized my brother was busy making snowballs and readying up for a brother against brother snowball fight. As constructing a base I feel a baseball sized ice shard. I quickly turned and saw my brother hiding behind the wall I built for my protection. I rapidly formed bumpy misshapen snow ammunition to retaliate. We start firing, and I end up getting smacked in the nose so hard blood gushed out like the amazon into the ocean. In the moment I pinch my nose and run for home. We get to the towering fence. My brother hopped on and climbed like a spider monkey. I latched on but my cold shivering hands could last on the giant frozen fence. I looked at my brother through the fence for help but there was no use, I knew this was my fight. I took a step back and look at this menacing fence. I cant tell where the top ends and the sky starts. I stand in quiet contemplation and think about my options. “could I dig under it? No the ground is too cold. How about around...
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...to the temperature, smells and sights of Thailand all at once. Sweat broke out on my brow, my nostrils crinkled, and my head spun around as if on a swivel to take it all in. I remember smelling a mixture of jet fuel, damp air, and grilled chicken. Several airport workers gathered around food vendors congregated outside of the open-air fence, smiling, talking, and enjoying a snack on their break. Big puffy clouds moved swiftly overhead, unlike anything I’ve ever seen in Houston. There were big jets everywhere. I looked up and there stood my mother and 5-year old little sister, waving at me. We gathered up our bags and piled into a taxi bound for Sukumvit Soi, an area in Bangkok, where our family waited for us to arrive. My mother being a Thai immigrant, we often visit her side of the family in Thailand, some of them located directly in the heart of Bangkok. I can remember Bangkok being alive, vibrant, and full of traffic. The sacred temples are found all over the city and one could spend a whole trip just taking in the structures and feel the serene calm of the temple grounds; many times I rode the packed city busses to these places as a boy. Movie theaters, shops, and the markets were always accessible by klong boat or bus, a favorite destination being Sanam Luang, where the weekend market was. One of my favorite things to do was to go there and browse, looking at the exotic animals and enjoying some fresh fruit, while trying foods you wouldn’t normally find in the states. “Sawadee-Kap”...
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...Essay on Essay Analysis on The Movie "The Terminator" For the purposes of this essay I have chosen The Terminator, a science fiction B-movie feature from 1984. Although I intend mainly to study this purely as a single film, I do intend to study Terminator 2 in addition, thus making the essay a study of the series. In addition, I will be contrasting the theory written surrounding these films in relation to other contemporary postmodern theory, and as a result will be mentioning several other films by way of a comparison or contrast. The Terminator seems quite remarkable to me, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is one of many action films I watched in my early teens; a considerable number of which, like this film, starred the Austrian body-builder turned actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. What is so different about The Terminator though, is that unlike most of these films, this movie has enough depth and substance that, not only does it still bear watching now that I am older, but it also has an archive of academic theory written about it. The Terminator tells of a cyborg, a human shaped machine coated in flesh, that is sent back in time, from an apocalyptic future in which machines have 'got smart' and acted on their own to destroy the human race. The cyborg's mission is to assassinate the mother of the human's great leader, the man who taught the survivors to fight back against the machines. The woman, a young waitress named Sarah Connor, is protected only by a lone warrior...
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...Darkness" by Joseph Conrad and the movie "Apocalypse Now" are about one man's journey through Africa and Vietnam. A comparison and contrast can be made between the two. Both have the same themes but entirely different settings. Heart of Darkness takes place on the Congo River in the Heart of Africa while Apocalypse Now is set in Vietnam. The stock characters in both have the same general personalities but have different names. Of course, Kurtz is Kurtz, Willard twins Marlow, and the American photojournalist relates to the Russian Harlequin. Willard is a lieutenant for the US Army while Marlow is a captain of a steamboat of an ivory company. The first looks of Willard and Marlow differ a little. The movie begins with Willard lying in an apartment room completely out of touch with reality. He is haunted by his earlier deeds and he is getting very plastered. Willard smashes the mirror while fighting himself and cuts his hand. He falls to the bed crying. Marlow is portrayed as a traveler of the sea. The narrator described him as a hero somewhat. Their mission is to find Kurtz and take him down.. In both stories Kurtz is a psychotic rebel, worshipped as a god, who threatens the stability of his unit, but in one it is an ivory trading company and in the other it is the US Army. Kurtz, who had begun his assignment a man of great optimism and the highest morals, had become peculiarly savage. Tribes of natives worship the man who lives in a hut surrounded by fence posts topped with human skulls...
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...Ieesh M. Irving TANTH 365/ Autumn 2014 Film Response Watching Rabbit Proof Fence was not only enlightening but also appalling to have seen. I never heard of the atrocities that the aborigines experienced at the hands of the British government prior to this movie. The British government took oppression to another level. This was the story of how Molly, her sister Daisy, and cousin Gracie were stolen from their family and their dangerous expedition of returning home to their family. It features Mr. A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, as the evil antagonist who believed that his mission was to protect the aborigines from themselves. This story told of some of the countless people that were part of “The Stolen Generation”, which are the children, which were labeled half-caste, that were taken from their Aborigine parent by the Australian government. This removal occurred between the early 1900’s up until the 1970’s. Not only did the Australian government The story begins in 1931 in west Australia. This is the time the Aborigines Act granted the government the authority to act as a legal guardian of every Aborigine in west Australia. This meant the government had control of who the Aborigines can meet or marry and where they work and lived. This gave Mr. Neville the power to remove half-caste children from their families. As a mother, I think that would be the cruelest thing you can do to a person; take their baby away from them. It would be easier to die rather...
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...coach position to Yoast, which he declines until the white players vow to boycott the team without him. Yoast reconsiders realizing the boys would lose the chance at scholarships and becomes the defense coordinator. During football camp racially motivated conflicts are handled by Boone with forceful coaxing and extreme athletic training. The boys develop racial tolerance and become a true team. Upon returning from camp, Boone is informed by a black school board member that he will be fired at the loss of a single game. The Titans slowly gain community support, while battling racial prejudice, having an undefeated season. Prior to state semi-finals, a white school board member approaches Yoast and implies he wants Boone fired because of his race, offering Hall of Fame induction if the team loses the game. Referee bias being more than apparent during the next game, Yoast confronts the head official threatening scandal exposure to the press unless the game is refereed fairly. The loss of candidacy induction for Yoast is the result of the teams win. During the towns’ victory celebration the team captain is paralyzed in a car accident. The Titans win state and return ten years later for his funeral. A conflict between interdependent parties requires the parties to be dependent upon each other. The actions whether good or bad affects all involved. This concept is expressed when in a scene between Gary and Juleus during a practice at football camp. Gary feels Juleus is not doing his part...
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...The Internationally recognised film Samson & Delilah by Warwick Thornton’s is the story of two Indigenous teenagers who live in a remote Indigenous community. Thornton himself was born in a small Aboriginal community outside of Alice Springs and has spent most of his life working in and around Alice Springs. It is no surprise then that the movie is set in a small rural Indigenous town on the outskirts of Alice Springs. The movie explores the well know inequality among different groups in Australia such as Indigenous Australians and enables white Australians to engage with Indigenous Australians way of life. Thornton explores this inequality through the characters Samson (Rowan McNamara) & Delilah (Marissa Gibson) by use of a simple narrative,...
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...Hidden Fences The story told in the movie Hidden Figures directed by Theodore Melfi is a story based on the untold story of the three courageous African-American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. First of all, pat yourself in the back if you got that reference! Anyway, The movie takes place during the Space Race (20-century competition between cold war rivals Soviet Union and and the United States for supremacy in spaceflight capability) These females who contributed to the Space race were known as Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. Throughout the movie, for some reason, Katherine Goble(later known as Johnson) received the most screentime. Born in White Sulphur Springs,...
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...can tell you, I’m the fastest thing on two feet. There is no track meet that I don’t win the first-place medal. I used to win the twenty-yard dash when I was a little kid in kindergarten. Nowadays, it’s the fifty-yard dash. And tomorrow I’m subject to run the quarter-meter relay all by myself and come in first, second, and third. The big kids call me Mercury cause I’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood. Everybody knows that—except two people who know better, my father and me. He can beat me to Amsterdam Avenue with me having a two-fire-hydrant headstart and him running with his hands in his pockets and whistling. But that’s private information. Cause can you imagine some thirty-five-year-old man stuffing himself into PAL shorts to race little kids? So as far as everyone’s concerned, I’m the fastest and...
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...They Come triggered the development of Jamaican cinema.’ The Harder They Come was the first movie made in Jamaica, directed by a Jamaican and with a Jamaican theme. The film opened the country’s eyes to the creation of film and the industry that surrounds it. It also gave the world (particularly the West) its first filmic taste of the cultural, social and historical issues of 20th century Jamaica. It was not only successful in the eyes of its audience but also in the eyes of film critics worldwide. Geoff Parker writes “Indisputably the greatest Jamaican film ever made, The Harder They Come is also one of the finest films yet made about the third world.” (2001). At first glance Perry Henzell appears to be using a narrative to document Jamaican roots Reggae music (especially that of Jimmy Cliff); but although The Harder They Come went a long way towards creating a huge global Reggae following the film had many other underlying issues. Even though most critics (Cham, Parker, Yearwood and others) discuss the film as the one that popularised Reggae music in the West it is the task here to illustrate that The Harder They Come brought Jamaican society and its culture into cinematic visibility. Cinema in Jamaica had only a western and predominantly Hollywood face until the release of The Harder They Come, but the meta-filmic self awareness of Henzell’s socially involved movie proved this was going to change. Jamaica as a country was in a relatively new social, political...
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...Imagine living in a world where the amount of rights one got was chosen and determined by their own skin color, and there was different schools, churches, and neighborhood depending on ones race. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee used different historical references and connections about the inequality between blacks and whites, and some of the struggles faced by both races. Included, are connections to the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and issues of racism during that era. In To Kill A Mockingbird, one of the first connections was the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws created inequality between the two races of whites and blacks. There were reasons why people thought the laws were needed. They thought that whites were superior to blacks...
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...its often elusive fulfillment? Indeed, the American Dream has come to represent the attainment of myriad of goals that are specific to each individual. While one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket fence her version of the American Dream, another might regard it as the financial ability to operate his own business. Clearly, there is no cut and dried definition of the American Dream as long as any two people hold a different meaning. What it does universally represent, however, it the opportunity for people to seek out their individual and collective desires under a political umbrella of democracy. In the fifties, the 'age of suburbia', the American Dream was epitomized by the ability to own a home, live in safety and in a community of like minded souls. The great exodus from the cities to the suburbs defined the American idea of the good life'. The American Dream was and always will be something that makes America great. It allows those with aspirations to make them come true. In America alone needs is a dream and the motivation to carry out that dream. Ambition is the driving force behind the American Dream. It allows any one that has an aspiration, a desire, a yearning, to carry out the individual dream. It knows no bounds of race, creed, gender or religion. It stands for something great, something that every one can strive towards. A dream can be a desire for something great. In America, the American Dream allows dreams to become realities. According...
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...its often elusive fulfillment? Indeed, the American Dream has come to represent the attainment of myriad of goals that are specific to each individual. While one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket fence her version of the American Dream, another might regard it as the financial ability to operate his own business. Clearly, there is no cut and dried definition of the American Dream as long as any two people hold a different meaning. What it does universally represent, however, it the opportunity for people to seek out their individual and collective desires under a political umbrella of democracy. In the fifties, the 'age of suburbia', the American Dream was epitomized by the ability to own a home, live in safety and in a community of like minded souls. The great exodus from the cities to the suburbs defined the American idea of the good life'. The American Dream was and always will be something that makes America great. It allows those with aspirations to make them come true. In America alone needs is a dream and the motivation to carry out that dream. Ambition is the driving force behind the American Dream. It allows any one that has an aspiration, a desire, a yearning, to carry out the individual dream. It knows no bounds of race, creed, gender or religion. It stands for something great, something that every one can strive towards. A dream can be a desire for something great. In America, the American Dream allows dreams to become realities. According...
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