...He chose to pursue Ybon, who was dating el Capitan, the head of the Santo Domingo police force. Oscar loved Ybon and she was interested in Oscar too; this was dangerous because he didn’t know that there could be serious consequences for him messing with someone like el Capitan. Oscar because he messed with el Capitan by messing around with Ybon, “ They walked into the cane and then turned him around. He tried to stand bravely” (Diaz 321). At the canefield they beat him until he is beaten until he is is barely living. That's when his family forced him to leave the Dominican Republic because they are scared that he is gonna turn out dead if he decided to stay. They also how that they won't stop until he's is dead. Oscar leaves but later tu turns because he is in love with Ybon. Ybon is scared because she knows what the people in power are capable of. Oscar later gets caught and end up dead just like they always do they killed him in the canefields. But unlike the first time,”Oscar didn’t cry when they drove him back to the canefields” (Diaz 320). Oscar this time knew what he had coming, and he knew what the people would do to him. Oscar knew the consequence...
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...for African American women to choose from due to incarceration and unemployment. While the community as a whole is showing improvement in areas such as social status, education, decrease in poverty, and health, the rise can mainly be attributed to the African American woman. With the increased success of African American women at a rate higher than that of the African American man, women have started considering dating other races. The Family Dynamic of an African American Woman Interracial marriage is not entirely accepted amongst today’s society. Within the African American community, there remains a lot of resistance. The common scenario in the past has been African American male/Caucasian woman; nevertheless, we are starting to see a rise amongst, African American woman/Caucasian man. Consequently the expectations set by the African American family are set higher for an African American women to date and marry within her own race. Due to those expectations the African American woman places, a great deal of consideration when choosing whether or not she will date outside of her race. At the same time, there are many external and internal forces at work threating the African American community: low expectations set by adults within and outside the family; too few positive role models; incessant images of violence; excessive greed and materialism; and too few basic supports like good education and health care (Edelman, 2007). For this reason, the African American,...
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...Not So Wondrous: The effects of a brutal dictatorial regime illustrated by Junot Diaz The brutality of the Trujillo Regime lasted for thirty years. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was named the ruler of the Dominican Republic in 1930, and continued his tyranny until his assassination in 1961. El Jefe, as he was often referred to, (meaning “the boss”) was originally an army general, and took power as a dictator following the rule and overthrow of Horacio Vasquez. Under Trujillo’s rule, the intense violence in the country became overwhelming. Though he officially stepped down as president almost ten years before his assassination, he continued his command as an unelected military dictator (“History of the Dominican Republic”). Trujillo, in true dictator form, preformed horrible acts of violence. In the 1930’s, he developed a term of racial discrimination against dark-skinned Haitians called “Antihaitianismo,” and in 1937, he was responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Haitian cane-workers. He also abused his position by taking unfair advantage over Dominican citizens. “El Jefe” had the right to any woman of his choice, regardless of their age or marital status. These women were taken without consent, abused, and raped. In order to keep his people under control, Trujillo had a way of taking care of anyone who opposed these horrible acts. Torture and murder of all who opposed was very common, and always kept quiet. One of the only truly publicized cases...
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...During a time when blacks were considered less than equals to whites, Jack Johnson refused to be oppressed by racist America. He was both unafraid and uncompromising. He went wherever he chose, did whatever he wanted, and controversially had sexual relations with whichever race of women he wanted. As a boxer, Johnson went from being an unknown to the first African American heavyweight champion of the world. With little regard for his safety, he destroyed white fighters when blacks were expected to submit to whites. Johnson saw himself as an equal amongst whites; therefore he paid little attention to the chaos he caused throughout his professional career. Jack Johnson was born on March 31, 1878 in Galveston, Texas. He was one of seven children born to former slaves. Although he only had five years of schooling, he had big dreams of being famous. Growing up in Texas, he realized there was very little opportunity. Some of his earlier jobs included sweeping floors in a barber shop, carrying bags at a hotel, and loading bales of cotton on the waterfront. While working these dead-end jobs, Johnson continuously searched for a way out. It is unclear of just how he got into boxing, because he told various stories concerning this issue. His stories included everything from beating up the neighborhood bully to winning battle royals. Battle royals consisted of six to ten boys fighting blind-folded until the last man was standing. This was done is the presence of drunk white...
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...get involved with the sports life of the child. Involved fathering is a father who actively takes a hand on role with the family, doing more than providing economically. In the movie Crash (2004) Daniel Ruiz’s (Michael Peña), character is a Mexican American who is a locksmith, who faces discrimination because he looks like a “Mexican gangster.” He is actually a devoted single father who takes care of his young daughter; Lara, who seeks for a safe environment for his daughter because of a bullet through her window in their previous home. When he found a safer neighborhood he enrolled her in private school so she would get an excellent education. She has to stay home by her self while she sleeps, so he made up a wonderful story about a “cloak”. He said that it would protect her from being harmed just like it protected him all these years. This demonstrates involved fathering because he is there for his child taking the responsibility and interacting with the child. Not only does he provide for her economically he provides his love mentally by giving her the cloak. It represents that he has direct contact with her by giving her all the care she needs even when he is not their....
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...CHAPTER2 "ANONG SUSHI BOY?!" what kind of question is that? Siya si Sushi diba? "Ms. Dizon, Mr. delos Reyes, please tone down your voice!" "MSN!! Ikaw yun diba? Ang weird.. hinde ka naman mukhang sushi, hinde ka rin naman amoy sushi.. pero bakit yun yung screen name mo?" natawa lang siya "Bakit ikaw? Hinde ka naman mukhang PRINCESS, pero bakit Pricess Athena screen name mo?" he's not nice. ¬_¬ "Paki alam mo ba?!" "Paki alam mo rin rin ba?" Napaka yabang niya! Akala mo ang gwapo gwapo niya!! EXCUSE ME! Poser siya!! feeling cool. Hmph! >_ Tumingin ako kay Sara, nakita ko siya kinakausap niya yung seatmates niya. Bakit parang wala siya problema, ang saya saya niya pa oh! Hinde katulad ko. stuck up sa taong to! Paglingon ko sa kanya naka rest yung ulo niya sa arm chair, tapos naka pikit. Tinitigan ko siya ng mabuti. Hmm.. matangos ilong niya, maganda lips, para siyang bata pag tulog. Wag na nga lang sana siyang gumising! Natapos ang dalawang subjects namin ng tulog si Kenji. Grabe, ibang klase talaga siyang student noh? Napaka active. "Athena! May papakilala ko sayo!" paglingon ko kay Sara, may kasama siyang dalawang lalaki. "Athena, meet Jigs and Kirby." Tinuro niya yung nasa left niya, si Jigs yun. yung nasa right naman si Kirby. "Guys, si Athena, bestfriend ko." "Hi! Nice meeting you." Tapos nag smile ako. infairness, gwapo sila pareho. "Hi Athena!!" sabi ni Jigs habang winiwave niya yung kamay niya at nakasmile...
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...Cartagena, Colombia. At the age of three, her mother who was in the prostitution industry decided to move to Medellin, Colombia. Where she was abused by her mother, she decided to leave her side and live in the street. She became a criminal when she was only 11 years old. Blanco decided to kidnap a 10 year old boy from a very wealthy...
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...With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922,[citation needed] after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923.[2] He ended up discarding most of it as a false start, some of which resurfaced in the story "Absolution".[3] Unlike his previous works, Fitzgerald intended to edit and reshape Gatsby thoroughly, believing that it held the potential to launch him toward literary acclaim. He told his editor Maxwell Perkins that the novel was a "consciously artistic achievement" and a "purely creative work — not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere and yet radiant world". He added later, during editing, that he felt "an enormous power in me now, more than I've ever had".[4] Oheka Castle on the Gold Coast of Long Island was a partial inspiration for Gatsby's estate.[5] After the birth of their child, the Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck, Long Island in October 1922, a setting used as the scene for The Great Gatsby.[6] Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck included such prominent and newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields and comedian Ed Wynn.[3] These figures were all considered to be 'new money', unlike those who came from Manhasset Neck or Cow Neck Peninsula, places which were home to many of New York's wealthiest established families, and which sat across a bay from Great Neck...
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...Introduction In society today, there are many different ways people view, and treat each other. For the most part there are a number of influences that have major effects on why people treat others the way they do. This is where sociological study comes into play. It analyzes the actions of one towards another and tries to determine the reasoning behind it. The goal of the research we conducted is to learn about sociological concepts and relate them to fictional and possible real-life situations. We decided to analyze the film, Lucky Number Slevin to determine how class and power, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexual orientation are displayed in a Hollywood movie. The main goal for the paper is to be able to get a better understanding of the main concepts of sociology, and how they can easily be related to a major Hollywood picture. The film is set in New York City where there are two major crime bosses that rule the criminal world. These two men are The Boss, and The Rabbi. They are former partners that had a massive falling out 20 years prior that caused them to go into seclusion for their safety from one another. Slevin seems to be a man that is in the wrong place at the wrong time, ending up doing dirty work for The Boss and repaying another man’s debt to the Rabbi. In the end Slevin was working with Mr. Goodkat to overthrow the two crime bosses and get revenge for his father’s death. By looking at Lucky Number Slevin, we analyze each concept separately...
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...Mathers III on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He never knew his father, Marshall Mathers Jr., who abandoned the family when Eminem was still an infant and rebuffed all of his son's many attempts to contact him during his childhood. As a result, Eminem was raised by his mother, Deborah Mathers. She never managed to hold down a job for more than several months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects. "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. "That was probably the roughest part about it all." This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered. Eminem has been scathingly critical of the way his mother raised him. Through his song lyrics, he has publicly accused her of being addicted to prescription drugs as well as subjecting him to emotional and physical abuse. However, Deborah Mathers has vehemently denied all such accusations, and in 1999 she filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against her son. They settled the case for $25,000. Eminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. Despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity...
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...The Perfect Female Body: Long before beauty pageants, Barbie dolls, and extra-ordinarily beautiful girls, came about the idea of the female body. Whether you are a believer of creationalism, scientology, or evolutionism, somehow we all came about with the perception of the “perfect” female. Women have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and usually the disobedient one. Dating back to B.C and the story of Adam and Eve, Eve was the naked one who bit into the fruit that god told her was forbidden. Why couldn’t it have been Adam that caused such scandal, and was the cause for destruction, and crime in the world, and not Eve? From the believed beginning of time, to present day, women have really only progressed a small amount up the social ladder. Today, women are looked down upon, if they are slightly more over weight then what is considered “normal,” if they are “underweight”, “darker skin color”, too “pale”, “flat chested”, big boned, “thick,” or because of their ethnicities and backgrounds. So what exactly defines the “perfect female?” Is it the girls featured on “Girls Gone Wild” in Cancun, or the half naked models posing for Victoria’s Secret? Or is it the perfectly put together “Miss America” pageant queens? Or is it the Hollywood actresses with billion dollar dresses, and priceless jewelry? Or the well toned, well defined professional team cheerleaders, and dancers we watch? WE, speaking for us “average” women, who often tend to idolize, and carry pieces...
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...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/ http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/dvdsite/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dark_knight/ 1. With reference to the opening sequence of one narrative you have studied this year, explain how the opening sequence of the narrative starts the chain of cause and effect and establishes characters. 2. Explain how Harvey Dent is established as a character at the beginning of the film. 3. Explain how the character of Bruce Wayne, and his relationship with both Rachel and Harvey Dents, is developed further using a combination of production elements (00:18:34-00:20:46) 4. Explain how The Joker is developed as a character using a combination of production elements when he meets the mob bosses (00:20:47-00:25:05). How does Nolan use stereotypical characterisation throughout this scene? 5. Explain how Nolan uses the structuring of time to compress Bruce Wayne’s journey to Hong Kong (00:27:27-00:28:23) 6. Explain how The Joker is developed as a character when he kills Gambol. How does Nolan engage the audience in this scene? (00:28:23-00:30:24) 7. Explain how Nolan uses the structuring of time when Dent tries the mob bosses and their associates (00:37:56-00:38:56). 8. Explain how Nolan uses a combination of acting, mise-en-scene, camera movement and music to develop the character of The Joker in the video of him tormenting the Batman impersonator (00:40:43- 00:41:46) 9. Explain how multiple...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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...She's Dating The Gangster Color coding † Athena Dizon (17) † Kenji delos Reyes (18-19) † Lucas Lazaro (18) † Athena Abigail Tizon (18) † Sara Jung (17) † Jigs Bala (18-19) † Kirby Araneta (18-19) † Grace Matic (18-19) † Nathan Dizon (20) † Carlo Paez (15) † Athena's parents † Kenji's family † others Prologue love is happiness... love is smiling when you hear that person's voice... love is the butterflies in your tummy no matter how many times you see that person... love is when you look at them and smile for no reason... love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly... love is painful.. love is hard... love is sacrifice.. love is sadness.. “Can I live without the happiness? Can I live with that sadness? I don't know...I don't know anything anymore” I remembered that once I fell in love with a Gangster. I don't know how and when it happened. But I do remember saying that "I have fallen for this one of a kind stupid gangster. Oh wait, let me correct that. I LOVED this stupid gangster.. I gave him happiness while he gave me suicide in return. I know, It sucks. But I never regretted loving him in the first place, well… maybe I did." I also remembered loving everything about him ncluding his flaws.. Friends told me that we met in a very spontaneous way.. And then everything happened so fast.. But... Who's this gangster?? I know two gangsters but.. Which one am I dating? Chapter ONE You wanna know...
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...Chapter 21: The Roaring Life of the 1920s Section 1: Changing Ways of Life I. Rural and Urban Differences A. Between 1922 and 1929, migration to the cities accelerated, with nearly 2 million people leaving farms and towns each year (small town values change) 1. City dwellers judged one another by their accomplishments more often than their background a. City dwellers tolerated drinking, gambling, and casual dating (shocking and sinful in small towns) 2. Cities could be impersonal and frightening b. Life was fast paced and neighbors were not as neighborly B. Prohibition: the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited 3. 18th Amendment: ratified Jan, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in Dec, 1933 C. Positive Opinions/Results of Prohibition: 4. Progressives wanted it banned to stop family violence, crime, and poverty c. Support for prohibition was found in the rural native-Protestant dominated West and South d. The church-affiliated Anti-Saloon League led the drive to pass Prohibition e. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union considered drinking a sin 5. WW I reformers advocated prohibition as a war measure f. People were concerned that many German Americans owned many of the brewers g. Drinking reduced the efficiency of soldiers and workers 6. Learned we must...
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