Analysis Of The Movie ' Mcfarland '

McFarland USA is a Disney sports movie based on a true story. The movie begins with Coach Jim White losing his temper with a football player and hurts him. After the incident, he is fired and moves with his family to a McFarland, California. McFarland is predominantly a Latino migrant community. He is hired as the high school P.E coach and notices the potential several of his migrant students have in running. He then decides to from a cross-country team, in the beginning the students are hesitant to join the team because they help their families in waking up early to pick produce. Coach White is persistent and the students decide to join the team. Once the parents see how Coach White is willing to work with their children they become very supportive. The cross-country team changes the students’ life forever and allows the students to obtain the American Dream. This movie was very uplifting and demonstrated the importance of family, education,

The movie Forrest Gump played by Tom Hank is a story about Forest Gump a simple man and his journey through life. Gump was simple minded and lived his life by a set of values taught to him by his mother (Sally Field). While Forest sat down waiting for a bus, he tells his story. Forest takes part in several defining historical moments such as the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal and also had painful experiences. Despite his setbacks and naive nature, he struggles and triumphs in everything he did. Forrest developed a good self-esteem and self-concept with the help of his mother’s observation, love, and sincerity. With his mother and Jenny’s encouragements, he was able to overcome his physical handicap and become an outstanding runner among other things. This movie is an example of the how a child’s mind developed through series of stages. This paper shows the following key points; intellectual disability, Erickson’s intimacy vs isolation, low self-esteem, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

In one of the most poverty stricken cities in America, there is a thin line between success and failure as is showcased in the 2015 film McFarland, USA. Which is based on a true story. The story begins in 1987 in Boise, Idaho, where Coach Jim White makes some unfortunate decisions. Due to lack of better options, he and his family are forced to move to one of the poorest cities in the U.S. White becomes the new assistant football coach, life science teacher, and P.E. teacher. Soon after losing his coaching spot for the football team he is motivated to start a cross country team. HE notices the potential that seven boys have to become great runners. After creating his team they go on to win last place and then they end up in the top four. The

As Connell, White and Johnston (1990,p.9) state, 'There is not a “culture of poverty”, nor any key “deficit” that makes poor people different from everybody else and therefore and educational problem'. Teachers and Education Assistants need to adapt into the culture of poverty and be sensitive and understandable to the extensive bar of needs that children of poverty bring to the classroom and they need to consider the cultural values of these children as they arrange their learning. The basis of Groundwater-Smith, Ewing and Le Cornu's opinions in the article is they position readers to view that the teachers dispositions low income students and that rarely the educators offer the same level or enough aid and attention than the other students and they are less likely to succeed in school when compared with the more advantaged children. According to Groundwater-Smith, Ewing and Le Cornu's and Geoffrey D. Borman and Laura T. Rachuba they both state that students from lower income families may not have as high expectations from their parents, teachers or their peers within the school. The students may also not be confident in their own abilities and

This film helps me to shape my overall outlook at multicultural issues and problems we face as a society, in that it causes me to see people’s talents and accomplishments, based on work ethic, rather than on a person’s race. I believe that this film can help with the issues and conversations that this film speaks to, because many people can understand that courage and accomplishments can defeat stereotypes and

The children who live in poverty tend to do worse in school than other students. When they are in school and at home they are not concerned about what the teacher is teaching but about where their next meal is coming from. They do not get the help they need at home because their parents are at work and they have to take care of their siblings. If the child has a learning disability they do not get the proper help or even know about it because they do not have the money to get someone who can teach the child how to perform well with this disability. . They will get placed in a classroom where instead of the teacher teaching them, they call them stupid and don 't teach them anything. They also tend to hate the teacher because they are downgrading them.In the movie freedom writers it tells the story of a school who had a class just for underprivileged children. They hated the teacher when she came because they felt like she was just like they other teachers. When they saw that she actually cared they began to listen to what she was teaching. The schools they attend are low funded school. These schools underpaid teachers and make them feel like they don 't have to teach to their full potential. They books the children receive are torn, have missing pages, and are so old they have outdated information.

As a former newspaperman turned American Writer, William Kennedy is known for writing novels in which incidents and historic movements of his birthplace Albany, New York, are featured. One of Kennedy’s most well-known pieces of literature, Ironweed (1983), is the third book in Kennedy’s Albany cycle. Taking place during the Great Depression, the story of Ironweed’s protagonist Francis Phelan, a once major-league third-baseman, murderer of three, and a drunk, is depicted. Residing in Albany with his family, a freak accident tore Francis’ 13 day old son, Gerald, away from him. Tormented by that horrific event, Francis fled from his family and the ties to the event, being forced to wander the streets, seeking both nourishment and appeasement from the overbearing guilt plaguing his soul. After twenty-two years of perpetually chasing away his damaged soul, with outbursts of lethal violence, ignoring all responsibilities and opportunity for honest work; after surviving malnourishment, frigid temperatures, and alcoholism, Francis finally found rock bottom. At this realization, Francis decides to return to Albany with hopes of reconciling his actions of the past, and to rekindle the relationship he once held with his family. His inner thoughts of himself are of disgust, calling himself a sinner, and one undeserving of happiness. It is for that reason – and the years of running away from himself – that Francis finds difficulty in revealing his vulnerable side, often pushing the

Another example of how home language or race has impacted children and families is in a classroom that shows in group bias. In group bias towards the groups in which people are members (Patterson & Bigler, 2006). What could happen in an instance such as this is as the children become more aware of societal norms that favor certain groups over others, they will often show a bias toward the socially privileged group (Winkler, 2009). A study showed that children of color as young as five years old show evidence of being aware of, and negatively impact by sterotypes about their racial group (Hirschfeld, 2008). This is evident in a classroom where the children start taking on the bias role of the teacher. In a classroom, children are questioning the skin color of another child. Instead of the teacher stopping to talk about how we are all the same, just different colors, the teacher ignores it. This silence will force children to come up with their own biases, prejudices and assumptions about races other than their own.

Broadway in Missoula, Montana was seen March 25, 2016 in the form of the show Mama Mia. This comical venue was presented at the University of Montana Adams Events Center, in Missoula, Montana. A large company of well renowned Broadway actors was seen in Missoula which led to the large crowds and excitement. The company was composed of Kyra Belle Johnson as Sophie, Kat Borrelli as Ali, Christina Eskridge as Lisa, Laura Michelle Hughes as Tanya, Sarah Smith as Rosie, Erin Fish as Donna Sheridan, Stephen Eckelmann as Sky, Justin Goei as Pepper, Max Ehrlich as Eddie, Andrew Tebo as Harry Bright, Ryan M. Hunt as Bill Austin, Chad W. Fronwalt as Sam Carmichael, and Joshua Taylor Hamilton as Father Alexandrios. Many of these actors and actresses have been seen in other Broadway shows as well as Television and off Broadway shows.

As mentioned earlier there are stereotypes that come with socioeconomic status, including that children from low socioeconomic status families tend to not perform as well in school as children from higher socioeconomic status families. This is not because the children from low socioeconomic status have a deficiency that causes them to underperform, but rather it is because there is an expectation that the children will not do as well and so the children walk into the classroom facing a losing battle (Schmitt-Wilson, 2013, p 228). The education that a child receives in the earliest years of their life sets up a framework for the education through the rest of their lifetime (Stull, 2013, p 54). That being said, if a child does not receive the best education in the earliest years of their schooling, it is not surprising when they do not do as well in school and do not seek higher education after high school. Another common stereotype is that children from low socioeconomic status will not go on to get high paying jobs, but even if this is true it is not

The movie “North Country” is based on a coal-mining town in northern Minnesota. Josey Aimes leaves her abusive husband with her two children and decides to move in with her parents. Josey started with a job shampooing in a nearby hair salon, but it was not enough to support her family. Therefore, she decided to take a job at the coal mine where her father works also. Her first few days working in the mine seemed to be okay, but she then realized the women were targets of discrimination and sexual harassment.

This highlights stereotypes and attributions about people in poverty, such as the belief that they laze around all day and should be held responsible for their situation. These two overrepresented targets of poverty analysis in the news impacts the general public's attitudes and beliefs toward poor children as well as policies that affect the impoverished population's well-being. This is important because school funding is based largely on what the public believes those schools deserve.

The Wild County is a modern Spaghetti Western film set to be released on March 2018. I will be the director of the film, and will mainly take care of the visual aspect of the film. The film’s visual element takes inspiration from one of Sergio Leone’s prominent film Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). The first scene I will direct in the film is Scene IV. The spotting for the film will occur on November 24th, 2016. The first spotting session will mainly focus on arranging the music with the footage taken for Scene IV. The meeting will be attended by the film composer Richard Marley along with our three music editors Cindy Nicholson, Brandon Howard, and Susan Baxter.

In fact, ignoring the linguistic aspect of racism is ignoring the fact that people like minorities get put down as unintelligent because of the way they speak. Writer Sherman Alexie and Indigenous American, and author of “Superman and Me.” Alexie writes, “ We were Indian children who were

Prompt 1: Provide examples from the film that relate to differences in working-class and middle-class White Americans and the expectations set for both groups. In particular, show evidence of “primary control” and “secondary control” as seen in the film with these two groups.