Dancing With The Tiger

The part two began with the journey of Enrique and Rosa to the north through Mexico. The innocent young siblings experienced the life outside

The first chapter introduces the protagonist of the story, Lieutenant Dunbar, a soldier who is posted to the frontier. The time is during the American Civil War. Dunbar is at Fort Hays, but talks to Major Fambrough about being posted on the prairie. Major Fambrough, who appears as a little insane, agrees and sends him to Fort Sedgewick. He goes there with a peasant called Timmons. In the meantime, the same fort is being abandoned by Captain Cargill, who is waiting for a wagon with his eighteen out of an original fifty-eight man, while the others mostly deserted or are dead.

Four boys went out after the basketball game. Robert Washington is killed in a car accident, and the three other

While going through a hard time of her husband being gone and he grandmother passing away, Lilia wanted so bad to cross into America to have her family together. An old friend of Lilia’s from school offered to help get her and her child across to America. Seeing that she trusted the man she decided to allow him to help her. Lilia and her baby had to go with different coyotes. She went to the house of the man that was to be her coyote; he took Lilia to a woman coyote that would bring the child across. After leaving her baby with the woman, Lilia and her coyotes started their journey in a truck. She was to ride on the back that was covered with the man that was not driving; along the journey, the coyote raped her. They arrived at a river, which she had to swim across. Once across the water, she had to wait in a junk yard in the back of a car for someone to show up and call for her. She was taken to a house, where she would get her new identification, a new life. This is where she awaited for her child and her husband. While she was waiting she had to cut and dye her hair, she also watched a man being murdered. Day’s passes and her child never arrived, but Hector did. Hector was grateful to see his wife, but very upset that his child had not arrived. Hector, Lilia, and Miguel tried to figure out how to find the child, but had no luck. Hector asked his boss and his wife to help but they also had no

Storytelling, in many ways, allows one to express their imagination through fanciful adventures and tales; thus, serving a purpose in terms of allowing an individual to cope with their tragedies, but also to entertain one another. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, and in Tim Burton’s Big Fish, the audience comes to realize that the conflict between fact and truth, combined with storytelling, are the central themes; it becomes clearer that facts have to be proven, whereas the truth is usually straightforward. These stories focus around the protagonists’ views, teaching the value, truth, and purpose of storytelling; in which, it is the pieces that collectively form the importance of storytelling. Storytelling allows the protagonists of both stories to cope with their struggles, and assists them in overcoming their adversities. It partly influences their decisions, and ideas; ultimately, changing their own perspectives in their struggles. Both show that stories can be incredibly meaningful and take on significant roles for the characters, which can be used to answer important questions about the truth.

Spoken by Joseph Campbell, myths “support a certain social order and define humanity under any circumstance.” The film Dances With Wolves tells a fictional story that expresses those two mythological functions through the journey of John Dunbar beginning as a United States soldier and becoming a part of a Native American tribe, the Sioux. Through this transformation, the mythological functions help define what it means to be a true human being. A true human being is someone who has become so aware of the multitude of cultures and ideologies within the world that they have the ability to recognize the greater good within them and be selfless in the decisions surrounding that. A true human being only acts in an evil way when it is necessary

In this move, the Chinese community expects women to get married for procreation purposes. For instance, Wai Tung is being by his mother to get so that he can give her a granddaughter against his will. At the long last he gets married to satisfy his nagging parents to a female tenant. The movie creates a notion that a woman needs a man to achieve something in life because Wei Wei gets married to a gay landlord because she needs a green card. In this case, the marriage between Tung and Wei becomes a marriage of convenience. This scene portrays an aspect of China traditions that women are tools of sex in that part where Mr. Gao insists on throwing a wedding banquet for the couple. After the party and all the drinking, Wai Tung and Wei Wei are put to bed, and things get out of hand. Also, the movie reveals another purpose of female in traditional Chinese culture, which is human production. Tung’s father doesn’t care if his son is homosexual or not as long as he gets a grandchild. Tung’s parents only want Wei to give their family the next generation.

María Álvarez, a 17-year-old Colombian girl (played by Catalina Sandino Moreno), works in sweat shop-like conditions at a flower plantation to help support her family. However, after finding herself pregnant by her boyfriend, whom she does not love, and being unjustly treated by her boss, she quits and decides to find another job, despite her family's disapproval. On her way to Bogotá to find a new job, she gets offered a position as a mule (one who smuggles drugs by swallowing drug-filled pellets). Desperate, she accepts the risky offer and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of cocaine and flies to New York City. After a close call at the US Customs (she was about to be X-rayed, until customs found out she was pregnant), she is set free and sent

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), by Ang Lee tell a story of some of the most magical warriors that lived during the Qing Dynasty, in Qing China.

Recently widowed, Barbara Livingston flies to New Mexico to stay with longtime friends for the summer. However, instead of her friends, a sexy, Spanish cowboy meets her at the airport. While awaiting her friends to retrieve her, he takes her home to his working ranch. Trini Montoya tells her about Kokopelli, the shape-shifter in local Navajo legends and folklore. When she hears Coyote’s mystical flute music drifting on the wind, she understands there is to be a ‘Promise of Change’ in her life.

Esperanza finally began to understand her new life, but as soon as mama became ill, Esperanza’s world shattered all around her again. She no longer had papa, abuelita, or mama by her side. She was all alone and it was up to her to climb up the

Animal Farm by George Orwell, an allegorical reflection of the Russian Revolution, was quite the opposite of my average read. Opening up a novel about a dystopian society ruled by animals gave me a whole new perspective about equal rights. The animals in this book endured so many difficulties that could’ve been avoided if humans weren’t the most dominate species. Which is why I can understand where they’re coming from. Who wouldn’t want to rebel against something so unjust? Any activity we do impacts the planet more than any other kind, so the animals in this story did have a right to find that unfair. Though some characters blew it out of proportion. It makes one think, “How come we humans are given the upper hand and animals are forced

Animal Farm by George Orwell, an allegorical reflection of the Russian Revolution, was quite the opposite of my average read. Opening up a novel about a dystopian society ruled by animals gave me a whole new perspective about equal rights. It makes one think, “How come us humans are given the upper hand and animals are forced to go by our rules?” Or irrational thoughts, such as “Will animals one day conquer Earth?” We don’t know the answers to these questions as of now, but after reading Animal Farm my mind was full of possibilities. I’ve learned that animals can have emotions, thoughts, and actions very similar to humans in their own unique way, which in this case, is a problem to the residents of Animal Farm.

In the movie, the Animal farm, based on the book, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, The pigs are an important part of the movie. In the movie, towards the beginning, the animals on the farm, especially the pigs wanted a change with their standards of living. So they decided to get everyone to remove the Farmer. I think of this as in Marxism the people trying to get rid of the government. They held a meeting to decide what to do and all of the pigs sat in the front all looking for the best spot. I also translate this to be the opposite of Marxism because they thought higher than everyone else, which is not Marxism where everyone is equal.

I analyzed the paired clips from the movie Spirited Away. The movie clips start off with two parents and their daughter, Chihiro, wandering around what seems to be an abandoned village or town. The family eventually discovers a Japanese style restaurant with piles of freshly cooked food at the counter. However, nobody seems to be working at the restaurant that is apparently just as abandoned as the rest of the town. Without questioning who made the food, the two parents, seemingly overwhelmed by hunger, start chowing down on the unsupervised feast that lay before them. The daughter watches a few feet behind them imploring them to leave; she feels that the entire situation is amiss. The parents, too hungry to care about the fact nobody is there