Film Analysis : Mardi Gras

Although the world climate around exploitation has altered in the last few years, mostly moving away from the exploited industrial countries such as China, it is still important to look at what was happening in China so that it can be understood in connection with today. The documentary by Robert Redmon, Mardi Gras: Made in China focuses on the exploited Chinese factory workers crafting various beads for the Americans to throw at each other for sexual gratification. The documentary does a good job jumping back and forth between the factory workers and the celebrators of Mardis Gras, creating an interesting parallel, implicating the absolute uselessness in the beads for such a large cost. Marx's theories of exploitation through Capitalism can be tied too well to the Chinese-Mardi Gras beads exploitation, as the Chinese workers were put through an extreme form of Capitalist exploitation that even Marx may never have expected.

All of the workers who worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were very young and were not treated well. They were all around 15 years old and were mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. Their work was 7 days a week and 12 hours a day. For all of this work and time, they were only paid about 6-15 dollars a week which is not a lot of money. Lunch was their only break during the 12 hour day and it was for just a half an hour. However, during the factories busy season, their work was basically non stop and even more demanding. Also, in some cases, they were required to bring their own supplies including needles, thread, irons and sometimes even their own sewing machines. Surprisingly, around 500 people worked there every day.

• Problems in living: human beings are not always able to meet their own needs and human services has developed in response to the need.

Punishment in the form of pay cuts, or fines, for a specific amount of time, were used to enforce conformity. Besides being fined for unmet quotas, inferior quality, and failure to turn off a machine, if caught talking during a shift a worker was fined one day’s pay and if caught in the dorm of the opposite sex the fine was one month’s pay. In an environment where workers only make 500 yuan ($62) a month, this loss of pay is significant. Coming from poor families, these women, who often were in their teens, endure these fines in order to send money home to help support parents and siblings. Wong believes that the low wage and punishments are “fair” and that his workers are “happy”, only concerned with when they will be paid.

To my understanding, the movie Home for the Holidays not only reveals a lot of potential family conflicts, but also reflects a lot of different communication approaches of the various family members. As a foreigner, I have never experienced Thanksgiving homecoming dinner before, so I may cannot understand some of the holiday customs in the movie, but I found out that their family interactions are interesting indeed.

In the film Mardi Gras: Made in China, Director David Redmon documents and compares the contrasting viewpoints of young female workers in a bead factory in China to revelers in the New Orleans’ Carnival on the plastic beads that the Chinese

Raw Materials Unavailability: Raw materials are less available or unavailable. It may be gathered from distance sources that incur high expenses. Poor infrastructure for production of product & services: Due to undeveloped mode of every sector , Production infrastructure is not suitable. Markets are not available: Market for products are not available. People want low cost product because they have less sources of income. Customers are less available for good products: High quality products are costly. They are not beared by customers because their purchasing power is low. More dependent families: Less people earn and more people want to consume. It means more people are dependent upon income generating members. Lands are not suitable for agriculture: Lands are mostly barren due to poor irrigation system, mismanagement of water, unavailability of modern agriculture methods application and tools, etc. People depend upon still upon ancient irrigation system. Cheap labors are available: Labors are easily available at low costs but they are mostly unskilled. So they are useless in technical works or in high rated projects.

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hours work a day, women were limited to 10 hours work a day in textile

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High rate of population growth. Most populations have more offspring each year than local resources can support leading to a struggle for resources.

Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro is a dystopic novel that creates a world surrounding numerous parts of life. The novel that highlights human identity, lack of freedom and being in confinement and the dehumanization of humans. However, Ishiguro was making a social editorial about our social and cultural world where we are faced with human identity and human rights, minorities such as African Americans and Women that are dehumanized, authoritarian government and animal rights. Nobody seems excluded from the cruel substances offered by the uncertainty of human personality; individuals appear to look perpetually to mean and reason in their lives.

Produced by Ken Burns and co-produced by PBS and BBC, Jazz features hundreds of rare and classic moments, recordings and live performances taken from a whole century of jazz music, plus exclusive interviews, rare footage and previously unpublished photographs. With over 12 hours, the acclaimed Jazz tells the story of jazz music, from its roots in the nineteenth century to the present day. A musical journey started in blues and ragtime, passing through swing, bebop and fusion. In 12 episodes, the documentary relates music to the life of the American people and the United States history over the past 120 years. Some of the characters you'll find in various mini-biographies: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles

The film that I choose for my final presentation is my favorite film of all time and one that is very special and important to me. Save the Last Dance was produced by Thomas Carter, released on January 12, 2001, and starred Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington and Terry Kinney. This particular film is one that I choose for a very personal reason, my mother and I viewed this film when it came out on VHS tape until four in the morning on repeat almost a year and a half, to the date, before she passed away. The scene that I choose from this film is the second Julliard audition scene where Julia Stiles character, Sarah reactions for a chance to go to The Juilliard School after her high school graduation to further peruse her dance

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