Leisure And Self-Fulfillment In The Film 'The Harvest'

The Frontline film Separate and Unequal discussed about creating a new school system; however, there are opposition by others who wants to maintain the current school system. If we look at the perspectives of the two groups, it is understandable in why there is support and opposition from the people of the city. The supporters of the new system wants a system that can provide better opportunities for their children without any violence. As the film claimed “the school was not teaching and were only babysitting the children”, which was likely a reason why there was a need for a new school system. With the chaotic and uncontrollable situation in the current system, many supporters have push forward the idea of a new system in a new city. From

According to the Cesar Chavez Foundation, “Some 800,000 under-aged children work with their families harvesting crops across America and as much as 30 percent of Northern California's garlic harvesters are under-aged children” (Chavez Foundation 1). All those children are being of an education because they are too busy working all day to go to school. Also because they are working all day farm workers have no time to teach their kids how to read and write so the kids never really develop the skills necessary to be able to communicate with other people. In addition the Cesar Chavez Foundation affirms that, “Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population. Malnutrition among migrant worker children is 10 times higher than the national rate. Farm workers' average life expectancy is still 49 years --compared to 73 years for the average American” (Chavez Foundation 1). Most of those infant deaths are because the migrant workers don’t have the time or access to the medical attention required to raise infants. Farm workers' average life expectancy is probably so short due to the strenuous work they do on a daily

Some 800,000 under-aged children work with their families harvesting crops across America. Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population.

Harvest Video Response Core Values/ pg. 52: The values that are central to a group, those around which it builds a common identity. Core values were demonstrated multiple time throughout the video. They were demonstrated through the migrant works strong value on the importance of family, hard work, and the urge to try and finish schooling. Zulema, one of the young girls in the video helps her mom pick crops to help raise money for her family. She is only 13 years of age but uses one of her mom 's friend’s names to log the number of crops she gathers because she is too young. Victor another young migrant worker of the age of 15 works hard in the field and in the classroom. The

In his 2017 horror film Get Out, Jordan Peele not only makes his director debut, but delivers a particularly insightful view into the state of racial affairs in modern America.The stories narrative follows an African American man named Chris, who goes to visit his white girlfriend's parents at their rural home only to uncover a horrifying plot in which the girlfriend and her parents are in fact racist and have been abducting black people and using their bodies in medical experiments involving the transfer of consciousness. On a surface level, the plot of the film has the ability to come across as quite simplistic in scope, an obvious labeling of privileged American whites as racist; however, a deeper analysis reveals careful consideration to

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

Film- Precious Knowledge Precious Knowledge is a documentary that takes place in Tucson, Arizona and focuses on how the Unified School district wants to completely ban the Mexican American Studies Program. In the film there were many scenes with examples of rhetorical appeal. I believe that the way the film was set up since the beginning had an impactful and direct emotional appeal on the audience. For instance, in the first scenes of the film we have the opportunity to get to know the main characters in a more intimate level.

Generalization: Page 6, a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation.

During class, we watched the film “Harvest.” This film is about migrant workers from Mexico, that work in the fields, and pick our vegetables, fruits, and cotton. These workers do not work in the best conditions. They have to deal with long hours with minimal pay (not even minimal wage), bugs, the heat, and pesticides. A lot of these families put their children to work young to help support the family.

Through the major motion film First, Do no harm, they showed how a young boy struggles with epilepsy and how his family reacts. It also shows how naive humans can be to trust someone who thinks they are doing the best for a young patient because, they themselves are not educated enough on the subject of the young boy’s illness. It shows the struggles of communication between the (a) family, (b) medical team, and (c) the boy himself. (Abrahams, et al., 1997)

The phrase “ you are what you eat” has been used for centuries. The healthier your food the healthier you can be. However, as time goes on, I hope this phrase is no longer true. The documentary Food Inc. shows our food and what farm fresh really means; things are not always what they seem. The documentary is dark and gruesome in the way it displays our food and what goes into making it, but it also opens our eyes to the world of production and similarly what we see and what we should be seeing. Although it is a gut wrenching documentary, there is an educational informative truth behind it to see if food is really food anymore.

Stories We Tell is a combination of exploring the idea of what we believe is memory and what we believe is fact. The director does this by having multiple people in her family tell the story of her deceased mother. The documentary follows the memory of her mother and the truth about the director’s mother’s extra-marital affairs. The documentary also follows the family as they try to find the real father of the director. The film is shot with a combination of Super 8 mm home videos and interviews with the director’s family and friends of the mother.

Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2014 film Wild is based off of Cheryl Stryaed’s memoir “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”. The film changes the genre by having a woman as the main character in a man vs. nature situation a rare chage from the typical hero. Vallee had a budget of $15,000,00 for the film and it brought in $4,112,752 on opening weekend, January 30, 2015. Wild, was nominated for many prestigious awards and won few. (imbd). In a initial review of the film published in The New York Times, noted film critic A. O. Scott wrote, “The film adaptation of her book — itself already a classic of wilderness writing and modern feminism — provides another reason to be grateful that she did”. Proving that the change in the genre did not

The movie Enough speaks to the audience regarding domestic violence. The main character’s name changes throughout the movie to maintain hidden from her ex-husband but she is called by the name Slim. The beginning of the movie shows how Slim met her husband Mitch. Mitch met Slim at a dinner where she was a waitress. Mitch made a bet with one of his friends that he could have a sexual encounter with Slim by the same afternoon that he met her. He successfully completed his bet, and continued dating Slim. Mitch and Slim get married after a short period of dating and have a baby girl together. Their daughter’s name is Gracie. Mitch was not faithful to Slim and seen another women after Gracie was born. One night, the mistress called Mitch’s phone

Throughout my academic career, I had always advanced in my math courses. I possessed the ability to ponder about the abstract qualities of math, which further helped me understand the subject. As my academic career in high school progressed and math gained complexity I began to lose this ability. Considering that fact, the last two years of high school the subject in which I have had the most progress and growth has been film-photography, instead of math, Through the course, I have been able to see the growth of my art through two years variegated, complex work. Although math used to be my favorite subject the ability for me to frankly explore my ideas and my creativity lies in photography, which lends itself to be my favorite subject, a subject in which I excel in.