Film, Nancy Ghertner, And Each Of The Five Immigrant

The play Distracted by Lisa Loomer talks about a 9 year old boy who has trouble learning in school. He screams at his parents and the teacher suspects the boy may have ADHD. The mom received some advice from her friends and the psychiatrist suggests Ritalin. The father, on the other hand,disagrees. There is a family conflict between the mom and dad. Then, in the other speaker series I attended was Immigrant nation. It is a documentary film directed by Esau Melendaz. Its primary focus was about an undocumented immigrant who was deported back to her country. She refused to go back and was forced to stay in an asylum or one year. As a result,she began the immigration reform movement. People of whom were from different cultures supported her. The third Speaker series, I attended, was Working for our political environment and Personal Health by Jill Stein. There, Dr. Stein pointed the dysfunctional ways of the political system. She advocated for proper attention for these problems such as: free education, healthy food and a pollution free environment. The final event was the Transformative Social Justice through Radical Science Fiction by Adrennie Brown. The speech was mainly about change that could be brought upon the world through sci-fi . She talked about, social, racial and sex justice. After listening to these events, it made me realize that it’s every individual responsibility to bring change to our community.

Immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue that faces the US. In his film, Sin Nombre (2009), director Cary Fukunaga aims to juxtaposition the issue of immigration with the issue of gang violence in Mexico, and show the difficulties immigrants face by giving his audience an insider’s perspective into the experience of immigrating to the United States from Honduras. He does this through a variety of characters; most notably Willie and Sayra. Fukunaga did extensive research on life in the Mara Salvatrucha gang and the process of immigrating to America, in order to make his film realistic and authentic. The result is a movie that not only shows immigration in a way that evokes empathy and enforces the humanity of immigrants in the viewer’s mind, but also gives the viewer a look into the realities of being in a gang. Through the use of strong characters, powerful dialogue and vivid imagery, Fukunaga uses pathos to put a human face to the issue of immigration, logos to inform and give his audience context about the issues the film addresses, and ethos to establish his credibility and make the film believable.

In conclusion, we take a basic movie about revenge and pull back to reveal a great historical piece about change in America. We see how immigration affects culture by introducing new a group into an environment and how people adapt to change in varying ways. Also we see how material possessions have a huge impact on the different social classes. The saying “to the victors go the spoils” holds true in all eras. Finally, we see how politics and popular culture play

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

At the beginning of the movie Americans are protesting against the immigrants. They are protesting that it is their nation and the immigrants that cross the border are taking their jobs

1. The theme of the story is: Racism is an issue that never seems to disappear no matter how much people say it does.

My first theme is prejudice. It is never right for one individual to own another, or for one group of people to be denied equal rights because they are different in some way. In NightJohn, they were prejudice and made African American people be enslaved and work for them and treat them differently just because they were a different color than them. I’ve seen prejudice a lot all my life. Whether it’s for for colored people or gay people or whatever, in the end we’re all the same and should all be treated equally.

The film encompasses a variety of different themes as well. The issues are all connected to the different prejudices that are found in today’s society. Racism is the most dominant theme that is found in the film. Stereotyping is another theme that is viewed throughout this film. An example of this being when Daniel the Hispanic locksmith was changing the locks for the Caucasian District Attorney and his wife. Jean (the wife) assumes that Daniel is a no good gang banger based on the fact that he has tattoos, a shaved head, and is Hispanic. The film

The main theme is was how hard it was living in the U.S illegally. It was hard for them because they had to move from place

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

What I'm going to talk about is four major themes from the book, Borderlands La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa. The four major themes I chose to talk about are first, how you shouldn’t be ashamed of yourself, then how Anzaldúa shows deviant behavior throughout the book, also, how she found herself through poetry, and lastly, America’s melting pot.

Everytime we go to a grocery store to pick up some vegetables or fruits, we never think about where it came from or who picked it. That is exactly how large grocery store companies want you to think. The way they present their produce, eliminates the fact that farmworkers are being exploited for their labor. The film Food Chains, unveils the true and harsh reality that is the farm work industry. Through the long and strenuous hours of hard work, they still recieve discrimination and prejudice from society and institutions.

A film by the name Soylent Green was taken to review on its sociological aspects; the story is organized in a setting where the people are experiencing rights deprivation, lives bestowed in a pool of poverty and unemployment on the rise. The mentioned matters are revealed in the film, and the producer puts more concern on them since it depicts the image of the world we are living in today (Soylent Green (1973).

These women are exploited as they are underpaid for performing hours of hard, manual labour. Being a woman who is a working class immigrant can result in not expressing this exploitation for fear of punishment--reduced wages, termination of employment, and/or harassment. Lina Abellan, a Filipina cook finds that "Filipino and other minority cooks don't really want to 'rock the boat,' but sometimes you don't have any other choice" (157). Abellan and different women mentioned challenge the perception that women of colour will not take action against discriminatory treatment. In the text, they have taken legal action to fight for fair wages, better working conditions and equal treatment (156-157). The power of collective political action is clearly evident in their