Keep It Simple Stupid: Film Analysis

According to the text, education is defined as the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure (Kendall, p. 462). Every human has a right to an education. Despite this definition, evidence of inequality based on race, class, and gender can be seen in the system despite good intentions to promote awareness of and appreciation for cultural differences.

In this documentary, director Kirby Dick sheds a bright light onto one of society’s most hushed-up subjects--rape. Specifically, rape on some of the most prestigious college campuses in the United States. Institutions such as University of Tulsa, Florida State University, Arizona State University, and Oklahoma State University are only a few of those under fire for their methods of handling sexual assault reports. Likewise, the film does not spare Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Yale, exposing their investigation track records right on screen. The documentary The Hunting Ground is very effective in bringing attention to the reality of sexual assault on even the most popular college campuses through personal interviews, statistics, and testimony from former college officials.

If a young child makes a small snowball and lets it go down a hill, it rolls down and begins stick to other pieces. The snowball grows and shapes into something wonderful. The originally small, little ball becomes so much more than the child ever intended or can ever imagine. The most beautiful things grow this way, from a little seed into something great. This is life. All the small things can become something great and wonderful and so much more than we could possibly hope for.

Five Easy Pieces was released in 1970, Robert “Bobby” Eroica Dupea plays as the main character in the film, he plays a role as an oil rigger that has turned his back in pursuing a career in music in which he is talented at and becomes a blue-collar worker for 20 years. During these years he builds up a selfish, mean, vulgar, and lack of ambition kind of personality. In the late 1960s and early 1970s many historical events were occurring in which the film has gone into some detail with. After doing some research on Film Reviews and what other websites thought about the film many did not go into detail about the film being about discrimination on women. During the era of the film women were still fighting for their rights. I personally believe that this film showed how women were just objects to men. Bobby had disrespected mainly all the women he came across. When they were at a diner he spilled all of the drinks on the waitress just because they did not have what he wanted on their menu. He had five different women in which he would have intercourse with and talked to them in a very demanding manner, each of those five women still had sex with him because they feared he would leave

The film Straight Outta Compton was a biographical film that followed the young rap group the N.W.A. The struggles and obstacles shown throughout the movie shows the viewers what it was like growing up as a black male in Compton, California during this time while also trying to become successful in the music industry. Throughout the movie it is very noticeable that there was an excessive amount of stereotyping towards the average black male.

Australian story is a national documentary series, produced and broadcasted by ABC Television. The program grounds its premise on observing the personal recounts of known and unknown Australians - with extraordinary circumstances or achievements. The Voice is a chapter in the stories which features Gurrumul Yunupingu, a shy indigenous male bearing the life-long burden of blindness, perseveres in the face of adversity and carves a pathway to success through his raw musical genius. Turning the Tables is an episode that showcases a young and eager man, Jack Manning Bancroft, who through immense dedication constructs a non-profit organisation (NPO) for Australia’s flourishing indigenous youth. The producer, Ben Cheshire scrupulously composed both instalments to represent and portray the individuals in his spotlight; this is done through the

The comedy genre is not one I am particularly well-versed in. I enjoy comedy, but for whatever reason I do not laugh as much as many people during funny movies. More often than not, I smile and chuckle while others hold their stomachs in pain from their abundant laughter. So it must be a very amusing movie indeed (or at least one that appeals to my particular tastes) to make me genuinely laugh. The Other Guys accomplishes this feat.

Ordinary is the best and the worst word to describe August 4th, 1992 in Grand Haven, Michigan. Ordinary was the Coast Guard Day festival going smoothly just as it did every year. Ordinary was the townspeople celebrating at the festival or staying home and enjoying their day off. In the Borne house, ordinary was the children watching their cartoons in the living room. It was Carolyn finding some way to occupy her time by cleaning. It was Kevin being the normal workaholic at his desk with the smooth jazz records playing loudly to keep him company. It was Erin starting on her history assignment due the next day, despite having the past two weeks to work on it. What happened that day, though, was decidedly the most unordinary occurrence to

This paper will examine the following; the description of Loss, Grief / Bereavement faced by the main character from the film, an indebt analysis of defined concepts/examples, theories and models connected with the main character, as illustrated in the film, the summary/developmental issues of loss, grief/bereavement, the distinction of common, normal and anticipatory grief, different stages/models of grief, cultural response to grief, the application of relevant theoretical concepts/ framework in the course to the main character’s grief, loss bereavement issues, the application of appropriate intervention, adaptive coping skills/ adjustment and the implications of the approach to social work practice.

Straightlaced, critical movie in which young adults confront misconstrued societal expectations on how they should dress, act, and how their sexuality affects others around them. In this movie these young adults address how confining these presumptions are and why. In this movie many different teenagers discuss how they identify their sexuality, whether it be “straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, questioning and so on. In this critical essay these expectations and rules will be discussed at a deeper level.

In all aspects of life, you will form relationships with others that may range from romantic to platonic. Today, you see all sorts of relationship types. I use to only see heterosexual couples as “normal.” After looking into other relationship types in greater depth, I have begun to see that homosexual relationships may be just as “normal.” I think societal norms plays a strong role in telling us what being “normal” is, and if you don’t fit into the tight little box, then there’s something wrong with you. Why is it that when we see heterosexual people kiss people say are in awe, but if you see homosexuals kiss, people are in disgust? I think it has a lot to do with social media’s influence on what is “right and wrong.” Social media creates

The movie, “First Do No Harm”, is a story of the Reimullers family, consisted of Lori the mother, Dave the father, and Robbie the youngest son. Throughout the story, Lori and Dave finds Robbie getting unexpected seizures. The parents tries to treat him with medicines, but it rather causes side effects, including Stevens Johns syndrom. While finding other ways to cure Robbie’s disease, Lori finds out that Robbie’s health insurance is invalid and thus could not be used. Later, Robbie’s assigned neurologist, Dr. Abbasac suggests the family for Robbie’s surgery of putting electronics on his brain to cure. Yet the family decides that they could not afford to pay for the surgery and asks the doctor of another way to treat Robbie. Dr. Abbasac, after

Film was an extremely fun class for an English elective, overall I enjoyed learning about the technics that filmmakers use to draw the audience into the film and keep them intrigued by the plot. By far the best film that we watched this semester was The Graduate because of its now classic 60’s music and its view about the change in society. Adversely the worse movie was The Social Network with its oversimplification of issues and overcomplicating technology to portray the character as complex. Considering the quality of all the movies we watched it was difficult to pick out problems with the films.

At the time of WWII, most Americans believed that the best thing for the US, was to stay of the war that was happening in Europe. However, by the time that Casablanca came out, the bombing of Pearl Harbor had already occurred, and the US had been at war for about a year. Because of the outrage that the citizens of the US felt at having gone to war, the government mobilized the film industry and therefore, "Hollywood recast national goals and purpose to satisfy the hopes that had emerged in the popular arts and politics of the New Deal [...] and all moviemakers created films to promote the war" (May, 142). Movie producers such as Frank Capra began making a "series of seven American war propaganda films, titled Why We Fight" (Slideshow). Furthermore,

Scene of a movie. The view of something realistic. Looking at all these pictures; There's lies behind all these pictures on this table next to me. As I sit here. A Miller beer beside me. A box full of memories; Childhood memories.  It's nothing to say about my teen or adulthood. I don't have memories. Who want to be with a criminal, Nevertheless I'm not a criminal. They just say that about me. Why Judge.  Just get to know me more then less.  In a dark room where I'm sitting at. Boarding school is like having a terrible nightmare that keeps you awake all night long. Six pack of Miller Lite. Drinking until I get so drunk like my alcoholic dad.  He's the one who sent me to boarding school at the age of ten years old.  My mom trying to stop him,