Loving Story Essay

The first scene in the movie I thought was powerful was the scene where kids with HIV were forced to leave school due to the fear of the parents and the ignorance they had back then about not understanding how HIV were transmitted. Dwayne Maori a 12 year old hemophiliac infected with HIV from Tennessee was forced to quit school due to the fear of other parents and the ignorance that they had about AIDS. In this particular scene the parents were protesting outside the school with big poster boards, when Dwayne Maori left in the car there was a parent shouting out loud that he is trying to kill everyone but the parent is not going to let him kill her baby. Others were shot or got their houses burnt to the ground. I think that this scene is important and powerful because this scene tells us how one person’s word can lead to so many fears in the society (when president Reagan re-enforces that AIDS can spread by casual contact). This scene also showed us how scared people were about this new virus. At the same time, this scene tells us that HIV doesn’t only affect the person infected by it, it affects their families as well. This scene is effective because it allows us to learn that when these new

Although the film was extremely upsetting, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie because I learned so much. Throughout the entirety of the film, I felt heartbroken and ashamed. I think I felt this way because being a white, upper-middle class individual, I have never experienced anything similar to what Africans Americans go through daily.

I found it to shed a light of all the events that has been happening throughout the country today. The film discusses how they redesigned the racial past. This film has shed light on what life is like for African Americans during and after the 13th amendment in the Unites States. It addressed how black people ended up in jails from laws purposely to put them there to suppress them and not to gain equality. It showed the movements of how people fought to be free and what it took then, to get as far as they are today although there’s a long way to go.

There were a few instances while watching the film that really made an impact on me. One of these is when the African American woman is assaulted by the White police officer. No one should be treated

I was aware of intersexuality however I had never been expose to a such a material where you can see their way of life and their struggles. It was very interesting to see a different perspective because I'm used to see the westernize view of transgenders. It was very eye opening to explore another culture I had little to none information about. It taught me the struggle some people have to go thru due to their nonconformity. This film makes me compare my cultures point of view on internsexuality. I come from El Salvador a place where the culture is very conservative, however there are still many cases where people is intersexual. In my culture this kind of individuals are neither accepted nor rejected. Yet, when you have an individual in your family that is intersexual is seen as shameful. This makes me relate to the film because ei have seen the way families deal with this type of

This film is strong and very effective with many strengths. It gives a detailed account of slavery and the lives of significant people who helped to abolish slavery. It talks about David Walker and his appeal and what the Appeal did for all blacks and whites fighting for the cause. Later it talks about Maria Stewart (Walker’s prodigy) and how she was the first black women to speak to a mixed audience those of men and women and how the lawsuit she won later would bring about the Emancipation.

Both versions of Mildred Pierce depict the struggle of a woman during the post-Depression era to become independent after separating from her husband. In the book as well as the movie, Mildred’s actions and trials are a result of her desire to please Veda. She struggles to find a job and hustles to keep her restaurant business together to become financially independent so she can afford Veda the lavish lifestyle she craves. Near the beginning of the movie, we see a heartbroken Mildred who just discovered that the dress she has worked so hard to buy for Veda is nothing more to her than just a rag.

The movie, Philadelphia, was an excellent example of the severe discrimination many people with Aids are exposed to. In this instance the main character, Andy, was also gay. Unfortunately, in our society, he was faced with a double whammy. The gay issue is controversial enough, but to compound that in the work force with having Aids would be almost unbearable for any person to cope with. Tom Hanks played Andy with a serious need to communicate to the viewers how everyday life, work, emotions and mental well being are affected by this kind of situation. The movie was well cast and thoughtfully portrayed Andy's serious predicament. The theme was very interesting. It made me realize how lucky I am to not have to deal with those kinds of

From my point of view, the film is interesting and touching, due to the brutality actions and discrimination black people suffered on the 1960´s decade. For me it was a great movie since I did not know a lot about the Civil Rights Movement, so it helped me to understand more the causes and why was it hard to achieve the equality for Black people. Moreover, I am against the terrible events some African Americans and Whites that supported the cause faced thanks to a society that did not want to move forward and accept that Blacks did matter too. Unfortunately, racism has not been eradicated at all from society. In our daily life, some of us have suffered from this terrible practice just because we have a different ethnicity, skin-color, religion, etc. Due to this, most part of the people of the minorities that have suffered from this, know how it feels to be socially “inferior” just because we are not white-skinned people or because we were not born in a first world country. Just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial pronounced that he had a dream to see America free and as a place where everybody could coexist equally, I also share the dream and I hope someday Mexicans and all Latin Americans could be accepted for what we really and not because the ideals and prejudices some people believe

The movie did a great job in recreating the scene on people suffering the social and economic tension because of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl that took place on Joads family. I also believe focusing on one family made us relate and share their emotions. The movie did a great job in showing the struggle of that family which represented what many tenant farmers had faced during that crisis. The crisis included the oppression the tenant farmers faced by the banks and farm interests. Because of the Dust Bowl populated families from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas were being forced to move from their farmland to California for jobs. The movie also shares the social message of the importance of a family which is shown when Joad comes back home looking for his grandparents. It further shows the message of the ineffective American Dream where everyone should get the same opportunity to attain success. I think the message was strong enough to convey the social messages portrayed in the film. I was able to reconnect what I learned in history as I watched the movie. I liked how the ending of the movie was hopeful. Towards the end the movie shows the migrant trucks move to the

It taught me a lot about how African Americans were treated in society around the time of the Civil Rights Movement. Not only did it teach me a lot about our country’s history, but it was also very entertaining. I did not realize how much African Americans were disrespected before I watched this movie. Even though Aibileen and the other maids were helping white families raise their children, cook meals, and do laundry, they were still treated horribly. Seeing how the maids were so used to this horrible treatment broke my heart. Many parts of the film were sad, but it gave me a lot of knowledge that I did not have prior to watching it. It was really inspiring how even though the maids were treated so disrespectfully, they did not fight back. Instead, they took a peaceful approach and impacted their communities by sharing their

In the car listening to music on my phone, relaxed, minding my own business. I feel a tap

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my

I think this film did a good job portraying the scenes that happened. The scenes were stories I have heard before and they sounded accurate. I think the film can teach people a lot about what happened back then and how blacks were treated, but I also think you should research a little instead of taking information just from this source. It is full of great information, but the scenes aren’t all

Pain has a way of changing people- at least that is true in my case. It has been four months, yet I do not know what happened to my father. My mother is losing it every day- I see her life slipping away from her and I wish there was something I could do, but if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. I was a bubbly girl, who used to talk to everyone I met but now I am a shell of myself. I barely get by at work and I know my boss is almost tired of me. I do not blame him though because he can only do so much with a business to run. My love life is nonexistent because my boyfriend of three years said he could no longer take my mood swings. He hasn’t spoken to me in three weeks.