Meryl Streep's Essay

The biggest issue that Hollywood currently is facing is its lack of diversity both in front of and behind the camera. Very few opportunities are offered to minorities in the entertainment industry, so it needs to be celebrated when someone who lacks the same chances as a white male is able to make their voice heard. Director Ava DuVernay is one of those artist who refused to be silenced. Ava is a black female director, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributer. The majority of her narrative films feature black female characters that are navigating their way through life and learn about themselves as they go along. She began her film career with a music documentary and worked

Thelma Schoonmaker was born January 3rd, 1940 in Algeria. Where her father worked for and oil company and her mother ran a nursery. A few years later she and her family packed up and moved to Aruba. Her family then moved to New Jersey where she began her college Career. She had attended Cornell University for Political Science and learned Russian. After beginning her career she realized that this was not the path that she wanted to go down. After looking in the newspaper she found an ad for an editing job and decided she was going to NYU for a six-week program to study more about films and editing. Martin Scorsese introduced Thelma Schoonmaker to Michael Powell and after four years of dating, they decided to get married in 1984. In 1990 Michael

The movie that I have chosen to write about is Mrs. Doubtfire. The main characters are Daniel Hillard, Miranda Hillard, their three kids Natalie, Chris and Lydia Hillard, Frank Hillard Daniel’s brother, and Stu, Miranda’s new love interest after the divorce. Daniel Hillard is an eccentric actor who specializes in dubbing voices for cartoons, but soon finds himself out of a job when he disagrees with the script the company wants him to voice. Daniel is loving father of three kids whose names are Lydia, Chris, and Natalie. However, Daniel’s wife Miranda sees him a poor disciplinarian and bad role model for the kids. After Daniel holds a disastrous birthday party that includes animals in their home for Chris, Miranda is finally at her breaking point and files for a divorce. Daniel is heartbroken when Miranda is granted the custody of their children and allows him to visit with them one time a week. Despite his pleas for more time with his children, the judge refuses due to Daniel not having a residence or employment. However, Daniel is determined to stay in contact with his kids; he soon discovers that Miranda is looking for a maid/housekeeper/nanny because her demanding job often keeps her from being home. Daniel’s brother, Frank, who is an makeup artist, helps disguise Daniel as a

Carrie stared out the window of the car at the endless plains outside. People always described this kind of scenery as boring or dull, yet Carrie enjoyed looking at it. She needed the reminder that vast open spaces such as this still existed. After living with her father in the big city for nearly three years, Carrie had had enough. Moving back to her childhood home was a tough decision, but she needed to see something natural and the city parks would never be enough. Nobody can really enjoy a city park; the officials chase down and ticket those who “abuse” the grounds. Carrie collected quite a few tickets for, of all things, climbing trees. People climbed trees all the time where Carrie came from and the worst that happened was a scraped knee or a broken branch.

Once on stage, faced with boos and murmurs of "What 's she going to do?" from

In the film Norma Rae, the textile workers were unsatisfied with many aspects of their Capitalistic work environment. They fought to form a union so that they could change the undesirable characteristics to better meet their needs. Political, environmental and cultural processes all played a part in the workers struggle to form an effective union.

FILM NOTE -- Sarah's Key, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot

Hilary was also given the opportunity to have remarks. She pointed out that she and Henry had been seeing each other for a while and that she was pregnant. I really didn’t want to do the speech after she gave her speech.

Uncle Toms Cabin, written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe in 1852, made her the most widely known American woman writer of the 19th century. She was a housewife with six children, who opposed slavery with a passion. With the advice of her sister-in-law she decided to write this novel.

For the past fifty years or so, Americans have had the great fortune of living safely in a relatively peaceful world. That perspective changed the moment a commercial airplane slammed into the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th. Terrorists killed over 6,000 American citizens within a few hours. Suddenly, life as America knew it changed. Many stood in disbelief when they saw the joyous reactions of people cheering on the streets of Palestine. Our nation came to realize that we were truly hated, and that terrorist regimes rejoiced in our pain. The leader of one such a regime, Osama bin Laden, became America's clearly defined worst enemy. A war has begun between bin Laden and his terrorist followers,

Many individuals have had an influence on the United States and globally, both in the positive and negative sense. One example of a positive influencer on the world was Emma Goldman. She faced injustice from an early age, which contributed to her interest and eventual involvement in political and radical movements. Growing up Jewish in an anti-Semitic country, Goldman and her family experienced oppression and discrimination firsthand. Goldman often had heroines that she looked up to as a child whom also sparked her motivation to make a change (“The Emma Goldman Papers”). Through her lifetime, Goldman made her mark in a variety of reforms and anarchist movements, with which she strongly identified and agreed. Even up until her death in

Julie Taymor, a director and playwright, was the first women to a Tony Award. Her works in opera, theater, and film has gotten her many awards, including Academy awards, an Oliver award, and much more.

The daughter of Sheila and Richard Tappen, Kathryn Tappen was born on 9 April 1981 in Morristown, New Jersey. She rose to fame as an American sportscaster. She has an American nationality and she is of white ethnicity. She is notable for her work with the NBC Sports Group where she covered the NHL Live, Football Night in America, and Notre Dame College football.

As a child most of us were raised to believe that jail consists of all "bad people". We did not think much about the system that incarcerated people. I think it is fair to say that the United States is filled with "children" who do not know the realities of how society works and treats black people. These people are colorblind. In the film, Ava DuVernay talks about systematic racism and the injustice in prison systems. She addresses the problem of Americas prison growing. DuVernay states, “It’s a long time coming for me, just being really affected by police interactions". She then goes on and talks about her experiences with the prison system and police. She grew up in the atmosphere that prison was always present. As a child she remembers

What can one say about their mother? One may talk about her positive and negative