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The film is the story of Mona, who is an African-American woman who is brought back to Africa and finds herself as a slave on the Lafayette sugarcane plantation (Gerima, 1993). In a previous life, she was born on the sugar farm and named Shola. She was caught and sold and transported as a slave in North America. This brings the interplay between the African American identity on one side and the other African identity. The film achieves this through reconstructing the past and history and also through the conception of blackness and race.

Although Nair made use of this interracial archetype, the talented director was, nevertheless, able to humanize Meena and Demetrius’s love throughout the life of the film which should unequivocally be one of the seven wonders of the world. Plus, she was able to manage a multitude of subplots—hypocrisy in interracial interactions such as when Jammubhai slyly suggests to Demetrius that “all us people of color must stick together”—without taking focus away from the overlying message which takes serious prowess and skill

Another theme depicted in the film is torture and slavery faced by the Africans during the colonial period.

African cinema has certain aesthetics and politics that differ from cinema within the United States. The politics and aesthetics of African film tends to reference themes of liberation, self identity and allegories referring to colonialism. Three films that were viewed in class this year that display each of these politics are Lumumba, Pieces D'Identites, and Afrique, Je Te Plumerai.

To begin, one thing I immediately noticed about this film; was the amount of social constructs that were shown. When taking notes, it felt like my penil never left the paper as I wrote down all the things I saw. The amount of racism that is present is just overwhelming. The first example of this shown in the movie, was when Farhad, and his Daughter Dorri, who are both Persian; are attempting to purchase a handgun. The shopkeeper becomes frustrated when they begin to speak in a foreign language. He then refuses to let Farhad buy a gun, gets extremely loud and forces him out of the store. Also very plentiful in the film; stereotyping. Within the first five minutes, there was already a dispute; between Ria, who is a Latina woman and an Asian woman who was unnamed. The Asian woman had just rear ended Ria, and she began to make remarks about how ‘Mexican’ women can’t drive. This was very offensive as to define Ria by her race, but also because she is not

As queen of France, Marie Antoinette was a symbol of what the common French peasant hated of the aristocracy. She often had a cold disinterest in the common people, however being warm and outgoing to fellow noble aristocrats. Generally liked at first, she turned into the very thing commoners hated of the aristocracy. Through her years, her actions as queen, what she did during times of unrest and turmoil in France, and simply how the people viewed her attributed to her becoming of a villain to the peasants.

Elizabeth and Gender Queen Elizabeth 1 was the queen of England from 1558-1603. Elizabeth was born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife. After Henry had Anne Boleyn executed he declared Elizabeth and her sister Mary Illegitimate. Henry was desperate for a male heir, which he got from his third wife Jane Seymour, in the form of Elizabeth’s half brother Edward. Upon his birth he reinstated her legitimacy, as Edward’s superseded her claim to the throne.

Many people interpret Africa to be a rundown third world country. When Ann Jones goes to Africa she gets to see the real beauty of the continent. Ann Jones drove through many countries and saw the many different ways each group of people interact with each other. Jones draws the conclusion that Africa has a caring community, people who will steal, and full of beautiful landscapes.

● What do you think the title means? What do you expect from the film

Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri, two artists, made headlines last month for announcing that they had sneaked into the Neues Museum in Berlin. They did not make the headlines for just sneaking into the museum. They had with them a hacked Kinect Sensor with which they performed an unauthorized 3D scan of the bust of Queen Nefertiti. If you have never heard about the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti, you probably should read this. It is the most iconic artifact of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. It is 3,300 years old and is made of limestone and painted and coated with stucco.

I am a supporter of women’s equality foremost. In the case of Queen Edith being responsible for the making of the Tapestry, I am quite prejudice. Reasons are women were not allowed to go to war in the era of the Hasting Battle. Therefore in order for Queen Edith to know of the details of the events of the battle would have to be from a soldier that was present, or she would have to visualize the battle. Another reason would be her interpretation of the battle could have been bias because of her husband.

She travels back in time to the slavery time and experiences it. She is scared of being in prison and crowded with the slaves with chains. She is in a bad situation because she never comes across this before. Then the scene moves to another slave, Shola. Her owner rapes Shola and forces her to do the farm work. At that time, the slaves do not have time to rest and do not have enough food to eat. They were treated as animals instead of humans. Shola’s lover encourages her to kill her owner but she does not because she thinks that is wrong. She is kind hearted and will not kill her owner even if her owner do harm to her and rape her many times. What impressed me most in this film is the story about a pregnant slave. The scene is so bloody and all the audiences will not forget it. The slave tries to run away from her owner but she fails, she is caught and beaten to death. What’s more, her baby was taken out of her body after her died. That is so cruel but reveal the true side of the slavery system. The slavery system is just about the murder, rape, enslavement and oppression. The dark side of the slavery system is far larger than the bright side. The traders, slave-owners and slaveholders make great profits from the slave trade but leave sufferings to the slaves. The stories in the film are based on the truth of the slavery time and there must be more cruel history that we do not know. The traders,

Queen Victoria is one of the most well-known historical monarch in human history, she made the British Empire into the main world power during her time and ushered in the famous Victorian era during the 1800s. The Victorian era is known by scholars to be the Pax Britannia of the English people, it is a period that was filled with highly moralistic language and sense of morality that is sharply different from British culture before the rise of Queen Victoria. The industrial revolution was in full bloom during the Victorian era, which saw most of the Europe and the Americas to become fully industrialized or on their way of becoming fully industrialized. Sadly, the imperialism that Victoria morality created would lead the world into the “War to

The film interprets historical

The Queen of Sheba is a Biblical figure. The tale of her visit to King Solomon has undergone extensive Jewish, Arabian, and Ethiopian elaborations, and has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in the Orient. She was born and halfway raised in Agame. Her spouse was Solomon. She had one child and his or her name was Menelik l. In Arabic legend, Solomon and the queen, called Bilqis or Balkis, married. The Ethiopian royal line claimed descent from this union; the legendary Ethiopian king Menelik is said to be the son of Solomon and Makeda, as the queen was called. ... "Sheba (in the Bible)."According to Jewish and Islamic