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As we were watching this film I could tell that there were many messages that the director wanted the audience to gain from this movie. One of the messages I got from this movie is that every single person is extremely similar however racial issues hold us back from discovering that. I believe the director wanted viewers to realize that stereotypes and discrimination keeps us from learning about one another. With the way things came

Rosaleen gets beat up by white men, and all she wanted to do was vote. Lily gets asked why she is living with a colored family. Zach goes to jail for being accused of throwing a bottle at a white man. He was with his friends, and no one wanted to admit who threw the bottle, so they all went to jail. Zach was released when someone said they saw who threw the bottle and it wasn’t Zach. There is also a rumble about a white movie star taking a colored woman to the movies to sit in the white section. Everyone was in shock of the news, and was wondering if it would really happen. In the film, Vada has to deal with bullying. The girls in her grade bully her because she hangs out with Thomas J. They say she kisses him and he is her boyfriend. Although Lily doesn’t have to deal with bulling or prejudice, people that are prejudice surround her. Lily can’t be with the person she loves because he is African American. Vada can’t be with the person she likes because he is her teacher and they are too far apart in age. Both characters can’t be with the people they love because of two different reasons. Although Vada thinks she killed her mother, she knows she always loved her. Lily is not sure if her mother loved her because T-Ray said she left her, and didn’t love her. She learns that her mother did love her when she receives a photo of her and her mother smiling at each other. She also gains three new mothers while

Tyler Perry’s films frequently contain a Christian message, thus appealing a market that puts religious content and the target market and/or audience as whole ahead of influential people. Perry’s films, specifically those we watched in class, feature prostitutes, drug dealers, domestic violence disputes, and adulterers who happen to find their souls by coming to Jesus and those family members surrounding Christianity. One work that exemplifies this ideology, is Perry’s, Diary of a Mad Black Woman—Brian tells Helen that it isn’t good “to hold on to the things God is trying to tear apart,” but the most vivid reminder of Christianity for me was when Helen’s mother told her that, “God is a jealous God,” which took place during a conversation she and Helen had about Charles and how he was her entire life, rather than God being the center of Helen’s life.

The stories intertwine with each other in an innumerable amount of ways yet at other times seem to completely contradict the other's message. A great similarity to point out between the stories would be that they are both about a man who seeks justice for crimes he was accused of. However, these stories have enough in common with each other only to warrant a short comparison as they have a greater amount of themes and ideas not in common with each other. A Time to Kill is told from the perspective of a lawyer rather than the

A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990 's. The book opens with two young men, James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb, joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses, until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from the grocery store. The men pull over, trap her, rape her repeatedly, beat her, hang her, throw her off a bridge and leave her for dead. Her siblings find Tonya later that day, barely alive, her father, Carl Lee Hailey., and the black community

In another event, some racist white boys attack and hit Odessa’s daughter and son for having darker skin and being ‘idiot coons.’ This is one of many examples of racism being a factor. The ultimate clash of the subordinate (whites) and insubordinate (African-Americans) groups comes at end of the film with the mob seen at the carpool lot. This shows racism, discrimination and stereotyping all in one. It is amazing to me to see both how far and how little we have come as a society.

This movie continues to show all different types of racism. In one scene, two black men were walking down the street complaining of how everyone is so racist. The district attorney, Rick Cabot (Brendan Fraser), and his wife, Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock), were walking down the street. She was holding his arm and started to hold him closer because she was cold. The two black men saw her and assumed that she was scared as they walked by them. Later on, the two black men steel a SUV at gun point. The passengers of the SUV just happen to

"A Time to Kill" is a movie set in rural Mississippi in the 1980s, and it highlights racial issues which were present at that period. The story revolves around a Black ten-year-old girl named Tonya Hailey, who was raped by two White men. Subsequently, in an act of revenge, Tonya's father, Carl Lee Hailey, murders his daughter's rapists and cripples a deputy by accident in the process. Carl Lee is then arrested and tried for murder. He employs a White local lawyer, Jake Brigance, to defend his case.

The movie starts off with an event that took place in the early 1960s in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little girls were killed in the bombing of the Baptist Church. This event turned the wheels of King’s Civil Rights Movement since many African Americans believed that these girls were killed because of their race. I thought this scene stood out the most to viewers in the beginning because there are crimes like this happening in society still that people believe is because of a race. In fact groups have formed to put an end to racial inequality, however, the bombing of the Baptist church seems a little more extreme than the incidents involving Garner, and Martin. DuVernay was able to illustrate the graphic

The depictions in this movie showed only a small fraction of troubles African Americans had to deal with during the time of segregation. According to the dates in this movie, the Brown vs. Board case had already been decided on by the Supreme Court, which was supposed to put an end to racial

The setting of the film, both place and time assist in revealing the dominant attitude because of the racial conflict already evident in the society caused by the values and beliefs upheld by the white population . The dominant supremacist attitude revealed in the film stems from conflict between characters of differing race, The whites and the African-Americans, dating back generations and is amplified by the murder of 2 white males committed by African-American man Carl Lee Hailey. This unearths unseen tension between the races and brings fourth the dominant

A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990’s. The book opens with two young men, James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb, joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses, until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from the grocery store. The men pull over, trap her, rape her repeatedly, beat her, hang her, throw her off a bridge and leave her for dead. Her siblings find Tonya later that day, barely alive, her father, Carl Lee Hailey., and the black community

Christian morality is centered on assessing the ethical implications of us as people. Who we ought and be, and what actions we ought to take or avoid based on an understanding of the scripture and relevant human experiences. I do not subscribe to the divine command theory (DCT) of ethics, as I believe you can have ethics without God. The DCT proposes that what is morally right is what God has commanded (for example, love thy neighbor), and what is forbidden by God is morally wrong (i.e. murder), yet there are many who agree that murder is wrong without reading the bible to recognize this. As such, I argue that the churches moral teachings are of

Another view of morality could be through South Asian Christianity. Morality in South Asian Christianity is “shaped primarily by worship in the church, reading the Bible, and home based religious practices” (Pechilis 181). Due to that in doing these three main things you religious life continues to grow and never weakens. It identifies what your real faith is. In where worshipping on Sundays, though being a Hindu tradition it has trespassed into south Asian Christianity. It has also, “brought along with it a love for liturgy and hymns” (Pechilis 177). In where reading of the Bible from as soon as you learn to read is commonly seen. Since it is “a matter of pride and dignity” (Pechilis 180), and as a marker of your religious faith. While home based religious practices that are a passage into your own religious life and a way of confirming the faith you have already in this religion. This is what morality is in South Asian Christianity.

The morals of one is directly connected to his/her group. The person is seeking approval of the group and does specific things that are approved of the group. What is right is what the group or social community says is right.