Smoke On The Mountain Analysis

Smoke Signals is an award-winning movie directed by Chris Eyre, written and co-directed by Native American poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie and based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The film reveals the reality of modern Native American life on an Indian reservation using Native American oral tradition storytelling to present insightful interpretation how different and indirect the path to forgiveness works within the movie. Alexie suggests that the importance of authentic cultural filmmaking is best told through the eyes of Native Americans and their acceptance of their given life. Alexie beliefs the storytelling path to forgiveness and acceptance manifests through powerful and humorous

The technical aspects of the production such as scenery, properties and costumes also played a keynote in the productions success. The scenery was fabulous it truly made the play. It was very realistic and extremely vibrant. Almost the entire play was performed in one setting, except for the railcar and dance scenes. The house, the main setting, was magnificent with painstakingly placed detail in every corner. All elements in the house matched wonderfully, for example the furniture, the photos on the wall, the telephone and even the trash can. Little bits of detail were everywhere adding to the beautification of the set, for example the lace decorations on the chairs, the etched glass above the front door and even the Christmas tree.

Contemporary Australian theatre mainly focuses on the reflection of the ‘real’ Australia and communicating to the audience real and modern issues/ideas that respond to the social climate and community. Australian theatre practitioners use various performance styles, techniques and dramatic conventions to help portray their ideas to their audiences and make them feel a particular way to the ideas presented in a play. Without the use of these styles, techniques and conventions it wouldn’t be possible for the practitioners to emphasise their ideas.

Where is the Great Smokey Mountains? It is at North Caroline and Tennessee. It was Established by June 15, 1934. How many acres is there? There are 521,896 acres in The Great Smokey Mountains. They get nine million people a year, twice as many than other parks. That nine million people go see the mountain-skimming scenic. During their summer that draws 60,000 people. How many mountain roads in there in The Great Smokey Mountains? There are 384 miles of mountain roads. There a quarter-miles of paths. There are eight hundred miles of trails, from a half-mile to a 70 miles long. Some the people hike the trails, some drive their cars.

The film Smoke Signals is about two young Native American men, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who venture off their reservation in Idaho to go to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up the ashes of Victor’s dead father. The film opens with a house fire on the Fourth of July, 1976. Infant Thomas is saved from the fire by Victor’s father, Arnold, but is also left parentless when his parents aren’t so lucky. Twelve years later, Victor’s drunk and abusive father abandons his family and leaves the reservation.

Last week, I attended Cal Poly’s production of the Crucible that was shown in Spanos Theatre. The original playwright is Arthur Miller; In the school’s adaption of the play, it was directed by Heidi L. Ness and consisted of a cast of about 20 actors. The overall production of the play was well done, but the element that especially stood out was the set design. Pegi Marshall, the Scenic and Lighting designer, did an excellent job in setting the arrangement of the props and overall structure of the set. The small details added were notable because they boosted the overall success of the play by working hand-in hand with other elements to make the play stronger.

The film, Smoke Signals was about an adolescent name Victor and his friend Thomas on a journey to see what happened to Victor’s father. Throughout the movie, Victor has trouble trying to forgive his father for leaving his mother and himself behind. The context behind the movie did a great job in illustrating the culture of Native Americans and threw in some of the common stereotypes that are associated with Native Americans. Some of the stereotypes about Native Americans were domestic violence, them being alcoholics and a scene where one of the female characters, Lucy, says we barter because we’re Indian. The depiction of poverty and struggle in the movie was not as concise because of the difference in living space between Victor’s family and Thomas’s. Victor and his mother live in a decent home. In contrast, Thomas and his grandmother live in a higher standard living space. No one in the film was really struggling to meet ends met like how it is in the real world. If the movie was not focused on Victor and Thomas journey, the story would have taken a different path.

The movie Smoke Signals is based on the series of short stories written by Sherman Alexie. Just like any movie, there is a meaning to it. Before this movie, when I thought of the phrase "Native American" I thought of things like feathers and societies that were impeccable. But after watching the movie, Smoke Signals, it portrays what being a Native American really means. It is not all fun and games. The protagonist, Victor Joseph, has many hard aspects of his life, but throughout it all he grows mentally. His personality in the beginning of the movie is mean and despicable, he is filled with wrath, but as the movie goes on his personality grows gradually. By the ending of the movie, he was a nicer and kinder.

The movie Smoke Signal is a story that portrays what a Native American really means. It is a movie based on story written by Sherman Alexie. Thomas is the narrator of the story. It’s just not a simple movie but it has meaning to it, which is the best thing about the movie. It shows the life of Indians and how their life was and what they had to deal with. The movie has two main characters name Victor and Thomas. The movie starts with a house that goes on fire and the man (Arnold Joseph) Victor’s father saves Thomas and Victor from the fire Victor the main character plays the role of a typical Indian who has hatred towards his father for leaving him and his mother when he was little. He doesn’t seem to like his father as he always

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The production, The Drowsy Chaperone, is a jovially musical full of bright fun colors and a comical parody of the American Musical Theatre circa the ‘20s. The production had managed to place me in the appropriate era through the use of costume and sound design. The works of Kayla Lopez, as the Costume Designer and Josh Azoulay, as the Lighting Designer, all, respectfully, contributed to my overall “willing suspension of disbelief”, as an audience member. Both the lighting and sound design, worked together in order to differentiate between the two worlds that were present on stage, the one the older man was in as well as the one the main story was placed.

Factories in China are a primary enemy of clean air. Louise Watt, a writer for The Huffington Post News online, gives information about the war between the government and the factories in China. Watt writes, “Beijing's city government ordered 103 heavily polluting factories to suspend production.” However, many factories continue operating in different regions of China. Carol Huang, a writer for Taipei Times online, explains how a relocated factory called Fujia Dahua continues to produce pollution after the smog impacted China. Huang writes, “Smoke on Friday (Jan 25th) billows out of the chimneys of the Fujia Dahua factory, which was supposed to halt work and relocate 17 months ago.” China is the largest manufacturing country in the world

Jonathan Kozol’s Fire in the Ashes is an honest depiction of the hardships and triumphs of families in the South Bronx, New York. In this book, Kozol introduces us to several Hispanic and Black families that he originally met in the Mott Haven/Martinique Hotel in the 1980’s and allows us to view their trajectory in the proceeding 25 years. By allowing the reader a look into the lives of these families, he provides us with a realistic depiction of the disadvantages families living in poverty encounter despite interventions from charity organizations and philanthropic donors. Kozol identifies that without “systematic justice and systematic equity in public education” (Kozol, 2013, pg 304) students in these impoverished neighborhoods will continue to lack the same economic opportunities that may potentially lead them out of the welfare system. Kozol emphasizes lack of stable housing, and unequal educational opportunities, as primarily conditions to perpetuating poverty. Despite the challenges that the families endure, Kozol is able to show that they are resilient.

“A Restoration comedy is like an eighteenth-century sitcom; it’s entertaining” (MacKenzie, “Behn”). However, the similarities between the two genres are more far-reaching than their equal entertainment value. For example, the cast of William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy, “The Country Wife,” consists of some central characters that are strikingly similar to those in the cast of the modern situation comedy, Seinfeld. Harry Horner from “The Country Wife” and George Costanza from Seinfeld both fit the male “wit” character type. Likewise, Lady Fidget, one of Horner’s lovers, and another woman, who’s one of Costanza’s fleeting lovers, both fit the female “wit” character type. Through the

At the end of World War I, an excited America was poised for a cultural renaissance; patriotism was on the rise, the strong concept of Manifest Destiny had passed its peak of influence, and, most importantly, there had not been a clear shift in culture for decades. The Jazz Age of the 1920s was about to dawn, bringing with it youthful, risqué morals and a carefree look on life. From these ideals, a new, strongly American form of entertainment would emerge: musical theatre. Most commonly found in New York City on Broadway even to this day, musical theatre became an escape from reality and an entry into the imagination. The grand and splashy components that make up what is considered a classic Broadway musical can ultimately be traced back to Cole Porter. Porter’s writing, albeit at times controversial or raunchy, was able to harness the frantically beating heart of the Jazz Age and turn it into treasured shows. Using his unique melodies, romantic or idealistic lyrics, and his pioneering of writing about the human experience, Cole Porter shaped American music and theatre from the 1920s through the 1940s.