Stereotypes In Stand And Deliver By Jaime Escalante

Racial stereotypes have always been a serious issue in society. The stereotypes impact many aspects of our life. We more or less get carried away by our perceptions toward race, and judge people in a certain frame unconsciously, as Omi set forth in In Living Color: Race and American Culture. Taken by Hilary Swift, this photo presents an African American woman, waiting for a bus that can take her to the Kitchen of Love, a food pantry that located in Philadelphia aiming to feed people suffering from hunger, where she volunteers. It happens in dawn so it’s still dark outside. The surroundings give us an idea that it should take place in a black neighborhood (Stolberg “Black Voters, Aghast at Trump, Find a Place of Food and Comfort”). The woman is staring at the direction where the bus is coming, with a smile on her face. As a photojournalistic image, this photo is aiming to portrait a kind and helpful African American woman, however, does this photo really “positively” portrait an African American woman?

The danger of a single story is that they let the powerful downgrade the weaker because they create stereotypes, they can hurt the people, and no one gets represented from the culture.

Stereotypes have a way of getting inside your head, and sometimes you end up in a tough situation without even knowing it. In the novella, House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros describes the lives of several women of who live on Mango Street. In the community, stereotypes are given to women, which most of them succumb to. The girls tend to get married young to someone they do not love and end up trapped. Very few women actually made the smart decisions and made a successful life for themselves without a man. Despite the power of negative stereotypes given to women in Esperanza’s community, individuals who are strong and determined enough can overcome the unfavorable outcomes.

We as audience are immediately put in these characters shoes not only as Mexican-Americans but as students who are also trying to further our education, get a profession, and have economic stability in the future. This allows us as audience to have an emotional response such as joy as we see these characters discovery of self-identity and growing empowerment through the classrooms. Witnessing how their knowledge is expanding by them asking questions, watching them being pushed by their passionate teachers, teaching them how to think critically about the world while also learning self- appreciation and their communities. As audience we are instantly filled with anger when we become aware that politician Tom Horne has opposed to the teaching of ethnic studies by proposing the House Bill 2281, claiming that the teachers were planning a conspiracy to overthrow the American Government. As audience we feel like these characters are a true representation of our aspirations and our struggles as human beings.

wise woman once said “Stereotypes are fast and easy/ but they are lies/ and the truth takes time.” Deb Caletti. This quote follows stereotyping by saying that they are fast and easy, but what people tell them are not always true. That what people say about someone doesn’t always mean that they have to believe what they are saying. People don't defines them, the only person that define them is themselves. Stereotyping is a big problem in books, movies, and even the world.

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson used stereotypes throughout the book. Stereotypes the school into groups Like the Jocks, Cheerleaders, marthas and goths, I see those same stereotypes in the movie Mean Girls.

In the “Out Siders” written by SE Hinton, set in the 1960’s, is a novel focused on Two Stereotypical youth gangs, the greasers (east side people who are poor), and the Socs (Westside people who are rich). SE Hinton has included many themes throughout the novel, as the story develops around youth conflict between these two stereotypical youth sides, and how a death could mean so much to both. This is shown as SE Hinton communicates the themes, Stereotypes, family, and empathy throughout “The Outsiders”.

Stereotypes. In the novel “The Trouble With Lemons” by Daniel Hayes, and he uses common stereotypes to cause the plot to advance. A stereotype is a group of characteristics imposed upon a group of people that have something in common, whether that be by race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. In the novel, Mr. Blumberg makes stereotypical assumption that kids who aren’t supervised all the time, are the ones who will make the most trouble.

Stereotype is considering to be "A fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people." (Cardwell, 1996). Having a form of judgment on a social group or an individual based upon there characterizes or lifestyle they live. Do the right thing is a 1989 comedy-drama film directed and written by Spike Lee take place over the hottest day on a block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Lee plays Mookie who is a 25- year old man who is determining to make a better living for himself and has a duty to get paid the best way he can. Mookie works at a local pizzeria name Sal's where most of the neighborhood spends most of their time there. Sal has been living in the neighborhood for about 25 years and is very comfortable with the

In the novel Speak Laurie Halse Anderson uses stereotypes throughout the book. She stereotypes the groups like the Marthas, they consider themselves followers of Martha Stewart, and the Jocks. I see these same stereotypes all the time.

The movie Stand and Deliver (1988) begins with a character driving in an urban neighborhood as an introduction to the setting of the film. The various shots of the setting that are presented between cuts to the streets and to the intrigued face of the protagonist, Jaime Escalante, help provide the viewer context to this neighborhood's economic and cultural background. This movie directed by Ramon Menendez dramatizes actual events into a movie with the idea of combating stereotypes enforced upon low income Latinos and presenting a success story with the use of different Latino characters with their own unique conflicts. Angel Guzman is a Chicano gang member that holds an inner struggle between following the “easy predetermined path” that promises

The article Breaking Stereotypes: The People Who Aren’t What They Seem by Mel Evans Distinctly compares to the novel Paper Towns. For instance Peta Searle an AFL coach the first female coach to gain recognition states “You’re a coach, it’s as simple as that” (Evans). Likewise Q states “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person" (Green 282). These quotes compare since Peta is saying that a coach is a coach nothing more nothing less. While Q explains that thinking of a human in higher level is deceptive because humans are humans and all make mistakes.

Love is one of the most highly spoken of emotions in human culture; it is revered as holy, or viewed as manic and obsessed, depending on the situation and context of said love. And there are so many way to love. But there is still only one “romance,” personified as red and passionate, reinforced with strong feelings of affection. Well, there is only one human romance. Because you wouldn’t view hate as romance, would you? Some would beg to differ. These certain some have four different types of romance, kept in four quadrants, with the colors of red, pale, black, and ashen associated with them. These some are aliens, trolls, from a planet called Alternia, fictitious creatures from an epic written by Andrew Hussie. And the similarities and differences

Scene 5 showed a significant shift in tempo but the mood was still very empathetic. The set became very dark. This helped establish the mood and atmosphere. The atmosphere and very dark and sober. Eve’s voice became very desperate as she had been caught stealing and she was trying to talk to her sister but she would not answer her phone. As the security guard walked in she was defeminized because of her outfit, gestures and stance. Knee length pants and manly top which sat above the elbows, this established dominance for the character. Her voice was very stern towards the end of the scene as Eve became very emotional after finding out the police would be involved. This again created her scene of dominance and defeminized her as the stereotype

We see throughout the story how everyone reacts to the so-called “angel” in a different way. He is treated poorly by almost everyone because he is not what everyone perceives an angel to be like. Garcia Marquez gives us an image of a figure that is very weak and does not give the usual perception of an angel, and because of the previous perceptions of the people in the town, they do