Sugar Cane Alley Film Analysis

The film Mosquita y Mari directed and created by Aurora Guerrero is a coming of age story set about Huntington Park in the southeastern part of Los Angeles. It uses tense scenery that seeks to explore what it means to be in a romantic relationship versus a close friendship. Furthermore, upon legitimizing Yolanda and Mari`s relationship the film provokes the audience to ask the question, “If they are queer, what is keeping them in the closet?” This question is most effectively answered by examining how Yolanda and Mari`s ethnicity, locational, and immigrant descendant identities intersect to keep them in the closet.

I watched the movie Bad Sugar which was about Diabetes and how it was affecting the indians living along the Gila River and surrounding areas. I enjoyed this video very much and found it helpful to understand more about Diabetes and how it is affecting the native american population along the Gila River. The three most important points that were made in the video were the dollars that are spent each year to treat diabetes, how income plays a role, and how there is a strong correlation between the lack of a water supply and the significant increase of Diabetes along the Gila river .

In the film Sugar Cane Alley, the journey of a young orphan boy is illustrated in the island of Martinique located right outside France in the 1930s. The protagonist, Jose, must reside with his grandmother who must do the jobs of poor black’s which includes washing clothes and working the sugar cane plantations for the rich white’s in town. Jose manages to see the significant social and economic gaps through the multiple characters around him even after the abolition of slavery. This gap is further supported through the visits to the capital, Fort-de-France, where Jose gains the opportunity to further his education through a scholarship offer. As this educational journey progresses, the audience is able to see comparisons to Van Onselen’s article, traditional African roles, and the social tensions experienced by the mulattos in a predominantly black and white population.

The new people of the United States negatively affected the various eastern and southern Native American tribes. Both regions of tribes were forced to be removed from their homeland and were deceived with various treaties. In the Ohio Valley, “through a series of battles and dubious treaties the new United States laid claim to Indian lands on the frontier.” This overall continuous push of Native Americans west contributed to the political and war uprising of Tecumseh. Tecumseh voiced to his people that the “white people would never stop,” they would keep pushing the Native American people off of their land. Tecumseh, unwilling to let this happen, rallied up as many alliances with other surrounding tribes, but the southern tribes would not join.

Tar Creek is an area that has been left behind by the American industry. After being mined for so many years, and literally they left nothing behind but dust. I believe this film was made to exploit the issues that we have in our country that go missed. So many times we over look our problems in our own country, caused by our government. The government gave this land to the Quapaw Indians and then bullied them to allow it to be destroyed by greedy business men which the government backed. To add to the issue children were hurt by it, families taken from their homes, land destroyed, and the government still ignores the situation.

Generalization: Page 6, a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation.

Agricultural production in the United States has reached phenomenal highs in recent decades, far surpassing the small local farms one would have found a century ago. Large food corporations have become dominant in our culture and especially in the food we eat, but the question of how it may be harming us without our knowledge has become a prevalent issue in our day. The documentary Food, Inc. was produced by Filmmaker Robert Kenner, along with Elise Pearlstein and was released in 2008. During the time up to this event, activists were moving against the big food corporations accusing them of inhumane practice and disease while supporting the return of organic and non-GMO crops. This film addresses this issue and provides discussions and interviews

Falsettos was one of the first shows that led the change in talking about death. “In particular, the AIDS epidemic elicited many theatrical and musical responses, the most important for the purposes of this discussion being Rent and Falsettos” (Death Comes to the Broadway Musical). Before the 20th century, pain and suffering was rarely addressed in the theatre. Originally premiering in 1993, Falsettos is about Marvin, a gay man, struggling to balance his ex-wife, 12 year old son, and his new boyfriend, Whizzer. Amidst the chaos, one of the characters laments about an unknown disease that is rapidly spreading in the song “Something Bad is Happening” (“Falsettos”). Not soon after, viewers discover that Whizzer has contracted this disease and he eventually passes away. The show helped transport audience members back to their experience with

Reel Injun: Native Americans In Film Reel Injun explores the negative representations of Native Americans in film and examines how they have affected the cultural identity of Natives, led to the mistreatment of Native actors, and created perpetual stereotypes about the First Nations people. Early 1900 films which depicted Natives as spiritual, noble, and free. Although this may not sound like a negative portrayal of Native Americans, it had a lasting, devastating effect.

All references to the film The Crucible refer to the 1996 version, directed by Nicholas Hytner.

As the film unwraps In Canton, Mississippi, 10 year old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks names James Louis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. The confronting opening scene captures the audience’s attention through abrupt sound effects and upfront camera angles from young Tonya Hailey’s point of view. Rape is a violation of human rights which is a huge value applied to all humans across the world especially African Americans and Southern whites. The value of human rights is evident throughout this scene through Schumacher’s use of strong film techniques. As Tonya is inhumanly raped the camera angle shown to the audience is low lying looking up towards the vicious men raping young, innocent Tonya. By demonstrating this

1. (A.) In the beginning of the movie Emerald Forest, the setting depicts a green, vast, majestic, forest that it is in the midst of being torn down in order to construct a dam. This is particularly devastating for the Invisible people who are native to the forest because the forest is what they call home. A scene in the movie that accurately portrays how the building of the dam has negatively impacted the Invisible people is when Bill (Daddee) finds out why he and his kind are called the “Termite People”.

New Guinea is an island in the South West Pacific region. It is located “in the continent of Oceania and Australia.” (Worldatlas, 2015) While European only colonized the western half of the island, Australian miners explored the east side of the New Guinea island, which named Papua New Guinea. In 1926, hundreds of Australian came to Papua New Guinea, “the Promised Land,” to search for gold. It was similar to the Gold Rush in the United States. The absence of law led to the system of “staking claims.” (Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, 2012) Australian miners claimed the ownership of gold and gained the wealth while taking advantage of native New Guinea Highlanders’ resources and labors. The greed and desire of Australian miner indicated the capitalism in the nineteenth century. In fact, the film, First

In conclusion, working on the sugar plantation was tough because of the working conditions, low pay scale, and ethnic segregation. After all, the workers never gave up even if the worked was tough. Life before was not easy as today the laborer or workers came to Hawaii so they can give their family a better

In Mayberry with very little crime to solve going on Andy was able to help the folks in the community with whatever issues or troubles they might have going on in their life. The community members helped each other regardless of social position or personal failing. If compared to our times that would be hardly the case because there is so much crime in this world that we forget to help those that need help because we are trying to stop the crime that goes on day to day. Just about with every episode it pertains to someone being sensitive to someone else’s needs, feelings or problems. If there are problems in Mayberry they tend to be small and easy to solve. Sherriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) using his wit and wisdom helps solve the majority of the towns problems.