The Dancer Upstairs: Film Analysis

I have never seen such ambitiousness and hope, I was amazed how strong everyone in the video were, not just Arthur and William ,but also their family and friends. Such attitude and hard work is what we real need to be successful. There were so many obstacles that were in both of the players yet they fought for what they love and their goals. The Hoop Dreams show how our system is set to only benefit those who have the money not those who have the dream and the skills. If william and Arthur had a stable financial, their life would have been so much easier to make it to the professional level. There are many issues that these two athletes faced in young aged, money, family issues, struggles in school are the common issues both Arthur Agee and William Gates faced.

The film, The House I live In, opened my eyes to the severity of unfair law enforcement and the depths of the battle with war on drugs. Theoretically, the more people are being arrested for drugs, the cheaper, purer, and more available the drugs become. Making these arrests are not helping get the drugs off the streets, it is only opening up more opportunities for other people to pick up the business.

Shouting Secrets: The film, Shouting Secrets, tells of how Wesley, a person who has distanced himself from his family, has returned to come to the aid of his mother, which in turn brings turmoil within the family. This film appeals to me because I know what it is like to have problems from within the family, and I would like to see their approach to solve the problems within. This film is appropriate for this class because we are supposed to learn about Native American culture, and this film could show us some key features in what some Native American families go through.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

Schools in the Anaheim District prioritize incorrect activities when teaching students to be more responsible in their life. The documentary, “Mad Hot Ballroom Dance” aims to correct this flaw, by enrolling students in a ballroom dance extra curricular activity. This was not only implemented to teach students how to ballroom dance. It was mainly meant to teach students that had no passion for regular school work, or were heading down an unsuccessful path based on their actions, the importance of teamwork and social skills. And it worked for the most part!

Anaheim High Schools can better student success if the following steps were to take place: expanding classroom time since it has proved to help students gain success, glorify students for their effort rather than their intelligence as it will help them develop a growth mind-set raising their opportunities in becoming triumphant, introducing students into positive extra curricular activities which can help as success influencers. Raising the quantity of time in class would highly improve a great mass of student success at Anaheim High School. Having a limited quota of time in classrooms makes it extra strenuous for teachers to teach the material therefore students are not capable of learning it. Teachers have to plan a way on how to teach the

One of the most speculative experiences of conquest and dictatorship in the history of Latin America has been the socialist and dictatorial regimes in Chile. Chile has gone through multiple times of dictatorship, lead by the military, and also had lapses of a socialist government. The film “Machuca” by Andres Wood provided an insight of the series of social events in Chile in 1973, ranging from inter personal experiences to political issues and the Chilean nation. “Two dictators, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, both brought tremendous suffering upon the Chilean people -- one through his socialist policies and nationalization of

up for what was right even if it was against the dictator, Trujillo. Patria, Minerva, and

Wells Fargo had said that they open 1.4 million fake accounts but eventually it went up to 3.5 million fake accounts. Those accounts weren’t use by the customers. Wells Fargo company discovered that their employees were the reason behind the scandal by using unauthorized credit card and bank accounts from customers who wasn’t activity using them. Wells Fargo realize that this problem was dating back since the early 2000’s. Wells Fargo also had another scandal that involved 570,000 auto loan customers who were charged with insurance that they didn’t use which eventually resulted in repossessing cars of those customers. Wells Fargo was fined for 185 million dollars after Wells Fargo said that the employees had opened fake accounts. Wells

Other character is the novel represent those who were faithful follower of these great leaders. These characters include: Manteca, Quail, Pancracio, Meco, Serapio, Antonio, and Venacio. These are all characters who fought and died along side Demetrio and showed faith in their commander in chief. Azuela shows the readers how some followers lost sight of what they were fighting for as the revolution drug on. Furthermore, he also shows how some of the rebels could be ruthless and would subject innocent citizens to mistreatment, as the reader clearly sees through Blondie when he shoots bear bottles off the head of a waiter. The reader is also forced to question the goals of some of the followers as they seem to still where ever they go.

Many people describe themselves as Outsiders without knowing what one is, know you can ask yourself, are you an outsider ? Outsiders are people who are misunderstood. This can mean multiple things. For Example, not being understood by your peers, not being heard the way you want to be heard, and not being in the right situation but being in that situation.

Born into Brothels, shares the chaotic lifestyle of eight children and their mothers from the Brothels of Calcutta, in the perspective of the director, Zana Briski, and the deprived children. Using the basic techniques of photography, Briski teaches the children to document their lives through photos, which are then used as a baseline for the documentary. Born into Brothels revolves around Briski’s attempt to gain awareness and education for a small group of children whose lives are filled with tragedy. Being identified as a ‘white-privileged’ female from the United States of America, Briski carries a completely distinct perspective of the life in the ‘red light’ district, than the children themselves. She sympathizes with their situation

The emotion evoking 2014, film titled Still Alice featured the many challenges a family residing in New York City faced following the matriarch’s, Alice Howland, diagnosis of a rare form of familial Alzheimer’s disease. The film opened with Alice and her Husband, John, celebrating Alice’s fiftieth birthday along with two of their three grown children, Anna and Tom, as well as their son-in-law, Anna’s husband, Charlie. The couple’s third child, Lydia, was not present at the birthday dinner, as she was aspiring to be an actress and resided in California. Within minutes of the opening scene Alice’s mild cognitive impairments became apparent through her marked confusion while communicating with Anna and Charlie. As the film progressed, Alice herself, a renowned doctor of linguistics and college professor, quickly became cognizant of her own declining cognitive ability as she struggled with mundane tasks, such as imparting a lecture at the University of California Los Angeles. The subsequent concerning episode, where Alice became disoriented and fearful in due course while out for a run on the campus where she had taught for years and was therefore familiar with it’s geography, ultimately encouraged her to seek care from a neurologist.

Italian Neorealism was a movement of art, which strived to illustrate the normal lives of the ordinary, working class people in post war Rome, usually with the use of non-professional actors. As one of the best Italian Neorealist film, Bicycle Thieves showed an absolute depiction of the war’s impact on daily life and exposed a world in which sufferings, unkindness and corruption jeopardized the rationality of human beings and action of men (Schoonover). By utilizing a depressing and gloomy cinematography, De Sica implies the somber lives of the poor and their crisis in losing their self-identity and moral conscience as a result of parochial society that make a fetish of personal belongings as a mode of social acceptance. By examining the cinematography, ‘mise-en-scene’ and events in the film, the daily struggles of the working class in post war Rome can be seen through the crisis of masculinity, class struggle, ethical dilemma and a profoundly patriarchal society.

Culture, in a universal form, can be defined as customs, beliefs, and attitudes of one group of people that distinguishes them from another. Not only can culture refer to countries,it can also transmit through language, professional groups, organizations, religions, different generations, and plenty more. There are many aspects of culture;would you dress or act the same way going to a night club as you would going to church on a Sunday? Would you act the same way you would act at a symphony as you would at a rap concert? Hopefully the answer to these two questions are no. Of course, churches usually say come as you are since there is no set in stone dress code to fellowship. However, if someone walked into church with a skin tight dress or a little too short skirt; there will for sure be a lot of dirty looks going their way. Even vice versa, I’m almost positive if someone shows up in a church dress to the club there will be a few stares and whispers. There are always signs that will be shown whether something is acceptable or not.