British films

The Patriot The Patriot is known as this action packed, adventurous movie, and most americans have watched this movie despite the fact of its inaccuracies, also depicting america as great and the british as bad. This movie takes place in 1776, this was before the declaration of independence was signed and a idea was proposed about breaking away from the king and initiating a new nation was great but arguable. Not all the americans wanted to be independent from Great Britain, there was separation

19th century, British missionaries arrived in the Trobriand Islands. They brought with them cricket, one of England’s greatest displays of pride and culture. As time passed, the Trobriand people adjusted the game to satisfy the tribe’s own needs (Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism). The transformation of the game of cricket signifies the community’s unity and rejection to the forced colonialism and cultural transmission in the Trobriand Islands. Watching the film presented a

adapt to her Eastern Cullture although she is a British Asian and expect her to follow

The film 12 Years a Slave is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a black man born free. He is a wealthy man in New York and has a finesse at playing the fiddle. Two white men ask Northup to join their music group, to play the fiddle, but instead intoxicate him and sell him into slavery. Northup is sold to a Louisiana plantation owner, and he is called “Platt”. Northup spends twelve years of hardship in Louisiana, working in a cotton plantation primarily, until he is eventually freed by his

has on the way in which audiences perceive these types of films. One of the key areas of debate in the discussion is determining what the idea of nationalism and the nation-state mean in a world that is becoming globalised. Crofts uses Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities, ’ which alludes to the idea of an individual having their own image of their affinity

Core Values in Conflict Each human in the world has a set of values around which one bases their actions and opinions on. These sets of values vary from person to person. My core values are family, friends, and education. The only negative aspect of my values is that they tend to be in conflict with each other often. There are days where I have to choose between friends and family or education, and it is often a tough decision to make. In life, everyone has to make decisions on whether one value

explore the quintessentially modern cultural theme of dual and transitional identity. By juxtaposing the paternal expectation of father Parvez with the harsh reality his militarized, extremist son Ali, Kureishi exposes the fallacious notion of the "British dream" offered to immigrants from former colonies around the world. Through her wrenching tale of the divisions sewn between Chinese mothers, who lived through the Communist Cultural Revolution, and their Americanized daughters struggling to bear

of New Ethnic Identities such as Black British or British/Asian When referring to British Asians, the majority of us often fall into the trap of understanding the Asians referred to are linked to the Indian Subcontinent, i.e. India, Pakistan etc. What we tend to forget is that Asians are associated with a number of different countries and with Asia being the largest continent in the world, what exactly is meant by the term 'British Asians?' Generally, here in Britain

Throughout the film, events occur that change his life irrevocably. Similarly to Jim, the British Empire changes in ways that cannot be undone, even after the war is over. Up until this point in time, Britain had many different territories all over the world making it the overall world power for around two hundred years. “During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain had dominion over so many portions of the Earth it was said, famously, that ‘the sun never set on the British Empire.’ Since

Partition is the unspoken and repressed historical memory of those that lived in the time of British India. Partition persists as one of the utmost important historical events to ever take place in India, plaguing the collective memories of families in Pakistan and India. Partition occurred in 1947 when the British ended their colonization of India and created two independent dominions, India and Pakistan. The result of this division left 10 to 12 million people displaced, large-scale violence, and