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    The motion picture, Crash, highlights different issues about race, gender and class through a series of interwoven stories in a Los Angeles setting. For instance, the appearance of cars, highways, intersections and cul-de-sacs function as a trope within the movie. The many different street functions not only serve as a trope, but are a sign of the times. The cars, highways, intersections and cul-de-sacs also work to characterize the interactions among diverse figures within the film. Amongst these

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    Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the worst stock market crash the world had ever faced. The movie White Zombie was produced in 1932, the year when the Depression hit the hardest. This movie represents the fears America felt at that time period, because this movie came directly from the time period. White Zombie is used to reflect the cultural fears of the 1930s through metaphor by comparing cultural fears to zombies. Most of the main characters can be considered a monster in this movie. The director

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    over one hundred and fifty-one years ago, to this day we still see racism and discrimination on a daily basis. The movie crash is an entire stereotype itself, every big scene the actors base their actions on either stereotypes or race. Also this film shows how people in modern society are still stereotypical even though so much time has passed. An example of racism in the movie crash was when officer Ryan when he was being racist to the HMO black women on the phone. He hung up the phone because she

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    Paul Haggis’s film “Crash”, examines characters’ who’s seemingly diametrically opposed views of racial equality cause them to crash into one another. The characters of Officer Ryan and Officer Hanson played by Matt Dillion and Ryan Phillipe are affected when the crash provides them with introspection into to their own prejudice behaviors. The crash breaks up skewed fragments of their beliefs, ideas, and perceptions. Literally, crash means to move with force and speed into an object or obstacle followed

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    We are Marshall Movie review Running head: Assignment Two Assignment Two – Movie Review Kevin A. Michael University of Oklahoma SWK 5333(980) – Diversity and Oppression September 25, 2010 Professor: Dr. Mary Brandt Assignment Two – Movie Review Reason for Choice of Movie The selection of film, I have chosen, is based upon my infatuation with the very intriguing storyline it offers. At first, one may believe that the storyline is nothing more than another movie concerning football

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    The Truth According to Who Writer Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre explore the relationship between truth and fiction in storytelling and the complexities of the Indian oral tradition in the movie Smoke Signals. The movie Smoke Signals follows two young Indian men, Victor and Thomas, on a journey to Phoenix, AR. to pick up the ashes of Victor’s father. Along the way many stories are told and truth is often hard to detect. Sherman Alexie and Chris Eyre reveal subtleties important to the understanding

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    Patient is the kind of movie that makes you want to interpret everything you see, that makes you keenly aware that everything can have meaning. My favorite part about the movie was how it started and finished. The way it started with the plane flying over the desert with the girl in the cockpit, dead and the way the movie finished, showing how the girl died and what led to getting in the plane. In The English Patient, the past and the present are shown throughout the movie. Set before and during

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    Crash The Movie

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    Crash was about different kinds of social, multicultural differences and racial, giving an example of how these conducts affect our society. The behaviors observed, are prejudice and stereotyping. It was the causes of where all the events eradicate. Also the movie was about the race, family and etc. in Los Angeles. I think Matt Dillon’s character was embitter. He was very frustrated with his life and shortcomings that he used his job as a power base. But he abuses that power. Not that it was justified

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    Anthony Discrimination

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    others to show how their race is superior. Regardless of their skin color, almost every character in the movie has prejudices towards races other than their own. They are prideful of their own race and that pride leads them to be even more prejudiced towards other races. On the other hand, people who have been taught that their particular racial distinctions

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    with his release of Snow Crash. Stephenson describes a computer-generated

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