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    Film: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner      Joanna Drayton returns unexpectedly from Hawaii to announce her engagement to an intelligent, accomplished, world traveling doctor. The only problem with the intended union is that he is African American and she is white. The Drayton’s come face to face with their own principles and realize that their daughter is the way they brought her up to be – non-prejudicial. Turmoil and anxiety ensue as Joanna insists that her parents give their approval by the

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    Susan Courtney’s analysis on the film ‘Guess who’s coming to dinner’ argues that this film’s view of race is very limited because it reduces the issue of interracial marriage to the dilemma of colour. The film also negates all the other complex meanings attached to ‘race’. Yet, in reality, the interracial couple might also have many other social conflicts in terms of class and gender. John Prentice, a black man, comes from a low-class family whose father being a retired mailman. Joey Drayton, a

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    Stanley Kramer’s film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, explores the controversial issue of interracial marriage and reflects society’s prejudicial views during the 1960’s. In the 60’s, the concept of an interracial marriage was foreign. At the time, it was considered illegal sixteen states for two people of different races to wed.(Kramer 1967). Joanna Drayton, the white daughter of a wealthy newspaper editor, and Dr. John Prentice, the son of a black mail man fall deeply in love after ten short

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    surroundings have no cultural nor religious significance. As the narrator stated “I guess I don’t believe in it. In anything. Sometimes it’s hard you know what i’m saying?” answering Roberts question on whether he was religious. Culture and religion are great influences on art, although the Narrator lacks the sense of them. The setting and surroundings have no cultural nor religious significance. As the narrator stated “I guess I don’t believe in it. In anything. Sometimes it’s hard you know what i’m saying

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    Police Brutality Police brutality occurs daily across America. Police brutality can come in various forms, counting lethal and nonlethal force. Comprehending the exact commonness of police brutality is complex, because of the inconsistency in describing police brutality. The trouble in differentiating among justified and unjustified force. Police interactions often can be misconstrued, or sometimes turned around against an officer. Questionable behavior and complaints against officers can be filed

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    Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner directed by Stanley Kramer is a controversial movie from the late 1960’s. The premise of the film is a young white woman named Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton); who falls in love with an older African American Doctor John Prentice, (Sidney Poitier). The new loving couple meets in Hawaii and after ten days of knowing each other are engaged. Joanna Drayton sees no difference between her and John, she is in love and ready to marry her new fiancé, She insist he meet her

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    In the 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the main characters bring home controversy when they surprise their parents and friends with the news of their soon to be interracial marriage. Each character brings a unique perspectives to the film, which in turn brings to light several different issues. Throughout the film, there are many different ways in which communication is ineffective and could have been improved. First, this paper will discuss examples of stereotypes presented in the film

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    Honestly, in regard with my feelings from watching it, I don’t have much to say about “GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?”, because the main message the director: Stanley Kramer, script writer: William Rose and actors: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton are trying to convey; (the racism and interracial marriage in the USA) are truly distant to me personally. In my country of origin and furthermore, in our national history, we never experienced

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    Empathy and Social Change in To Kill a Mockingbird, Milk, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Empathy: “The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experiences fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner” (according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary). When we think of social

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