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    Titans, brings yet another memorable movie associating with this controversial issue that has shown to be timeless. Remember the Titans does not only feature terrific performances, but is also an inspirational film that has a good amount of social commentary. This film follows the lives of two schools in Alexandria, Virginia in the 1970s. These two schools integrate forming T.C. Williams High School whose European American head coach is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina

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    the story can be interpreted as a social commentary on people during the war and the different morals that follows. Jack can be represented by Adolf Hitler, the German dictator. And Ralph can be represented as FDR, the American president. Not only can we see these apply as individual people, but they can represent entire groups. After analyzing all the characters and drawing multiple similarities, we can safely say that Lord of the Flies is a social commentary of World War II. This novel takes place

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    Lois Lowry showed Social Commentary in her book The Giver. The Giver is another Dystopian book based on a community that the main character, Jonas, lives in. They are all equal, everyone has their life planned out for them, and everyone has emotional suppression. In The Giver, the people there are given shots that suppress their emotions, which their leaders believe are better for the people so they can be more easily controlled. In the real world, that causes anxiety and nervous excitement. Lowry

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    For this Social Commentary Paper, the prompt is to choose two songs from different genres that are centered on the same social issue. After much thought, domestic violence was chosen. According to the Department of Justice, domestic violence is the abusive behavior from an individual within a relationship, resulting in physical or emotional harm to their partner. This includes, but is not limited to, hitting, shoving, name calling, or undermining an individual’s sense of self-worth. First, Carrie

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    Intro: The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells us a variety of themes-justice, power and greed, The American dream and so on. The Great Gatsby is regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary. The Great Gatsby concerns the wasteful lives of four wealthy characters as observed by their acquaintance, narrator Nick Carraway. Like Fitzgerald himself, Nick is from Minnesota, attended an Ivy League university, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, moved to New York after

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    Social Commentary of The Great Gatsby Great wealth cannot transform who you truly are. In the novel of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is the protagonist who is astonishingly wealthy and romantic. Nonetheless, due to the self-extravagance in luxury and corruption of moral values, the collapsing society in the 1920’s leads Gatsby and his American Dream into destruction. Through a Marxist lens, the character’s belief influences the society by the character’s ideology of social stratification, how characters

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    What is Social Commentary? -Social commentary is the act of using rhetoric, verbal and/or written, to provide commentary on societal issues that people are prohibited from mentioning or do not believe to be true. It is a silent but bold form of rebellion. The goal of social commentary is normally to promote change. Our Social Commentary: -Language and the use of language plays a vital aspect in attaining power and manipulating others through said power. ​ How do some of the characters contribute

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    end of the Great War. It was a time of consumerism, excitement and social, economical and political change.Many changes made in the 1920s are mentioned in The Great Gatsby in a very discreet way, through social commentary. Social commentary peels back the surface of character and shows their true wants and personality. The knowledge of social commentary shows a new motivation for character’s relationship. The use of social commentary in The Great Gatsby shows the characters true personalities and their

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    Chaucer included several examples of social commentary through out the story of “The Miller’s Tale”. One example that includes several issues, is the part of the story where Nicholas and the carpenter’s wife agree to plan a meeting. Nicholas states something to the effect of, what kind of scholar would I be if I could not trick a carpenter. I choose this scene because with that scene it illustrates not only social class, but also marriage and morality. I get impression from reading this that Nicholas

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    dystopia is on the horizon as the world is slowly consumed by the bright lights in our palms. Authors, and filmmakers have utilized many tools to make their creations come to life in front of the intended audience. In these forms of entertainment, social commentary is used to relate the audience in the distant world. For example, in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is placed in a book burning world that is against any form of actual thinking, but all that changes for Montag as he meets Clarisse McClellan who

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