She loved to perpetuate the myth that all Asians knew Kung Fu. We jumped on them with our brass knuckles and razor blades, and left them bleeding by the side of the road” (489). Thorough out the story, Cindy seems to be pressured by her peers into committing acts she wouldn’t have done without stress from other gang members. This is first noted when Cindy says, “being in a gang is like being in a democracy, the majority is right even when it becomes tyrannical” (491). Its interesting to see how the author used the metaphor of a democracy to describe a gang, it allowed readers to see how political American gangs can actually be, and vice versa of how a democracy can be very
It is important that violence and gun crime are talked about in films and that young people are made to see the real side of it, because people are getting killed often in events where youths are carrying guns, this often appears on the news. Statistics show that gun crime has been on the rise in recent years especially in inner city areas like the one shown in the film. The two main characters of the film are Ricky and Wisdom who can not break out the never ending circle of gun crime but both for different reasons. Ricky tries to leave but he fails because he feels that he owes Wisdom for saving his life and
It is just crazy to me to think that the drugs that these kids are being prescribed are causing them to commit acts of violence upon other people or do very crazy things. The documentary opened up with a teenager named Cory Baadsgard, who was apparently on the prescribed drug Paxil which caused him to have hallucinations. He discussed an incident in where he did not want to go to school and decided that he would go later in the day. The only thing that he remembered was waking up in a juvenile detention center and was told that he held hostages at gunpoint. In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well.
To show his thanks, Daniel gives Costa a gift that consists of a small container of water. Though there are many themes in this movie, savagery, greed, and oppression stand out in this movie. Savagery is shown through the riots and the police killing the innocent people. Costa’s corruption is seen by him trying to employ cheap extras for the movie and to bribe not only the Chief
The shadows and lines caused by the windows draws your attention to the two immediately. It’s dramatic framing and colors elaborate the dramatic change that just occurred, a shift in power. 2. We also see various montages in the film, some more obvious than others. Identify one of them, and explain when it occurs in the story and what purpose it serves in the plot development.
You have to admit, a movie would be pretty boring if it only used one type of camera shot or angle the whole movie, right?One of the shots used in the film was the panning shot, used to show the conflict during the school fight, in one of Mrs. Gruwell’s first days. Another shot used in the movie was a high close up, used during the scene where the class is playing the line game; which shows emotion and similarity. The film freedom writers also uses the technique of flashback to set up the storyline and show how they got into gang violence. There is one scene at the start of the movie where Eva is telling us her story, where she quotes “An Aztec princess is chosen for her blood… to fight for her people….’’ Another scene in the film that shows conflict in the technique of flashback is when Mrs. Gruwell is reading the classes diaries for the first time. It is used to show how they all start getting into violence.
Shortly after, Vincent and Jules go to a café which while they are there gets robbed by two petty crooks while previously employing the passage as a means for delivering death, after the advent of his conversion Jules reinterprets the passage and discovers the truth about his past existence. For the first time, Jules realizes the value of human life, and his own ability to keep it. "The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men," he tells the thieves. "But I'm tryin'.
Specifically it will discuss the differences in social status (gender, race, SES), open versus closed markets, stigmatization (gender, the anti-targets) and strain theory. After reading both books, the major differences that Door Room Dealers and Cocaine Kids have are more obvious to the audience; even though they may have differences there are many similarities, Cocaine Kids was fairly much easier to read. Cocaine Kids show many stereo types on how the society view drugs and other crimes that relate. Both books interviewed young teenagers in which all the participants were very ambitious and wanted to live life fast. Another difference in Cocaine kids is the teenagers ran there drug markets like a business and became very successful.
No: 129083035) (M.Sc. Full Time) COURSE: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MASS COMMUNICATION COURSE CODE: MAS 805 LECTURER: DR. THERESA IFEOMA AMOBI © JAN., 2013 Bibliography Citation Hebert, B. and Philip, M.H., (1993). Movies, delinquency and crimes. United States of America: The Macmillian Company. INTRODUCTION Studying mass media effects on the audience is, perhaps, one area that has frequently attracted the attention of mass communication scholars because of the media’s potentiality to exert certain patterns of behaviour on individual member of the audience.
(Al-Ghafari) Some gender roles confine both sexes to traditional duties and responsibilities. Media plays a role in constructing gender roles and in presenting the image of the girl as a woman, and the boy as a man that has different roles. (Al-Ghafari) Media can play a significant part in transmitting a society’s culture to children. The way in which gender is portrayed contributes to the images that children develop about their own roles in society. Gender bias can be seen in books, movies and television shows, for example, evil female characters, such as the stepmother and the ugly witch.