Film noirs in the 1940s and 50s were like no other, filled with intricate plots and alluring characterizations. Characters tend to be vengeful, through brute violence. Stories were told from the point-of-view of the protagonist, in a flashback sequence where the crime has already been committed. Billy Wilder, made some of the greatest Hollywood film noirs, creating some of the most interesting characters in Classical Hollywood cinema, most notable the femme fatale. Billy Wilder, known for his dark film noirs, such as Double Indemnity (1944) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), always featured dangerous women involved in crimes of passion.
She practices her faith even though she can get crops or needs from the Wal-Mart that is “just down the road” (112). She can even perform a ceremony for her granddaughter in New York to the “twenty-first century totem pole…made of flash and neon” (114). Harjo is able to carry out her rituals and use her belief as a therapeutic figure for challenges she faces in life because nothing can damage her spiritual experience. Before Kamps became the spiritual being she is now, she once went to church to find truth in life. When Kamps’ mother died and she was pregnant, she needed the church the most.
Her healing work has also been published in the local news media. Mama Lola was very much open to alternative methods of healing “she is not afraid to incorporate elements from other cultures into her own worldview.” “… her whole life is about movement between cultures and about understanding and coping with cultural difference.” (Pg 206, Mama Lola) Mama Lola’s line of work not only deals with health problems but also love, work and family difficulties. Her healing skills combine that of a medical doctor, psychotherapist, a social working and priest and is well respected in her community not just for her work but as a good woman. “She has a group of steady followers who appreciate her for being trustworthy and discreet as well as effective. It is also widely known that she adheres to a tradition that discourages making large profits from healing work”.
Effect of Religion Religion has helped lead people’s lives all throughout time. People use it to distinguish between what is right or wrong. It has given hope and has been used to discriminate against and exclude people. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Linda uses religion and her faith to help her through the hardships and cruelties the world is putting her through. Without this strong emotional connection to God, Linda may not have had the strength to perceiver and to eventually gain her life back as a free black woman.
She has faith in the integrity of the people in her community. Scout is also very considerate. One form of her consideration is shown when she speaks of the equality between black and white people. “I think there’s just one type of folk, folk.’ Her father is her role model and she would do anything to make him proud. This is shown most strongly when people form school start making racial and discriminative comments towards the Finch family.
Growing up in the same environment does not always mean that siblings will grow to be the same person with the same values and beliefs. Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" is about the conflict that multi-generational families have with understanding the importance of identity and ancestry. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie, over their grandmothers quilts. Unlike Mama, Dee is educated and is envied, Maggie, who was scarred in a house fire when she was little. Dee has returned from a long trip away from home and now determines her culture by the things she gathers from the house like the quilts and butter churn but in the end Maggie is the one with the right idea about her heritage.
This belief and way of life has followed the culture to America and some people still choose to seek out alternative ways of healing before receiving western medical care. A lot of African Americans also believe in the power of God when it comes to healing because he is such a big part of their lives. Eiser and Ellis also found, “A study showed that African American women who believed in God as a controlling agent over health were
And though sometimes the violence in her story is not always essential, it always has a point. Through her stories, O’Connor enlightens us of the many social matters that came along with transitioning and holding on to the past; she herself grew up in the South. Although her stories are sometimes exaggerated, they are on the other hand something we can learn from. For instance, in “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” we find that the main character is a grandmother who was brought up in the era of the great south. She is a very proper lady and does not see her prejudice as wrong but simply the example of her class.
The articles “The Buena Vista Social Club” by Tanya Katerí Hernandez and “Globalisation and the Tango” by Chris Goertzen and María Susana Azzi have both discussed the issue of the globalisation of Latin American music and how it is portrayed in foreign countries. Cuban son music emerged in the country during the 1910s and by 1930 had gained worldwide success. This style of music, a blend of Spanish canción, Spanish guitar and African rhythms and played in the clave rhythm, provided a key symbol of Afro-Cuban culture and identity while also heavily influencing other musicians and music genres. It provided Havana’s Afro-Cuban lower classes with a source of income and the chance to enter a previously European dominated market. Son was exported to the rest of the world during the 1930s and 1940s and became particularly popular in the United States, also providing the grounds for the creation of salsa music in the 1970s.
She is a good and generous Christian who believes that helping others is simply her duty. Amber is nurse who takes in stray animals who is also a good and generous Christian who believes helping people is important. The second parallel between Omaha and Johannesburg is broken families. The main plot of Cry, the Beloved Country shows the efforts of Stephen to reunite his family by bringing back his sister Gertrude to Ixopo. Much like how Autumn shows the efforts for her sister to come home from college.