Many book series go through the evolution of fame, but many never rise to the top of popularity such as the Harry Potter series and Twilight series have done. Two series that are extremely different yet have several similarities that helped them rise to fame. Harry Potter was the world’s most popular series of books for a long time. The books were made into movies, a theme park was built. However, years after the first Harry Potter book was written, the Twilight series came in to steal the show.
I believe the Montgomery bus boycott was the most important event in the 1950s -1960s in changing the civil rights for African-Americans, because this event gained internationally attention. On the 1st of December 1955 a white man requested for Rosa Parks’ seat however she refused as it seemed unreasonable. Leading her to be arrested, this act was very important because it went against the Jim Crow which was created to force segregation in public school systems, kept many African-Americans from moving out of segregated neighbourhoods and often made it difficult for African-Americans to vote. Overall it was very unfair to the black community, as a result the black community in Alabama started a non-violent boycott of the buses, leaving buses only half full this had a major financial impact on bus companies as it was the black community who used buses the most and the event was lead by Martin Luther King. This event was important because it gained international attention which put pressure on the different structures of the American government to make changes, and finally in 1965 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal.
Pleasantville Screening Report After watching Pleasantville, I feel that color is the most important aspect of the movie. The movie starts out in modern time following the main characters, David and Jennifer, in full color. David is chosen to become a part of Pleasantville by a TV repairman and just happens to drag Jennifer along. Much to Jennifer’s dismay, she and David are now living in black and white and have taken on the respective characters “Bud” and “Mary Sue.” Mary Sue, who is now hell-bent on returning to her normal life, begins acting out, shaking up the unsuspecting town of Pleasantville. The first change from black and white to color that we observe is when Mary Sue has sexual relations with Skip.
(Just changing hair colors.) The Griffins' oldest child is a daughter in high school who is unpopular because she is ugly and boring. The Smiths’ oldest child is a daughter in community college who is unpopular because she is a hippie, and everyone hates hippies because they stink. Both are daughters, and both are unpopular. Also the girls sort of look alike.
Most interesting is though, Bruce Willis in the role of the subdued, failed cop with a secret - a flattering unfamiliar role for Willis. Childhood magic Sam and Suzy decide to do away with the mock adult world. They flee together and create their own little paradise. But, only briefly owned the consummate,
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a story of civilization that quickly turns into savagery. The defects of human nature are displayed through a storyline of adolescent boys stranded on an island, fighting for their humanity and praying for rescue. This intense story has been adapted into movies over time, and Harry Hook created a version in 1990. Some could argue that this most recent film outshines the book itself, for example it did not spend too much time on considerably boring events and the visually appealing setting and sound added to the viewers understanding. Yet, it is very clear that the novel is greatly inferior.
Why was the second World war a turning point for black Americans? In WWII, African-Americans served in segregated units known as the ‘Jim Crow army” and were not allowed to fight alongside whites. The Nazis also had a policy of racial discrimination so African-Americans were sent to fight an enemy who saw them as lessor beings, yet the side they fought for also saw them that way too. It was a contradiction. President Roosevelt, former governor of New York, did not believe in racial segregation of African-Americans and when African-Americans were hired to drive buses in Philadelphia during the war, some residents refused to ride the buses others threatened to burn the buses.
Obviously, there was police brutality involving African Americans in the time that this movie was portrayed, and that was the major turn-off of “Song” to the major studios. Kaufman wouldn’t support Melvin’s picture and why should he? The white man, and the white man only was the hero and all other races and even women were inferior as portrayed by the movies. Van Peebles was hired for a 3 picture deal at Columbia pictures at the expense of his own dignity. He didn’t want to do that.
Freedom Riders Essay In the freedom riders movie it shows and explains how badly “Negros” was treated. The main goals and itinerary of the CORE freedom riders were to move the movement into the Deep South no matter how much beatings they would go through. At the time in the beginning President Kennedy didn’t seem to care about the movement because of the civil rights movement going on at the time. In the movie there was a quote that said “no right black person had that a white person had to respect” that quote actually came from the Supreme Court. A lady names Sangrenetta Gilbert Bush was a Montgomery resident and her father wanted a cup a coffee to start off his day, they simply said you have to go through the back to get your cup of coffee.
Although Johnson and fellow couch potatoes would truly love to believe that watching TV works wonders on your brain, it is surely a fantasy with no relation to real life Johnsons’ main argument is that TV has gotten more complicated over the years and our brains have to compensate for that. The calls this the Sleeper Curve and defines it: “The most debased forms of mass diversion- video games and violent TV dramas and juvenile sitcoms,- turn out to be nutritional after all” (215). More simply put, that even if TV is really bad, it is still a force for good, improving our brains and not making us dumb. Johnson compares what you gain from TV to what you gain from reading: attention, patience, retention, and parsing narrative threads. The complexity of TV places demands on the same cognitive qualities.