In Sullivan’s Travels, the montage of the casualties of the Depression that Sullivan witnesses underscores everything that the movie had previously eluded too. Like Sullivan, the audience does not appreciate how horribly that time affected people and those few seconds articulated the sentiment like no words could. The movie itself, made during the Depression, does what Sullivan realizes he needs to do—make a movie that gets people to laugh through the hard times. As Sullivan says, “There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… It isn't much, but it's better than nothing.” While in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, there is not one line that sums up the entire movie’s premise, there is a lot more than one montage to show us. The audience sees Mr. Smith fighting for something he believes in, despite everything that suddenly hits him.
The documentary showed us how he took the photos during wars. It is a very dangerous work. He took photos of people lived in wars. How their lives are. Even though photos of the people cannot help their lives getting better, I think the photos still let other people know the importance of world peace.
This ethnography conducted by Bourgois and Schonberg really highlighted the problems of racism among the Edgewater community. I was honestly shocked to learn how prevalent racism was among the homeless community. I had previously thought that because these people were in such poor conditions, trying to do anything to survive, they would look past such divisions such as racism in order to help themselves survive and get back on their feet. This wasn’t the only thing that surprised me however. It was the fact that the homeless addicts weren’t just sitting around getting high and injecting heroin, but were actually trying to go out and get jobs and homes once again.
We are seeing all this monetary loss, which could in the use of helping the poor to make our society into a better place for the future, so we can abolish the poverty and crime that people go through on a daily basis. He also states how the police are tracking down drugs, which is a good thing, but he does not want the police to grab a hold of him because he’s the only doing what is necessary so that he can survive in this deprived community. Rather, Shakur advocates a “war on poverty” which he implies would also take away the need for many blacks to deal drugs. He also states that since he is black, he has to make a living by doing what ever is necessary to survive. In this case it might even include selling drugs, even if he does not want to.
He also says that he was embarrassed of his acne and it held him back from being himself and talking to other. This shows the emotion of his acne and how the product will help others feel more confident just like it did for him. It also makes a connection from the audience to himself which persuades them to buy Proactive.
Kano's "pity for the ignorance and brutality" of his "own countrymen" and his complete "understanding of the suffering of the prisoners" enabled him to show utmost compassion towards the POWs (Hillenbrand 245-46). Kano defied his elders not because he felt the need to be rebellious, but because he realized the immorality of all the actions occurring, and realized he could be the better person and do his part to help those in need. The actions of Kano consisted of him finding sick men "easy jobs to keep them officially 'at work'" and "[talking] guards into looking the other way" while POWs violated the prison law (245). Kano also "hung blankets" and "scrounged up charcoal" so to heat the rooms and "snuck sick men" from the Japanese doctor and to the POW who was a physician (245). Kano did more than just prove to the POWs that he was a compassionate guard, he possibly saved prisoners from losing their lives due to malnutrition, freezing, and misdiagnosis.
I think that this use of contradictory was brought upon to help the readers and people around the United States better cope with what happened. It served as a reality check to the audience. Junod knew that the word could possibly put him at risk with his audience because he could offend readers and potentially make them outraged but he did not care because he wanted them to deal with their emotions and face them instead of running away from
This causes thousands of people to become homeless and displaced. Also, not every household had flood insurance, so then FEMA stepped in to assist these people. This process of FEMA stepping in to help people in need of emergency help is very expensive. Government funds are used to give people mobile homes to live in and money to help fix their destroyed homes. Insurance companies were pounded after the storm with many insurance claims due to all the flooding and wind damage.
That is what these two stories explain. Being shot happens so often, that now, when you hear about it, you barely even think twice. Yet we always feel so sad when we hear about those who are murdered, and beaten. It’s crazy because in both cases, people are still dying. So it’s interesting how in one case we would feel fine, and the other we would be very sad.
As much as I wanted to turn my head away from the picture I couldn’t help but stare. Knowing that it was a non-fictional picture, made me just imagine what people saw those days after Hurricane Katrina hit. It saddens my heart knowing what people had to endure in their lives . Many of the pictures that were taken that were very disturbing were of residents that were African American. The way the media portrayed this horrible event was that the minorities in the town were the ones that were most affected.