How is the issue of violence represented in the lives of individuals in your core text and in one other related text? Violence is presented in Blackrock and Harry Brown through the issues of, the negative influence of peers, the influence of drugs, and powerlessness. These can be seen in various scenes in both texts where youths are creating harmful situations for themselves and others around them. These issues can be examined in the scene where Ricko and Jared fight which causes the relationship between them to melt. In Harry Brown, night raids turn into a large scale riot which is a powerful example of the negative influence of peers.
The African race and culture has always been perceived as an inferior race because of slavery and many other factors that contribute to the cause. School for the Negros is where the foundation of the mis-education is created. They are taught history, literature, language, geography, medicine, science, religion, theology, business, and government but they are not told the truth. Woodson explains how the so called educated Negro is educated, “Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African” (Woodson, 1). Due to the fact that the Negros are brainwashed by their oppressors, they believe their inferiority to the other races to be true.
When a person detaches themselves from society, like Skrzynecki at his college, they will soon begin to feel alienated and neglected. This perception is also present in Freedom Writers, a film based on a true story about a young teacher named Erin Gruwell who inspires her class of students to learn to overcome the idea of isolation which they are creating within themselves, due to racism which they have been exposed to from a young age. The concept of belonging is represented through the use of racial groups and gangs and is linked with cultural and social aspects of
Jose Gomez Crash After I saw the movie Crash, I realized that in our lifestyle we are exposed to stereotype in one way or another, voluntary or involuntary. I understand stereotyping is a classification that society makes about other people, we classify people based on the knowledge and experience that we have about something or someone; it depends on how we grow up and which values we choose for our lives. In addition, I believe, the majority group creates stereotypes because they tend to label minorities. To Illustrate, majorities may catalogue communities for the way they look, race, the language that they speak, and their religious beliefs. Even if we try to avoid stereotyping it is impossible in the world that we live in today, and that
Hate Breeds Hate Universally Mathieu Kassovitz, director of the film La Haine, portrayed historically realistic issues of socio-political struggles by a group of youth under a system of power that lacked ethics for treating delinquencies and lacked the education needed to control the needs of the community. The real geographical shots of the projects in France were representative of locations that could take place anywhere around the world that struggle with similar issues of injustice. Specifically, the diagram Kassovitz portrayed was mainly about the real issues which took place within the French projects where youth were repressed by authorities, but it was also a representation of the atmosphere of a “banlieue” which could exist in
Racial Bias in the Media Despite historic and continued efforts to overcome racial tension within our nation, in today’s culture we are constantly bombarded with prejudice and discriminatory images and ideas. When turning on the news and glancing through the pages of a local newspaper, ethnic minorities are the central focus of crime stories and are portrayed as the prime source of crime in our nation. Victims of criminal acts who are of an ethnic minority are rarely featured, as Caucasian victims claim the spotlight in the media. This results in racial profiling and racial profiling in the media is a growing concern. According to various media professionals, racial bias is very common.
Despite the movies gaining massive fanatical following, they always depicted the African American men as aggressive people who engaged in criminal activities for heroism. For instance “a time to kill” by Samuel L. Jackson is a perfect example. These grotesque caricatures are not accurate representations of the African American men and contribute to the proliferation of negative stereotyping. However a movie like “I am legend” by will smith can be used to counter this
La’Toyrious Granville Mrs. Sharon Cargill English 12 20 February 2013 Racial Profiling Racial Profiling is mentally segregating and it disunites the U.S.A because it permits negative aspects to every race. In the U.S. it is acceptable to embrace foundations and establishments like BET, Black Entertainment Television, and/or The Chinese District, For example, but what if these titles were revised to WET, White Entertainment Television or The Iraqi District? Would these organizations be appropriate or racially disgraceful? From any standpoint it is mental segregation. Programs like the previously listed instills the negative trait of racial profiling into child before he or she has any idea of what racial profiling is, it programs them to judge and make race a chief factor when it should not be (Psycho 1).
English 101 1:00 October 28, 2010 Discrimination of Violence In modern American society, rap artists feel that they must coincide with societie’s view of thug rappers, by hardening their image. To Americans, raps image is infamous for hood rich lifestyles, danger, and attributes such as “machine guns and silencers” (Tucker 326). A life of death always at your back and a smoking gun at your finger tips. An image fueled by a countries lost moral ideals in which support the acts of violent nature. Cynthia Tucker expresses her belief that, “Gansta rap is fueling a thug culture, that is destroying the lives of black Americans by glorifying violence” (326).
Film Essay Specifically in these recent years with the changing times, people often criticize and bash school systems regarding their lack of educating students who mostly live in lower social economic areas. Some of these school districts are considering individual social skills and psychological patterns that are related to issues such as academic struggles, social indifferences, and economic status. In the Movie Freedom Writers a group of at risk children struggle not only in school but also in their personal lives outside of school in the intercity. These students deal with social issues such as self-segregation in classrooms, gang issues and poor attendance within the classroom. During the film students report experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die from gang violence, circumstances of poverty and family eviction, all of which present dire challenges to the students within school.