The author opens the story with “Mandy stole my boyfriend, Tiny.” The first sentence already sets the story’s conflict and lets readers understand the plot right in the beginning. The story takes place on the streets of south Minneapolis and deals with the rough lives of Southeast Asian gangs in America. Focusing on the girls in those gangs, the author takes a step away from stereotypical male gang violence stories and places the audience in shoes of an Asian woman. Vang’s descriptive writing is depicted when the two black girls were mugged, “Nikki, my best friend, did a pretend karate kick she saw in a movie just to scare them as we approached cursing and threatening. She loved to perpetuate the myth that all Asians knew Kung Fu.
For my report I have read the second half to the novel Player One by Douglas Coupland. The ladder half of the book is split into two chapters. The first, Hello, My Name is Monster the nuclear fallout on the airport becomes so violent the mysterious sniper has to seek safety inside the hotel lobby where he is caught and taken prisoner by the other characters. Rachel, the socially challenged bombshell and Rick, the down on his luck bartender have sex which sets Rachel on track to her life goal of reproducing. The sniper, Bertis, explains his motives to the group and a teenager, Max, blindly finds his way to the hotel lounge after chemicals get into his eyes and all over his skin.
Bailey Hartman Ms. Tubergen W131 2 April 2012 Comparative Analysis on Obedience In the movie film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, all three types of conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. nature) appear which creates the basis for multiple problems. For example, after the main character, McMurphy, punches a male nurse to defend his friend in the psych ward, Cheswick, Nurse Ratched performs a shock treatment on McMurphy. She does so in an attempt to help the other nurses restrain McMurphy. This type of treatment gives painful shocks to a subject’s head which transfers to the brain killing the “disturbed” brain cells that supposedly cause the subject’s bad behavior. Nurse Ratched not only uses this treatment to help heal her distressed patients but also uses it as a form of punishment towards her patients that create outbursts of conflict.
Ethnocentrism is programed into our lives as we are being raised. Some ethnocentric views are represented in the movie, especially by the white characters. For example, the gun store owner that accused the Persian man of being an Arab, and that “his people” flew a plane into the twin towers. Sandra Bullock displays ethnocentrism when she accuses the Spanish “gang member” who fixed their locks, of selling the spare keys to fellow gang members. Little does she know, the locksmith is just a hard working father.
After Cole robbed the gas station he started bragging about it at school. At first he thought he could get away it, but he was wrong because Peter Driscal reported him to the police officer which made his anger rise. “You’re a dead man” Cole warned Peter, after school Cole found peter in the parking lot. With all his anger he attacked Peter by punching his face with his bare fist (7). This example shows how Cole is violent with Peter.
Frank refuses to press charges and suggest he learns karate. Later when Mary Ann comes over and Matt gives them a few shots. While Mary Ann is coming out of the kitchen, Richard busted the door down and shoots Frank repeatedly. After the funeral and all Matt plans revenge. Matt basically kidnaps Richard Strout and puts a muzzle to his head and tells him he has to pack his suitcase and move
When daniel compares himself to the others in cobra kai students, he sees himself as weak and not strong but, This is a buddhism life lesson that dont listen to what others say, just listen to tourself and you know if you are doing something postive to yourself or something negative like comparing yourself to others around you. 4.Never let fear get in the way of our life.Mr. Miyagi said," courage is not being fearless, but rather caring on to perform an action despite being afraid. When daniel is hurt with his leg, he tells mr.miyagi that hes tired of being afraid of the cobra kai students, and that he wants to confront his fear which is an improtant buddhism life lesson that losing to someone is ok, but losing to fear is never okay, because fear is
Even though Coach Boone must have realized the player wasn’t doing what he was supposed to do, he didn’t say anything, and nothing happened until someone else approached him about it. At these parts in the movie, Coach Boone did not voluntarily help the team, and team members had to ask him when they needed help, which is what happens with a laissez-faire leader. At the beginning of the movie Remember the Titans, the head coach of the team, Coach Boone, was an authoritarian leader because he did not allow any negotiation and didn’t listen to any input from other people. But as the football season progressed, so did Coach Boone’s leadership style; the team became closer, and got better, and Coach Boone slowly became a laissez-faire leader, so he didn’t offer his advice unless he was
And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. He never really understands the meaning of this passage until the end of the movie. At the beginning of the film, He and Vincent Vega kill a group of college students who had tried to steal a mysterious briefcase from their boss, but are nearly killed themselves when one of the students appears armed with a large handgun and fires all of his bullets at them, narrowly missing with every single shot. On the way back, Vincent gets into an argument with Jules, who is convinced that they had been saved by a miracle. 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.
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.