Blow Actor Johnny Depp plays the role of the cocaine smuggler George Jung in the 2001 movie “Blow” directed by Tedd Demme. The movie introduces young George watching his father struggle to maintain his small business. After his father’s business went bankrupt George decided that he never wanted to be broke. Leaving home, George and his best friend Tuna moved to California where they began a life of drug smuggling. After a few years he is caught by officials and serves time in prison, where he befriends Diego Delgado who teaches him about the cocaine industry.
He lives in a gritty and dismal Scottish town with his cantankerous grandfather and cruel drug-dealing stepfather, Stan, while his drug-addicted mother, Jean, is in prison. This is a town where both unemployment and crimes are widespread and little hope is available to the city’s youth. Instead of going to school, he spends his time with his friends defying the police all day. Liam and his friends live on the edge of the society. His only connection to a more privileged world is his sister, Chantelle.
Travis is single and alone, living in a shabby one room apartment, somewhere in or near Manhattan. He is plagued with the inability to sleep, riding around the city in various modes of transportation by night, observing the underbelly of society from his personal “ivory castle”. The voices in his head are a constant drum beat, describing the world of filth that he sees in every face that passes by. This is the ordinary world for Travis. Due to his sleepless nights, he seeks employment as a Taxi Driver.
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
By listening closely to what people tell him, he creates a clear picture of the real life impact gentrification has on people who are being forced out of their neighborhoods. This will be a useable reference source because the City of Brooklyn is my highlight city for the research paper. “Gentrification: Blessing or Blight?” Talk of the Nation. National Public Radio. Washington, DC.
The story is written in the perspective of ten year old Sarah Starzynski, and present day American journalist, Julia Jarmond. During 1942 in Paris, Sarah Starzynski was taken with her parents by the French police who were going door to door, to round up Jewish families. Sarah, who was desperate to protect her three year old brother, Michel, hides in him in their secret hiding place, and locks him up in a cupboard where she thought he would be safe. Still innocent, Sarah promises to come back for him as soon as they are released, but little did she know, she wasn’t coming back. Sixty years later, Sarah’s tragic story intertwines with that of middle aged reporter, Julia.
Most people who worked in the factories lived in the factories which had little living space, lack of proper ventilation and lack of proper hygiene (Wikipedia). Due to the poor living conditions and overcrowding people were subject to health issues and death related from communicable diseases. Along with the poor living conditions, hunger and malnutrition were common during this time. Labor laws did not exist. Workers worked long hours without breaks and children were also subjected to these cruel working conditions as they were often put to work alongside their parents.
He continues to travel to France and utilize his unique skill set to obtain the information he needs to both recover his daughter, and punish those responsible for perpetrating the crime. I enjoyed this movie very much. I had not heard or read much about the film prior to going to see it, so I didn’t have many expectations coming in. I had seen previews for it while at other movies so I had only a basic understand of the premise, but it looked promising. “Taken” starts off relatively slow as it presents the back-story and gets us up to speed on how we ended up where we are.
Case: The Managerial "Hot Seat" HCS 514 February 2, 2015 Louis Kastner Case: The Managerial "Hot Seat." Difficult people are easily ignored if we pass them on the street, in the grocery store or in a lobby. Wait, there is more, these people pester you and others, ask too many self-explanatory questions, neglect their work, and repeatedly challenge you and their peers by not coming to work, and if, with an attitude. Polices and rules are a taboo, the only thing matters is a paycheck. What makes this even worse, their interactions with staff and peers are grumpy, rude, arrogant, misinformed, and most of the time, totally inappropriate.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.