When Jean sees the Mexican replace all of the locks in the house, she gets angry. So, she tells Rick that she wants all the locks replaced again because she doesn’t trust the Mexican. Rick gets angry because she’s taking the whole situation too far. That showed racial stereotyping against black people. Another racial stereotype that happened in the movie is when Cameron and Christine, a black couple, are driving home from a party and a white officer pulls them over for driving “while black”.
I will explore these issues as I compare and contrast the two films. The movie Crash combines the many struggles met by today's racial stereotypes into a collection of several related social problems faced by the film's cast. The movie is set in present-day Los Angeles, a city with an ethnic mix of every race. Their stories link during two days in Los Angeles involving an assortment of characters, two car thieves who are constantly speculating on society and race, a bigoted cop and his younger partner, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter, the white district attorney and his wife, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, a Hollywood director and his wife, and a Persian immigrant father. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with many basic lessons in human nature.
During his time in the ghetto, Zeif experiences a personal transformation in which his sense of self is stripped, like his cupboard which symbolizes his ability to take care of his wife and symbolizes his humanity which is stripped by the Nazis; yet able to hold on to a sense of his own dignity at the same time. As the story unfolds, we meet the tinsmith, one of “Emperor” Rumkowski’s men, and Mr. Bluestein, Henye and Zeif’s neighbor, who helps them through their pain as their lives disintegrate. After Zeif has made several attempts to get his leaking roof repaired, finally Emperor Rumkowski, who is a leader in the Jewish community, comes to examine the roof. Instead, he takes most of the wood, leaving Zeif a board “for luck,” but the roof is still not fixed. This is an indication of Zeif’s realization that “if you have no “shoulders” (protection) you can’t get anything.” When we first meet Zeif he is in bed starving and cold.
People knew this depression as an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world. Because the depression spread so rapidly throughout the world, many people were in need of jobs and became bankrupt. In the story, Of Mice and Men, two of the characters were in search of jobs and better lives, but the Great Depression affected their search. Lennie and George, the two main characters from the story, enjoyed farming and desired a simple life. Unfortunately, these two characters also faced the obstacles of
“Black Men in Public Spaces” Summary and Response In the article" Black men in public spaces", Brent Staples, the author explains how he has been stereo-typed. Staples States he has been stereo-typed, commonly mistaken for a criminal because of his race. Staples gives examples of the situations he has gone through in his life; such as a white woman his "victim", running away when Staples was just walking behind her and people locking their car doors and houses when he walks by. Staples say people walk on the other side of the street when they see him. The author says it makes him feel uncomfortable.
The American Experience of an Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne’s letters to his parents in 1623 presents us with an abrupt image of what life as an indentured servant was like in the New World near the Virginia colonization. Frethorne’s letters are filled with vivid descriptions of his discomfort and hardships. Malnutrition, disease, threats of violence, brutal labor, isolation, and death are all common elements of Richard Frethorne’s letters and his life as an indentured servant. Most owners of indentured servants made their servants work as much as possible while spending as little as possible on the servants’ upkeep and contentment. Frethorne’s time as a servant was so brutal that he believed he would have been better off living life as a crippled beggar in his hometown of England rather than being a servant in the New World (Lauter 289).
Ethnocentrism can also be used with force in the legal system. For example, a seasoned officer sexually harasses a black woman shortly after a conversation with a different black woman, went sour. The officer judged both black woman based on stereotypical knowledge, rather than a social experience. Class has no role in race, no matter how rich or poor you are always the same skin color. In another scene, the black
Nowra has employed a variety of dramatic devices and language forms to demonstrate the themes and meaning shown throughout the play. The contextually relevant ideas and beliefs of the characters has made the play realistic, broadening the audiences views and thoughts on mental illness and contemporary issues of the 1970’s. The contrast within the play of love and fidelity and politics and social movements behind the Vietnam War creates a backdrop to explore Nowra’s thoughts on mental illness and its place in society. This helps Nowra to create the widely successful play
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck details the hardships that migrant farming families faced during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. He focuses in on the Joad family, which sets out to search for work in California after their farm in Oklahoma is foreclosed. Along the way, they face the death of family members, deal with incredibly inhumane living conditions, and struggle to earn enough money to buy food. Despite the situations under which the Joads suffer during their journey to California, they hold on to their belief in the worth of each individual, their sense of unity, and their compassion for others. The soul or essence of humanity necessitates certain beliefs and attitudes, and the Joads persevere by means of the retention of these central ideas of value, unity, and compassion.
Out of all the various types of art shown in this lecture, the Harlem Renaissance intrigued me the most. My all time favorite painting is, Slavery through Reconstruction, Aspects of Negro Life Series. The work of Aaron Douglas is absolutely stunning. This particular painting looks like a celebration of the African culture. Especially, their success in overcoming the terrifying obstacles they were faced with.