Thesis Essay On Religion In a 2003 movie called Bend It Like Beckham‚ the main character is an 18 year old‚ Indian girl named Jesminder Bhamra‚ who is born into the Sikh religion and wants to be a top soccer player. Unfortunately‚ that means she would have to go against the traditional customs of not only her culture but her religion as well. When Jess is giving the opportunity to achieve her goals of playing on a women’s soccer team‚ her sister’s wedding seems to oppose her ultimate goal. Every
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Analytical Essay - Bend It Like Beckham In the movie bend it like Beckham‚ the discourses relating to sexuality and gender shows how the social expectations of women interfere with their desires and roles in society‚ and this creates a demarcation between family members. It also suggests how homosexuality has become a big part of the modern society‚ but that the prejudice and negativity associated with both of the adolescent girls in the film‚ Jess and Jules and the fact that they love soccer
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English Essay (prejudice) In the two texts Deadly Unna? written by Phillip Gwyne and Bend It Like Beckham directed by Gurinda Chadra the theme of prejudice is significantly explored. Deadly Unna? is the story of a young boy Blacky who is made to overcome prejudice in his small town of the Port. Bend it like Beckham is set in London and is the story of Jess a young Indian girl whose infatuation is football‚ much to her parent’s discontentment. The key theme of prejudice is greatly explored in both
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Lana Sara IB English HL Ms. Terry May 18th‚ 2014 “Bending” the Rules Cultural clashes are common in our world today. When two cultures come together‚ it would become difficult to integrate without losing original traditional and cultural values. Cultural clashes affect the lives of the younger and older generation by changing their personal views‚ which causes conflicts. The younger generation would have to incorporate the values of another culture‚ while still maintaining their cultural identity
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herself to become leader‚ even though her grandfather opposed. However something that sets the Whale Rider plot apart from Bend It Like Beckham was the heavy focus on the Maori culture. The Maori culture has a heavy influence in this story which also leads the Paikea into making the necessary decisions about her leadership. Although there were many contrasts‚ Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider shared many similarities between their individual plots. One similarity between plots was that both of the
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Depends on the Attitude of the author‚ producer or publisher when it comes to looking at certain issues or points relating into the world. What we don’t realise in the 21st century is that year 12 students studying supplementary material in standard English may find it difficult to understand and come to terms with it. ‘Educating Rita’ was voted ‘Best Comedy of the year’ when performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1980. By 1983 it had risen to be the fourth most popular play on the British
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Bend it like Beckham and Educating Rita could relate in these ways • In Bend it like Beckham the Indian tradition of women getting married‚ having children and taking on domestic duties-e.g. cooking etc. relates to Rita how she is expected to live in the same sort of way but wants to break away from that social status and live her own life. • The scene where Jesminder first plays soccer with the team. The coach asks her "where do you play?" and she replies "in the park.” It shows her naivety this
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Report for Cultural Understanding The main aim of this report is to describe‚ analyze and understand Indian culture and integration Indians with British culture in a connection to movie: “Bend it like Beckham”. The aim is also to assign every character to stage of intercultural sensitivity and define what kind of cultural development is possible for each of them. Findings: Jess: In my opinion she is on the fifth level of intercultural learning‚ she adapts to the british culture‚ she knows
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Bend It Like Beckham Dir. Gurinder Chadha‚ UK/Germany 2002‚ Certificate 12A Introduction Bend It Like Beckham was one of the surprise hits of 2002‚ making over £11‚000‚000 at the UK Box Office and hitting a chord with a range of audiences at cinemas. A vibrant and colourful British comedy about a young girl from a Sikh family who desperately wants to play football against the wishes of her traditional parents‚ the film can be seen to follow the path of other recent British-Asian films such as
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Many films revolve around a challenge for the main character. The challenge Gurinder Chadha’s character‚ Jess Bhamra faces in ‘bend it like Beckham’ is to choose between her family and her love of football. This challenge is presented through the techniques of props‚ dialogue‚ and costumes. The director used props effectively to portray the challenge Jess is to face between the clash of football and Jess’s Indian heritage. This is shown effectively when Jess is practicing her football skills using
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