If this had been the case‚ Brandon would! have never been in the bar trying to get out of town and thus would have never met John Lotter‚ his eventual assailant. INSIGHTS What a powerful role for Hilary Swank to pull off. From what I understand from documentaries and other information related to Brandon Teena‚ this movie was profoundly similar to the circumstances that took place. I have a few qualms however regarding the actions of Brandon Teena in the film
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In the stories Don’t Give Up The Fight and Making Sarah Cry The both share a theme of being different. In Don’t Give Up The Fight Ava is different because all the people on her team are boys and she is the only girl. In the story Making Sarah Cry Sarah gets made fun because she looks different than everyone else. Even though these stories share a common theme of being different they are two completely different stories. For example the characters in the story handled their situations differently
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Hands Up Don’t Shoot The Hands Up Don’t Shoot painting is a 48x48 inch piece of art located in the Portland Art Museum and was painted by Arvie Smith‚ recently in 2015. This abstract work is one of the many oil paintings by Smith that depicts his emotions of the way African Americans are treated in modern society. This vibrant piece is full of detail and many unified subjects that it’s difficult to learn its depth by just viewing it for a few seconds. While looking through the museum for the first
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I never wanted any of this. You know that‚ right? I didn’t choose any of this.Where do you think evil comes from? Do you think people decide to be bad? Do you think the devil knows who he is? Do you think it’s all his fault? I didn’t choose to be this way‚ okay? I need you to know that. But I also need you to know that I don’t regret this. Pleading not guilty doesn’t always mean you didn’t do it. In this piece‚ an 18 year old girl on trial for murder decides to defend not the fact that she murdered
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Stephanie Rennie Class Project 2 March 27‚ 2012 Boys Don’t Cry The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense‚ sad‚ and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank‚ is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community. Gender identity disorder
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addresses what he feels to be an important issue in today’s contemporary American society. Why are we so afraid to speak up when we have a problem? Though consideration of the message is written‚ which is a fairly simple piece to read and understand the closer look in
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temperature the people around him told him not to bring it up. Why ‚ because american shy from conflicts in general. The next example was a movie‚ which was out of focus a simple moving of the film could have fixed it‚ and all someone had to do was ask to get it fixed but everyone hoped someone else would do it. They get out of the
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Panic” is a pessimistic/optimistic song that can be especially shown in some lines of the lyrics. The pessimistic side of the song shown by “Bones sinking like stones” expresses that we are all going to go through some sort of suffering that we will have to endure. This line relates to a part of my life as a child living in New York‚ which was the suffering that my family and I endured caused by the abusive father we had. The abuse caused scars that ran deep in all of us‚ but those scars were only
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“I Have a Dream” Literary Analysis The American Civil Rights Movement Leader Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered his infamous “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28‚ 1963‚ during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom‚ in Washington D.C. This speech has arguably become one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century and argues for equal rights for all mankind. The “I Have a Dream” speech compares different situations from 100 years ago to now‚ for African Americans. 100 years ago‚ on January
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Lana‚ who accept and love individuals who belong to the LGBTQ community‚ and who strive to make them feel more included in society (Boys Don’t Cry). Kimberly Peirce does a great job informing the audience about the stigma and abuse transgender people have to face from other members of the society through Brandon’s experiences with verbal‚ physical‚ and emotional abuse (Boys Don’t Cry). In the movie‚ Brandon Teena‚ born Teena Brandon‚ was a transman from Lincoln‚ Nebraska (Boys Don’t Cry). While he
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