producer Sembene Ousmane is a very emotional and inspiring movie. At the beginning of the movie girls are made to have female genital mutilation done which they know is very dangerous and painful. When four little girls run away from a purification ceremony where they get cut‚ they escape to Colle‚ a woman who refused to have her own daughter Amasatou circumcised. Colle Ardo is an everyday hero in Burkina Faso and by the end of the movie she saves the girls from having to get female genital mutilation
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that it does not matter. Alex also decides that she does not want to resume taking medicines or have an operation. The movie has a quite heavy subject; hermaphrodite. It is also the first movie with this subject‚ but the movie handles this subject in a perfect way. The movie is not too heavy‚ the subject of the movie is already heavy enough. This is a very strong point of this movie. The sex of Alex is based upon biological criteria; ‘boy’ and ‘girl’‚ her chromosomal typing is; XXY. The environment
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studying Criminal Justice at South Piedmont Community College to be a police officer‚ and currently testing for my 2nd Dan black belt. Tae Kwon - Do was and has still remained a large part of my life through the four years since I started as an unauthentic‚ shy‚ and pretty much lacking a lot of‚ if not no‚ self esteem. Now‚ only year after receiving my 1st Dan black belt‚ have I really started to take the steps into the art that is Tae Kwon - Do. Since last year‚ I have started coming
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Silvia Aguila Hr.3 Though out Black Boy the role of hunger evoked many different emotions in Richard and more or less shaped him personality though out his childhood and made him conform to being this kid that is forced to grow up faster than what his age is. Throughout the series of unfortunate events‚ beginning with with his father leaving‚ which primarily starts the hunger theme‚ Richard not only experience’s physical hunger but also emotional and educational hunger where he was beaten and never
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Gallipoli‚ an Australian film developed in 1981 has met its share of praise and criticism. Depicting World War I especially the war at Gallipoli in 1915. The movie has twisted up events and portraying scenes in a much more intense scenario‚ we as viewers can identify the similarities and differences scattered throughout the movie. I believe that this film is only a near accurate representation of the conditions. Some say that the film does not entirely focus on the war. But rather tells us about
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GATTACA‚ a movie representing the flaws in the human code and having the option to have the perfect human being‚ takes place in a dystopian genre where the director Andrew Niccol takes our interpretation of the world and makes it a perfect society in the movie. The main character Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space‚ but is grounded by his status as an "in-valid". He is told in the beginning of his life that he will only live upto the age of 30 causing him to be
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The first part of this movie highlighted the people of Legos who are currently living and working in the local Olusosum dump. This city within a city of sorts‚ is filled with citizens making their livelihoods by sorting through the trash to resell the valuables found. This is a densely populated area experienced rapid expansion‚ even with the unfavorable‚ dangerous and unhealthy conditions. Throughout this movie two specific people were highlighted and followed on their daily journey. The two men
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“Nell” During our linguistics’ classes we watched “Nell”‚ a movie about the discovery of a Doctor who found a young woman that lived isolated in the middle of a forest. In the movie we could watch how she has to face for the first time to other people and the way that she uses to communicate. This woman was like a little wild girl whose mother‚ for some reason‚ went to live in an isolated cabin‚ far from civilization. That woman‚ Nell’s mother‚ suffered from paralysis in half of her face‚ so
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Glory movie review The 1989 movie Glory by Edward Zwick is about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry army for the Union army during the civil war. The movie was about a federal army that was one of the first African American armies and the hardships the endured due to their race. Throughout the movie the soldiers are first given small manual tasks but then are finally able to fight in the war. The movie shows how the men were trained to fight in combat but how they were given little supplies
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In the 1997 movie‚ Gattaca‚ Vincent Freeman is an invalid born into a valid world. This means his parents decided not to pick and choose the ideal genes in the process of conceiving him‚ causing Vincent to be born with heart problems‚ asthma‚ and myopia. He then makes the decision to become Jerome Eugene Morrow and pass himself off as valid in order to achieve his dream of traveling into space. In the movie‚ there is a clear divide between the valids and invalids‚ revealing many connections to sociology
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