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My Uncle Vinny
The following movies that I decide on were Straight Outta Compton “NWA” Directed by F. Gary Gray and My Cousin Vinny Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Both films have their differences as NWA faces police harassment in 1987, and later caught the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to put a stop to discriminating local police officer. But in NWA reasons were to inform the people about police brutality and racial profiling, and in its lyrics quickly said consider the use of violence against police. While My Uncle Vinny film displays a good case of the relationship between language and context in verbal communication.
A gang called NWA begins in the streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s, had transformed the way of culture on Hip Hop culture with their music and stories about life in
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and the Posse, was a party-oriented jam record that mainly went ignored upon its 1987 release. The following year, the group added MC Ren and developed an album that caught the attention law enforcement and citizens, Straight Outta Compton was a vicious hardcore hip-hop record that became an underground hit with almost no support from radio, the press, or MTV. N.W.A became infamous for their hardcore lyrics, especially with the words that was in their one of their song’s "Fuck tha Police," which resulted in the FBI sending a warning letter to Ruthless and its parent company, Priority, suggesting that N.W.A should watch their step.
The movie My Cousin Vinny, is about two friends from New York, traveling to California to attend college. Billy Gambini and Stan Rothenstein head south to take advantage of warmer weather in January, and while in countryside Alabama. They stop at a convenience store to stock up on food for the journey. Later Billy unintentionally shoplifts a can of tuna fish, they are stopped by local law enforcement, armed with a shotgun, who orders them out of the car with their hands up. And for only shoplifting a cheap can of tuna

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