and childlike; her manner appears to be cold and appraising‚ judging the audience from a throne‚ however her physical features and small face denote a sense of innocence and immaturity which has been corrupted. The 1934 film Cleopatra starring Claudette Colbert is not the aggressive and domineering femme fatale like Bara’s Cleopatra; instead she seems breathlessly emotional. In this film the struggle for political power in Egypt is disregarded. Cleopatra’s only object seems to be finding love‚ being
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This is the story about how Claudette Colvin and how she stood up for herself and Her whole community. This involves many hardships and struggle for Colvin and her family. It also describes how she is living today. Claudette Colvin was born on September 5‚ 1939 in Alabama. Claudette is well known for a few things but this is the most important. On March 2nd 1955 she refuses to move seats for a white woman and is punished. She was drug off the bus by the police and brought to jail. She became one
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“B4 Rosa – Here I Stand‚” “Najee Dorsey.” Claudette Colvin was fifteen-years-old when she refused to give up her bus seat. A young girl living in Montgomery was one of first to come in contact with bus segregation and refuse‚ but not many people know that. “Black leaders believed her young age‚ complexion and low social standing did not make for a strong face for the Civil Rights Movement‚ so her act went largely unrecognized.” (Rushworth) Her age played a huge role in many reasons why she wasn’t
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follow certain belief or to purchase certain items. In this case‚ I watched three videos and I’ll be arguing how the rhetoric (ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos) were used in each video. In the first video‚ “Drunk History- Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks‚” a woman explains the story of Claudette Colvin‚ a girl who was kicked off of a bus after she refused to give her seat up to a white passenger. While rhetoric isn’t used to persuade the viewers‚ it is used in the content of the video. Ethos is used when the
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activist changed the world in one sort if way. Those teen activists are Malala Yousafzai‚ Anne Frank‚ and Claudette Colvin. They all changed the world in at least one kind of way. Malala Yousafzai changed the world by making girls go to school. Anne Frank didn’t really “change” the world but she gave us a different perspective; by telling us how the Nazi’s treated the jews. Claudette Colvin changed the world by giving more right to African Americans. This girl is a legend she survived a shot in
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to the Civil Rights movement‚ specifically the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ two of the most popular names that are discussed are Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Rosa Parks. Very seldom do you hear about Ralph Abernathy‚ Edgar Daniel Nixon‚ Fred Gray‚ Claudette Colvin‚ and JoAnn Robinson. Those people also played major roles in the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. From coming up with the idea of the boycott to making new organizations for the African American population to join. Without their activism
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a great quantity of tools‚ but the preponderance is rhetorical appeals. In the videos‚ “Drunk History – Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks”‚ “Drunk History – John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson”‚ and “Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere”‚ the usage of logos‚ pathos and ethos varies‚ resulting in each video having a different impact. To begin with‚ the video “Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” by Comedy Central is very appealing. One of the most obvious rhetorical appeals instantly
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was four women in particular — Aurelia Browder‚ Susie McDonald‚ Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith — who served as plaintiffs in the legal action challenging Montgomery’s segregated public transportation system. It was their case — Browder v. Gayle — that a district court and‚ eventually‚ the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down segregation on buses. Probably the most well-known of the four plaintiffs was Claudette Colvin. A 15-year old student at Booker T. Washington High School‚ she
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civic duties of black women and girls are defined differently within the texts. This analysis draws forth the important commentary that each of the texts highlight on the images of black women and citizenship.[MH1] In Phillip Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice‚Hoose
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being the following: Claudette Colvin‚ who was the first African American to sit in the white section of a bus. The second Drunk History video‚ was over the argument of the constitution and the race for the 1800 presidential election of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The third video discusses the “bullshit” that media portrays to us‚ the people. Giving them an insight on how to control the amount of
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