Movie Extra Credit During the winter break I watched the movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper‚ James Earl Jones‚ and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan‚ West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay‚ but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and
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Critical writing 6: The Interrupters The Interrupters tells the moving and powerful stories of three Violence Interrupters who attempt to protect and improve their Chicago communities from the violence they used to be in. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin. After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children‚ he created Ceasefire‚ operating from the reasonable premise that violence is‚ fundamentally‚ a public health
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Blue is the favorite color of all people. It’s nature’s color for water and sky‚ but is rarely found in fruits and vegetables. Today‚ blue is embraced as the color of heaven and authority‚ denim jeans and corporate logos. It is cold‚ wet‚ and slow as compared to red’s warmth‚ fire‚ and intensity. Blue has more complex and contradictory meanings than any other color. These can be easily explained by pinpointing by the specific shade of blue. Bright blue: cleanliness‚ strength‚ dependability
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Deaf Culture Film Analysis 1) I personally found the film on deaf culture extremely interesting because it made the deaf community easier to understand by portraying people who are deaf simply as people of a different culture‚ and showed the deaf as real human beings who have opinions and deserve rights which is important because we live in such a hearing dominated society in which our world is filled with so many misconceptions about the deaf. I enjoyed the film because it gave me a deeper understanding
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The 1986 film "Sixteen Candles" tells a timeless tale of growing up in suburban America. The film’s star‚ Sam‚ played by Molly Ringwald‚ wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when she was fifteen‚ but her family is so preoccupied with her older sister’s wedding that they forget her birthday altogether. The film opens with Sam on the phone with her best girlfriend Randy. She
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at first is the colour‚ blue. Blue is known as the coolest colour. The reason blue is my favorite reason is that of all the colors in the spectrum blue compliments almost all other colors. Blue is the master of backdrops. Interestingly‚ blue is the color of the universe and nature such as sky‚ ocean‚ sleep‚ twilight. Besides that‚ blue is the color of inspiration‚ sincerity‚ modernatization and spirituality. Blue is often the chosen color by conservative people. Blue is the calming color that
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Power Outages Louis Armstrong’s “Black and Blue” uses simple questions for someone to recognize both he and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man are comparable. To be comfortable and confident in your own skin is a recurring problem for people of color and seems to always be brought up in today’s society. Louis Armstrong goes on to say that “his only sin is his skin” and asks “how will it end?” (Armstrong). Different skin tones have separated all humans to a point of no belonging. Invisible is convinced
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Erskine 23 February 2013 Intro to English 120 Literary Analysis Essay 1 The Leading Conflicts in “Sonny’s Blues” In this Literary Analysis Essay I will be analyzing a story called “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin. This story is one that many may be able to relate to in there day to day life. Struggle‚ hardship‚ and family are all things involved in this story. There are many struggles between both characters and their family. In “Sonny’s Blues‚” both the narrator and his brother‚ Sonny‚ are in extreme
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Sonny Phan 5/7/12 Politics of China Second Paper In the film “China Blue”‚ a seventeen year old girl‚ Jasmine Li‚ works in a Chinese jeans factory. From this documentary we learn about the pay Jasmine was receiving for her hard work‚ half a Yuan an hour which is equal to about six US cents. We also learn about the condition of the factory and dorms‚ the rules that the workers have to abide to‚ and how important these factories are. From just these sweat shops we learn about the economic‚ social
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Jet Blue has an opportunity to remain cutting edge in the airline industry by continuing to be low-cost and expanding carrier. A great market for Jet Blue to expand to would be towards the Caribbean’s. As well as possibly lobbying Washington to lift travel sanctions in Cuba‚ which at one point was a major vacation getaway for Americans. This opportunity fits into Jet Blues current business model of short distance flights at a lower cost than the competition. Jet Blue is a shinning star in the
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