FILM STUDY GUIDE: BILLY ELLIOT : As we go back over the film‚ scene by scene. Summary. The Miners Strike Lee Hall‚ the writer of Billy Elliot‚ set his screenplay in a mining village in the north east of England‚ during the Miners Strike of 1984. He sees the strike as ’…a class war where the state was mobilised against a small group of people. It left me with a sense of indignation which has fuelled much of my work.’ Billy’s father and his brother Tony are both miners so the family are under tremendous
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A Reaction on Jane Elliot Experiments Jane Elliott is an American former third-grade schoolteacher‚ anti-racism activist‚ and educator‚ as well as a feminist and LGBT activist. She is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" experiment. After watching Jane Elliott’s experiments‚ I came to the realization that it doesn’t matter what group we belong in we are ALL racist. Blacks against Whites‚ Whites against Blacks‚ Hispanics against Whites‚ Whites against Hispanics‚ etc.…the list goes on and on. The fact
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For instance‚ when Mr. Elliot tells his wife how he learned to kiss he said he “learned that way of kissing from hearing a fellow tell a story once” (Hemingway 86). Just taking a second and logically thinking about what that means‚ one most likely cannot learn how to kiss through a story‚ but actual practice. So the assumption can be made that Mr. Elliot learned to kiss through practice with another “fellow‚” so other man. Therefore‚ hinting at possible previous homosexual encounters. Even the
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Larry Wolff. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment. Stanford‚ Calif.: Stanford University Press‚ 1994. xiv + 419 pp. Maps‚ notes‚ and index. $45.00 (cloth)‚ ISBN 0-804-72314-1. Reviewed by Thomas J. Hegarty‚ University of Tampa. Published by HABSBURG (July‚ 1995) In a book based on an extraordinarily rich array of fascinating sources‚ including eighteenthcentury Western European travelers’ accounts of trips to Eastern Europe‚ maps and atlases drawn
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longue durée of the relationship between science and religion‚ the progressivists declared it a war” (36). The Church believed the earth was flat according to the historians‚ but it was a myth‚ explained by Jeffrey Burton Russell‚ the author of Inventing Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. Russell‚ a former professor of History at the University of California‚ Santa Barbara‚ has published seventeen books in the field of history of theology. The achievements and the past studies of Russell
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Pierre Elliot Trudeau: A Successful Prime Minister A great Prime Minister should always do what is right for Canada‚ no matter what obstacles he or she faces. Looking at the fifteen years he was in power‚ Pierre Elliot Trudeau did exactly that. For instance‚ he implemented the Official Languages Act and made bilingualism law. In another case‚ he put an end to the October Crisis by putting into effect the War Measures Act. Finally‚ Trudeau amended the Constitution which gave
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Adidas roped in the image of Missy Elliot to its brand in 2002 to cater to the new market segment of 12-24 that needed a cool theme to go with the product rather than the utility of the product. Adidas being in the apparel business made more sense if they combined their product with style and fashion and Missy Elliot was the Hip-Hop goddess of the time which had a strong influence on urban style and fashion. Adidas was successful in connecting footwear to style‚ style to music‚ music to a diva and
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desired meaning which Elliot wished to describe. While the poem creates a certain dreary and hopeless outlook on life‚ the epigraph could be seen as a prelude for what is to come. Yet in my own opinion I feel that Elliot is rather attempting to clarify his poem’s meaning. I found it very interesting that Elliot places the poem in the first person and as the reader we are an intricate part of the work. It almost comes as a rude awakening that "we are the hollow men" (Elliot 2628). I think that
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Billy Elliot is an eleven year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and into ballet lessons. He learns to deal with many trials and triumphs as he hopes to change his family’s set ways and the inner conflict between them. Billy lives in a small cramped house with his bad-tempered brother‚ out of control father and his forget-ful grand-mother. All Billy wants to do is dance but Billy is told by his father that “boys wrestle; boys don’t dance”. But Billy loves to dance. This disappoints
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The problems that had the most effect on Billy Elliot were his family’s poverty‚ his mother’s recent death‚ his father and brother’s behavior. First‚ Billy was pressured by his family’s lack of income. The Elliot’s poverty was apparent in their living situation. Their house was in poor condition and it was too small for the family‚ which caused Billy to have to sleep in the same room with his brother. Also‚ the Elliot’s lack of income was only getting worse since Jackie and Tony were on strike.
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