...Movie Analysis John J. Sullivan Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on, September 19, 2014, for Heidi Croatt’s G141/COM1002 Section 01 Introduction to Communication - 2014 Summer Quarter. John Sullivan [Final Draft] September 19, 2014 The movie CRASH covers thirty-six hours of encounters between people of different races. Within that thirty six-hour period, interactions between strangers turn into heated racial arguments, full of hatred, fear, compassion and understanding. The movie portrays interactions between people of different races and some of the same race, causing tension and racial slurs. The movie illustrates that whenever race is an issue conflict in communication is inevitable. Communication through facial expressions/gestures is the only form that does not seem to have a racial barrier. Communication is an important factor in everyday life. However, in the movie, crash communication between the individuals created misunderstanding aggravated by racial differences. This is displayed right away in the first seen where two cars crash. Ria, a Puerto Rican detective who was driving her car, was rear-ended by an Asian woman. The following argument ensued, (Haggis, 2004) Motorcycle Cop: Calm down, ma'am. Kim Lee: I am calm. Motorcycle Cop: I need to see your registration and insurance. Kim Lee: Why? Not my fault! It's her fault! She do this! Ria: [approaching] My fault? Motorcycle Cop: Ma'am, you really need to wait in your...
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...Write a position paragraph defending the need for gun control. The movie crash shows a need for gun control. In the beginning of the movie Farhad and Dorri go and buy a gun. When they brought the gun, they got a free box of ammunition. There was no background check done. They easily got the gun and also got a free box of ammunition. Since Farhad owned a gun, he went over to Daniel Ruiz house. Farhad’s intent was to shoot Ruiz. Ruiz’s little girl ran in front of the gun. But luckily the gun didn’t go off. This situation could have easily turned deadly. The gun could have gone off, and Farhad would have shot Ruiz’s little girl. Guns need to be harder to get a hold of. Background checks need to be done, and also free boxes of ammunition should...
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...CRASHING IN OUR OWN ZONE The film Crash (2005) directed by Paul Haggis takes place in the city of Los Angeles’ and focuses on the ethnically diverse population of the city. It puts a spotlight on the high degree of alienation amongst the groups where meaningful human contact only occurs if individuals literally ‘crash’ into one another. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a population of 3.8 million (Census, 2005); it is home to more poor people than any other urban area in the US. Approximately 20% of residents, including one of every three children, live in poverty (Census, 2005). The city is home as well to extravagant displays of wealth, mainly associated with the entertainment industry, making income inequality the most disheartening part of the Los Angeles region today. In addition to this vast social polarization there is a large immigrant population that struggles with integration, poverty and alienation. The movie is filmed as a series of vignettes focusing on the lives of several characters over a two-day period in post-9/11 America. Haggis’ characters exemplify various substantive birth cohorts and vast differences in gender, age, and class relations. These include characters of Caucasian, African American, Persian, Mexican, Korean, and Hispanic decent. He depicts these characters as forming harmful prejudices from a combination of impressions and individual beliefs toward each other as well as using stereotypes to define each other. The concepts and theoretical...
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...Chapter 3 Perception: What you see is what you get Adam Grant Dr. Mildred Charles Film Analysis April 10, 2014 About the Chapter The way we communicate relies heavily on our feelings about the world around us and how the world feels about us. These feelings can be greatly altered by correct or incorrect perceptions based on many factors. In Looking Out/Looking In, Adler and Proctor warn readers “we’re aware of only a small part of what is going on around us” (2011, p. 83). Chapter 3 of the book explores how a person’s perceptions are formed as well as how physiological, social, and cultural factors influence our perception of reality. The Perception Process is broken down into four steps: selection, organization, interpretation, and negotiation. Selection is what attracts your attention and things out of the normal are more likely to grab a person’s attention. These same abnormal things are easier to remember such as an abnormally tall or short person. After information from our environment is selected it must be organized. Figure-ground organization is a principle that describes something or someone that stands out to a person among a plethora of others items to notice. To help with organization we organize or classify people by their appearance, social roles, interaction style, psychological traits, and membership. These classifications affect how we perceive and react to people. These classifications lead to stereotyping and generalization of people. Punctuation...
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...Yvonne Lara Professor Hall Sociology 101 20 April 2015 Content Analysis Essay: “Crash” The movie Crash is a sensational film that is as much thrilling as it is tragic. The film was released in 2004 as an ensemble drama, and ended up becoming a box-office hit in the spring of 2005. The producer, Paul Haggis, not only directed the film, but was a co-writer as well. It includes enough comedy, action, suspense, and emotion that it appeals to all types of film genre fans. Moreover, Crash had a very popular cast of various types of actors, actresses, rappers, and entertainers. Crash won Best Picture at the 78th annual Academy Awards. Crash is a narrative of many different life events that affect a group of individuals who are of different races, social classes, occupations, education levels, economic statuses, and gender. The film is attempting to portray the current social structure of race, social class, and gender in Los Angeles. Almost each character in “Crash” has a connection, whether direct or indirect, with every other character. Metaphorically speaking, the narrative of the film can be compared to the Domino Effect. One domino falls, and then a chain reaction starts, and one by one, the first domino brings all the rest of them down with it. The first scene opens with Detective Graham Walters speaking. He is a black man portrayed by Don Cheadle. He says, “It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people; people bump into you....
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...not always attentive and responsible; many times the drivers can be easily distracted by friends, music, and cell phone. Although not all accidents can be prevented, if there is a possibility that rising the legal driving age to 18 can potentially decrease the number of individuals killed in motor vehicle accidents than it can only have a positive outcome. There are many individuals that have received their driver’s license at an older age and are very responsible drivers. 81,000 lost lives are a massive number of deaths that involve teen driving. While the amount of lives lost are a big factor in the need to change the legal driving age, another figure to take into account is the monetary costs of teen driving accidents. “A first-ever analysis from AAA finds that crashes involving teen drivers ages 15 to 17 cost American society more than...
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...Maquillez Glover Prof. Atkinson English 1101 7:00 28 October 2013 Textual Analysis No matter what car someone is driving, a seat belt is the most effective and safest thing to wear. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in seven people do not buckle their seat belt when entering the car, and no matter how many times those people might get tickets or hear about fatal accidents and victims involved not wearing their seat belts, those people still refuse. Seat belts can help save lives; in 2009, 33,000 people died in a car accident and 2.2 million people were injured and half of those people were not wearing a seat belt (“Policy Impact…”). Also, seventy percent of those people involved in the wrecks were driving a passenger vehicle or truck (“Policy Impact…”). Even if someone is in the back seat of the biggest pick-up truck, they need to put on their seat belt, because any crazy accident can happen. Just like in any other car, a truck is likely to flip when involved in a wreck or losing control of the vehicle. In the ad posted by Kentucky State Police, buckling up in a truck is extremely important. The ad is implying that it does not matter how tough the truck looks, as long as the person is buckled up inside, the truck with be “tougher”. On the ad it states, seat belts reduced fatalities in trucks by eighty percent. To help show that the truck would be tougher, the bed of the truck and the cab are separated, and attached to the bed is a seat...
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...Mandatory License Testing: Requiring skills testing for all drivers Every year automobile manufacturers make improvements to vehicles in order to reduce the risk and severity of occupant injury in the event of a crash. They have added automated driver support features such as backup cameras, and blind spot warning systems. Recently they have introduced collision avoidance systems which automatically apply the brakes in order to prevent impacts or lessen speed in impacts have been added. These improvements do help but crashes still occur and the other vehicles are caught up in traffic jams due to blocked lanes or motorists slowing to see what happened, and sometimes additional collisions occur in those traffic jams; only making traffic conditions worse. All of these systems fail to address the core issue, the drivers which control the vehicles. Research would suggest that all drivers should be required to take knowledge and road skills tests as part of license renewal, because it will take too long for all vehicles to have safety systems, the current license renewal procedures target the wrong driving population, and do not remove unsafe drivers from the road. The NHTSA has required that all vehicles less than 10,000 pounds have a backup camera as standard equipment by 2018 (Barth, 2014), and 20 automotive manufactures and the United States government agreed to make automated braking systems standard equipment in all cars by the year 2022 (Chappell, 2016). These improvements...
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...Written and directed by Paul Haggis, the 2005 film Crash displays a 36-hour period where multiple people’s lives tie together in Los Angeles, California. The main topic of this film is race relations. With the film being centered around such a heavy topic, it didn’t receive much media promotion. As time passed, Crash became a commercial success grossing 55 million dollars on a six and a half million-dollar budget. The film begins with Graham and Ria, two LAPD detectives, being involved in a car accident. Once that scene concludes, the film goes into past tense and introduces more characters that will have their own encounters battling with race relations. Crash makes the viewer think: Are race relations this bad? If they are, how am I perceived? Is this how others of different races are treated regularly? In one of the earlier scenes of the film, Anthony and Peter, argue over...
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...and drivers 7. Exchange information and complete the crash report 8. Tow vehicles 9. Re-establish traffic flow as soon as possible, especially on major roads and around rush hours 10. Cite the violator I would like to go over each of these and give what they mean. An officer's responsibility to conduct a motor vehicle collision investigation begins at the time he or she is directed to the collision scene. It is at that precise moment that the officer should begin to obtain as much information as it is available from the radio operator, such as type of collision, location, extent of injuries, traffic condition, etc1.then the officer should at the set speed for the department procedures of running code to a scene proceed to and secure the scene. If medical attention is needed, the officer will call it in, but assuming that there is no such need, the officer’s first job is to. This is the 1st of the 10 things we as police should do. the patrol vehicle is the first available tool to use in traffic control, other devices such as plastic traffic cones and flares can also be used. They help to channel other cars away from the scene. when the first responding officer has evaluated the injuries involved and rendered medical assistance if necessary, they should begin divert cars from the scene then he should try to get the cars out of traffic as soon as possible. But he should take a few quick photos of the crash site with them untouched. Then move the cars making sure...
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...Overview The competitive relationship between Minnesota and Wisconsin is a time tested tradition that we have all grown up knowing. From our sports teams to who has a better tourist draw, Minnesotans and Wisconsinites love to debate on who has the better state. One thing is consistent however; Minnesota and Wisconsin share a very similar pattern of weather. With that weather cycle, there inevitably will be accidents. These accidents can be caused by a number of factors, but weather is typically to blame in the majority of them. Other factors might include age, race, and gender. One thing is certain though, we believe that Minnesotans are the better drivers in inclement weather conditions and we intend to prove this through data collection and analysis. We believe that in the end, Minnesota will have the better drivers. Project Proposal Problem: Minnesotans and Wisconsinites continually complain about the weather and the drivers’ bad driving habits of the other state. We want to determine which of the two states have the most motor vehicle accidents during inclement weather conditions. We believe these accidents are due to outside conditions and that there will be a decrease in the amount of accidents during sunny conditions versus an increase in the number of accidents when there are adverse weather conditions such as overcast skies, rain storms, ice storms, or snow storms. We also believe that the age and gender of those drivers contribute to the amount of accidents. We are analyzing...
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...Towards Corporate Citizenship… In recent years, a consensus has emerged across economics, political and social sectors that emphasizes the importance of responsible operation in all spheres of corporate activity. Now accepted as a benchmark for good practice, transparent social and environmental responsibility has become an essential part of the business planning. While acknowledging the strides towards success, corporations must and will reach to a place where corporate social responsibility is at the very heart of their priorities in order for them not to operate in isolation. Local corporations who look forward to 2015 and beyond, their goal is to become a key distributor to Qatar’s national vision for 2030. In support of this, they must be known to their people, innovation, operating excellence and their corporate social responsibility through which they must set the standard for the environmental performance and attract, retain, develop and motivate a high caliber and diverse workforce. Safe products and working conditions not only attract customers but lower the internal costs of accidents. Efficient utilization of land, water, energy, and other natural resources makes business more productive. Good government, the rule of law, and property rights are essential for efficiency and innovation. Strong regulatory standards protect both consumers and competitive companies from exploitation. Ultimately, a healthy society creates expanding demand for business, as...
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...Drunk driving and devising ways to prevent it have been a long standing issue in our society, and rightfully so. However, there are individuals far worse dangerous to have behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. As reported in the American Journal of Public Health, a journal dedicated to the publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health, Dr. Fernando Wilson and Jim Stimpson, in collaboration with the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), affirm that a person that is texting while driving is 23 times more likely to be involved in a car crash than a drunk driver (2010). Between 2005 and 2008, distracted driving fatalities increased more than 28% nationwide (Stimpson & Watson, 2010). Driving while texting has become an undeniable danger as these figures support. It is for this reason, as reported in the Dallas Morning News, that Texas lawmakers recently passed a bill, 124-16, to ban texting while driving (Hoppe, 2011). This bill has now gone on to seek much needed approval from the governor, Rick Perry. With so much support coming from the Texas House, it is expected for the bill to pass. However, one must keep in mind that Governor Perry has a penchant for vetoing bills, as was evident back in 2000 when he vetoed a record 83 bills in one day (CBSDFW.com, 2011). As of right now the state of Texas currently has a no-texting policy for licensed drivers under the age of 18 and anyone driving in a school zone (Hoppe...
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...Abstract In recent years, world health organization expressed road injuries as the leading cause of death among young people. While most agree that the issue deserves attention, road traffic injuries have been neglected from the global health agenda for many years. The objective of this paper is to find out why car crashes continue to be the leading cause of deaths and life threatening injuries. Road traffic crashes cause great economic loss to victims, sufferers and their families. These losses range from the cost of treatment, including rehabilitation, to the continued quality of life of the victims in which some cannot work or can work with limited job duties. The desired goal is to find effective prevention methods to circumventthese unnecessary motor vehicle related injuries from occurring. Car Accidents World Health Organization reports every year the lives of almost 1.24 million people that are cut short as a result of road traffic crashes. As a result, it has been proven that there has been a variation in causes of death relating to road traffic crashes. Driving under the influence, distracted drivers, and aggressive driving have been shown as a cause of road traffic crashes that lead to death and life threatening injuries. According to the traffic safety administration the age range that is more likely to result in these offenses are young adults between the ages 15-44 years and male drivers as being more likely to be involved in road traffic crashes than female...
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...The Crash of the American Dream When most people think of the American Dream the first thing that comes to mind is the house with the white picket fence, the 2.5 children, a nice reliable minivan or SUV, and the dog or cat. The American Dream is really not what it used to be, and it is getting harder and harder to obtain. With the effects of the economic crisis still shaping our everyday lifestyle, there is still little to no relief. We are still dealing with no jobs, and the ones you do get don’t pay nearly enough. The price to go back to school to try to improve your work situation has become more and more expensive, and to top it off you can barely get any kind of loans because you don’t make enough. It has become this vicious circle that...
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