...Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. Three simple words that helped shaped an era that brought some of the greatest movies, such as The Godfather, Jaws, and The Taxi Driver. In the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind takes us on a bumpy and wild ride of the era that challenged new ideas to young filmmaker’s that stimulated an edgier movie industry. This book is compelled of hundreds of interviews, with directors, stars, agents, and even one night stands. It tells the up close and personal story in way that celebrities never talked about drugs, sex, and money and the repercussions. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is remarkable in the way that gave us an understanding and behind the scenes of Hollywood’s last golden age. “The 70s were the first time that a kind of age restriction was lifted. Young people were allowed to come rushing in with all of their naïveté and their wisdom and the privileges of youth. It was just an avalanche of new ideas, which is why the 70s were such a watershed” (Biskind 15). A small low budget biker movie made in 1969 sparked the new era of movies, known as Easy Rider. This movie was a shock but a huge success to Hollywood for the fact it was made with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry. Once Easy Rider was successful a new breed of directors were in demand, such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese. This book contains so much research and extensive interviews of not only the directors, but...
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...Whale Rider In the novel The Whale Rider, by Witi Ihimaera, we learn about the Maori tribe from Whangara of New Zealand. They believe that the first person to come to their land was brought by a whale. They believe that this man was the Whale Rider. Being the Whale Rider is the passing of the tribal torch of leadership. When a girl is born, the first grandchild of that generation, her great-grandfather Koro is terribly disappointed. He doesn't acknowledge the possibility that she could be the one to take over leadership. However, even though Kahu is a girl, she was born with the gifts known to tribal heritage, such as being able to talk to the whales. Kahu is the eldest great-grandchild of Koro. Unfortunately, because Kahu is a female her great-grandfather has no interest in her because he is only focused on finding the next leader of the tribe. Kahu showers Koro with love, but does so continuously dismissing her abilities. Kori stays focused on continuing his classes for the males in the tribe and searches for “the one”. Spirited, young spirited Kahu, is also a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara but is not eligible for head role. Although being the great-grandchild of Koro means she should be able to overtake the leadership of the tribe, but unfortunately the tradition imagines a boy for this position. Therefore, she is not allowed to follow her determination or display her gifts. This situation leads to constant conflict with Koro who would surely have preferred a boy...
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...Douglas Salayka Prof. Major Easy Rider Easy rider was a film I couldn’t understand. I have to say I didn't like it. I somewhat respect what the film did for the industry but still I cant full respect it for the scenes of them having sex at the graveyard. That was a bit to much for me. The movie starts out with a cocaine deal, The 2 main characters then wanted to use the money and jet. The scenes of them riding around on motorcycles used music from the time like Born to be wild. At that time it was very new to be using tracks like that in films. For that reason I give the movie bonus points because it did something nobody ever really did at the time. So the 2 men on the road trip find themselves in all sorts of trouble. The film actually used real drugs in the scenes that depicted them using cocaine and marijuana. To me that's crazy, but I know Dennis hopper had to do with this as he was a user at the time. I even read that Jack Nicholson actually came out and said it was real marijuana that he smoked. In class we touched upon why Jack Nicholson died but the other men didn't. I think we came to a consensus that it was just luck that they survived a bit longer but I still don't get that. The biggest thing I want to talk about is the drug tripping scene in the graveyard. Hopper didn't get permission or anything to film there and they were basically having sex on the tombstone of a dead child. If something like this happened now the media would be all over it saying how unforgiving...
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...Empathic Response – Whale Rider – Kahu In this empathic response, I will be giving an insight into one of the main characters’ feelings in the book “The Whale Rider” by Witi Ihimaera. This character is Kahu, Koro Apirana’s great-granddaughter. I will be responding to the part in the book, when Kahu rides the whale. “Why? Kahu asked Koro Apirana. ‘Our ancestor wants to die.’ ‘ But why?’ ‘There is no place for it here in this world. The people who commanded it are no longer here.’ He paused. ‘When it dies, we die, I die.’ ‘No, Paka. And if it lives?’ ‘Then we live also.’ I plunged into the frigid waters with only one thought in my mind. I have to take action. If the ancient one dies, every single one of us will disappear. That’s what Paka said. I really don’t know what to think. I can’t bear the thought that my dear Paka and my family would cease to exist. I don’t even care about my own fate, as long as they are safe, I’ll be happy. Everything that has happened so far, the two hundred sacred whales dying has led to this, the very whale that our ancestor rode thousands of years ago has decided to wash up on our shores. This time, he has the intention of self-slaughter, which basically means it’s a sign that we humans are all going to die. Right now, nobody is even trying to do something about it. Every now and then, I had to take a deep breath because the waves were like dumpers, slamming me down to the sandy bottom. The lights from the beach were dazzling my eyes, making...
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...The Whale Rider This movie really grabbed me right from the beginning of the story. The story begins with the birth of fraternal twins, with the grandfather patiently awaiting the birth of the son. Right away I felt sadness when the mother and one of the twins die. The boy dies and the girl survives. The grandpa seems to not care about the girl who survived . He was longing for his grandson because he is from the Maori tribe and the tribe is waiting for the sign of a new chief to be born . The chief would lead the village and its community to greatness. Many elders have been born but none with the strength to be the next chief. The little girl was named Pai. The grandma of Pai took her home to raise her along with the grandfather. The grandfather showed right away that women or girls where less than a man. He longed for a new chief. This was grandpa’s goal in life right now. He could see that their tribe was going down hill. He had hoped one of his son’s would become the chief but neither one did. So grandpa was set on his grandson becoming the next Chief. It was no secret that he blamed Pia for the death of his grandson. He felt by her birth she gave a curse to the tribe. He couldn’t see any truth or purpose in her having life over the grandson. He showed resentment toward her. As time went on , Pia seemed to be this stubborn, curious, and smart little tomboy. The grandfather...
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...environment. This saying is evident for Paikea in Whale Rider, as she is the only survivor during a birth difficulty and she has to live knowing her loving grandfather is upset that the boy hadn’t survived. Environment for individuals are unique and diverse just like snowflakes, there will never be one the same as the other. In Whale Rider, environments that are evident in the film were when Paikea rode the whale, only a baby girl was born, and when Koro believed there was no hope for the Apriana family’s continuity. In the whale rider, Paikea was about to leave her hometown until she felt as if the whales were calling back. Spiritually, she felt destined to stay to live her legacy. When the Apriana family noticed various beached whales washed up on the shore, they all made an extensive effort to try and drag them back to the water, but all attempts failed. Later, Paikea came and tried to help but Koro told her not to because he thought even her presence was not helping. After Koro and the rest of the family left the detrimental scene, Paikea stayed and mounted the largest whale. She tried talking to the whale and it started to breath and eventually made its way back in the ocean with Paikea, leading the other beached whales. A spiritual environment is happening while she is riding the whale in the sea. “My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the whale rider. I'm not a prophet, but I know that our people will keep...
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...Whale Rider Themes In the film the Whale Rider, the once complimentary narratives that governed the Maori culture: Gender, Identity, and Traditions are competing against one another. The fundamental elements of these narrative has stayed unchanged; However, some characters are interpreting these liturgies to their own personal narratives, causing conflict within the Maori Culture. Synopsis of film During a time of modernization, poverty, and the decentralization of the role the Maori culture play in the people lives, one local leader (Koro) looked upon Hope in a form of a prophet. According to the Maori's traditions, the ancient ancestor Paikea descendants: the eldest son are the rightful tribe leader and will centralize the community again...
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...English – Empathic Response Essay In this empathic response, I will be giving an insight into one of the main characters’ feelings in the book “The Whale Rider” by Witi Ihimaera. This character is Kahu, Koro Apirana’s great-granddaughter. A deep emotional understanding of the text pages 100-102 shall be demonstrated in this text through her perspective. I must save the whale, my sacred ancestor; otherwise everyone that I love will perish. Daddy, Ana, Nani, Rawiri, Paka. Paka. Oh, Paka. I plunged into the agitated, frigid waters with only one thought in my mind. I have to take action. If the ancient one dies, every single one of us will disappear. That’s what Paka said. I really don’t know what to think. I can’t bear the thought that my dear Paka and my family would cease to exist. I don’t even care about my own fate – as long as they are safe, I’ll be happy. Everything that has happened so far, the two hundred sacred whales dying has led to this – the very whale that our ancestor rode thousands of years ago has decided to wash up on our shores. This time, he has the intention of self-slaughter, which basically means it’s a sign that we humans are all going to die. Right now, nobody is even trying to do something about it. Except for me. I, Kahutia Te Rangi, direct descendant of Paikea, won’t let this happen to my loved ones. I’m going to have to try and save Whangara by sacrificing myself to the whale. If the whale lives, we live. My line of vision narrowed down...
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...Henry Rider Haggard By Grayson Parker H Rider Haggard(Henry Rider Haggard) was born in the 22nd of june in the year 1856 in Bradenham Norfolk, England and died in Marylebone London,England the 14th of May in the year 1925 and his ashes are buried at St Mary’s Church. Haggard was an english writer and wrote a lot of adventure novels such as; She, and the novel which he is most famous for called King Solomon's Mines and other great adventure novels as well.H Rider Haggard attended Garsington Oxfordshire to study H.J.Graham, although unlike his older brothers who attended multiple private universities Henry Rider Haggard attended Ipswich Grammar School.Henry’s father did not allow him to go to a private school because he believed that Henry would not amount to much unlike his brothers and he was also unable to pay to further his education at the private school do to it being so unaffordable.In the year 1876...
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...What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics? • How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions? • What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film? Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. The Freedom Riders Film - The Young Witness http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/freedom-riders-vol-1#fbid=9wgq-FoiKSY I choose my paper on The Freedom Riders, which is about the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives; many endured savage beatings and imprisonment for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. I choose The Freedom Riders Film, The Young Witness which is about the response of one young Southerner to her community's violent confrontation with the Freedom Riders in May 1961. Janie Forsyth, a 12-year-old girl living on the outskirts of Anniston, Alabama, was moved to assist...
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...Christina Glenn Sociology 10:15 Mary Hewitt Extra Credit Freedom Riders Extra Credit On May 4, 1961 a group of seven blacks, and six whites from the group C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality) boarded two buses in Washington DC. They planned to travel to New Orleans, Louisiana with the intentions of testing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boynton v. Virginia which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. The riders were a peaceful, loving group of people wanting to bring justice and freedom to the South. Initially, the riders encountered minor hostility. However, the deeper south they travelled, they were met with hostility. The police chief of Birmingham, Bull Connor saw the Freedom Ride as a challenge to his authority in the city. He ordered his officers to look the other way, while one bus of riders was severely beaten and the other bus was burned after being attacked by several dozen whites. Eventually, with the intervention of the U.S. Justice Department, most of CORE's Freedom Riders were evacuated from Birmingham, Alabama to New Orleans. The freedom riders played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement. While Rosa Parks may have initiated equal rights back in 1955, the freedom riders took it to the next level. They brought racism in the United States to the attention of the entire world. When news of The Freedom Riders stories hit the newspapers, and airway, it showed other countries the injustices that were put on African-American...
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...The general population transport and convenience dominated instruction endeavors to make joining in different zones, yet moves against isolation in broad daylight transportation did pick up more extensive notification. In 1955 to 1956, after Rosa Parks dark lady who decline to give her seat to a white man, suffuse Dr. Lord to lead demographic blacks in Montgomery, Alabama in a blacklist against the metropolitan transport framework. The blacklist was conveyed to a fruitful conclusion when, on November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court invalidated the laws of Alabama and the regulation of Montgomery that required isolation on transports mixing gatherings of whites and blacks, called Freedom Riders. In May, 1961, attempted a battle to constrain reconciliation in transport terminals and challenge isolation in neighborhood interstate travel offices. In Anniston, Alabama, the crowds assaulted the transports wrecking them with firebombs. There were mobs in Birmingham and Montgomery when blacks endeavored to utilize...
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...segments served by AtlanticRider.com is horse enthusiasts and riders based out of Atlantic Canada. With regards to the VALS system, the typical AtlanticRider.com member would be assigned as Makers, who are defined as action-oriented and tend to focus their energy on self-sufficiency. Often found working on their cars, canning their own vegetables, or building their own houses. (Solomon, Zaichkowsky & Polegato, 2011, p. 191). However, in this instance, the members would be more concerned with working with their horses, their horse-related equipment and associated activities, rather than cars, vegetables and house construction. The self-sufficient aspect of these members would be primarily based off their own interest and benefits from the resources available from AtlanticRider.com for their own horses and horse-related activities. There are also bound to be some Strivers among the members, who are defined as people who tend to be concerned with the approval of others (Solomon, Zaichkowsky & Polegato, 2011, p. 191). These would be the people making a conscious effort for the Rider of the Month distinction and any other kinds of available recognition. Based on its services such as the Rider of the Month postings, it serves the few strivers that might be associated with them to participate in the necessary activities to achieve this award, thus fitting the approval of others part of their group. Other services that Atlantic Rider provides, such as the discussion board, classifieds section...
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...Whale Rider was a movie produced in 2003, and it is about a girl named Paieka, or Pai. She is the granddaughter of Nanny Flowers and Koro. In the beginning of the movie, Koro has a good relationship with Pai. He brings her to school everyday by giving her a ride on his bike, and everything is good between them. Later on in the movie, Koro is worried about the rest of his people since they are drifting away from the traditions. People are smoking, the men are drinking and shooting pool, and the children do not take the ancestor celebrations seriously. Koro realizes that there is going to have to be a new leader, but his only option would be to have his granddaughter be leader, which goes against tradition. Pai is determined to prove to Koro that she could be a good leader even though she is female, and throughout the film, she tries to get Koro to acknowledge that she would be the best option for leader. Koro starts a school for the boys to find out who would be the best leader out of all of the boys in the village. He does numerous things with the boys to train them to be a chief, and Koro is planning to eventually pick the best leader out of everyone that he is teaching. Koro does not allow Pai to learn how to be chief in his training school since she isn’t a man. Pai learns how to stick fight from her uncle, and eventually defeats a boy in a stick fight. Koro saw this, and yelled at Pai for it, since that is not what women are supposed to do. Pai later wrote...
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...Period N 18 March 2013 Freedom Riders Backlash The Freedom Riders strive through a journey of hardships to have their point accepted by others, which was bus desegregation. Through the journey the Freedom Rides took some obstacles that affected them physically and mentally. They fought threw times like the downfalls that their movement brought and the mobs that greeted them in every state. The mobs were verbally and physically violent towards the Freedom Riders more than a few times while their movement went on. The Freedom Riders went through a devastating downfall through their movement. In May of 1961, the Greyhound carried the Freedom Riders into South Carolina where, like Carson’s article “SNCC” describes, “…John Lewis was the first to be hit as he approached the white waiting room” (SNCC 1). This was a downfall because they were trapped and injured, not being able to move on in their movement. The “MLKJ Research and Education Institute” stated that, “[…] from the attack of Lewis and another rider, the arrest of one participant attracted media coverage.” (MLKJ 1). Their arrival in South Carolina brought an impact on their movement; it began to be shown from each state. As the Freedom Riders rode into Alabama, a furious mob crowded the Greyhound bus and sent it into flames without care for the people inside. The mob surrounded the bus and locked them inside. In Carmichael Stokleys “Freedom Riders”, she states that the Freedom Riders continued to fight for their rights...
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