...In Beasts of the Southern Wild, the characters are artistic portrayals of real, tangible people and the setting is nearly identical to the way many poor people in that area of the South live. Yet with this stark narrative of poverty, strength and violence, distinct elements of fiction surface throughout the film. The most improbable of these is the giant Aurox that Hushpuppy imagines (“Beasts”). However, as unrealistic as these ancient beasts appearing in the swamps of the South are, they represent a key component of the storyline. That is, the Aurox are a fictional portrayal of Hushpuppies very real encounter with destructive forces, and her standing up to the ancient boars symbolizes her strength and resolve in not allowing them to scare...
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...“The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece... the entire universe will get busted.” (BOTSW) Hushpuppy was just a child who believed her world was coming to an end. This film was very rigorous and dramatic. It made you think, what if that was me in that situation, what would I have done? Beast of the Southern Wild was a film about a little girl who lived with her father at the “edge of the world”. Her father showed her the toughest love to prepare her for when he departed and she had to live on her own. Hushpuppy was so fed up with her father that she hit him and her world came “crashing down”. Her father very ill and was unable to take care of her as he was before. She began having to go out on her own and do what she could without him. When he finally left she realized that it was her duty to take care of the “bathtub” (the...
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...their life problems they have to face that problem head on and become a beast themselves. In the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, Hushpuppy, the six year old female protagonist, was hit with a storm. The storm representing the mythical beast known as the “Aurochs”, they became Hushpuppies reality turning her life upside down. Hushpuppy living in the 21st century lives differently than most city people. Hushpuppy lives in the outskirts of the city, separated from the city life, living in the unlivable bathtub. She lives with just her father, Wink. Wink, although he is crazy and an alcoholic, as a father Wink loves her daughter more than anything, willing to spend every moment with her even though he knows...
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...meetings with his parole officer, in which he must present proof of his productivity. As he is absent to the meeting, the parole officer, without sympathy, arrests him. Enrique doesn’t have an opportunity to explain himself or the situation he is in- the system brands him as unprofitable, so he has to be punished through prison. This unfeeling, unconcerned method of doling out harsh punishment for ex-convicts who are trying hard to endure life whilst balancing a family and a job is overly cruel. Thus is the nature of Capitalism. Gun Hill Road paints capitalism as a harmful force in the life of the Rodriquez family. Beasts of the Southern Wild, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Gun Hill Road placed a focus on the mentality between two parties as differentiated by class and capitalism, or merely by the force of the system of capitalism itself. In Beasts of the Southern Wild, these themes are shown when the residents of the Bathtub are forced to leave their land by the government, and in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it is discerned when the villagers spontaneously form a mob to destroy the Blackwoods’ home, because they begrudged the Blackwoods for their wealth. From the view of the villagers, the Blackwoods’ wealth was unmerited. In Gun Hill Road, the Rodriguez family’s child, Vanessa, was forced to transition without the guidance of a medical doctor due to the absence of financial and familial support. All three sources explore classism and capitalism alongside disastrous...
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...THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And, pointed to the east, began to say: ‘‘Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. ‘‘And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ‘‘For when our souls have learn’d the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice, Saying, ’Come out from the grove, my love and care And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice’,’’ Thus did my mother say, and kissed me; And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy I’ll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father’s knee; And then I’ll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER A little black thing in the snow, Crying ‘‘weep! weep!’’ in notes of woe! ‘‘Where are thy father and mother? Say!’’— ‘‘They are both gone up to the church to pray. ‘‘Because I was happy upon the heath, And smiled among the winter’s snow, They...
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...The new south was created after the African Americans became free and were not slaves anymore. The white Americans from the south did not like that African Americans have equal rights and free to do anything they like. The African Americans were trying to create a life for themselves which included getting a paid job, going to school, and having a normal family. The white southern created laws to control the African American called “Jim Crow” which to segregate schools, transportation, employment, and other public and private facilities. The white southern excuse for their discrimination was that they wanted a better economy and industry. However, the southern American were not satisfied with only the segregation and created lynching against...
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...The remake was announced by Sony Pictures in January 2011, Will Smith and his wife Jada-Pinkett Smith were attached to the project as producers from the beginning. Their aim was to make a ‘Black Annie’ and had their sights on casting their daughter Willow Smith to play the lead role. Jay Z was recruited to write new songs and revamp the old ones. A second draft of the film was written by Aline Brosh McKenna in July 2012 and then in August a production schedule was announced to begin in Spring 2013. By the beginning of 2013, the initial actress Willow Smith intended to play the lead role had aged out and Beast of the Southern Wild star and Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis had replaced Willow Smith in the lead role. The film now had a scheduled Christmas 2014 release. Jamie Foxx signed on for the role of Daddy Warbucks.role, now named Will Stacks. Cameron Diaz was cast as Miss Hannigan. Rose Byrne joined the cast as Grace Farrell, Stacks's faithful assistant and Bobby Cannavale joined the cast as a "bulldog political adviser" to Will Stacks....
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...her lascivious master Dr. James Norcom (renamed Dr. Flint in the book); years of hiding in a small space in her grandmother's shed; her travels to the north and her residence there; and her eventual freedom. The main purpose of Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl is to give the reader information about her situations with slavery. She is informing the reader of things that has happened to her and her family during the 1850’s, which is also in the slave era. Jacobs states many issues about slavery, corruption, religion and how family is important. Some of the most important parts of the book tell how Jacobs and her family lived during this time period. “Reader, I draw no imaginary pictures of southern homes. I am telling you the plain truth. Yet when victims make their escape from the wild beast of Slavery, northerners consent to act the part of...
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...The Birth of a Nation swept the nation. In a pivotal scene, the attractive daughter of a former slave owner, whose cotton business had been ruined by the war, is stalked by a menacing looking black soldier, named Gus. He is shown with his shirt wide open and bare-chested. Flora, the stereotypical southern belle, notices the voyeur and is visibly shaken. Flora tries to hide from Gus, but Gus corners her and tells her that he wants her and that he is not married. Since the end of the Civil War, Flora has noticed several black soldiers in the area in the past few months harassing her family and other upstanding families. Gus forces Flora closer and tries to kiss her. In a panic, Flora slaps him and pushes him away. Flora flees into the woods. The ensuing pursuit shows Gus as a sex-crazed maniacal troll chasing down the seemingly innocent virginal fairy. Gus follows her absorbedly intent on raping her. Flora winds up on a cliff overlooking a series of jagged rocks. She stares at Gus and motions for him to leave her alone. In a silent ultimatum, she gesticulates that if he doesn’t leave then she’ll leap from the cliff to the rocks below. Gus is exposed as a beast, sweating and pulsating lustful desires. He moves closer to Flora to stop her from leaping. Unwilling to give herself to a black man and death being the only alternative, Flora jumps from the cliff. Thus, the quintessential portrayal of the black man was born into the psyche of American culture....
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...be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. 3. Different types of Art • Animation Art • Architecture • Calligraphy • Ceramics • Christian Art • Collage • Computer Art • Conceptual Art • Design (Artistic) • Drawing • Folk Art • Graffiti Art • Graphic Art • Illustration • Junk Art • Land Art • Metalwork Art • Mosaic Art • Painting • Performance Art (and Happenings) • Photography • Poster Art • Public Art • Religious Art • Sculpture • Video Art 4. Different kinds of types of Art • Animation Art 2D, 3D and Stop Motion • Architecture Neolithic, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, Medieval, Gothic, Hindu Architecture, Early Modern • Calligraphy Western Calligraphy, Eastern Asian Calligraphy, Southern Asian Calligraphy, Indian Calligraphy, Islamic Calligraphy • Ceramics bricks, pipes, floor and roof tiles, pottery products and sanitary ware. • Christian Art Biblical Art, or at least works derived from the Bible. It...
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...satisfy their physical needs, and they may have extra food to satisfy higher needs, such as social needs, belongingness, status, and self-realization. Climate also affects the types of foods in different regions. For example, mango can only be planted in hot regions, and cabbage is preferred in cold regions. People usually find out that food in hot regions can be more various than food in cold regions. (Hughes, 2011). Secondly, precipitation affects the major food production. In dry and hot areas like Mexico, hot peppers are well planted. Actually, hot peppers were first found and domesticated in South America thousands years ago. In China, people plant wheat in northern China because the precipitation there is less; people plant rice in southern China because the precipitation there is more. Therefore, northern Chinese people prefer wheat products, such as bread and noodle; and...
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...Jurgis is from Lithuania and comes to America in search of the American dream. At the beginning of the novel Jurgis comes to America as any other typical European immigrant. He dreams of America as being a land where a man with little can rise through the ranks and ultimately become a man with wealth and prosperity. Jurgis quickly realizes that industrial America is a land of heartache, where a willing man is exploited and used as energy to fuel the never ending industrial machine. At the end of the novel Jurgis learns that the great land of America has its limitations, but at a cost as he loses his wife and child and spends stints in jail for trying to defy the machine. Thus, the novel, The Jungle exemplifies how immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s could not fully realize and achieve the American dream no matter how hard they toiled and worked in the brutal American factories of the time. A jungle is an area of madness and chaos where animals roam free and one either eats or is eaten. Upton Sinclair titled his novel, The Jungle because urban Chicago exemplified all of the same traits that a jungle possessed except for the fact that the jungle of...
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...Natural environment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Environment. See also: Nature and Environment (biophysical) Land management policies have been developed to preserve the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls, Australia while allowing ample access for visitors Bachalpsee in the Swiss Alps; generally mountainous areas are less affected by human activity. A satellite image of the Sahara desert; the world's largest hot desert and third-largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species.[1] The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components: * Complete ecological units that function as natural systems without massive civilized human intervention, including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil, rocks, atmosphere, and natural phenomena that occur within their boundaries * Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from civilized human activity The natural environment is contrasted with the built environment, which comprises the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans belonging to a civilized (i.e. hierarchically structured, agricultural, densely populated...
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...For the reasons which have determined the existence of Sussex as a county of England, and which have given it the exact boundaries that it now possesses, we must go back to the remote geological history of the secondary ages. Its limits and its very existence as a separate shire were predetermined for it by the shape and consistence of the mud or sand which gathered at the bottom of the great Wealden lake, or filled up the hollows of the old inland cretaceous sea. Paradoxical as it sounds to say so, the Celtic kingdom of the Regni, the South Saxon principality of AElle the Bretwalda, the modern English county of Sussex, have all had their destinies moulded by the geological conformation of the rock upon which they repose. Where human annals see only the handicraft and interaction of human beings--Euskarian and Aryan, Celt and Roman, Englishman and Norman--a closer scrutiny of history may perhaps see the working of still deeper elements--chalk and clay, volcanic upheaval and glacial denudation, barren upland and forest-clad plain. The value and importance of these underlying facts in the comprehension of history has, I believe, been very generally overlooked; and I propose accordingly here to take the single county of Sussex in detail, in order to show that when the geological and geographical factors of the problem are given, all the rest follows as a matter of course. By such detailed treatment alone can one hope to establish the truth of the general principle that human history...
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...The Greek poet Homer (who, if he was one person, was born between 850 and 1100 BCE) was, to use a modern term, the source code for Greek literature and poetry, and therefore for Western literature, heavily influencing practically everyone who followed him, including, of course, the great Florentine poet Dante Alighieri ( 1265-1321 A.D.). Both poets’ visions of Hell, as depicted in The Odyssey and Inferno, are noteworthy because they open important windows into the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the worlds into which these authors were born. Why is this important? Because their elaborately drawn visions of Hell represent the two great divides in how humans for 3,000 years have been seeing themselves and the universe they perceive surrounding them. In the Homeric vision, life is tragic and arbitrary. We as humans are mere playthings of the Fates and the gods. Sometimes justice occurs, but usually only by accident, and even then it comes wrapped up in irony. Good is punished and evil triumphs. The hero, instead of enjoying the fruits of his victory, is brought low by some tragic flaw. Homer’s portrayal of the gods and of hell in the Odyssey…[big long quote] For Dante, in sharp contrast, the universe is ordered and just. The wicked are, eventually, punished and the righteous are rewarded, if not in this life, then in the next. Existence, while often painful and scary, is not arbitrary, but proceeds according to a mysterious divine plan devised long ago by...
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