...Jessica Ibarra Professor Michael A. Behrens CINE 102 2 December 2013 Fight the Power Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee is a film centered on a series of subplots rather than one main plot. The characters each have their own narrative and helps give the movie substance. Although the conflict did not reveal itself until the movie nears the end, the personalities of the characters became evident through their use of language and body language. The attitudes of the characters became clear, as well as their actions which became almost predictable; what was not predictable was the sudden change of energy during the inciting incidence. When the riot occurs, we wonder how it built up to that particular scene. The characters and their background stories give rise to this ultimate turn of events. Though the characters’ random scenes were jumbled together throughout the whole movie, they were unified in the end when all the characters were involved during the inciting incidence—when the police officer killed Radio Raheem. With the death of Radio Raheem and an increasing rise to racial injustice, Spike Lee demonstrates a symbolic truth between polar opposites and its limitations to tolerance. In an article titled “Do the Right Thing” written by Hal Hinson, he argues, “Lee is attempting to explore the polarities of the inner city…by setting up a system of opposites -- black and white, love and hate, conciliation and violence, man and woman -- then sets them against each other...
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...Congress and Its Fight for Power Does Congress deserve a larger role in foreign policy? Should the president have complete control over foreign affairs? These questions have been asked in recent times because of the everlasting dispute over the intended separation of powers between the president and congress. Article 1, section 8 of the constitution states that the president is the commander in chief of the United States military. It also states congress has the power to declare war. Considering both these statements, who is really in charge of U.S. foreign policy? In recent times the president has claimed it is an inherent right to be able to make executive orders. However, the use and abuse of these executive orders has become increasingly...
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...Fight Club In the book Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, the narrator is an employee for a travelling car company, who suffers from insomnia. When he asks his doctor for medication the doctor refuses and advises him to visit a support group to witness what suffering really is. The first group the narrator attends is for testicular cancer victims. He finds an emotional release that relieves his insomnia and becomes addicted to support groups. After a flight home from a business trip, the narrator realizes that his apartment was destroyed by a homemade explosion. He calls Tyler Durden, a man who he met on the flight. Tyler and the narrator meet at a bar, and start to fight. They continue to fight, and they start to attract crowds of men. Then they come to an idea to start “Fight Club.” The narrator believes that Tyler Durden is the manifestation of the protagonists attempt to exert control over his own life. The Formation of Fight Club, Project Mayhem, the relationship with Marla Singer, and killing Tyler at the end make him realize what he had become and make him come back into full control of himself. The formation of fight club is the physical aspect of why the narrator has lost control of himself. Fight Club. Fight Club was formed when Tyler and the narrator engaged in a fist fight outside the bar. At the starts of fight club, the narrator could gain control of himself because he could release all of his emotions while in a fight. When the narrator can release...
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...terrorism Balancing civil liberties and fighting terrorism is a delicate task that is affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is evident that most Americans want the government to fight terrorism and at the same time, efforts against terrorism should not infringe on their civil liberties that are enshrined in the constitution. Polls conducted in the United States reveal that Americans are divided on the issue. Some feel that it is important for the government to safeguard civil rights and liberties than to protect citizens against terrorism, while others feel that it is important for Americans to sacrifice certain liberties in order to fight terrorism. The revelations by Edward Snowden that the government engages in massive surveillance through the NSA (National Security Agency) bring out the urgency of this topic. The passage of the Patriotic Act was the milestone in the fight against terrorism, but it has been controversial from the start. Proponents of this law argue that it is important if the fight against terrorism is to succeed. It is argued that the provisions of the Act empower law enforcement agencies to gather evidence and diffuse terrorism threats. On the other hand, opponents of the legislation view that it gives law enforcement agencies excessive powers and without the lack of restrictions, individual rights will be violated. Sections of the article have touched on the basic values of the American society. In the minds of many Americans, civil...
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...It is often argued that identities like race, religion, class, and others are often the drivers of conflict in societies. At the center of most conflict is the struggle for power, with lines being drawn between those who have power and will fight to keep it, and those who are kept from power and would give anything to have their fair share. This fight – one against exploitation of those without power – is the type of conflict that is described in the book I, Rigoberta Menchú, which is titled for its author (Section XVI, 2368). In this book, Menchú, known for her work as a human rights activist for indigenous peoples, especially in Central America, recounts the hardships she faced growing up as a poor and marginalized girl and puts the reader...
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...Chapter 1: Marines Marines and troops have always fought strong and hard. An alien alliance has begun a war with the UNSC. We have fought strong so far, but with the covenant, that can change in about 1 month. We must fight strong and hard in order to min this war. A alien commander called the Prophecy of Truth has been sending a lot of Arbiters and Grunts to the planet Reach in order to collect the materials and items in order to create his most power full weapon ever yet. He has succeeded, but they will not activate the weapon again. We will not let them. The covenant will not last, we will fight until only one alliance is left. The Grunts are annoying messy little things that fight for freedom what the Truth promised them. The Jackals fight for money what the Truth has promised them. The Arbiters fight for help and food and shelter and protection. The Hunters fight for power. The Brutes fight for power and to torture. But we fight, for peace and order. The Arbiters and Brutes have not ever liked each other. The Brutes have always wanted to torture the Arbiters and to kill them. The Jackals carry plasma shields and a lot of them carry Covenant sniper rifles. But there is 1 last surviving sparten after a giant war on a planet. The sparten is called the master chief, sparten 117. The UNSC with the master chief must deffeat the covenant, the Prophecy of Truth, and his ultimate weapon called,...
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...humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio(internet) have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . . Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to...
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...Should People Be Able to Decide When to End Their Lives? In a wrestling match, two opponents fight until one holds the other down for ten seconds. If the one being held down has an emergency or wants to give up, they can “tap-out.” However, if they do this, their opponent automatically wins the match. If you were wrestling and could tap-out and win, would you bother putting up a fight? Euthanasia is the ultimate way for someone to give up, and it has become a debatable topic today. I believe whole heartedly that it is wrong and should be illegal. If euthanasia was legalized across the United States, doctors would have too much power, people who are incapable of making or verbalizing decisions would be at risk of being murdered, and it would...
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...humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.... The aeroplane and the internet have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Eventually, my voice will reach millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ..... Citizens! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave...
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...In the myth Egil's Saga Chapter Five, King Harold wants old man Kveldulf to fight for him because he believes that Kveldulf is powerful and brave. Kveldulf says that he is not fit for war and doesn't want to be apart of it. The messengers then offer for his son Grim to fight for the king instead, but Grim doesn't want to because he has an alliance with his father. The messengers return to King Harold with news. The king doesn't want to have to fight Kveldulf, so Aulvir Hnuf goes and talks to Kveldulf for him. Kveldulf says that he will send his son Thorolf, who will return in the summer, to King Harold if he will give him the special privileges the former king had done for him. The principal actors of the story are Kveldulf, King Harold,...
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...Based on a careful reading of the documents, it is clear that some Africans opposed the efforts of European powers massacring their people and conquering their land and they tried to make peace with them. That is portrayed through Documents 2 and 3. Some Africans even conformed to the Europeans and participated in their colonization, as shown in Documents 1 and 9. Documents 6 and 7 give another, which was to urge other Africans to fight back as well. They tried to be diplomatic but when that failed, they were required to resist the European efforts with violence, as shown in Documents 4 and 5. Documents 3 and 8 show that Africans used cultural traditions to stay strong in order to maintain their country’s independence. Africa is shown turning...
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...Alan Badel English 100/Major Essay #2 Professor Raymond Morris 23 October 2015 The Fight Club Aims to Free Individuals from Society’s Emasculating Shackles Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is an exciting fictional novel that will hold the audience captive following three revolving main characters in Marla Singer, Tyler Durden, and the narrator himself as they take the reader through confusing twists and perspectives, while providing a most revealing closure. Although the title suggests an exclusive organization focused on violence, the novel describes the emasculation of man in today’s modern age of consumerism, societal associations and family structure along with the main and sub-characters’ exercising of power and submission to power as evident throughout the novel. Chuck Palahniuk’s values illustrate in the novel how humanity is being enslaved by the power of consumerism, brought to general awareness a new mental disorder, and how he portrayed the narrator having experienced or enacted numerous anarchistic efforts in the hopes of being freed from the confines of an industrialized and necessity-driven society. It should also be noted that several rebellious acts were performed by the fight club members and subsequently members of Project Mayhem in order to gain notoriety and power in response to being economically and socially subdued. To understand the novel’s numerous projection of emasculation, masculinity will need to be established. Man’s foundation of masculinity...
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...powerful, so powerful it can influence and actually start a movement. Culture is important for the development of movements. “Culture implies our striving – it is our striving.” (Keita, 12) Not only does culture thrive for striving, but it helps fight for freedom. “By culture, we understand all… behaviors and attitudes accumulated by the People both through and by virtue of its struggle for freedom from the hold and domain of Nature, and also through and by virtue of its effort to destroy deviationist politics – social systems of domination and exploitation… process of its life.” (Keita, 12) For short, culture can bring people together to fight for freedom and for other reasons. Some ethnicities’ culture is stronger than others. African-Americans are a prime example of an ethnicity whose culture is extremely strong. They hold their culture close to their hearts and they express their culture vibrantly. They stand tall behind their culture and speak proudly of it. African-Americans used their culture to make a change; their culture brought them together to fight together. Their culture is what made them so strong and powerful. There are two important movements the African-Americans were involved in: The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. Through these movements, the African-Americans were able to accomplish...
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...Motifs: Violence and Education As Richard’s life progresses, he uses violence to gain social power, and advances himself in his education. As Richard endures his life, he uses violence to gain social power. Richard has to pick fights in order to gain power. When Richard goes to a new school, a boy picks a fight with him by making fun of his appearance. If Richard didn’t fight now, he would have “failed at school” (Wright 91). On his way home from school, he finds a ring on the ground, and takes out the stone, to use it as a weapon (Wright 92). The fact that Richard finds a ring to use it as a weapon demonstrates that he will fight with anyone, if they approach him the wrong way. In comparison, when Richard begins going to Jim...
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...“We will fight the White men.We will fight until the last of us falls on the battlefields.”, This is a quote from Yaa Asantewaa the Ashanti queen mother, as her and her tribe resisted European conquest. European actions had several reasons to imperialize Africans.Two reasons were the resources and cheap labor africa offered.The hunger for power drove the European powers into a frenzy to control the continent based on the belief that they were superior, thereby destroying both the African land and its people, which was thought as White Man’s Burden.White Man’s burden was the a self-right of the white peoples to manage the affairs of the less developed non-white people. Most Africans choose to consolidation or surrender to the european power.Yet, a peaceful relationship with european powers was not as option for most african nations. European powers had a true lust for resources in africa. Their first attempts at african resources were formal business. In 1886, the british Royal Niger Company presented a contract to african chiefs near the Niger river delta and surrounding...
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