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Talysa Taylor GSWS 391 12 November 2015 Media Analysis #2 From Baartman to Ford: Black Female Bodies as Commodities The portrayal of black female bodies in media is often linked to their oppression based on the intersectionally between race and gender. Specifically, in Hip Hop black female bodies are often controlled under white patriarchal power. Images of black women as sexual savages and sexual commodities have historically been justified through mass media’s consistent representation…

Cinematic Analysis, The Long Walk Home Summary: The movie The Long Walk Home directed by Richard Pearce is an inspiring movie recounting the experiences of regular citizens during the Montgomery bus boycott, narrated by a young white girl Mary Katherine Thompson. The theme of the movie is that one has to do what’s right regardless of what other people think. The movie starts by showing a regular day for the Thompsons, a well-off white family living in Montgomery Alabama. Their black maid, Odessa…

beliefs that the only thing that natives were able to do, was hard labor and the work in the mines and because of this they should not be able to further their education. He also makes several other profound statements about the new social norms in South Africa, “It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.” Through this statement he acknowledges that the familial hierarchy in the villages surrounding Johannesburg is being ruined due to…

The South Carolina Nullification Crisis of 1832 The Nullification Crisis was a major political crisis in 1832 during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The concept of nullification was first discussed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, when they created the Doctrine of Nullification in order to oppose the Alien and Sedition acts. Despite the fact that Andrew Jackson was elected for his bravery and leadership in New Orleans during the War of 1812 and because he was in favor of the common…

Thousands fled political persecution during the 20th century, seeking political asylum in other nations. As a result, a refugee crisis often began, as these other countries were unable to find places for these newcomers to stay as they awaited immigration approval. A famous group of refugees during the 1970s were the Vietnam Boat people, who left Vietnam as a communist government was taking control of the region. They left Vietnam in makeshift vessels and travelled in dangerous open waters,…

1. INTRODUCTION Sovereignty is the supreme authority and power that states have over their territories and what is within them. This paper will provide a brief history of the civil war in Somalia and will explain how it made many people flee to Kenya for security reasons. In international law, refugees have rights that require their host states to protect them. These rights are explained in both the international refugee law and the Kenyan refugee law. Although the Kenyan government is obliged…

In 1950, the Korean War began as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea, invaded the Republic of Korea in the south across the 38th parallel. Shortly after the start of the war, American and United Nations (U.N.) troops joined the battle and fought alongside South Korea. Correspondingly, General Douglas MacArthur had been named commander of the U.N. forces by the United Nations Security Council. Both President Harry Truman and General MacArthur acknowledged the significance of…

In the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, many sad events take place. Those events are connected to real life. This book takes place in 1975, during the Vietnam war. The main character who goes by Ha is living in Vietnam at the time with her mother and three older brothers. Throughout the book Ha has to live on a boat for months before they move to the U.S.A as refugees. Ha’s story relates to many other refugees stories that have happened over time. Refugees have gone through many…

There are many conceptual definitions of what it means to be a hero. In one instance, a firefighter can be a hero for saving dozens of individuals from a burning building. In other instances, a hero can be a student sharing notes to another student who was out sick. In The Hero or O Heroi, the hero is Vitorio, a war veteran who lost his leg towards the end of the Angolan Civil War. Directed by Zeze Gamboa, the film follows the lives of Vitorio, Barbara, a prostitute who lost her son when the war…

freedom and peace, all through the struggles and pain, all through the blood and the tears, he was desperate to accomplish his dream. Poverty, hunger, and thirst, they were just minor setbacks for such an ingenious person. As an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience, in the…