for many centuries regardless of the fact we are all humans. Racism, violence, and social neglect are all themes present in “In the Ruins,” by Nicholas Leiman and “And Our Flag Was Still There,” by Barbara Kingsolver. They both deal with the emerging racism that occurs after devastations. Tragedies like 911 and Hurricane Katrina do not cause racism; they bring out the racism overlooked by many. The racism, neglect, and violence all occurred because of the narrow-minded figures found in all sectors
The New Hollywood era took place during the late 1960s and it represented change from musicals and movies that focused on history to a focus on realism. Realism was best shown through location shooting, filming with portable cameras, off set. It helped to better capture realistic scenes. These new movies were meant to capture the attention of the youth and thus focused on sexual freedom, and anti-establishment political themes. With the end of the production code, movies were allowed to contain violence
Louis Armstrong was a very talented scat singer; his talented style comes from his unique way of playing the trumpet. Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Mary Albert and William Armstrong. His father worked as a factory worker and abandoned his family shortly after Louis’ birth; where his mother was forced to turn to prostitution to support their family, leaving Louis with his grandmother quite often. Louis ended up dropping out of school in the fifth grade to
racial conflict in America. Failing in this, the court reversed the Plessy ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. With the Civil War over and slavery outlawed, tension between White and Black Americans still ran high. Sharecropping became a new form of slavery that also included most poor Whites. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were put in place to help recently freed slaves find a place in society. Caucasian Americans, especially those in the South, still viewed African
A time in which women were desperately fighting for their rights, African-Americans were moving north to avoid the newly founded segregation laws in the south and crime was seen with less severity and more as a form of entertainment, "Gin and guns—either one is bad enough, but together they get you in a dickens of a mess, don't they." (Gaertner, 1924). I am going to discuss how Chicago, the film shares both differences and similarities to the city of Chicago through the lens of gender, race