I will be out of town this Friday (April 24). In place of class, students will be expected to complete the following assignment:
1) Watch a movie in which inequality is a theme.
2) Comment on that movie here.
Students will receive credit for two comments and those two comments will not count against the five for the semester.
Have a nice weekend.
The movie 12 years of space involves inequality, specifically between slave and master
ReplyDeleteThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a movie in which inequality is a theme. The movie is about a little boy whose father works as part of the Nazi military on a concentration camp. One day, the little boy stumbles across the concentration camp, where he meets another little boy. They become friends although they are not supposed to be. They can never really play together because there is a fence separating them. Later, the boy in the concentration camp finds an extra pair of pajamas to sneak the little boy, whose father is a Nazi, into the camp. On this day in particular, the Nazi soldiers forced all of the Jewish people in the camp into a chamber, where they, including the little boy who was not a Jew, killed them by carbon monoxide poisoning. This shows inequality due to the fact that it was based on the Holocaust, which was a period of time where there was extreme inequality. Jewish people were seen as inferior during this time, which is what the movie displays.
ReplyDeleteAnnie is a movie that portrays inequality in the form of a rich man who takes in an extremely poor orphan. Their two worlds collide to bring to light the lifestyles lived of the ridiculously rich and those who come from utter poverty.
ReplyDelete-Gregory Brown