Culture and Society Would you stand up for injustice in your community putting your life in danger? We go through many obstacles in our society fighting for minor justice issues. The 1998 American, comedy, animation film, A Bug’s Life, puts a light on this issue by the characterization of various insects: ants, ladybugs, and grasshoppers. It follows the typical antagonist vs protagonist story in a unique and vigorous way.
There is a hierarchy portrayed in the film, in which, the grasshoppers are at the top and hold the most power, followed by the leader ants, the worker ants, and finally the circus bugs. This film mainly revolves around the protagonist inventor, Filk, who is trying to free the ants from the grasshoppers’ greedy demands for
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Because the grasshoppers are the head of the society, they have the ability to make the ants do whatever they want them to. Since they are dominant, loud, and bigger compared to the rest of the insects, the insects easily get intimidated by them. In the film, the only time the ant colony get motivated to fight against the grasshoppers is after the queen steps up to help Filk. We can also look at previous slavery issues in America which relates to the discrimination factor of this film. It is widely known that the whites had all the power during the slavery era in the United States. The colored people did all the work in favor of the whites while the whites took advantage of them similar to the grasshoppers. Knowing that slavery is morally wrong, the society was mum for around two hundred and forty five years over this issue. It only began to resolve when Filk type characters such as the famous leaders like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Abraham Lincoln …show more content…
During their stay in India, they used to demand food from villages every year. One year the weather did not cooperate and there was no rain all year; however, the British still demanded food at any cost. Therefore a cricket match was announced between the villagers (who had no clue about the game) and the British. If the British won then the villagers had to give twice food to them; however if the villagers won then the British wouldn’t ask for any food for the next three years. There was a Filk during that era who managed to convince the village to learn the full game and gave a tough competition to
In the movie Antz, power, conformity, and social inequality played a big role on its plot, characterization and theme. The movie had representations from the collectivism point of view, the political principle of centralized social and economic control and individualism.
Cricket in some ways was a unifying force for the various classes in India as well as the relationship between Great Britain and India. As seen in Document 2, an Indian cricketer was invited to “...join the Sussex team,” that was a team from European country. This shows some equality between n...
Next, Wart was transformed into an ant and posted within an ant colony. There was a single leader of the ants, and she was the only thinking individually in the whole nest.
Who are the cockroach people? In basic words, they are the Chicanas and Chicanos, the Mexican-American race. They are the general population that do not belong anywhere but also belong to two different races, which are Mexico and America. They are considered the pariahs of both countries; it is possible that they are to white for Mexico or to Mexican for America. The novel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta, is a captivating story of a Chicano lawyer named Buffalo Zeta Brown and every one of his hardships. He recounts the story of the Chicano individuals from his own experience, deliberately using dialect to highlight his outrage and energy for political injustices. Alongside dialect, Acosta additionally uses symbols
Living in Los Angeles there are social issues such as race, gender, and geography that are still intact from the past. The main one of the social issues that we are still suffering from and living with is the representations of gender in Los Angeles. Gender representations in The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta which he discusses about women figure highly but hardly acknowledge them in the midst of a “semi-autobiographical account” of the Chicano Power movement. According to Acosta, women are just the concubines, mourners, and supporters to their men. Acosta barely talks about the powerful women who had worked very hard behind the prospect to promote the case and those that are point out are only described in sexualized
...hy, disgusting insects. If the villagers knew what the small, disaster-riddled pests were capable of doing, then they would fear the swarm’s return instead of praising and rejoicing it.
Forensic entomology is the learning of all types of insects and how they connect with criminal investigation. Forensic entomology can tell us how long since the offspring’s death which is known as postmortem interval (PMI) and whether the body has been relocated since putting one foot in the grave, and what injuries it may have suffered. At the start of decomposition, insects launch a new community by hatching eggs on the remains; the eggs will emerge into cankers (larvae) that will graze upon the human organs and tissues. A Forensic entomologists can figure out what specific bugs are presently in the body and gauge how long the body has been left unprotected by investigating how far along the cankers have come; although, what is found isn’t
In order to understand the entirety of a society, we must first understand each part and how it contributes to the stability of the society. According to the functionalist theory, different parts of society are organized to fill discrete needs of each part, which consequently determines the form and shape of society. (Crossman). All of the individual parts of society depend on one another. This is exhibited in “A Bug’s Life” through the distinct roles the ants and grasshoppers play in their own society. The two species are stratified in such a way that they each contribute to the order and productivity of the community. In the movie, the head grasshopper states that “the sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, and the grasshoppers eat the food” (A Bug’s Life). This emphasizes social stability and reliance on one another’s roles. The grasshoppers rely on the ants for food, while the ants rely on the grasshoppers for protection. This effective role allocation and performance is what ensures that together, the ants and grasshoppers form a functioning society to guarantee their survival.
A Bug’s Life is an animated Disney film that tells the story of how a colony of ants fight back against and overcome the domination and oppression of the bullying grasshoppers. When looking at the movie through the lens of Ewen’s theory about identity, several connections concerning identity are found between A Bug’s Life and The Chosen People. Furthermore, by looking at identity issues in A Bug’s Life under this new light, Ewen’s theory becomes incomplete. In the Chosen People, Ewen fails to explore the positive aspects of conformity, gender in relationship to identity or the correlations between tradition and identity.
Although bigotry and segregation were pointed in majority towards blacks, other accounts towards whites were also heard of, though not as commonly. There are acts that are so discreet that you almost don't catch them, but along with those, there are blatant acts of bigotry that would never occur in our time. Lee addresses many of these feelings in her novel. One subtle example of discrimination the reader sees is the treatment of Calpurnia, a black woman, the housekeeper/nanny for the Finch family. Although she is treated fairly, it is obvious that she is considered to be on a lower social level than the Finches.
Zootopia is a movie that was debuted in theaters on March 4, 2016. The movie “revolves around how a tiny rabbit, Judy Hopps, overcomes all the invisible social barriers of stereotypes and prejudices around her size and thus her perceived weakness, to become a top-notch police officer” (Tan). The story “follows anthropomorphic animals in a society where predators and prey have evolved and are living and working side-by-side with each other” (Thornbury). Later, as Judy moves to Zootopia and works as a police officer in Zootopia Police Department, she is tasked to find a missing otter, which leads her to investigate a “queer case of predators turning savages in Zootopia” (Tan). The animated film addresses
This shows the awful treatment Jewish people were exposed to based on their ethnicity. They experienced physical and verbal violence from soldiers as a way to create fear. Discrimination also contributes to the high level of violence associated with racial differences. Many African Americans faced racial discrimination in society especially during the Civil Right Movement era. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man named Tom Robinson is wrongly accused of raping a white women. Atticus Finch is a lawyer who decides to represent Tom Robinson, which the town does not agree with. Harper Lee agrees with the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas about some of injustices racial groups faced in society. She demonstrates this through a confrontation between Atticus Finch and an angry mob of white men: “You know what we want,” another man said. “Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch” (153). Before the trial of Tom Robinson begins, an angry mob goes to the jail in attempt to take matters into their own
Cricket is the only game set back for the progress of other sports in India. Commercialization...
Ant like insects have been inhabiting this world for over 130 million years, evolving into the insects that we recognize today from their wasp-like ancestors. Ants are one of the planet’s most successful insect species at adaptability and have even been referred to as super-organisms. Their adaptive success is due to their hive-mind like structure. This hive-mind like structure allows ants to not only defend themselves effectively from predators but it also allows them to exploit resources and modify their habitats efficiently. Ants inhabit almost every land mass on the planet with an estimated 12,500 discovered species. (Dvorsky 2012)
Everyone must have asked these questions once in their life, why are ants so important or interesting to the world and life? Well, ants help in a lot of ways; they scatter seeds from place to place allowing more plants to grow all over the land, they pollinate and protect our plants and flowers and they dig galleries and tunnels that increase the nutrients in our soil. Ants have mutualistic relationship with several organisms likes other animals and plants. Ants can also be used as a pesticide for crops, because they keep unwanted harmful insects off the corps and the corps do not have to be sprayed with any deadly chemicals; which makes using ants as a pesticide organic and safer for the environment. Allow me to get more into detail; here are some more interesting facts and jobs that ants do to help us.