Fruitvale Station, Bamboozled, Poem About My Rights

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We have read numerous texts and films this semester: Fruitvale Station, Bamboozled, Poem About My Rights, How to Date a Brown Girl (…), El Norte, Oleanna, The Cheat, and more, some of them have had a significant impact on me and my thinking. We have also completed several essays, projects, and in class activities. Some assignments were more successful than others, but nonetheless, I am proud of myself. The film with the strongest emotional impact was Fruitvale Station, I fought tears as hard as I could. When Oscar said, “I have a daughter” (Coogler) right after he was shot, my heart figuratively died. The movie was based on a true story, most of the events in the movie actually happened, the important parts definitely did happen; due to this, holding back the tears was even more challenging, I could not say to myself …show more content…

I had fun, I certainly enjoyed our result, and best of all I am proud of myself and my home group. My group was assigned to act out our interpretation of Oleanna, Act Two. I was pleased to learn that Anthony wants to be an actor because at first, nobody else wanted to volunteer to act. He and Olivia did excellent representing John and Carol; we saw John as a man who was arrogant, he only seemed nice when he would try to sweet talk Carol into dropping her claim for his benefit. We thought Carol was usually a quiet young woman. She seemed to be dim at first, but we concluded she was only acting to get her point across that John tries to belittle her and other women and students. We easily made plans on when to meet up and film, we completed our filming as soon as we could and had plenty of time to spare for editing, luckily, because it took nearly a whole day for our video to upload to YouTube. We collaborated stage directions well and explained our thoughts to each other in a way we could all understand. We had John and Olivia battling for the upper hand, one moment John had the power, the next Carol had the

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