Junction 48 is a documentary and a movie that takes place in the town of Lyd located in Israel. Lyd is inhabited by mostly Palestinians. It is a run-down town filled with poverty and police brutality. The doc-movie follows a young Palestinian named Kareem and the people around him. Through his hip-hop music, Kareem tells about his experiences with oppression in the Israeli society and even within his own community. Kareem’s father is tragically being killed in a car accident and the accident transforms his entire family. Throughout the doc-movie Kareem says that he is not political which is ironic because he uses his music to express the hardships he faces in life. Junction 48 is filled with references to historical events and teaches about …show more content…
the different daily practices of Palestinians. One character that stood out in the doc-movie was Kareem’s best friend Talal. He is a problematic child with little to no education who sells drugs on the street. His parents only want the best for him and to get an education and turn his life around. Talal faced a hardship that many Palestinians faced – his family was to lose their house. The character of Talal and the event of losing his house shows the impact that the political histories, decisions, and events between Palestinians and Israelis while connecting back to the readings and discussions in class. Throughout Junction 48, Talal’s family home is a major event and theme.
Kareem and his friends stay at Talal’s house one night and the next morning a lawyer visits. Talal’s family home was being purchased by the National Jewish Agency. They wanted to build a museum called the Museum of Co-Existence. This museum would highlight different cultures living together. The reason Talal and his family were losing the house was because the National Jewish Agency was claiming that Talal’s family left in 1948 when many Palestinians fled Israel. Since Talal’s dad fled, the government was claiming that he had no legal right to the land anymore. Talal’s dad did admit he left because he had no choice but to flee but the family goats remained on the property the entire time. The lawyer said that the goats may be the only chance they have of keeping the land. Shortly after the lawyer visited, the police showed up to kick Talal and his family out and demolition. Kareem, Talal, his family, and their friends all showed up to protest the demolition. Some of them ended up getting arrested and shot at by local police. They were released for jail and showed up again for demonstrations that continued over the next couple of days. Talal was then murdered tragically by a local drug dealer and with that his story and the storyline of the house disappeared but not before showing the political histories, decisions, and events between Palestinians and …show more content…
Israelis. First, Talal’s family losing their house represents an important political event. In 1948, Palestinians fled their homes in result of the Arab-Israeli war with the promise that they would be able to return. However, that was not the case. Some did return, Talal’s family for example, and faced many hardships such as losing their house. Palestinians were losing their houses when they returned because the government was saying that they had no legal claim on the house since they had fled in the years before. People losing their homes could not stay if they could not prove that they had never left. This was the case for many people. That also represents a political decision. The government decided to force people out of their houses instead of letting them stay. They had no choice but to flee and now they are being punished for leaving when they were promised to be able to come back. Talal’s family losing their home because they had fled at some point and returned refers to lecture.
In lecture, the Israel settlements were brought up. This has caused major conflict between Palestinians and Israeli’s. This settlement allowed settler homes to be built on private Palestinian land. This is like what happened to Talal and his family. His family home was going to be demolished and used to build a museum for Israeli. This museum was going to be built on private land that was owned by Palestinians. Also, when Talal’s home was being taken by the government for demolition, Talal and his community showed resistance. This refers to the reading of James Scott’s Hidden and Public Transcripts. He talks about the frontier between the public and hidden transcripts is a zone between the constant struggle between dominant and subordinate groups and dominant groups always prevail. The struggle over boundaries is the most conflict seen in ordinary life. This connects back to Talal and his house struggles because his family and himself were struggling over the boundaries of his house and they were the subordinate group. The Israeli government was the dominant group and it eventually prevailed and took the house away just as Scott had said in his article. In the article titled “Everyday Engagement with Politics and Resistance”: Exploration of a Concept and its Theories mentions how the unemployed, slum-dwellers, urban poor and lowest classes employ public and collective
resistance. Talal, his family, and friends live in Lyd which is a poor town. They make up a poor, lower class in their society and come together and form resistance against the government. They stand together against the taking away of Talal’s family home and even go so far and trying to get around the barricade the police had put up.
A movie, “The Other Sister,” is about two mentally challenged people name Carla Tate and Daniel. Carla Tate, a 24-year old woman, return to San Francisco from a sheltered boarding school after long years. After rejoining with her overprotective mother Elizabeth, a gentle and thoughtful father Radley, and two young and older sisters, Carla announces that she wants to attend a local school called Bay Area Polytech, a normal vocational school. Nevertheless of her mother Elizabeth’s disapproval, Radley supports her to pursue her dream. On the first day, Carla meets a boy named Danny and helps him when someone calls him “retarded.” They both get close to each other and fall in love quickly. Carla envied Danny for living on his own, so
On the night of November 28th 1976, 28-year-old Randall Adams was hitchhiking on a Dallas road when 16-year-old David Harris picked him up. Harris, a runaway from Texas had stolen the car along with his father’s shotgun. They spent the day together and that night went to a drive-in movie The Swinging Chandeliers. Later that same evening officer Robert Wood was shot and killed when he pulled a car matching the exact description as Harris’s over. Two witnesses-including Harris, named Adams as the murderer. Adams received a death penalty sentence that in 1979 that later was reduced to life in prison. It was early in the 1980’s when director Errol Morris happened upon Adams’s court transcripts whilst shooting a different documentary about a Dallas psychiatrist who was frequently consulted in death row cases. Convinced of Adams innocence and the false accusations made against him Morris began making a film on the subject.
“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks.
Nobody understands what really took place that night, the night that John Brown launched his raid on Harpers Ferry. Why it was done, what caused it and what the actual event itself caused was later discovered and well known by people centuries after it even took place. This raid, was one of the biggest reason a nation was left divided. The Southern part of America was its own “nation” where as the Northern part was thought of kind of as the same but opposite. “Midnight Rising” gives an in depth explanation and feel for the events leading to and the events caused by this raid. The book is based around the time period pre civil war ( circa 1859), In the first part of the book and overview and a little bit of background information is provided. Explaining where and when the raid was being planned and where it was going to be executed, and all of this being told through the perception of one of John Browns men .Prior to this event, Bleeding Kansas had happened and it caused an immense amount of outrage, blood shed, fear and frustration amongst almost every single person part of the U.S at the time. Nat Turners rebellion caused an uproar filled with fear, in the south and that was one of the things that had led up to the main event discussed in the book ( the raid on Harpers Ferry). During the time period the book took place, the southern part of America was pro slavery where as the North was not, and due to these discrepancies neither side could or would compromise and neither would be able to come to any sort of agreement on what to do with laws and rules and with the slaves either. Events such as Nat Turners Rebellion are what caused people in the south to become more fearful of slaves
Critics have already begun a heated debate over the success of the book that has addressed both its strengths and weaknesses. The debate may rage for a few years but it will eventually fizzle out as the success of the novel sustains. The characters, plot, emotional appeal, and easily relatable situations are too strong for this book to crumble. The internal characteristics have provided a strong base to withstand the petty attacks on underdeveloped metaphors and transparent descriptions. The novel does not need confrontations with the Middle East to remain a staple in modern reading, it can hold its own based on its life lessons that anyone can use.
In 2005, the Palestinian director and writer, Hany Abu-Assad, released his award winning motion picture, “Paradise Now.” The film follows two Palestinian friends, over a period of two days, who are chosen by an extremist terrorist group to carry out a suicide mission in Tel-Aviv during the 2004 Intifada. The mission: to detonate a bomb strapped to their stomachs in the city. Because the film industry seldom portrays terrorists as people capable of having any sort of humanity, you would think the director of “Paradise Now” would also depict the two main characters as heartless fiends. Instead he makes an attempt to humanize the protagonists, Khaled and Said, by providing us with a glimpse into their psyches from the time they discover they’ve been recruited for a suicide bombing operation to the very last moments before Said executes the mission. The film explores how resistance, to the Israeli occupation, has taken on an identity characterized by violence, bloodshed, and revenge in Palestinian territories. Khaled and Said buy into the widely taught belief that acts of brutality against the Israeli people is the only tactic left that Palestinians have to combat the occupation. In an effort to expose the falsity of this belief, Hany Abu-Assad introduces a westernized character named Suha who plays the voice of reason and opposition. As a pacifist, she suggests a more peaceful alternative to using violence as a means to an end. Through the film “Paradise Now,” Abu-Assad not only puts a face on suicide bombers but also shows how the struggle for justice and equality must be nonviolent in order to make any significant headway in ending the cycle of oppression between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Most people think Israel always belonged to the Jews but it wasn’t always a safe, holy place where Jews could roam freely. Along with Palestine, it was actually forcefully taken from the Arabs who originated there. The main purpose of this novel is to inform an audience about the conflicts that Arabs and Jews faced. Tolan’s sources are mainly from interviews, documentations and observations. He uses all this information to get his point across, and all the quotes he uses is relevant to his points. The author uses both sides to create a non-biased look at the facts at hand. The novel starts in the year 1967 when Bashir Al-Khairi and his cousins venture to their childhood home in Ramallah. After being forced out of their homes by Jewish Zionists and sent to refuge for twenty years. Bashir arrives at his home to find a Jewish woman named Dalia Eshkenazi. She invites them into her home and later the...
From the child in Omelas to a slaving factory worker, those who struggle from oppression have channeled their worth and refuse to remain pushed to the side and neglected.
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Book Report: The Conundrum by David Owen Efficiency is not always the answer, according to David Owen, in his novel The Conundrum, explains that society is headed in the wrong direction, believing that to be greener we need to make our everyday lives more efficient when in reality we need to change our behavior. As consumers, people want to be sustainable and preserve the Earth while greedily expanding our collection of trinkets. Efficiency can be beneficial, but to make the world a greener one, it is essential for people to change their behavior, not efficiency of the products. The Conundrum describes how in modern times we have come a long way in increasing the efficiencies of cars, air conditioners, trains, airplanes, energy resources, or
Hopper is a boy from Israel whose family was forced into Palestine as a result of the Israeli occupation. Although Hopper’s motives are not clear, his actions in defiance of the occupation truly highlight what he believes in. In effort to save Sidi, Hopper’s grandfather, Hopper demonstrated signs of self negligence and these very actions caused Karim to be “balled with tension.. and [Karim’s] heart on fire with admiration” (Laird 156). After Hopper completes his first act of heroic negligence, he finds himself in an even more dangerous situation. “Karim couldn’t bear to watch.
“If my only other choice is to wash dishes and clean toilets and streets for these people, I’d rather be in their movies. At least I get to be some kind of Bedouin” (Lavie 340). The creation of the state of Israel and the ensuing policies has permanently changed the culture and way of life for Bedouin of the Negev desert. This climate has resulted in the Bedouin losing part of their culture due to Israeli policies and laws. This political reality has also forced them to adapt to form a new way of life that is completely different; it is a forced hybridization of western and Bedouin ideals. They face racism and bias based on historical interactions and western accounts in academia and in the media. While Israel treats them as second-class
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This story is focused on one family in the town of Kafr El Teen, especially on the woman of the family. Zakeya and Kafrawi are Brother and sister and the oldest of the house. Karfrawi's daughters also live with them, Zeinab, and Nefissa's. Also at one point Galal, Zakeys son lived with them ( also Zeinabs husband ). This family is put through many struggles mostly placed upon them by the Mayor of the town, who has an obsession with the daughters of Karfawi.
The uncivilized character of Indian men exhibited violence that now has turned to the silences many of them unwillingly endure years later. The topic of the Indian partition is a controversial topic, it was a time where women were symbolized as national subjects, and faced the horrific procurement of religious catastrophe. The confusion of not understanding such mental lapse is the silence is best depicted through children in the movie, 1947 Earth. It is the battle Lenny and writer Butalia deal with, as Butalia paints a vivid picture of silence though her oral history, The Other Side of Silence. Butalia recounts the silence that lies within an interviewee’s memory, as she recounts, “‘I cannot ...