Cache Inc. is a mall-based and online woman’s specialty retailer of apparel and accessories in the United States. There are 243 stores located in 41 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The store that we are focused on is the Cache in Escondido, California in the North County Mall.…
During the winter break I watched the movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan, West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay, but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and Blacks. As they prepare to start a gun war with the Coal Company and its supporters, Joe Kenehan, a labor union organizer arrives along with a black replacement worker, “Few Clothes”, who both urge for peace and unity between all workers as opposed…
The film takes place in two timelines and involves two couples from different continents. The Australian couple, Walt and Ruth, lives in the present and are bickering on account of the husband’s obsession to catch flies that to his wife’s dismay, resulted to the neglect of his household chores. The Filipino couple lives in the memory of the husband, Jessie. He remembers his wife, Appollonia, as an activist writer who died during the height of martial law in the Philippines.…
The objective of the course is to assist future managers in planning, executing and evaluating their business.…
This past weekend a close friend of mine encouraged me to go see the documentary 9500 Liberty that was playing on Friday. Honestly I only went to be nice to my friend however as I sat and watched the documentary I quickly became very engaged. The film was about a county in Virginia which was trying to implement laws which negatively affected the steadily increasing Latino community in the area. This documentary was fantastically done and was very emotionally gripping. I was really upset because of the racist comments that were said by the Caucasian residents. It became a very ugly battle which surpassed the original purpose of the whole issue.Throughout the movie I was constantly becoming more and more angry at the behavior of the opposing…
As Marquette University’s Mission Week focusing on “Racial Justice: Black, White, and the Call of the Church” comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the meaning of racial justice, as well as how to properly engage in this difficult topic in the city of Milwaukee. I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge while viewing the film Milwaukee 53206, which focuses on one of our community’s poorest zip codes as well as the nation’s most incarcerated zip code. The social ills of this area are not just a result of one issue, but multiple issues within the community including the average yearly income, socioeconomic status, quality of life and family relationships, and other social determinants.…
The conventions of a road movie are simple: a couple characters go on a trip and they change along the way. While the destination is important, the journey is even more interesting. When it comes to road movies, both Central Station and the Motorcycle Diaries are prime examples.…
The seven deadly sins, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, pride, envy and wrath, are all emotions that nearly every individual experience each day throughout their lives because of the social, political and economic factors that surround us each day. However, what would happen if we were truly punished for allowing these emotions to control us? This question establishes the plot for the film Se7en starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow which was released in 1995. Nonetheless, the film does not solely focus on the seven deadly sins and the punishments that go along with them but raise questions moral questions about psychopathy and policing in today’s culture. In this essay I will discuss the how the film Se7en’s portrayal of policing in pop culture is reflective of the dialectical relationship and socio-historic context that was present in 1995 when the film was produced, based and released. Furthermore, I will pay particular attention to the influence race has on policing as this was the first cop film that allowed the lead detective to be a man of colour. Additionally, to…
The assignment that I chose was: Research and discuss the concept of the social contract between business and society in the U.S. First I had to research what a social contract consisted of. After looking at various companies ideals of social contracts, I came to the conclusion that there is a clear expectation that businesses have an obligation to improve society’s status. The overall consensus is that businesses should have their employee’s interests at heart without having to break any rules of justice in society. Bottom line: as long as the agreements between society and businesses are ethical, their relationship will remain civil.…
The Machuca film was in Colegio Saint George that was a private school that taught English to boys by the Jesuits. When a group of new students from the barridas (slums) come to the school they are looked down and get picked on. Pedro is one of them but soon become friends with Gonzalo who is educated and rich. All throughout the streets you see clashing sides that are protesting either for or against president Salvador Allende. Eventually you see army go into the shantytowns, they kick out all the village people and the whole place gets deserted.…
City of God (Meirelles 2002) was an eye opening film about the life of the people living in favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It depicts the gruesome details of growing up in a slum and the choices youths must make in order to survive their reality. In an article by Joanne Laurier called “Sincere, but avoiding difficult questions”, Laurier attacks director Fernando Meirelles on his artistic choices when creating his film City of God (Meirelles 2002). However, Laurier completely misses what Meirelles brought to the film and the impact it had on its audience.…
Looking back to the early development, documentary was called to be crucial in the phase of cinema. Historically, the film was conventionally commences in 1895, according to Erik Barnouw, the media historian, the Lumiere programs were the very well-liked in which for a span of two years they had just about a hundred operators working around the world. In fact, both showing their films as well as photographing new ones for the purposes of adding to a progressively rising catalogue.…
Life. What is it? What does it mean? Does it define our very existence? Is it the minds most dwelled upon subject? Is it not the question that every human being regardless of race, color, ethnicity or gender attempts to figure out? It is what Ernesto Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna) set to find out on their journey of South America in the film “The Motorcycle Diaries”. Ernesto Guevara is a young, good looking medical student from Buenos Aires, Argentina, armed with an immensely strong will, an intense desire to explore and discover, while focused on learning about and making a difference in the world around him. Alberto Granado is a relatively young biochemist, also from Buenos Aires, who is very close friends with Ernesto and his family. He is a radiant, fun loving character who although is not as good looking as his younger comrade, makes up for it with his “let’s do it at all costs” attitude and someone who shares the fundamental beliefs of expiernceing life and making a difference in the world with Ernesto. He, as well as Ernesto, leaves a tremendous impact on the viewer.…
In contrary to a stage or screen performance, a documentary film displays real people living everyday life. For many viewers, the notion of documentary film is based on the genuineness of a normal individual playing his or her role in society; without being staged or designed by a producer. However, documentary films, in the aim to portray a daily routine, may encompass professional actors to reenact such performance. Bill Nichols, professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University and author of Introduction to Documentary, helps us distinguish the differences between a social and professional actor. Nichols explained that a social actor “presents themselves in everyday…
In the film "Safety Last!" Harold Lloyd came a long way since his stage début at the age of 12 in "Little Abe", and Harold plays a clumsy, dim-witted young man. Harold is leaving Great Bend in pursuit of better job opportunities in "the big city", but ends up working at a department store. He does all this in hopes of making enough money to marry a girl he loves called Mildred, but things become increasingly complicated for Harold when Mildred makes a surprise visit to the big city at his place of work none the less. Furthermore, this surprise visit makes Harold's job of pretending to be a big shot much more complicated and further complicates things by pretending to be a manager. Additionally, Harold's problems seem to come to an end when he overhears a conversation between a general manager, and Bill offering a great deal of money for Bill to climb a tall building to promote the store. Harold wishes to complete the task to get the money or himself, and it seems as if he will though the help of a police officer that is looking into Bill for an earlier incident. Although the plot is ordinary, Harold in this movie is anything but, and every situation is approached with adolescent humor as we have seen completed by "The Three Stooges".…