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Anthropology has been an ever changing and widely debated field of study since its inception. It’s origins in colonialism was one of prejudice and “othering” but it has been evolving ever since. This is no more apparent than in the two-part documentary Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial where we see multiple instances of anthropologists…

The American dream is something that is fantasized by many, and glorified through Hollywood. White picket fence, two story house, steady income, happy family, retirement, etc. are all things associated with the American dream. It takes hard work and tough skin to reach this “dream”, and unfortunately some people work so hard to not even…

Marc Forster, the director of The Kite Runner (2007) was born and raised in West Germany in 1969. In 1990 Forster moved to New York to attend NYU’s film school. According to cineaste.com, Forster was asked “You seemed to have a real understanding for the immigrant portion of the story, when Baba and Amir come…

Introduction Gender stereotypes has always been a problem in our everyday society. We tend to forget how big of a problem this “problem” actually/always has been. These gender roles have substantially taken over our everyday lives and have manipulated us into thinking that we have to fulfill these gender roles. If these gender roles are…

To understand the world in which society lives, there are many lenses through which they must look to gather information about the surrounding environment; it is crucial that one examines their own life through these lenses to get a more complex understanding of their effect upon the world, as well as the effect the world…

Can you think what fear can do with your brain and life? In the contemporary world, we all live in peace and harmony. But the cost of peace has been too high in the past. We have endured brutal wars in the past. The common cause of these wars is fear and foresight. Fear, that…

Equality is a human right, it is the equal treatment requires that all persons be treated equally, without any discrimination. Skin color, religion, or sex we must treat everybody equally. Let me take you to the reality, a true story film entitled “Hidden Figures” directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder….

As humans, we have a fear of not being liked by others. We thrive on building meaningful relationships with others. We learn at a young age how to connect with others and we learn that as humans, we need social interactions to survive. I will be examining the relationship between Will Hunting (Matt Damon) and…

The 1991 film, Good Will Hunting, details the maturation and therapeutic cycle of young genius, Will Hunting. A brash youth, Will finds himself behind jars after assaulting a police officer who attempted to detain Will as he had engaged in a fist fight with a boy from his younger years. Unable to escape the charges,…

For the past few decades, global warming continually grows as an international topic of controversy. The Oxford Dictionary states the definition as “a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.” In National Geographic’s documentary Before the…