Title: Death Letter
Type: Creative Writing
This creative writing is about putting myself into the life of someone that had struggles, and also someone who lost a loved one named Laura. I, myself have written a 'death letter' which is my last speech or words together of what I regretted and how much I have appreciated her. The audience that will be reading my 'death letter' will be for teenagers that are struggling with what they going through in their relationship. Also, it is mainly for teenage boys that are in gangs or thinking about joining in gangs hoping they realize the decisions they make may also affect their loved ones.
Title: Brown Brother
Type: Speech
My response to this speech is about a young pacific islander from Mount Roskill Grammar who delivers a speech about how proud he is to be brown. Reminding the opposite race that we as Islanders are proud of who we have become because we may not have the same tone or color but we are always going to be equal. The audience that will be reading my response to the speech of 'Brown Brother' will be young Pacific Islanders and Europeans and other races that have come across stereotyping or racism.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Speech Stereotype
Speech; Stereotype
What does the word stereotype mean to you? To me stereotype is nothing but these assumptions that have become common knowledge. I am going to talk about my own perspective about stereotype itself and also going to talk about the social's perspectives about the issue. This view may arise from an incident or false belief and then maybe used to color the entire community with the same brush.
My first main point i am going to show both positive and negative sides of stereotyping but before i do i am going to define what stereotype means to me. Stereotype makes people generalize things. More often, they are all false assumptions. There are both positive and negative stereotypes but a majority of them are offensive. People generally stereotype out of bias against a particular group of individual people or religion. Stereotyping becomes a way of conveying their dislike and of course stereotyping, stems from a commonly held view of a particular group of race. For instance all Jewish people are greedy, selfish money hungry people with this example it is more likely said for people to act on to one another as racism OR in other words stereotyping.
Both sides of stereotype have affect people in general but more likely there a benefit of stereotypes to those being stereotyped is that the stereotype itself may be positive. Of course this can backfire if you benefit from a stereotype of a group in which you fit and it becomes clear that the stereotype does not apply to you. Nevertheless, certain stereotypes can help a person land a job, build a good reputation or even find love. One example of a positive stereotype is that Asians are good at math. In some cases this theory is more likely to be true. Furthermore in some areas of Asia education promotes math skills, this stereotype can potentially lead to an edge at a job where an employer is consciously or unconsciously mindful of it.
News, movies and the internet show many negative aspects on certain characteristics of ethnicity itself to relate more to the audience due to their behavior. According to the newsletter: Negative portrayals of the Hispanic population' they have been part of the history of cinema and TV production for decades. Racial stereotypes and the lack of media literate culture have created an acceptance on this matter. Common knowledge is that behavior depends on many variables rather than origin alone. For instance a delusion about the minorities in America has led to a series of conflict and an increasing dispersal across the community. Furthermore, racism occurs in the centuries before and during the first half of the 20th century. This is where black African American's were often portrayed by the whites as evil, uncivilized and unchristian people. In addition, the white colonists commonly believed that black people were inferior to white people and these thoughts helped to justify black slavery, and the institution of many laws that continually condoned inhumane treatment to keep black people in a lower socioeconomic situation.
To conclude this has affected everyone in many ways either positive or negative but its the way we stereotype and affect others, Stereotype is an awful disease that is dispersed around the world which causes humiliation to people such as their race, ethnicity, and gender. A quotation by Matthew Bomer relates to what I'm talking about "Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are" with this saying it helps me to stop and think about what i am going to say to others but other than that i thank you for listening to my speech and i also hope that you have learnt something about stereotyping others.
What does the word stereotype mean to you? To me stereotype is nothing but these assumptions that have become common knowledge. I am going to talk about my own perspective about stereotype itself and also going to talk about the social's perspectives about the issue. This view may arise from an incident or false belief and then maybe used to color the entire community with the same brush.
My first main point i am going to show both positive and negative sides of stereotyping but before i do i am going to define what stereotype means to me. Stereotype makes people generalize things. More often, they are all false assumptions. There are both positive and negative stereotypes but a majority of them are offensive. People generally stereotype out of bias against a particular group of individual people or religion. Stereotyping becomes a way of conveying their dislike and of course stereotyping, stems from a commonly held view of a particular group of race. For instance all Jewish people are greedy, selfish money hungry people with this example it is more likely said for people to act on to one another as racism OR in other words stereotyping.
Both sides of stereotype have affect people in general but more likely there a benefit of stereotypes to those being stereotyped is that the stereotype itself may be positive. Of course this can backfire if you benefit from a stereotype of a group in which you fit and it becomes clear that the stereotype does not apply to you. Nevertheless, certain stereotypes can help a person land a job, build a good reputation or even find love. One example of a positive stereotype is that Asians are good at math. In some cases this theory is more likely to be true. Furthermore in some areas of Asia education promotes math skills, this stereotype can potentially lead to an edge at a job where an employer is consciously or unconsciously mindful of it.
News, movies and the internet show many negative aspects on certain characteristics of ethnicity itself to relate more to the audience due to their behavior. According to the newsletter: Negative portrayals of the Hispanic population' they have been part of the history of cinema and TV production for decades. Racial stereotypes and the lack of media literate culture have created an acceptance on this matter. Common knowledge is that behavior depends on many variables rather than origin alone. For instance a delusion about the minorities in America has led to a series of conflict and an increasing dispersal across the community. Furthermore, racism occurs in the centuries before and during the first half of the 20th century. This is where black African American's were often portrayed by the whites as evil, uncivilized and unchristian people. In addition, the white colonists commonly believed that black people were inferior to white people and these thoughts helped to justify black slavery, and the institution of many laws that continually condoned inhumane treatment to keep black people in a lower socioeconomic situation.
To conclude this has affected everyone in many ways either positive or negative but its the way we stereotype and affect others, Stereotype is an awful disease that is dispersed around the world which causes humiliation to people such as their race, ethnicity, and gender. A quotation by Matthew Bomer relates to what I'm talking about "Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are" with this saying it helps me to stop and think about what i am going to say to others but other than that i thank you for listening to my speech and i also hope that you have learnt something about stereotyping others.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
2.4 Assessment Research: Alcohol
ALCOHOL
According to the New Zealand reports in 2010 there is a numerous number of young teenagers that have done crime due to alcohol and intoxication. Europeans in New Zealand go through the process of crime yet Pacific Islanders and Maori's have a higher rating of intoxication as well as teenager who are binge drinking. Shows that young teenagers in New Zealand are eager to drink alcohol due to the amount of family members that drink which causes to over think about wanting to drink alcohol and this where binge drinking comes in. Young teenagers in New Zealand like myself have been through the process of binge drinking, I was forced into drinking alcohol but never took it after a while. I sneaked in a couple of alcohol having no one to keep an eye on me. Due to the process of binge drinking i, myself have been affected by alcohol its not the parents or supervisors choice to give us alcohol, its our decision whether or not alcohol affects us. This article was useful because alcohol affects young teenagers in New Zealand which proves my hypothesis right. It is also said that binge drinking in New Zealand has a higher rating than other countries like Australia.
Another article i have researched on alcohol is a Youth Studies magazine. It states that the 'Social Analysis Project' gets analysis information that are accurate about drinking behavior in schools such as in New Zealand. They also communicate with young teenagers for instance Pacific Islanders; the truth with the goal of reducing pressures on students in New Zealand. Youth Studies also have found accurate information about binge drinking in schools which links back to the binge drinking that have been said on the previous paragraph. In 2011 it is said that there was 13% of students in schools that have done alcohol but this year in 2014 there is an estimation of 43% of students that are binge drinking on school grounds and this is a huge rating of young teenagers drinking alcohol.
Young Pacific Island teenagers including Maori's still have an increase of intoxication due to the amount of alcohol in the system as well as the increase of drinking alcohol in the past 3 years among every New Zealander. Pacific Islanders as well as New Zealanders are known for the worse drinkers throughout the globe because since alcohol is legal it is known as the biggest drug that people consume. Higher rating of alcohol in New Zealand will keep increasing as more and more teenagers get involve with common drugs like cannabis but with alcohol also. Young teenagers in New Zealand will consume more alcohol due to the following events; Birthday Parties, New Years, and Christmas. This is the three main events that will cause many incidents but with more alcohol consumed the more incidents occur.
To conclude Alcohol will cause severe incidents for instance car accidents and all sorts of incidents we all can think about. With alcohol legal and young teenagers able to consume more of it, this will cause many lives at risk reason being is that alcohol will change the way we act and the way we think but we don't know what alcohol will do to us as we consume more and more of it in our system. Alcohol does affect young teenagers in New Zealand and this proves my hypothesis right because alcohol affecting young teenagers lead to bad decisions which makes bad decisions lead to severe incidents.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Creative Writing
CREATIVE WRITING; DEATH LETTER
Dear Laura,
You were right about me dealing with the bad, look at where it got you, your gone because of me. You have been dealing with the things I have caused in my life. I am sorry for not seeing you when I was always with the gang, your my girlfriend but I realized that I chose the gang over someone I loved. Its too late for me to say the things that i couldn't express before but I love you for always being there for me, I wish..I wish everything would just rewind back so I can always be there with you more than I was with the gang. If' I'd known better, maybe you wouldn't of been in any of my mess and I regret putting the gang first because it was the most stupidest decision I have ever made in my life. Now that your gone I promise you I will never join the gang babe. I hurt you once then look at it now I lost you. If there was anything at all, I don't care what the hell it was that I could do to bring you back even if it were just for a day I would do it in a heart beat. Now I wont stop but help myself through life and wont stop regretting it every single day.
Babe I had dreamed a dream the other night, my love you came all dressed in white. You came to my bedside all dressed in white like some fair bride, you made no sound, no word you said and then I knew my love was dead. Then I awoke to hear the cry lowlands away.
I remember our first date we went to the movies to watch The Vow it was one of the most memorable memories I will cherish in my life. Your red Chuck Taylor's, faded pink tight jeans, white shirt, cream colored cardigan also the silver cross necklace and that fresh perfume of Dolche and Gabana I gave to you for your birthday 2 months ago. It was dark, the smell of the theatre was over taken by the smell of the nice fresh perfume of Dolche and Gabana. The food we ate was delicious remember the cotton candy you always had, the large popcorn, the hot and spicy Mexican flavored Derito chips, large Chocolate Bare, the nice flavored caramel and vanilla ice cream with the chocolate icing you always adored also the drinks; Coco Cola and Sprite to complete everything i have planned for you.
I miss that glamorous smile you have always put on your beautiful face, I miss those bright brown eyes that have always caught young kids attention, i miss that crazy, funny and loving personality last but not least i miss hearing your voice. The tone you used when you were mad, sad, happy, the smoothness of your soft hands when we hold each others hands and the silkiness and smoothness of your hair when you would let me play with it. But..babe..I miss you so much and to be honest your more than I could ever ask for to make me a better person than i ever was. Without you right now I am back to square one, without you there's no one I would love besides you. Rest in peace my girl your in safe hands now with our heavenly father, fly high and keep smiling. I love you.
Dear Laura,
You were right about me dealing with the bad, look at where it got you, your gone because of me. You have been dealing with the things I have caused in my life. I am sorry for not seeing you when I was always with the gang, your my girlfriend but I realized that I chose the gang over someone I loved. Its too late for me to say the things that i couldn't express before but I love you for always being there for me, I wish..I wish everything would just rewind back so I can always be there with you more than I was with the gang. If' I'd known better, maybe you wouldn't of been in any of my mess and I regret putting the gang first because it was the most stupidest decision I have ever made in my life. Now that your gone I promise you I will never join the gang babe. I hurt you once then look at it now I lost you. If there was anything at all, I don't care what the hell it was that I could do to bring you back even if it were just for a day I would do it in a heart beat. Now I wont stop but help myself through life and wont stop regretting it every single day.
Babe I had dreamed a dream the other night, my love you came all dressed in white. You came to my bedside all dressed in white like some fair bride, you made no sound, no word you said and then I knew my love was dead. Then I awoke to hear the cry lowlands away.
I remember our first date we went to the movies to watch The Vow it was one of the most memorable memories I will cherish in my life. Your red Chuck Taylor's, faded pink tight jeans, white shirt, cream colored cardigan also the silver cross necklace and that fresh perfume of Dolche and Gabana I gave to you for your birthday 2 months ago. It was dark, the smell of the theatre was over taken by the smell of the nice fresh perfume of Dolche and Gabana. The food we ate was delicious remember the cotton candy you always had, the large popcorn, the hot and spicy Mexican flavored Derito chips, large Chocolate Bare, the nice flavored caramel and vanilla ice cream with the chocolate icing you always adored also the drinks; Coco Cola and Sprite to complete everything i have planned for you.
I miss that glamorous smile you have always put on your beautiful face, I miss those bright brown eyes that have always caught young kids attention, i miss that crazy, funny and loving personality last but not least i miss hearing your voice. The tone you used when you were mad, sad, happy, the smoothness of your soft hands when we hold each others hands and the silkiness and smoothness of your hair when you would let me play with it. But..babe..I miss you so much and to be honest your more than I could ever ask for to make me a better person than i ever was. Without you right now I am back to square one, without you there's no one I would love besides you. Rest in peace my girl your in safe hands now with our heavenly father, fly high and keep smiling. I love you.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Novel
Title; Last Minute
Type; Novel
Author; David Hill
Last Minute is about a young mix gender teenage group of students/basketballers who struggles to find success against an incredible basketball school team named Western Heights. This is also about the students who couldn't believe in themselves after a huge loss the previous season from the same school. So throughout the novel the group of basketballers go through both bad and good times among-st themselves to improve on their skills.
A challenge a character faced in this text was Zac. The character handled it by trying to cope with the team because he keeps getting put off by them when they tell him to change his ripped pair of sports shoes. A day after that he then gets a new pair of runners before the first game against Western Heights, an evidence towards Zac having to deal with the team before he gets new shoes is when Brittany says to him "You've got the problem. Why don't you fix those stupid runners? Buy a new pair!". This helps me understand that Brittany and Zac don't get along that well also they have a lot on their mind about each other such as calling each other names but as he gets new pairs Brittany then come's to a point where she doesn't call him names because of the new pairs he bought so she takes him for granted.
One idea in this novel was the friendship the team had throughout the year this is because at first they did not believe in themselves for a long time after they had challenged a strong school but during the training's the previous weeks and year they had all come together and train new moves for the game. An example of friendship is "You're my team, we're a team and always a team" this means that through bad or good times friends or team mates they'll always stick by each other. What i learnt from the teams friendship is that even though you give each other so much hate in school there's a lot going on in the sport team where you have to put yourself on the line and do whats best for each other not for yourself because if your alone you wont achieve the goal but when you have friends we can achieve so much things in life.
Overall throughout the novel the team mates are glad that they have given all their best to the opposition but win or lose they can always build up their confidence towards the other schools in the tournament. One team mate down all the team mates are down, when one team mate stands up for themselves the rest will stand right beside them.
Type; Novel
Author; David Hill
Last Minute is about a young mix gender teenage group of students/basketballers who struggles to find success against an incredible basketball school team named Western Heights. This is also about the students who couldn't believe in themselves after a huge loss the previous season from the same school. So throughout the novel the group of basketballers go through both bad and good times among-st themselves to improve on their skills.
A challenge a character faced in this text was Zac. The character handled it by trying to cope with the team because he keeps getting put off by them when they tell him to change his ripped pair of sports shoes. A day after that he then gets a new pair of runners before the first game against Western Heights, an evidence towards Zac having to deal with the team before he gets new shoes is when Brittany says to him "You've got the problem. Why don't you fix those stupid runners? Buy a new pair!". This helps me understand that Brittany and Zac don't get along that well also they have a lot on their mind about each other such as calling each other names but as he gets new pairs Brittany then come's to a point where she doesn't call him names because of the new pairs he bought so she takes him for granted.
One idea in this novel was the friendship the team had throughout the year this is because at first they did not believe in themselves for a long time after they had challenged a strong school but during the training's the previous weeks and year they had all come together and train new moves for the game. An example of friendship is "You're my team, we're a team and always a team" this means that through bad or good times friends or team mates they'll always stick by each other. What i learnt from the teams friendship is that even though you give each other so much hate in school there's a lot going on in the sport team where you have to put yourself on the line and do whats best for each other not for yourself because if your alone you wont achieve the goal but when you have friends we can achieve so much things in life.
Overall throughout the novel the team mates are glad that they have given all their best to the opposition but win or lose they can always build up their confidence towards the other schools in the tournament. One team mate down all the team mates are down, when one team mate stands up for themselves the rest will stand right beside them.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Artist Lyrics
Title; Artist Lyrics
Song; Hopeful
Artist; Twista ft Faith
"Hopeful" is a song about the people around America that have lost their lives or been put into prison or the change THOSE people want to make. This song is about the close friends and family Twista has lost during his career in the Music Industry also comparing himself to the society itself around him.
Twista known as Carl Terrell Mitchell was born on November 27, 1973 in Chicago Illinois. Twista also creates a memory of the 9/11 attack that had took place in the city of New York. His main focus on this song was mainly his views on the war on Terrorism, close friends such as Tupac, Biggie, Left Eye, Jam Master Jay, Aaliyah also his views on his life, family, the people that live around America. A theme in this song is Lost of a Loved One. An example of when he talks about the loss of his loved ones as in friends and the people around him in the song it says "i just wanna say rest in peace to Aaliyah, rest in peace to Left Eye, rest in peace to Jam Master Jay, and everybody lost in the twin towers, and everybody we lost PERIOD". I liked it because it made me feel the way Twista felt when he lost the people around him and the close friends he had also that I/He will lose them period like the way i lost my mother period.
A quote i want to remember and always will remember is "with the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains, and only the heavenly father can ease the hurt, just let it go and keep praying on your knees in church". The reason why i want to remember this quote because praying to the heavenly father can be the only way to ease your pain and to ask him for his guidance as Twista, me or anyone else in this world are going through a rough time without the people we LOVE. What i learnt from this song is that with the people who use to be surrounded by us as a friend or a family member we could always do what we do for each person that has lost their lives due to tragedies and that's always pray.
Overall the song showed the hope we should have after a terrible incident that had happened whether its a family member or not you can always count on the hope you have inside of you. The strong messages in this song is all about the past coming back to life for us to hear, look and to be ourselves around them again. I believe this is one of the most successful songs that have ever been made about life itself.
Song; Hopeful
Artist; Twista ft Faith
"Hopeful" is a song about the people around America that have lost their lives or been put into prison or the change THOSE people want to make. This song is about the close friends and family Twista has lost during his career in the Music Industry also comparing himself to the society itself around him.
Twista known as Carl Terrell Mitchell was born on November 27, 1973 in Chicago Illinois. Twista also creates a memory of the 9/11 attack that had took place in the city of New York. His main focus on this song was mainly his views on the war on Terrorism, close friends such as Tupac, Biggie, Left Eye, Jam Master Jay, Aaliyah also his views on his life, family, the people that live around America. A theme in this song is Lost of a Loved One. An example of when he talks about the loss of his loved ones as in friends and the people around him in the song it says "i just wanna say rest in peace to Aaliyah, rest in peace to Left Eye, rest in peace to Jam Master Jay, and everybody lost in the twin towers, and everybody we lost PERIOD". I liked it because it made me feel the way Twista felt when he lost the people around him and the close friends he had also that I/He will lose them period like the way i lost my mother period.
A quote i want to remember and always will remember is "with the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains, and only the heavenly father can ease the hurt, just let it go and keep praying on your knees in church". The reason why i want to remember this quote because praying to the heavenly father can be the only way to ease your pain and to ask him for his guidance as Twista, me or anyone else in this world are going through a rough time without the people we LOVE. What i learnt from this song is that with the people who use to be surrounded by us as a friend or a family member we could always do what we do for each person that has lost their lives due to tragedies and that's always pray.
Overall the song showed the hope we should have after a terrible incident that had happened whether its a family member or not you can always count on the hope you have inside of you. The strong messages in this song is all about the past coming back to life for us to hear, look and to be ourselves around them again. I believe this is one of the most successful songs that have ever been made about life itself.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Short Story; The Hills
Title; The Hills
Author; Patricia Grace
Type; Short Story
The Hills by Patricia Grace is a short story about a young teenage boy who talks about what being a "boy" is or what it means to himself and other individuals around him. Also this short story has a main idea of Racism where the cops say to the little boy that he is black.
One idea in this Short Story was the conflict between cops and the boy. I thought it was interesting because the boy was at the pub with his friends and his friend tells him that Steve was talking with the cops so he wonders off looking for him. The boy then comes to a point where the cops are telling him off then arrests him for nothing he then wonders to himself why he is being arrested because all he was doing was looking for his friend that had been missing while after he had been talking to the cops. This made me feel and understand that this sort of based in the dawn raids in the early 1970's where racism was occurred in New Zealand like the White New Zealanders arresting the Pacific Islanders and the Maoris for no reason and giving them no freedom.
The most important event in this text was when the boy gets taken into the the station. I thought it was important because this is where he changes from a "boy" to a "man" after he experiences what its like to be in jail. An example of where he changes from a boy to a man is where in the short story it says "Later that day i went outside and walked up the street, and when i got to the top of the road i wouldn't look out at the hills. I turned and went back home. I remember wondering if i would ever look their again". This means that he does not want to be put up at the stage where he was before when he was at the hills and everything around him changed like his perspectives about the hills.
After reading this Short Story by Patricia Grace it made me think about how when he was a boy he was a smartarse, dirty with a filthy mind also is a servant and a slave but when he became a man after that little incident that happened at the pub he realized that being a boy puts him into bad situations just like getting end up in jail and he has to learn from what happened when he was a teenage boy.
Author; Patricia Grace
Type; Short Story
The Hills by Patricia Grace is a short story about a young teenage boy who talks about what being a "boy" is or what it means to himself and other individuals around him. Also this short story has a main idea of Racism where the cops say to the little boy that he is black.
One idea in this Short Story was the conflict between cops and the boy. I thought it was interesting because the boy was at the pub with his friends and his friend tells him that Steve was talking with the cops so he wonders off looking for him. The boy then comes to a point where the cops are telling him off then arrests him for nothing he then wonders to himself why he is being arrested because all he was doing was looking for his friend that had been missing while after he had been talking to the cops. This made me feel and understand that this sort of based in the dawn raids in the early 1970's where racism was occurred in New Zealand like the White New Zealanders arresting the Pacific Islanders and the Maoris for no reason and giving them no freedom.
The most important event in this text was when the boy gets taken into the the station. I thought it was important because this is where he changes from a "boy" to a "man" after he experiences what its like to be in jail. An example of where he changes from a boy to a man is where in the short story it says "Later that day i went outside and walked up the street, and when i got to the top of the road i wouldn't look out at the hills. I turned and went back home. I remember wondering if i would ever look their again". This means that he does not want to be put up at the stage where he was before when he was at the hills and everything around him changed like his perspectives about the hills.
After reading this Short Story by Patricia Grace it made me think about how when he was a boy he was a smartarse, dirty with a filthy mind also is a servant and a slave but when he became a man after that little incident that happened at the pub he realized that being a boy puts him into bad situations just like getting end up in jail and he has to learn from what happened when he was a teenage boy.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
AS 2.4 Tsotsi Film Review
Tsotsi
Film Review
This film is a film that could inspire your deepest emotions and to any individuals like myself who are interested behind the scenes of the way of life South Africans live in the rich and minor parts of Johannesburg, well this breath-taking film is the film to watch.
Tsotsi is an action-drama filled film set in Soweto, South Africa in the early 1970's. A struggle to look for change, the main character Tsosti a careless and ruthless teenager who lives in a small town called Soweto filled with filthy ghettos and poor individuals like himself. As he is a ghetto himself he grows up having no one to provide him a life he would've had when he was young child. Instead of that he had to provide himself food and water by carnarging people for their money.
In the film making of Tsotsi there are a lot of dramatic acting which helps us understand that being emotional is really important. One of the main lead roles Presley Chweneyagae who acts as Tsotsi is an example of being emotional as it is seen at the last part of the movie the expression on his face as he is giving the baby back to its parents is that of someone who is about to give his life. However Presley portrayed his character Tsotsi beautifully as he projects his emotions from off screen to the viewers point.
The mix music of Kwaito and Gangster music is appropriately used to reflect on the main character Tsotsi's background and the themes that is used in this film, such as when it is upbeat music it shows the theme of violence. An example of the upbeat music that is shown in the film is when after Tsotsi gives Sookie "teacher boy" a hiding then runs away, a loud thundering drum beat is played as he is running away from the pub and the trouble he has caused. Also another example of music that is used in the beginning of the film is Ghettoish music this is used to show the way Tsotsi lives in the minor area of Johannesburg which connects to his life as he is a Ghetto himself gambling in the shacks with his gang.
It will change the way you see (e.g young people) after watching this film. A truth is that a different set of individuals are inspired by different aspects that is used in movies like myself in this movie i liked the use of acting and music both aspects connect to each other such as the way Gavin Hood used the ghettoish music to show the way Tsotsi lives.
With the use of interesting and dramatic of different themes such as violence, change and redemption i believe that the film Tsotsi is one of the all times greatest action-drama filmed that is ever made because it relates back to how South Africans use to live in the early 1970's during the apartheid.
This film is a film that can change your perspectives about yourselves or other individuals around you it is a film that could inspire your deepest emotions so if i was you i would gt this film as soon as possible from the videos store around your area.
Film Review
This film is a film that could inspire your deepest emotions and to any individuals like myself who are interested behind the scenes of the way of life South Africans live in the rich and minor parts of Johannesburg, well this breath-taking film is the film to watch.
Tsotsi is an action-drama filled film set in Soweto, South Africa in the early 1970's. A struggle to look for change, the main character Tsosti a careless and ruthless teenager who lives in a small town called Soweto filled with filthy ghettos and poor individuals like himself. As he is a ghetto himself he grows up having no one to provide him a life he would've had when he was young child. Instead of that he had to provide himself food and water by carnarging people for their money.
In the film making of Tsotsi there are a lot of dramatic acting which helps us understand that being emotional is really important. One of the main lead roles Presley Chweneyagae who acts as Tsotsi is an example of being emotional as it is seen at the last part of the movie the expression on his face as he is giving the baby back to its parents is that of someone who is about to give his life. However Presley portrayed his character Tsotsi beautifully as he projects his emotions from off screen to the viewers point.
The mix music of Kwaito and Gangster music is appropriately used to reflect on the main character Tsotsi's background and the themes that is used in this film, such as when it is upbeat music it shows the theme of violence. An example of the upbeat music that is shown in the film is when after Tsotsi gives Sookie "teacher boy" a hiding then runs away, a loud thundering drum beat is played as he is running away from the pub and the trouble he has caused. Also another example of music that is used in the beginning of the film is Ghettoish music this is used to show the way Tsotsi lives in the minor area of Johannesburg which connects to his life as he is a Ghetto himself gambling in the shacks with his gang.
It will change the way you see (e.g young people) after watching this film. A truth is that a different set of individuals are inspired by different aspects that is used in movies like myself in this movie i liked the use of acting and music both aspects connect to each other such as the way Gavin Hood used the ghettoish music to show the way Tsotsi lives.
With the use of interesting and dramatic of different themes such as violence, change and redemption i believe that the film Tsotsi is one of the all times greatest action-drama filmed that is ever made because it relates back to how South Africans use to live in the early 1970's during the apartheid.
This film is a film that can change your perspectives about yourselves or other individuals around you it is a film that could inspire your deepest emotions so if i was you i would gt this film as soon as possible from the videos store around your area.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Tsotsi
Tsotsi
Film
Gavin Hood
This film is about a small time criminal teenager name David but he is often called Tsotsi. Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, has lack of discipline and hardened by his tough life living in the slums of South Africa. Tsotsi then comes to a point where he hijacks a car in a rich neighbor-hood. However whilst driving, Tsosti finds that there is a baby at the back seat of the car so he then takes it back to slums where he lives in a shack. BUT this film; its a film in which South Africans to see and here themselves as real people and not as feeble caricatures gleaned from countless Hollywood movies.
A challenge a character faced in the film is Tsotsi. Tsotsi isn't a particularly sympathetic character, and he does a lot of things with and without his gang, in the first third of the film that makes you wonder why you're expected to care what happens to him. At least in Tsotsi's case, his lack of a moral pressure seems to have a lot to do with his upbringing and lack of strong parental figures when he was a young child growing up with parents that was or wasn't there for him. Tsotsi faces a flashback to the incident that made him run away from home and it makes things clearer for me because as a young kid for him in those days he had to suffer living with his father who was an alcoholic and his mother who was failing to live because of the disease she had been given. Also this all leads up to when he was carjacking, forcing him to make tough decisions for himself about whats right even if it means he'll be put in jail.
A theme that i enjoyed in the film was Poverty and Criminality and the Interrelationship between Tsotsi and life. This is because Tsotsi is pushed into a life of crime due to poverty and this inhibits Tsotsi from being a law abiding citizen because it makes him a brutal criminal instead but he knows that robbery in itself is misguided. Also criminality comes to mind where South Africa and in the film they have similarities where they abduct from other people and gets away with it, this helps me understand as an audience because living in a area that is minor gets them frustrated to get what they want and what they need in terms of money, food and water.
A message or one thing i learned after watching this film of Tsotsi is a quote saying "In this world...Redemption only just comes once". This means that Tsotsi is saved from his unpleasant life of killing and robbing to a life he can improve on when he was a little child.
Film
Gavin Hood
This film is about a small time criminal teenager name David but he is often called Tsotsi. Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, has lack of discipline and hardened by his tough life living in the slums of South Africa. Tsotsi then comes to a point where he hijacks a car in a rich neighbor-hood. However whilst driving, Tsosti finds that there is a baby at the back seat of the car so he then takes it back to slums where he lives in a shack. BUT this film; its a film in which South Africans to see and here themselves as real people and not as feeble caricatures gleaned from countless Hollywood movies.
A challenge a character faced in the film is Tsotsi. Tsotsi isn't a particularly sympathetic character, and he does a lot of things with and without his gang, in the first third of the film that makes you wonder why you're expected to care what happens to him. At least in Tsotsi's case, his lack of a moral pressure seems to have a lot to do with his upbringing and lack of strong parental figures when he was a young child growing up with parents that was or wasn't there for him. Tsotsi faces a flashback to the incident that made him run away from home and it makes things clearer for me because as a young kid for him in those days he had to suffer living with his father who was an alcoholic and his mother who was failing to live because of the disease she had been given. Also this all leads up to when he was carjacking, forcing him to make tough decisions for himself about whats right even if it means he'll be put in jail.
A theme that i enjoyed in the film was Poverty and Criminality and the Interrelationship between Tsotsi and life. This is because Tsotsi is pushed into a life of crime due to poverty and this inhibits Tsotsi from being a law abiding citizen because it makes him a brutal criminal instead but he knows that robbery in itself is misguided. Also criminality comes to mind where South Africa and in the film they have similarities where they abduct from other people and gets away with it, this helps me understand as an audience because living in a area that is minor gets them frustrated to get what they want and what they need in terms of money, food and water.
A message or one thing i learned after watching this film of Tsotsi is a quote saying "In this world...Redemption only just comes once". This means that Tsotsi is saved from his unpleasant life of killing and robbing to a life he can improve on when he was a little child.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Brown Brother
Brown Brother
Speech
Joshua Iosefa
Brown Brother is about a young pacific islander Joshua Iosefa a prefect from Mount Roskill Grammar School who talks about how proud he is to be an islander and explains why his culture is really important to him as a young Pacific Islander. He talks about the Polynesians and Maori's coming together as one to keep moving forward instead of staying behind. He talks about the lifestyle of a Pacific Islander where most people don't fancy maths, english and science than p.e or music because they love that more than the other subjects they take in school. Other than that this speech is very strong, it explains a lot about describing everything that's brown to himself also the people from his community as Pacific Islanders.
One idea in this speech was the perseverance he has toward his kind because him joining the 1st XV and expecting himself to not make it in the team without motivating himself, although he has support from his family and friends to help him strive for the best in what he can do in the school also in the team. An example of which he says he cannot play rugby is when he quotes "who needs to be able to quote Shakespeare when they can play rugby", meaning that you do not need to be intelligent or smart to be able to play rugby, it does not matter if your white or brown, because everyone is equal.
A word that Intrigued me in this speech was Heritage. Because everything that is brown around him describes his heritage for instance he says "Brown like the bark of the palm tree that supports my heritage. Brown like the table of which my family sits and eats upon. Brown like the paper bag containing burgers and fries by which my people consume etc" this means that everything that he is compose to and what his people inherit in the form of their culture that has a meaning to it. His background is based on stereotypes given by individuals of society, therefore they live in a life of discrimination by the opposite race. "Whenever someone tries to breach my comfort zone or whenever I don't have anything else to say in defence and an argument im going to say that "you're a racist", that your words are a mockery in my skin tone and my color." this means that if the opposite race dares to breach our comfort zone we are gonna say what we think about the situation in hand.
A message or one thing I learnt after reading this text was where he says "For where you go, you take us with you. Brown Brother, do not be afraid to be the first, the first to graduate, the first to climb, the first prime minister, or the first good wife-brown brother, do not be afraid to be the change. Not in skin tone or color, but a change in mindset. From one brown brother to another." he has the mindset to change everything around him and the society he lives in. We live in a world where racism occurs where the opposite race claims to be superior than the rest.
Speech
Joshua Iosefa
Brown Brother is about a young pacific islander Joshua Iosefa a prefect from Mount Roskill Grammar School who talks about how proud he is to be an islander and explains why his culture is really important to him as a young Pacific Islander. He talks about the Polynesians and Maori's coming together as one to keep moving forward instead of staying behind. He talks about the lifestyle of a Pacific Islander where most people don't fancy maths, english and science than p.e or music because they love that more than the other subjects they take in school. Other than that this speech is very strong, it explains a lot about describing everything that's brown to himself also the people from his community as Pacific Islanders.
One idea in this speech was the perseverance he has toward his kind because him joining the 1st XV and expecting himself to not make it in the team without motivating himself, although he has support from his family and friends to help him strive for the best in what he can do in the school also in the team. An example of which he says he cannot play rugby is when he quotes "who needs to be able to quote Shakespeare when they can play rugby", meaning that you do not need to be intelligent or smart to be able to play rugby, it does not matter if your white or brown, because everyone is equal.
A word that Intrigued me in this speech was Heritage. Because everything that is brown around him describes his heritage for instance he says "Brown like the bark of the palm tree that supports my heritage. Brown like the table of which my family sits and eats upon. Brown like the paper bag containing burgers and fries by which my people consume etc" this means that everything that he is compose to and what his people inherit in the form of their culture that has a meaning to it. His background is based on stereotypes given by individuals of society, therefore they live in a life of discrimination by the opposite race. "Whenever someone tries to breach my comfort zone or whenever I don't have anything else to say in defence and an argument im going to say that "you're a racist", that your words are a mockery in my skin tone and my color." this means that if the opposite race dares to breach our comfort zone we are gonna say what we think about the situation in hand.
A message or one thing I learnt after reading this text was where he says "For where you go, you take us with you. Brown Brother, do not be afraid to be the first, the first to graduate, the first to climb, the first prime minister, or the first good wife-brown brother, do not be afraid to be the change. Not in skin tone or color, but a change in mindset. From one brown brother to another." he has the mindset to change everything around him and the society he lives in. We live in a world where racism occurs where the opposite race claims to be superior than the rest.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Dawn Raids Response
Dawn Raids
Oscar Knightly
Play
Dawn Raids is about a pacific island family who is getting harassed by the Labour Department. It is also about the struggles pacific island families had to go through that time when racism was occurred in New Zealand 1976. The struggles the over-stayers had to go through was hard for them to cope with each other especially trying to hide from the Labour Department.
A challenge a character faced in this play was Fuarosa. She handled it by disobeying rules and orders her family have given her. Fuarosa herself is an over-stayer she was hidden in the house away from the Labour Department where they get the police force to search for over-stayers. But one night Fuarosa went out of the house To'aga let Teresa to take Fuarosa out to look for Sione to tell him the big news she was waiting to tell him privately, when they got back home they are caught by Teresa's dad. In scene 11 page 58 a quotation that explains the way Mose felt towards Teresa is "I've had enough of you treating this place like a hotel. You come and go as you please. You don't care about the rules and when i try and tell you, you laugh like its a big joke." This helps me understand that Teresa disobeys her dad and the rules he has set for her as she is a over-stayer herself but instead of looking after herself she is taking care of Fuarosa instead because teenagers back then had to hide from the authorities where as now we have freedom to walk around the streets of Auckland but there are some Islanders that come from the pacific islands that don't have New Zealand citizenship still have to stay hidden away from the authorities.
The most exciting part was when in the first few scenes it was talking about how they were really careful with Fuarosa setting her rules about not going outside because they don't want her to get caught by the authorities and without the palagi's laughing at her because of the clothes they are wearing. Then when it came to the middle and the ending part of the story it got interesting with the authorities getting more involved with the over-stayers not noticing that their always around watching their every move that they were making. I found it interesting because racism has always been in the story where the islanders get harassed by the palagi's, the police and also the Labour Department especially for them having no freedom to walk the streets of Auckland-Ponsonby. A scene that made me thought of racism is when the police officer says to Bene and Teresa in scene 9 page 51; "Alright. I'll let you off with a warning but can recommend that since you's both don't look like kiwi's, that you get passports and carry them around for when this happens again". This made me feel bad about the islanders because they are always getting picked on by the palagi's and the police because no matter what color they are, they are always gonna be apart of New Zealand and everywhere else where racism is located because they are exactly like everyone else and that is being "HUMAN".
After reading this text it made me think about the way Pacific Islanders has been struggling living in New Zealand and trying to hide from the Labour Department just because they haven't had a New Zealand Citizenship or Passport. It also taught me that in 1976 pacific islanders such as over-stayers were always kept inside away from the Police and the Labour Department because they had no freedom to walk around the streets but when you compare now a days to back then we have freedom to walk around the streets of Auckland. This made me realize that if i was there in the 1970's i would be kicked out of this country in no time but i am really glad to have freedom to walk around because if i haven't i wouldn't of have made many good friends right now without freedom i would be just a joke to palagi's.
The most exciting part was when in the first few scenes it was talking about how they were really careful with Fuarosa setting her rules about not going outside because they don't want her to get caught by the authorities and without the palagi's laughing at her because of the clothes they are wearing. Then when it came to the middle and the ending part of the story it got interesting with the authorities getting more involved with the over-stayers not noticing that their always around watching their every move that they were making. I found it interesting because racism has always been in the story where the islanders get harassed by the palagi's, the police and also the Labour Department especially for them having no freedom to walk the streets of Auckland-Ponsonby. A scene that made me thought of racism is when the police officer says to Bene and Teresa in scene 9 page 51; "Alright. I'll let you off with a warning but can recommend that since you's both don't look like kiwi's, that you get passports and carry them around for when this happens again". This made me feel bad about the islanders because they are always getting picked on by the palagi's and the police because no matter what color they are, they are always gonna be apart of New Zealand and everywhere else where racism is located because they are exactly like everyone else and that is being "HUMAN".
After reading this text it made me think about the way Pacific Islanders has been struggling living in New Zealand and trying to hide from the Labour Department just because they haven't had a New Zealand Citizenship or Passport. It also taught me that in 1976 pacific islanders such as over-stayers were always kept inside away from the Police and the Labour Department because they had no freedom to walk around the streets but when you compare now a days to back then we have freedom to walk around the streets of Auckland. This made me realize that if i was there in the 1970's i would be kicked out of this country in no time but i am really glad to have freedom to walk around because if i haven't i wouldn't of have made many good friends right now without freedom i would be just a joke to palagi's.
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