Author Archives: Patrick Crehan

Assignment 2 Final Draft

As pro-equality publications, speeches and organizations began to influence change subsequent to the adoption of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, a glimpse of peace had finally seemed to settle amongst once was a hostile environment in the United States. Nonetheless, it wouldn’t be for many decades until equality was viewed pervasively by every state.Continue reading “HW 4/14”

This video discusses how, although U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, Guam and America Samoa are considered benifactor territories for the United States, the people of those territories do not get the same American citizenship rights as someone who was born in the original 50 states. Biological determinist and evolutionary scientist which fueled scientific racism backContinue reading “HW 4/9”

I will be using Microsoft word

When I watched Birth of a Nation, I noticed that the whole movie was pretty much based on multiliteracies, in a sense that it was a silent film… ish and that I had to use my imagination to paint a picture based upon reading people and situations in the movie. Yes, there was text dialogueContinue reading “CL 4/7”

The ruling on the Plessy vs. Ferguson case brought about cliches and stereotypes against African Americans in cinema. Including lynchings, chicken thieving, Africans being chased by hound dogs, Africans eating water melons, Africans sitting on assigned seats on trains. The “Guardian Newspaper” was created by William Trotter, which initially challenged Booker T. Washington’s direct interventionsContinue reading “CL 4/2”

I assume she was screwing around with a black man, and in that time, a white woman wanting to screw around with a black man was equally as frowned upon as a black man wanting to screw around with a white woman. He probably wanted to bash her head in to protect her from whatContinue reading “HW 3/31”

Gus is wearing worn clothing. His pants are being held up by a makeshift rope belt and his hat looks too small for his head. I would guess that, with this costume, we are supposed to portray Gus as poor, homeless, dirty. The way he is creeping around the barn seems to portray him asContinue reading “CL 3/31”

-I like in the description of “focus” how Dziga Vertov’s movies were characterized as “communist decoding of reality”. What in the hell is this supposed to mean? Also, I noticed that the use of focus was more utilized in older movies compared to todays films. -Mise en scene is when all characters are focussed intoContinue reading “HW 3/26”

If we discuss the influence of speech community vs. a discourse community within the movie Birth of a Nation, we could say that the obvious conceptualization of the speech community and the African Americans working for the Camerons would be there sense of kinship in their living quarters. In this case, they were most likelyContinue reading “CL 3/26”