Essays on Gracie

One of the oldest sports is considered a fistfight. Even in ancient history in the era of the ancient Greeks during the Olympics athletes competed in the pankration, which is how they called their fist fighting competitions. Fist fights in a modern understanding are mixed martial arts or MMA (Mix Martial Arts), and not boxing, as the two are often confused.

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Since the antique times MMA lost its glory and popularity. Is place was taken by what e now perceive a traditional boxing, kick-boxing, judo, taekwondo, and other types of martial arts. For a long time MMA was in ...

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One of the controversial advertisements of 2013 is the Cheerios advertisement which depicts a multi-race family. It would not have been controversial though if not for the reaction of some sectors of society who reacted negatively on the commercial. The advertisement shows a family with a black father and a white mother. My teenage son and I were watching television when the Cheerios commercial went on television. My son then asked me, “Mom, why is this advertisement considered controversial?” Apparently, he saw nothing wrong with it, in the same manner that I also saw nothing bad about it. I had to explain ...

Upon watching 50 advertisements late in the evening last night, I noticed several similarities, and I categorized the patterns into five groups. The firstare cars. The second arethe animals, and the third is family. Next are the visual ads and the last are the sexy ads. These are based on the image and identification stages of decoding advertisements. The first object, cars, is quite evident in its use. The ads are basically selling car brands. Thus, the ad frames are mainly composed of the car brand swiftly running on long-winded highways and the surroundings becoming blurry (“Hyundai Elantra ...

Movie review of the “Rabbit-Proof Fence”

Movie “Rabbit-Proof Fence” by Phillip Noyce was released in 2002. It is a historical drama mixed with adventures based in Australia. The story takes place in Western Australia, in 1931. Three girls Australian Aborigines mongrel: Molly, Daisy and Grace are victims of inhuman new law on filtering children born from the marriage of white people and indigenous peoples. The law prescribes to isolate these children in special camps, where they will serve as obedient servants for white people. Not wanting to obey the new rules, young but precocious prisoners make a daring escape. No matter what obstacles are, they decided ...

The film ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence,’ is the story of three young Aborigines who dared to challenge the extreme and hostile terrains of the Australian bush country and desert to escape from captivity to freedom. The movie is touching and deals with cultural anthropology to the hilt. Right from the onset when the camera runs across a spectrum of barren land and reaches the eyes of an innocent girl who looks at the distant mountains and the bird in the sky with an emerging smile, the viewers are quickly moved to understanding that the eyes talk of the crave for freedom. On ...

Rabbit Proof Fence, a film that moves the souls of human beings is a real life heartbreaking story of three little girls set in the 1930’s that shows how the aborigine children were taken against their will from Jigalong and made to work for white families as servants or maids. Rabbit-Proof Fence provides a fundamental illustration of Australian aboriginal children and women as victims, and the government viewing them as passive with no individuality or culture. The concept of empowerment in culture is well defined by Banet-Weiser (Reading Popular Culture through Feminism, May 28 2013) where they argue that the emphasis ...

Rabbit Proof Fence, a film that moves the souls of human beings is a real life heartbreaking story of three little girls set in the 1930s that shows how the aborigine children were taken against their will and made to live with the white families who promised to provide them a good life and secure their future. The children of mixed race known as the ‘half-castes’ were placed in the remotely located detention centers to integrate them in the Australian society and were trained to work as servants or maids in the homes of the white people. The film shows how the ...

UCF's production of the play Theresa Rebeck's Spike Heels was an entertaining and thought-provoking portrayal of the play by Theresa Rebeck, taking the anxieties of working professionals of both sexes in the 20th century and exploring them in a fun, breezy way. While the production did not seem to take an especially risky series of choices with regards to their production, the acting, direction and more worked quite well in presenting a straightforward and entertaining version of the play.

Spike Heels was Theresa Rebeck's first play to receive wide recognition, and was one of many plays during this era to explore ...