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O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- The Film
Famed filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed O Brother, Where Art Thou? The film was released shortly before Christmas of the year 2000. The film is a sort of remix and remake. The premise of the film was a take on the epic poem "The Odyssey" by Homer and set the narrative in the deep American south during the 1930s. The primary characters are played by George Clooney, John Tuturro, and Tim Blake Nelson. The film is dramatic, comedic, musical, political, and adventurous. The film was additionally nominated for two Academy Awards. The film further stars several other well-known and respected actors of theater, television and film such as John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Michael Baladucco.
Everett, Pete, and Delmar are friends. Everett is a married man with several daughter and a spitfire wife. Upon his arrest and imprisonment, his soul goal is to rejoin his family and return as the patriarch of the family. Everett's...
He convinces his friends to endure an epic journey to find this money and along the way they have many dangerous and fun escapades.
For example, one similarity to the Homeric poem involves the sirens. While on the run from the very mean police department, the men come across three beautiful women singing in a river washing their clothes. The women never speak to them; they only continue to sing their hypnotic song in three part harmony. Each man is seduced by a woman who is very different, but beautiful in a unique way. The women seduce them with their deep south, Mississippi, siren song, coaxing them to drink large quantities of alcohol, likely moonshine. When the men awake, they have been robbed and Pete is gone. In his place is a toad. Delmar believes the women were witches that turned him into a horny toad (he was not). Everett is a bit…
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Ku Klux Klan: A History Naturally, today we are convinced -- and rightfully so -- that the Ku Klux Klan's politics and desires and goals are inherently evil. They are not in sync with the times, at the very least, and at the very most, they are a representation of all that is negative in racial relations. However, to understand the Klan's motivations, one must truly look at the group's origins
Ku Klux Klan was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest and five other educated, middle-class Confederate veterans on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee (Ku pp). The name was constructed by combining the Greek word for circle with "clan" (Ku pp). The term Ku Klux Klan is used to refer to a number of past and present fraternal organizations within the United States that have advocated white supremacy (Ku pp). The Klan's
This single act, as shown by the documentation of the criminal justice system undeniably meets every single criteria for definition as an act of domestic terrorism as defined by section 2331 of Chapter 113b in the United States Code, which was quoted earlier. Of course this certainly isn't an isolated event. The court documents cited above themselves describe numerous acts of violence committed by Klan members throughout the 1960s and
S. Those who had lived for generations in the U.S. were unsettled and wary as these changes occurred. Immigration soon became a social and political issue among the public, groups began to form based on beliefs held which were similar from group to group, and the prevalence of organizations experienced growth with the KKK being no exception to the rule. The KKK used phrases such as "America for Americans" (Ludwig,
] The Klan was therefore able to identify different methods of infiltrating American politics and ideologies, crafting their program to suit different regions of the country. In areas with large numbers of Jews, the Klan could be rabidly anti-Semitic and gain membership via the propagation of Nazi values. In areas where moral decay in Christian communities was viewed as a primary problem, the Klan leaders presented their ideology as an agent
Klan politics are eerily being played out in modern conservative movements such as the Tea Party. While the Tea Party does not officially endorse the KKK, the two groups share many common objectives including the mistrust of new immigrants. Today's Klansmen are basically "unhappy about the social politics of America's post-industrial, pluralistic society" and they "feel left out." The official stance of the KKK resembles much of conservative America in that