Here´s the movie. I am linking to a folder where you will find the clip and the file that puts subtitles. You will need to use VLC player and then search on the top menu for the subtitles command. Open the subtitles file (srt) from the folder I am giving you access (you will need to download it).
Task:
Watch the movie and do the following assignment:
1. Elaborate a list of words or expression related to college in the US. Include at least 20 terms with their explanation. Just write the words expressions or cultural references that you don't understand as you watch the movie, then search or ask your classmates.
2. What is the main argument of the movie?
3. What is college life like in the US based on what you can perceive from the movie?
4. How does the movie relate to the article Coming to America: The influence of College themed movies on perceptions of international students?
Post your answers below before next class.
Play out: When a situation plays out, it happens and develops.
ReplyDeleteBrown noise: to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant.
Shrink: to become smaller, or to make something smaller
Drop out: to stop doing something before you have completely finished
Hand out: to give something to all the people in a group
Fee bill: an amount of money that you pay to do or use something
Hillbilly a person from a mountainous area of the US who has a simple way of life and is considered to be slightly stupid by people living in towns and cities
Tuition: teaching, especially when given to a small group or one person, such as in a college or university.
Faggot: a gay man. This word is considered offensive when it is used by people who are not gay.
Run-on sentence grammatical clauses joined incorrectly
work off: If you work off an unpleasant feeling, you get rid of it by doing something energetic.
Big time: If you do something big time, you do it to a great degree
Hunky-dory: If events or situations are hunky-dory, they are very satisfactory and pleasant.
Scholarship: an amount of money given to a person by an organization to pay for his or her education
survivalist: the practice of preparing for future emergencies, for example, collecting large amounts of food and learning how to live outdoors
Coon: slang, offensive (disparaging term for a black person)
Nigger: an extremely offensive word for a black person
To get together: If two or more people get together, they meet each other, having arranged it before.
Ain’t short form of am not, is not, are not, has not, or have not.
2. The main argument of the movie is to show the diversity of people and how they are organized, and how they see each other. Also the movie shows how universities in North-America discrimination is practiced.
3. Although this sort of movies always have seemed to be an exaggeration, in terms of what they show for example: partying all days, having bad grades and scare teachers, I consider that I perceived that discrimination can be a serious problem to worry about and that I can find being there.
4. The movie is related to the article, because this kind of films create or construct perceptions in people who hasn’t they own experience in this case me. As McGinn said that during this films the viewer (us) is connected on a metaphysic level that reveals the power that movies have over audiences. What means this is a powerful tool in shaping the perception we have of American High Education.
Teacher, I had a problem sharing the assignment I did so I will share a google drive document:
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1wR1VVz_TL4Wnv7Qfuo_SLUVZqn8iHt5JSeRXTde9M_M/edit?usp=sharing
Outreach: an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time:
ReplyDeleteBrown nose: be a flatterer, interested
Hand out: to give something to all the people in a group
Down the hatch: It’s like “I am about to drink this”.; Let's all drink up.
Come along: to come with or go with someone
Drop out: leave something before finishing
Run along: Go away, leave
Play out: to run out; to finish.
Showboat: to perform or behave flamboyantly.
Sellout: a person who betrays a cause, organization, principles, or an entertainment for which all the seats are sold.
Shrink: to become smaller
2. I think that the main argument of the movie is to show how cruel can the society be, because is evident our obsession to create categories and separate people from other; is to show how the discrimination is learned before to face the real life, off course in the University.
3. Besides all the garbage drinking, being at parties, try to impress the others, the evil teachers and efforts to stay in college, it is to fit into a category, to belong to a group that is compatible with the personality of student.
4. The movie related to the article when shows the audience the way that they want to us see how is university works, because it makes or create one perception to the people who is seeing.
1. Tap into: when you gain access to something.
ReplyDeleteShowboat: a person who performs in an ostentatiously sensational manner calculated to draw attention.
No sweat: A task that is easy or simple -- usually said in response to being asked to perform it, to mean you will do it and it won't be difficult for you.
IMF: International Monetary Fund.
Fresh Fish: a derogatory term for students of the freshmen class.
Tuition: the charge or fee for instruction.
Queer: strange or odd.
Hunky-dory: about as well as one could wish or expect; fine.
Down the hatch: drink up. Often used as a toast.
Don’t sweat it: something you tell someone when they shouldn't worry about something.
IRS: International Intervenue Service.
Vittle: an obsolete or dialect spelling of victual that means food supplies or provisions.
Blot: an association of disgrace with one's character or reputation.
Funky: different but cool or nice.
Punk-ass: to be bitch like or pussyfied.
Sellout: one who betrays a cause for personal advancement.
Brave soul: having or showing courage or unafraid of dangerous things.
Faggot: a gay man.
Run along: go away, leave.
Hillbilly: a person from a backwoods area.
2. The main argument of the “Higher learning” movie is to show the dilemmas that college freshmen have to face at the university. It focuses in personal, political and racial difficulties students have to come through and how do they overcome this situations.
3. I think the producers of this movie tried to show the audience a racial problem that has followed the US for years and still prevails. Therefore, the film present a ‘fun’ college life, where you can party all the time and where your social status and skin color play an important role when it comes to create new friends. We can see how there are visible social groups that in one way or another, define you as a person.
4. I’d say this movie is related to the article: Coming to America: The influence of College themed movies on perceptions of international students? in the way the film reflects the high education environment in the US. Although, we haven’t traveled to that country, we can create an idea of how the educational system works and what are the main obstacles we might face when studying there.
Task
ReplyDelete1. *Outreach: an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time.
*No sweat: A task that is easy or simple
*Narc: To suddenly and uncontrollably fall into deep sleep. Typically in the form of a full night's rest or extended nap
*Old Trout: An older woman, delusional about her sexual allure, who dresses, flirts or otherwise behaves in a manner inconsistent with her age and appearance.
* to get on your nerves: to annoy someone a lot
* Bankrup: unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts
*Dead in the eye: It is when someone is being honest and paying attention to what it's said to them
* Tuition: nable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts
*Queer: Originally pejorative for gay
*Incensed: To cause to be extremely angry; infuriate.
*ailed: to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
*To take care of our own: to take care of ourselves
*Mass murderer: A person who kills several or numerous victims in a single incident.
*Coon: insulting term for a black person
*Aryan: a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially of Nordic stock.
*Dough: money
*Race traitor: One who has turned against their race and/or ethinticity in favor of those who would persecute them. ie a self loather and/or one who is ashamed of their heritage.
*Homeboy: Closest friend
*Nigger: Slang description for slaves who were brought mostly from West Africa by the Dutch, English, and Portuguese from what was then a huge "Nigerian Basin" which makes up part of the countries of Nigeria and Niger today.
2. The argument of the movie Is to demonstrate how much made up differences affect society in such a deep level that its consequences provoke serious damages to community. It also shows people that taking bullying to the edge is equal to push its victims to do things they perhaps don’t want to, but they feel that it’s necessary to act badly against others for them to get rid of the bullying situation.
3.College in America seems to be full of discriminations to the scholarship students, the black skin students and even to the ones who can’t pay on time. Considering that, students divide themselves into diverse knowing that at the end that “stick to on their own” and just try to get self-benefits.
4. Both, the film and the article, relate in their main topic and it’s that the movies are a big part of the conception foreign people have about USA. How films get into everyone’s minds, but mostly into the minds of the one who don’t live there and hope to one day do it.
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ReplyDeleteHere´s the link to my assignment, I had some problems posting it on the comments:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13D--JoHhpkDPkqm7WizKeB5L7B1sgqdD7lgEmuieuk4/edit
1.Scholarship: N. The position or status of such a student.
ReplyDelete2.Youngsters: N. A young person.
3.Nigger: N. A black person.A member of any dark-skinned people. (Disparaging and Offensive)
4.Look out: Vb. to be alert to danger; be careful.
5.Strained: Adj. produced by effort; not natural; forced.
6.Naïve or naive: adj. childlike and innocent.
7.Pep rally: N. a meeting aimed at inspiring enthusiasm, especially one held before a sporting event
8.Putting up: Vb. to mount or engage in, as opposition, a struggle, a fight, etc.
9.Warn: Vb. to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable.
10.Points out: Vb. to show the presence, place, or position of (something), as by moving the hand or finger in the direction of it. to direct attention to;
call attention to.
11.Bankrupt: Adj. not having enough money to pay debts.
12.Calls out: Vb. To bring forward for consideration or action. To make a telephone call to.
13.Rape: N. the unlawful act of forcing (someone) to have sexual relations. Vb. To force (someone) to have sexual relations
14.Sell out: Vb. To dispose of entirely by selling. to betray (an associate, one's country, a cause, etc.); turn traitor.
15.Racial slur: N. A derogatory or disrespectful nickname for a racial group, used withoutrestraint
16.Rebuffs: N. A blunt, sudden or quick rejection or refusal, as of a person making a request.Vb. To give a rebuff to check or repel.
17.Mess: N. Dirty condition. A place disorganized.
18.Threaten: Vb. to make a statement or promise that one will punish or harm.
19.Funky:Adj. having the soulful feeling of early blues.
20.Aryan: N.a Caucasian of non-Jewish descent, especialy of the Nordic type.
2. The main argument of the movie is to give to spectator how higher education in United States is or could be, showing a little bit of their organization and their implications. But, the movie also demonstrates how a student life in college would be, with problem decision and personal lifes of college students.
3. Based on the movie, college life is full of parties, with some rapes, full of social groups. Groups reproduce their ideologies, that’s way in nowadays some problems persist, even if we are in moderns countries. Issues like discrimination that continues being, this one involves how important skin color is for some caucasian. Others hurdles are maleness and bullying.
4. The movie is relates to the article because of the topic enviroment of the high education in the United States. Also when in the article said that audience (national or international) creates a perception about what they are seeing.
1. Elaborate a list of words or expression related to college in the US. Include at least 20 terms with their explanation. Just write the words expressions or cultural references that you don't understand as you watch the movie, then search or ask your classmates.
ReplyDeleteShowboat: Someone who likes to get attention
No sweat: There is nothing to worry about
Recruits: Seek for employment
IMF: International Monetary Fund
Hillbilly: A person who lives in a rural area or is uneducated
Filthy: Very dirty
Folks: Family, friends
Trout: Type of fish
Lax: Careless
Word to the mother:
Munchies: Whim
Whoop: Cry of excitement
Queer: Gay person (negative way)
Faggot: Gay person (negative way)
Shrink: To become smaller
Seize: Grab
Ghetto: Jewish
It breeds laziness: It produce laziness
Sell out: To betray
Long dough: A lot of money
Blot: To get something dry
2. What is the main argument of the movie?
The main argument of this movie is related with some of the problems freshman have to face when they go into a university because there, things are really different from what they are used to.
3. What is college life like in the US based on what you can perceive from the movie?
Based on what I can perceive from the movie, college life is really complicated in the US because a huge amount of students don’t go to study, they just want to have long parties and a lot of friends. Hence, they fail in their academic, familiar and professional life.
4. How does the movie relate to the article Coming to America: The influence of College themed movies on perceptions of international students?
The movie is directly related with this article because it shows that universities in the US are mostly for having fun, ignore rules and avoid the authority.
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ReplyDelete-Brown noser: A person who acts favorably to his or her peers to gain stasis or fancy that will eventually be used to their advantage.
-Hillbilly:Often used as an insult and racial slur against White folks who live in the country. A hillbilly is a person who lives in a remote, rural area in the South, often in the Appalachian (Or sometimes Ozark) Mountains and therefore is isolated and somewhat out of touch with modern culture.
-A freshman is a term commonly used to mean a person entering the first year of an educational institution, especially a college or university.
-Fresh fish: New students
-Senior is a term used in the United States to describe a student in the fourth and final year of study (generally referring to high school or college/university study)
-A junior is a student in their third year of study (generally referring to high school or college/university study).[1][2] Juniors are consideredupperclassman.[3]
-Drop out: If a student drops out, theystop going to classes before they have finished their course.
-Fee bill: Helps to keep tuition and fee costs down by lowering the University’s costs of doing business
-To take a semester off
-The gooks and towel head get the engineering jobs
-Tuition: the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university
-Brave soul: Volunteer
-An athletic scholarship is a form of scholarship to attend a college or university or a private high school awarded to an individual based predominantly on his or her ability to play in a sport.
2. I think that the main argument of the movie is to demonstrate the differences between people, according to their religion, gender, race/color or being just a Fresh fish o Freshman.
3. In my opinion, college life, according to what I saw in the movie is a day party, bad grades and difficulties to studying, like many problems of discrimination.
4. To me the article and the movie are related because of their similar topic that is the image they want to show about US universities, although this time it didn't have the typical ending, they showed "party everyday" "no police" "sex" and all of those stuffs.
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ReplyDelete1) Unknown terms:
ReplyDelete-Showboat: a slightly annoying form of behavior, especially in sport, that is intended to attract attention or admiration because it is very skillful.
-Hand out: to give something to each of a number of people.
-Hillbilly: a person from a mountainous area of the US who has a simple way of life and is considered to be slightly stupid by people living in towns and cities.
-Filthy: extremely or unpleasantly dirty.
-Old trout: An annoying or bad-tempered old woman.
-To whoop: to give a loud, excited shout, especially to show your enjoyment of or agreement with something.
-Dough: Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange.
-Queer: strange, unusual, or not expected.
-Sovereignty: the power of a country to control its own government.
-Sellout: a performance or sports event for which no more tickets are available, because it is so popular.
-Big-time: If you do something big time, you do it to a great degree.
-Thoroughbred: a guy or girl that has everything going for them and seemingly no flaws.
-Seize: to take something quickly and keep or hold it.
-Tuition: teaching, especially when given to a small group or one person, such as in a college or university.
-Coon: a very offensive word for a black person.
-Work off: if you work off an unpleasant feeling, you get rid of it by doing something energetic.
-Drop out: to not do something that you were going to do, or to stop doing something before you have completely finished.
-To shrink: to become smaller, or to make something smaller.
-Fee bill: an amount of money that you pay to do or use something.
-Survivalist: someone who practices survival tactics.
2) The main argument of this movie might be to give us a seen of how American educational system is typically represented by movies and/or stories made in the late 90’s. To show how different aspects such as “stereotypes”, involve teenagers lives in high school and mostly in college, creating an uptight and problematic environment, especially with freshmen who have to face some issues when they got into college. Therefore, this movies intends to recreate this ideology of “how an American college is supposed to look like” in order to demonstrate what was mentioned just above.
3) As we always have seen in the movies, college life in the US is: party hard, get drunk and high, the famous “brotherhoods” we all have heard about; and of course, sex. Those are some few words and actions that American movies show us when they get in touch with the “education college system”.
4) The article “Coming to America: The influence of College themed movies on perceptions of international students?” is pretty accurate with the movie because, as the time have passed, we’ve made and shared that the American college life it’s only about what I described in the third question, when actually, it is not. But, somehow, American movie productions aim to pass and broadcast this misconception due some “entertainment” try to give. However, as this continues, we will be always creating this perception of American education system that may influence negatively national and international students.
1) List of words:
ReplyDelete*Belt-off: it is a game in which the opponents attempts to see who can take their belt off the fastest.
*Brown nose: to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant.
*Down the hatch: drink it up.
*Fresh fish: a freshman
*Funky: something that is different but cool. A bad smell.
*Gear: steroids.
*Hillbilly: a person from the backwoods areas.
*IRS: International Revenue Service
*IMF: International Monetary Found.
*No sweat: a task that is really easy or simple and doesn't require a major effort to do it.
*Orange county: a county in southern California that is mistaken to be all rich, white people.
*Sellout: one who betrays a cause for personal advancement.
*Showboat: a slightly annoying form of behaviour, especially in sport, that is intended to attract attention or admiration because that someone is very skilled.
*Tap into: getting access to something.
*Theta Kappa: local feminine sorority founded at Shippensburg University in 1966.
*Thoroughbred: a guy or girl who has everything going for them and seemingly flawless.
*Word to the mother: it is a popular reference to Africa or "The Motherland" used during the late 1980s afrocentric movement.
2) I think the main argument of this movie is to show the difficulties that the university's students have to deal with, especially the freshmen, such as racism, financial issues, humiliation, bullying and many others. This movie also shows us how difficult an unfair the society can be.
3) According to movie and many others, US' universities seem to be a cliche: all about fun, no respect to the authority, discrimination, abuses and the 'popular' groups you need to fit in if you wanna be 'cool'.
4) I think this movies makes and emphasis on the thesis of the article: Movies can easily create a fake image of the universities in the US, especially for people from another countries.
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ReplyDeleteShowboat: to perform or behave in a showy way
Recruit: a new member of a group, organization, company, or the like
Hillbilli: a person from a backwoods área
Filthy: morally impure, obscene, or vulgar:
Funky: offbeat, odd, or quirky, such as in appearance or style
First off: being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance
Faggot:a male homosexual
sellout: a person or thing that betrays or is disloyal to a cause, principles, etc., esp. for money or personal advantage.
nor: used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce new items in a list or series
Thoroughbred: of pure or unmixed breed, as a horse or other animal
Blot: a blemish on a person's reputation
Shrink: to (cause to) contract or lessen in size
Seize: to take hold with force
Bankrupt:a person found by a court to be unable to pay debts
Old trout: An older woman, delusional about her sexual allure, who dresses, flirts or otherwise behaves in a manner inconsistent with her age and appearance.
Queer: Originally pejorative for gay
Dough: money
Tuition: the charge or fee for instruction.
Hunky-dory: If events or situations are hunky-dory, they are very satisfactory and pleasant
Rebuffs:person making a request.
2)
The main argument of the movie is how stereotypes work in an university context and how are they condicionated a cause of the diversity of cultures and thoughts
3)
Taking just the context of the movie I would say that the college life is like the moment when you win money out of a machine twice and then you just keep playing and playing and you win a third thime out of the blue, but suddenly you lose and things get real and then you just have to deal with everything you've lost and done.
4)
The movie is closely related to the article because it shows american's stereotypes that we end up believing if we haven't been to an american university, all of this without thinking how exagerated the movie and the scenes can be.
1. Outreach: an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time.
ReplyDelete2. Gear: a device, often consisting of connecting sets of wheels with teeth (= points) around the edge, that controls how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of a machine.
3. Laid-off: to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do.
4. Narc: To suddenly and uncontrollably fall into deep sleep. Typically in the form of a full night's rest or extended nap
5. Run Along: to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk.
6. Queer: strange.
7. Corrode: if metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly damaged by something such as rain or wáter.
8. Seize: to take something quickly and keep or hold it.
9. To take care of our own: to take care of ourselves.
10. Homeboy: Closest friend
11. Old Trout: An older woman, delusional about her sexual allure, who dresses, flirts or otherwise behaves in a manner inconsistent with her age and appearance.
12. IMF: International Monetary Fund.
13. Punk-ass: to be bitch like or pussyfied.
14. Showboat: a slightly annoying form of behaviour, especially in sport, that is intended to attract attention or admiration because it is very skilful.
15. Shrink: to become smaller, or to make something smaller.
16. Ghetto: Jewish
17. Brave soul: Volunteer
18. Bankrupt: unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts.
19. Coon: a very offensive word for a black person.
20. To get on your nerves: to annoy someone a lot
2. The argument of the movie is to show how the intercultural society can make a damage to the commun people, how the disrespect, intolerance and derision can to provoke mental damage depending of the level of depth it reaches, and that makes people do follies.
3. The life college based on the movie, is that it is not easy to live with who is different from you, and the typical story about the exaggerated parties, brotherhoods, the organization by the tastes, religion, sex, etc.
4. The article and the movie are related in the way they show the life college in the US, they are more interested in how to have fun and instead of learning.
1. Settle down: to commit to a relationship.
ReplyDeleteTripping: to travel with the purpose of knowing new people.
Showboat: to behave with a showy attitude
Rookie: a starter o beginner of something
To narc: to turn someone into law enforcement
My own way: the best a person can do
Old trout: an older woman who behaves in an opposite way according to her age.
Dead in the eye: to look at someone straight in the eye
Queer: pejorative for gay
Sellout: to snitch on someone with personal purposes
Paper: an essay
Thesaurus: a type of dictionary of words with similar meanings
Coon: insulting term for black person
Tuition: the fees for education
Dough: money
Dorms: short word for dormitories
Faggot: insulting term for gay
Freshman: first-year students
What's up dog: expresion to ask what's going on
A rubber: a condom
2. The main argument of the movie is to show all the different situations that college students have to face every day. The movie shows how the students have to deal with racism, rape, stereotypes, with the financial problems and with their search of an identity in a social group where everybody is different; all this through the typical context that involves sexuality, drugs, alcohol, etc.
3. The movie exposes US's universities as a place in which students not only go to study but to live. It seems to be a place full of individual and collective problems and the students have to face them whether it is through mutual support or a constructive thinking.
4. The movie is related to the article in terms of how the cinematographic productions affect the worldwide perception about the education in the states
1.
ReplyDelete-Sellout: a person who compromises his or her personal values, integrity, talent, or the like, for money or personal advancement.
-Pawn: the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker :
-Faggot: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
-Hunky-Dory: about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
-Vittle: food or provisions for human beings.
-Hillbilly: a term used to refer to a person from a backwoods or other remote area, especially from the mountains of the southern U.S. (sometimes used facetiously).
-Blot: a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
-Folks: Usually, folks. ( used with a plural verb) people in general:
-Munchies: crunchy or chewy. Informal for snacking.
-Dough: flour or meal combined with water, milk, etc., in a mass for baking into bread, cake, etc.; paste of bread.
-Queer: of a questionable nature or character; suspicious; shady.
-Coon: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
-Recruit: to furnish or replenish with a fresh supply; renew.
-Thoroughbred: of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
-Rebuffs: a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
-Tuition: the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university:
2. For me the main argument of the movie is to show how racial, political and social issues are a reality but mainly in american colleges.
3.Based on the movie, college doesn't seem too easy. it's full of conditions you must accomplish due to people' stereotypes, however it is also a moment in life when you become who you will be.
4. The movie and the article are pretty related with each other because their main purpose is to present us and to help us to get an idea of how US colleges are. We may have a wrong notion of them and it is important to make them clear.
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ReplyDelete1. Showboat: to behave as a flamboyant person.
2. Narc: A person that turns you in for something you did wrong; specifically to any type of authority figure like parents, cops, teachers, boss, etc.
3. Hillbilly: Often used as an insult and racial slur against White folks who live in the country. A hillbilly is a person who lives in a remote, rural area in the South, often in the Appalachian (Or sometimes Ozark) Mountains and therefore is isolated and somewhat out of touch with modern culture.
4. Munchies: When you get hungry after smoking weed. Usually people will eat a lot of junk food.
5. Old trout: An older woman, delusional about her sexual allure, who dresses, flirts or otherwise behaves in a manner inconsistent with her age and appearance.
6. Tuition: The catch-all term for huge sums of money that young people start paying at age 18 or 19. Payments usually continue for the next 10-20 years.
7. Bankrupt: Out of money, broke, devoid of all function, beyond repair, irreparable.
8. Funky: Different but nice / a bad smell.
9. Get blown: To get completely fucked up off alcohol, weed, drugs, etc.
10. Cavebitch: Some bitch that looks like a Neanderthal, complete with big forehead, unibrow, hunched back, etc.
11. Utmost: Most extreme, greatest, best.
12. Sellout: someone who does something that does not agree with that person's beliefs or values especially in order to make money.
13. Faggot: a pejorative term for homosexuals.
14. Trooper: someone who does something that does not agree with that person's beliefs or values especially in order to make money.
15. Hunky dory: everything is going perfect.
16. Thoroughbred: a guy or girl that has everything going for them and seemingly no flaws.
17. Got laid: To have sex.
18. Outreach: To surpass (another) in reach: She had to outreach her opponent to win the fencing match.
19. Plotting: Hanging out/ cotching. Having a little jam with a couple of people.
20. Sovereignty: Should mean "Independence and self-government" not just "government" because that meaning is already taken.
Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/
2) This movie shows how difficult could be being a student (from different backgrounds) in an university campus where everybody has to faced racial tension, violence, rape and all the difficulties related to find their own way to live in despite of bad moments and the self doubt.
3) To study in an American University as I saw in this movie is connected to reflect about the differences between each others and requires having a clear idea of what you do can affect others. It is not just parties and alcohol, it is a critical view of what do you really want to be and do for the rest of your life.
4) This film reflects “the social climate and attitudes toward higher learning in the U.S” since it represents how life is in a university campus and it has a “power over audiences that results in molding perceptions”. This is also mentioned in this article and it is described as “a notable film released in the 1990s that deal with social issues” and, in despite that it is also called “hyper-dramatized” these are situations that could actually happen nowadays.
"She's trying to play you out": it means she is tricking you?
ReplyDeleteBrown nose: try to get an special treat from an authority
You got some nerve: you have balls
word to the mother kids: like an oath
its filthy: in a mess
Making the long dough: doing things rigth
I never usually swallow
Sellout: vendido
i'll rip your ass of: i'll beat you
i stepped to you: he dare to flirt on somebody
stay up: being awake
Drop out: leave what you're doing
Queer: reference to a faggot
Freshman: new students (primiparos)
to narc: to squeal about something
you have served your purpose: you have accomplished a goal
that's how you made it: asi lo quisiste
2. The main argument of the movie is that no matter your race, social status, your budget, nor even your measure, everybody deserve education and all of his/her human rights.
3. It is totally autonomous, complex if we talked about stereotypes and social backgrouns, they can have and scolarship by doing sports.
4. It is related to the article in the way that it shows some stereotypes, and some common discriminations that maybe are still in practice in the U.S sowing in us that in there the society it's intolerant between each other but in some cases they can handle a relationship between them.
1: VOCABULARY:
ReplyDeleteFILTHY: something that is very dirty or it makes reference to a vulgar language.
GRAB: to take possession of someone or something.
INK: It is the substance that people use for writing.
FUNKY: unhappy, depressed or to have an offensive smell.
PAWN: It is one of eight least valuable chess pieces.
FLEE: To scape or to run away because you are in danger.
FOLK: people.
STUFF: things or the material of which something is made.
BLOT: stain.
ENTITLE: to give someone the right to do something.
BLEACH: to break an agreement, law or relationship.
WHOOP: to make a loud cry of joy or excitement
PISSED: someone who has drunk too much alcohol.
FATED: to be destined to happen.
DICKHEAD: a stupid person.
ROOKIE: someone who has recently started doing a particular activity and doesn’t have much experience.
SHOWBEAT: to perform in a spectacular manner.
FLAG: to mark for attention in a specified way.
SOVEREIGNTY: supreme power or authority.
RAPE: to force someone to have sexual relations.
2- The main argument of the movie is to show that diversity of thoughts, cultures, behaviors, attitude, and personal characteristics and skills that create challenges for students’ development in American higher education.
3- What I can perceive from the movie is college life is a kind of world where students are more independent, where they can have a full of fun, break the rules, know a lot of people with different cultures, create their own identity and where they have to face social situations as well, like discrimination and/or stereotypes. But also, it is the world where they can learn to think, create their own life plan and be focused on their projections, if they want to.
4- The article Coming to America and the movie provide us perspectives on college life. They show us the student experience: a person who has to struggle everyday with their environment and themselves, due to cultural diversity so it allows him, for example, the creation of stereotypes. Also, it show us that rules and academic activities take a second place and fun takes the first one.
1.
ReplyDelete-Queer: slang for gay.
- Scholarship: Money for studies.
- Tuition: university payment.
-Dropout: leave school.
-Towel head: offensive slang for Middle Eastern descendents.
-Tripping: creating drama, overreacting for something.
-Play out: develop something a certain way.
-Brown nose: being an ass licker.
-Honky Dory: when everything is fine.
-Have beef: having problems with someone, the environment is awkward.
-Shrink: slang for psychiatrist.
-To narc: to be the snitcher.
-Mud people: black people.
-Coon: offensive slang for black people.
-Sellout: act of compromising standards for money.
-Hillbilly: offensive way to call someone who comes from a village, or somewhere far away from a city.
-Skinhead: someone bald.
-Fresh-fish: freshman, person who’s starting college.
-Funky: weird.
2.
The main argument of the movie is to show the reality that an U.S college lives day by day, concerning social differences that can be seen and how people learn to deal with them in order to fit in and find identity.
3.
From my perception, college in the U.S is like the real world. You find a lot of different people, and social problems are going to happen because of each person’s background. Acceptance and equality are things that are not easily to be found because of the different stereotypes that people have for each race, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Students face different kinds of problems and the institution provides the respected help to guide them towards overcoming this problem.
4.
The movie relates to the article in the way that the film shows a different view from what normal college movies do. This one treats certain social problems that, as in the article is said, normal movies tend to ignore or make jokes out of them. The typical aspects of college films are wild fraternity parties, authorities getting in the way of the students and the easy breaking of the rules. With Higher Learning some of this things are showed but they also show the audience the consequences, and the so much heavier problem it may carry each one of it.