Film Analysis: The Harvest

In this chapter, the author shared his field research experience working with migrants on farms in Washington States and California. In the course of being a berry picker on Tanaka Brothers Farm in the Skagit Valley, he managed to observe on and deeply communicate with the farm workers with different job positions. He revealed the ethnically segregated farm labor structure, and how it affected the migrant farmworkers’ wellbeing and rights.

Migrant workers are the reason our families to have the fruits and vegetables they need year-round. I have read the article on Cesar Chavez’s, a man who was born into a family of migrant workers, and watched a video about migrant workers. The video and article are similar, but also different in the following ways.

The book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States illustrates the fieldwork of the author Seth M. Holmes by explaining the myriad aspects of migrant workers’ lives in the U.S.—from the politics to the social environments to the physical body. By not only studying, but living, the lives of these migrant workers, Holmes brings the reader a view unseen by the vast majority and provides the opportunity for greater understanding through the intense details of his work. The voices of vastly different characters—real people—are captured and expounded on without judgment but with deep consideration for all factors that contribute to each person’s life, opinions, and knowledge. Ultimately, a picture of intersectionality is painted in the colors of migrants, mothers, fathers, children, doctors, soldiers, executives, the poor, the rich, and more.

Enrique's mother counted this blessing as one of the many miracles she has experienced since getting her children home. She was very grateful Enrique was able to put his rough past behind him and begin to express his love for his mother. Enrique lived through scenarios that some might call damaging, nevertheless, he and his family can recognize Enriques’ character development. In essence, immigrants battle countless aggressions. They fight for a house, for food, and a better life.

(pg. 51) “The core values are those which are central to a group, around which it builds a common identity.” In the video we see that the most important thing to the migrants is family. They work every day in the sun for

Film- Precious Knowledge Precious Knowledge is a documentary that takes place in Tucson, Arizona and focuses on how the Unified School district wants to completely ban the Mexican American Studies Program. In the film there were many scenes with examples of rhetorical appeal. I believe that the way the film was set up since the beginning had an impactful and direct emotional appeal on the audience. For instance, in the first scenes of the film we have the opportunity to get to know the main characters in a more intimate level.

They have dreams of doing much more with their lives but find it difficult to do so when searching for other means of income. This continuous rejection of any other type of work only leads them to continue their lives in the same ways generation after generation. The physical location these migrant working groups varies on the time of year and what type of crop is flourishing at the time. States like Florida and Texas tend to give year after year of work in the fields. Generation after generation are born into this type of lifestyle and it becomes all they know. The history behind why much of the migrant workers are of the Hispanic ethnicity is because when they cross the border into the United States of America most of them are not legal citizens of the U.S. Not being a citizen makes it hard to find work in general let alone to try and find work that is not back breaking and in an established company that cares to check and see if its employees are even legal citizens of the U.S. This cycle is the reason for the social location of these migrant

Get Out is a film by Jordan Peele, which was release on February 24, 2017. Get Out is a social thriller, which follows an interracial couple, Rose and Chris. Chris and Rose take a weekend to visit her family, the Armitage family, home in a isolated area surrounded by a forest. The plot spirals out of control following many disturbing discoveries by Chris and in turn, Chris must get out of the Armitage household.

The documentary The Harvest directed by U. Roberto (Robin) Romano produced by Shine Global shares the significant hardship that immigrant face working in the field, harvesting crops. This documentary explores the life of young migrants’ farm workers. Specifically this documentary interviews three minors that are migrants farm workers: Zuelma Lopez, Victor Hacippla and Perla Sanchez. Even though each of these minors were states apart from each other, they share many similar tragic aspects. Thus looking at these individual’s lives, I could sympathize a part of their hardship.

If a young child makes a small snowball and lets it go down a hill, it rolls down and begins stick to other pieces. The snowball grows and shapes into something wonderful. The originally small, little ball becomes so much more than the child ever intended or can ever imagine. The most beautiful things grow this way, from a little seed into something great. This is life. All the small things can become something great and wonderful and so much more than we could possibly hope for.

"Stalker" begins with credits rolling on the screen showing a run-downed bar. A man then talks about the appearance nearby of a miracle of miracle: The Zone. The next scene shows a broken-down room where a man, a woman, and a child, are asleep together in an iron bed. The man gets ready and then goes to the kitchen where the man’s wife then joins him and yells at the man for returning to his old ways, which will land him back in jail. The man argues for his wife to let him go, and that he must go.

It is clear that this typified mindset of the migrant workers is a social fact that has been carried through from generations and generations. It has transcended generations because it has long been the only way to survive and make a living for these migrant workers and their families. Social facts within this community seem hard to break out of due to the fact that they have provided incentives and work for these workers and will continue to do so as long as American consumers desire their services. Unless our agricultural wants and needs change, we will require the work of migrant workers.

Throughout the video documentary on migrants trying to make a living, social construction of reality shaped the way they thought about the world. Most of the people revolved their life around family and the Catholic church. The way they were brought up and raised gave them another viewpoint on the world around them. The life experiences they had to go through, such as traveling from state to state to find work, made them think differently than most other people in the United States. Because of the lack of jobs where they were, the attitude when they did find a job was shaped around a grateful attitude. Even though the conditions were awful, the work load was heavy, and the pay was not great, any work these people could find they were jumping at the gun. There are not that many people in America that would work gruesome hours out in the roasting hot fields for the amount of pay these people were receiving. Because of the immigrants background and life experiences, they were taught to work hard and have an attitude that in the end will keep them alive. In their world, family and religion remained a huge part of life. Because of their religion, they remained strong and somewhat hopeful. The other aspect of family life just brought them closer and acted as a support group to each member. For example, when the father who was failing to provide for his family

As Christians, one must aid in restoring dignity to all migrants. However, dignity cannot be imposed, therefore, one has to enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty. “The common home of all men and women must continue to rise on the foundation of a right understanding of the universal fraternity and respect for the sacredness of every human life…especially those who are only considered as part of a

The motion picture industry is creating movies that people want to go see. Movies can vastly range in genre from the more popular action movies that flood the market with toys and collectables to more quiet independent films that bring to life a producers deepest thoughts and ideals. Other movie genres include: adventure, comedy, crime and gangster, drama, historical, horror, musicals, science fiction, westerns, and many others. According to Dirks (2015), “action films usually include high energy, stunts and chases, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises, non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous, often two-dimensional 'good-guy ' heroes (or recently, heroines) battling 'bad guys ' - all designed for pure audience escapism” (para. 1). Do these action adventure movies top the box-office in sales? The normal intent of a movie maker is to ultimately entice as much of the population to go to the movies and buy a ticket to earn a profit. The revenue a movie can generate varies greatly from movie to movie for a sundry of reasons. The statistical analysis below will translate the data compiled and help make sense of what correlations and rationales help make a blockbuster movie a revenue making machine. It will also point to reasoning for movies that don’t earn top rewards.