Diversits]y in Remember The Titans

In the film Remember The Titans, African American football coach is sent to Virginia to take over as Head Coach of a All League team and lead into the summer practice with a new team that will be segregated for the first time in a High School. As he arrives he is put into the black side of the community in a nice home above average, and once trying to get into the school and learn everything about it, he finds out he took the head coaching job form a coach who has been there for many years, and raising a daughter. The new coach Denzel Washington had asked many of the previous coaches to stay and help out in the new season but many disagreed and left. Even the players took manners into their own hands of the previous coach, by even threatening to quit the team and fight some of the other African American teammates. Summer ball took place and Denzel Washington was able to convince the previous head coach to come back and assist the team as multiple positions. Denzel Washington had set up a new team but there still was trouble in the team and leading into Hell Week it created changes both good and bad.

As hell week began all the team said goodbye to their families for a week where they were to begin hell week and live with two whites and two blacks in every single dorm. At first they noticed nobody would talk to each other even on the field starters would not defend the other if they were not the same race as them and it led to fights on and off the field. Denzel punished the team with late night runs, conditioning, and organizing seats for them to sit together. Some whites didnt even care about the race and got along, but it took a while for the entire team to get along and by the end of hell week everybody on the team looked past their race and got along as brothers. Throughout the season they got much crap as they were a diverse team going off against all white and all blacks schools, coaches, players, students from the town were targeted by many just cause the team was diverse. The influence this team had of whites and blacks getting along brought many together, it influenced many schools and people, as the season concluded there were still people who did not accept this blacks and whites getting along but it didnt matter, they were a team, both coaches and players created something that will be remembered in history.

Diversity in Jane The Virgin

In the show Jane The Virgin, we follow the struggle of a Latina woman growing in LA, having to deal with family, work, social life, and relationships. As it is on the second season of the show, Jane has gone through much fear, pain, fights, and diversity to try and reach her goal of becoming a writer. Jane The Virgin is more or less a Telenovela a Soap Opera and it involves all type of ethnicity and diversity in people throughout the show and all contradict Jane's life. The show as a Telenovela brings more audiences of different cultures and ethnicity to watch the show s i both conflict with English and Spanish. Jane The Virgin has white actors playing a big part in Jane's life as well as wealth, power, villains, and trouble in paradise with Jane. In the season going on right now Jane had to first deal with her newborn baby being stolen straight from the hospital. Her family which are Mexicans, all react in the same typical way of overreacting, making the scene about the themselves, while the men in Jane's life er father, boyfriend number 1 and boyfriend number 2 not sure about what to do. The diversity in the show is broken when Jane decided to go out and do something about her missing son, regardless of having given birth to him a couple of hours ago. A mother would do anything for her children, but notice how in a show where a Latina mother has to deal with a villian while choosing between two men in her life Typical telenovela model but with a Latin twist of religion, culture, and struggle of raising children in a tight household.

The diversity being shown in the show are the roles of every person. Jane's father just happens to be a Telenovela sar and is constantl out of the house and was not always there for Jane while growing up. Struggling, Jane really did not have a father figure which portrays in many other races as well, but that Mexicans have poor father figures, or are cowards who are never there for their family but just lazy laying around while drinking beer. In conclusion the diversity in Jane The Virgin contradicts and breaks racial profiles as the show proves another side of Latina acting involving real life problems that are shown only in white typical show households, imaginary if so. Jane The Virgin is one of the first Mexican based show winning a Golden Globe Award after its first season and it has influenced and showed diversity in film/acting to many throughout the world. Jane The Virgin will continue to break diversity rules in the show as sh takes stands on who is involved around her life in the show and portraying the loving, caring, genuine, Latina mother, many mistake s loud, obnoxious, rude, and unjustified people Latina women really are.

Diversity in 42

In the film 42, we see the perspective of Jackie Robinson and everything going on in his time involving racism, gender and race role, diversity in school, sports, and everywhere pretty much. Jackie Robinson is the first African American to be a part of Major League Baseball, and throughout all the films, books, newspapers, tv programs, we all truly did not see what all were hiding of the truth of how Jackie Robinson dealt or went through all these things and how dismantled the system truly was. In the 1930's Civil Rights groups, communist, Negro Press, and white activist all began campaigns to integrate the game of baseball. It was more or less a type of movement for discrimination in housing, society and jobs. All lead for a federal anti-lynching laws, boycotts against stores who were segregated, marches for blacks to join WWII. A term at the time used by many white shop owner was "Dont shop where you cant work", which created many hate crimes and distruption of those who were colored even just walking the streets at any time of the day.

Many people in matter of time always wish they could go back and live in the 50's 70's and 90's, but do not realize the chaos and harm the people had to go through at those times. Making a difference is something, but living without doing anything is something else as we are raised to accept people and who they are, once given the right to speak freely of our mind, the sky has no limit. Seeing someone struggle, is the least thing we want out of this world, only time and ourselves can make up for the past mistakes and create hope for what has yet to come.

Diversity in Rugrats

In the TV Show/ Films of Rugrats we see the capability of babies living life with each other and their families having fun and growing up together. It isn't until we see the background of each family that we begin to see diversity in the men and women or relatives of each of the children. Tommy, the leader of the babies has a stay at home mom and and his father a Inventor/Architect who struggles to even hold a job while his wife stays at home taking care of Tommy and his friends. Stu Pickles, Tommy's dad has been working in and out as a inventor and could not hold up jobs one after another, we see the diverse of women and men as even Tommy's mom "wears the pants around the house"keeping it in order but not even trying to get a job herself. Later we see the other parents of Tommy's friend all washed up in work some fathers struggling even staying at home, and the mother of Angelica is a lawyer who pushes around Angelica's father as well as she makes more money than him.

Later throughout the series we begin to see more diversity in Race a Black family and a Japanese single mother with children are introduced to Tommy and his friends and the stereotypes began to grow. The Black family appeared to struggle alongside with Tommy's parents but the father had a funny laugh and always made jokes out loud and being the funny one of the group. The Japanese woman with her child was portrayed as her husband being a deadbeat know how women are escorts "Shimushu" in the Japanese culture. All play different roles from diverse in family events, job roles, children growing, environment, it all concluded from the beginning of time how stereotypes and diversity played a big role even in young television shows for children it influenced many young children and families to play the roles of society and continues to grow and lead to diverse roles in men and women in the world.

Diversity in Stand and Deliver

In the film Stand and Deliver, we see the lives of a class full of Mexican American Students, who's teacher does his best to influence each of them to take the SAT and get into a good college, which leads to only about 15-20 kids left in the class, all struggling with gangs, families, work, and each other. Edward James Olmo plays a teacher who see's the lives of each of his student every single day, from gang rivalry fights during school, to physical abuse from events at home and relations of children leading to misconduct between students. The diversity throughout the film in both men and women of Latino race grew to influence many Mexican Americans. The connection of the families, gangs, struggle with school in both the young men and women played a major role of what people actually thought how hard Mexican Americans worked, and created a sense of role of men and women not just in this race but other cultures affected by it. Edward James Olmo did a fantastic job in showing the diversity of both men and women growing to be better in the Mexican Culture rising to expectations and rising to what men and women are meant to do regardless of what anyone else says.

In some events in the movie, we follow a young man named Angel Guzman who is in a gang and his members are in the same class as Edward James Olmo's class which is meant to last for only those who wish to succeed and grow in the program, but eventually he catches onto the members and drops them leading to Angel to leave his gang and his members creating much trouble for him and his reasons to even try to get out of the gang and get a better future. The diversity young Mexican men of being forced into gangs due to the environment is what keeps stereotypical assumptions of all races, creating hope and proof that anyone can change and greater themselves from what there is thought and assumed of them in the world, diversity in men and women will end and there is living poof of it today as many will excel in themselves to change and create a better tomorrow for those who are waiting to change,

Diversity in Zoot Suit

In the film Zoot Suit, we follow the steps of Henry Reyna, a 18 year old Zoot Suiter, who has decided to join the navy and leave his gang. The time is early 1940's, where the diversity in Mexican American's and whites continued to grow as gang affiliated violence grew to disrupt citizens and the law every single day. From the beginning of the movie we see an alter ego of himself, more evil and doing what he wants alongside him. In the film wee see gang violence that leads to Henry Reyna and his gang to be sent to jail, where they are put against the odds and the court, jury, police, are all to get them put in prison for a long time. In the court room, there is already diverse and prejudice toward the Hispanic men who are being falsely charged with murder and must continue to stand down while the judge does not let them speak for what they are being accused of. A woman named Alice, who is a communist Jewish woman, has fought for cases like this involving race, unequal rights, and discrimination of any type.

The Zoot Suiter riots took place while Henry and his gang were in prison, and it created mayhem, sailors would beat men of color for no reason and take their women. While the war was going, in LA the gang and white violence grew, gangs actually wanted to join together to fight the sailors, but pride and respect got in the way regardless of color. As the months progress the case keeps on getting more and more publicity leading it to be dropped. The diversity of religion, ethnicity, appearance, and language each person in the film had was directed to every single one of them. In the end once they were released, the press was confronted by them, and they called Henry and his gang "Zoot Suiters" but the real term they wanted to use against those of brown skin or Hispanics, was Chapaco, dirty Mexicans, to try and drive them out. Eventually, the charges and acquisitions formed were ridiculous enough to be forgotten and ended the Zoot Suit Riots.

Diversity In Focus

In the film Focus, Will Smith is a Con Artist who has a little organization that steals jewelry, wallets, bags, ID's, credit cards and live off it, as their day job every single day. Will Smith is the ring leader in the film, his organization takes place in very discrete areas, moving place to place, Football Games to Baseball Games to Horse Races, where all the people involved in those things have debts to be settled. Throughout the movie, wee see portrayals of both men and women black, white, Chinese, all play a part of this game. From distracting a single person, a group, gambling, lying all for the one good thing they all want which is money. A blonde woman in the film who is Will Smith's right hand, is portrayed a s a beautiful dumb blonde who would attract men and get them to go their apartment with them, then the second inside man would break in and say "That's m wife" and steal the man's ID, Wallet, Credit Card Numbers, all in under one hour so that they can withdraw as much money as they can without getting traced. Another portrayal of diversity in men and women is Will Smith, he is seen at a party being loud, obnoxious, funny, and ready to fight the host, as a diversion. Later he encounters a Chinese Man who he gambles with and they end up wagering up to 2 million dollars, where Will Smith set up everything, to the song they would listen to, where he would be sitting, his hotel room, all ended in the Chinese man choosing one player off the field, and Will Smiths girlfriend had to pick a random number and he choose unwillingly, not even knowing Will Smith had scammed the man for 4 million dollars.

The way men and women worked in this film play in power, loyalty, romance, and crime all lead up to what role men and women are continuously portrayed as throughout time. Con Artist are very well known for what they do and it is still to this say continuing to use stereotypes of men and women to achieve wealth. Yes, people are forced into that type of business, but in film we rarely see the different racial background of people in these films, when was the last time you would see a movie like this involving White Americans, but nope, in this film we also see Drug Lords, Prostitutes, all non American, but different ethnicity than American. This film has a strong portrayal of how men and women are involved as being Con Artist, and it brings back villains being portrayed in different races as well, but it maintains our diversity on who men and woman are portrayed as, continuing to differentiate but still have race diversity in films today.

Diversity In American Me 10/19/15

In the film American Me, the diversity of men, women, ethnicity, appearance first starts off with the Los Angeles where the Zoot Suit Riots took place during WWII. At the time many immigrants and migrants got to LA for the defense effort and new servicemen roamed throughout Los Angeles. Many of the US Sailors and Marines attacked young Mexicans because they saw the way they dresses as Zoot Suits to be more or less unpatriotic and raped, beat, and verbally abused Mexican men and women. From the first scene we already see the father and mother of Santana get into trouble with Sailors as Santana's father is getting a tattoo finished and sailors break into the shop and take Santana's father and drag him into the streets where police officers ad other white civilians would join in and continue to beat him, while his wife was being raped by numerous disgusting Sailors.

Throughout American Me the film is based upon three bestfriends Santana, JD, and Mundo who created the gang known as La Primera. They end up breaking into a store escaping a rival gang and trying to be silent, the owner comes out and shoots JD in the leg. JD, the white one of the group grew up alongside Santana and Mundo was always left out and treated poorly by other people around them just cause he wasnt the same skin color as his hermanos were. After the incident we see Santana and Mundo end up in Juvie where Santana gets raped by another kid his own age, after it happened he killed him, which led to jail time and we see things get more into race and respect stance. Santana's gang grows, in prison Mexican, White, Blacks all control the what goes inside the prison and it conflicts with all of them as one hate crime can cause a total mayhem. When Santana and his men were in each owns cell they passed a wire of cocaine alongside to each other down the cells, and once it arrived to an African American man he tapped it, and took nearly half of the stuff and kept it to himself. Santana's group knew who tampered with the wire so they did what they would do to anyone who messed with their things and killed him. The blacks took it as a color assault and closed down the entire prison causing mayhem, killing guards and led to a stand off of Blacks vs Mexicans but ended in nothing to keep balance as it was not intended to be a act towards race. We see how deepthese guys are in the gang, from learning to live in and out of the prison, going against blacks, whites, asians, and adapting to how every little thing around them will lead to something worse if done wrong. No matter what the race of these people were, all had to learn to survive and react to people and places around them whether they liked it or not, as it was time around WWII if you were not white, everyone was in fear to even walk the streets, the way these people are born into lifestyles that they have to follow and arent able to change is unimaginable, our fear to evolve is what keeps the world to continue to worsen day by day.

Diversity In Rush Hour 10/5/15

In the trilogy of Rush Hour, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker both have poor representations of Chinese-American and African American throughout the entire movie. The Chinese are known to be very respectful, hard working, and have much wisdom contributing to each other and showing tough love. In the film Jackie Chan is portrayed to have a scratchy voice on the form of a Chinese/Vietnamese man, to be intelligent in Martial Arts, and have high respect. This may not be much disrespect or diversity in the film to the Chinese at first, buy many actors whom are Asian, Chinese, Vietnamese, are told to appear and speak in the form of mockery voices, instead of speaking proper English, many producers tell them to speak or try hard to speak in the Chinese language as if they were telling a joke. Chris Tucker on the other hand is also told to be portrayed as a loud, funny and the good sidekick. Chris Tucker throughout the movie makes funny jokes towards Jackie Chan and all the Chinese people throughout the movie, not so much in a racist way, but in a comedic everything that i say is alright as long as i don't go too far. There are both comedic reliefs towards African American and Chinese American in the movie, such as Chris Tucker pretending to not uderstand Lee and othr side actor and Jackie Chan acting loud and messing around such as Chris Tucker does throughout the movie.

The women in the movies are smart, beautiful, and fighters, the two of the three represent Geisha's which in Japanese culture are to never be known as prostitutes. Of course the producers make Chris Tucker appear as the man who would take some prostitutes in some scenes choosing from many women, multiple in fact to where he jokes around about having them in his hands. In the movie all we really see is Chinese American people, we see the bad guys portrayed as Chinese American smart evil geniuses, the irony of how movies were once portrayed since film started, continues on but not as serious as today, where many movies create comedic relief and irony in every possible way to take away the viewers from looking at the race of an individual.

Diversity in Full Metal Jacket 9/28/15

In the movie Full Metal Jacket, we see the portrayals of young men going into the Marine Corp and what they face with the struggles of surviving training, getting brainwashed, also objectifying women with themes of rape and prostitution, leading to men with weak mindsets doing they they would not do, but are affected by the peer pressure of those around them. As the movie progresses we see the intimidation of the training by their General Senior Instructor who's introductory to them all at camp is "There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers.". As he looks upon each of these men in their bunks, he chooses and nick names people based on their ethnicity, appearance, and background. Most of these men are young, filled with adrenaline to go out and kill, regardless they do not know how they will be associated as, in war and outside of it.

Throughout Full Metal Jacket, the Vietnamese women are proposed as prostitutes, the men in the Marine Corp are given prostitutes and all have sex with them and do not care for them at all. Its the pressure some of these men have from killing, living with each other, and having no women around, having to prove themselves to each other of what a real "man" is, gets to their heads. The jokes in the film conjugate African Americans, Mexicans, and Vietnamese, where a joke is being told sch as "Hey, what does it take to stop 5 black guys from raping a woman? A basketball". The fact that the men they have to fight side by side it have to prove themselves, take advantage of omen, and laugh and make jokes of rape, is absurd. Its unreal of how this actually has played a role in history throughout time. Both men and women have had to show their role in society just so they would not appear as odd or different, many are forced to do things that they aren't because of the people around them, no matter race, background, religion, each in their mind "must have to" follow the way each role is supposed to just to fit alongside with others, without even having a sense of right or wrong.

Diversity In The Power Rangers 9/20/15

Throughout the series known as The Power Rangers, the ethnicity of the actors who play each colored Power Ranger has created much controversy as the series still continues till this day. Since many of us were young we did not really look at it in the perspective of race, from the first season of The Power Rangers, the colors with each characters were Austin St. John (Jason Lee Scott, Red Ranger) a Native American portrayed teen who is into martial arts, Walter Emmanuel Jones (Zack Taylor, Black Ranger) an African American teen portrayed to be funny, silly and know how to fight in scene where he is alone, David Yost (Billy Cranston, Blue Ranger) the White American teen who is smart, nerdy, and can fix anything, Thuy Trang (Trini Kwan, Yellow Ranger) a Vietnamese born teen who is portrayed as a smart, loyal, noble girl to the team, Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver, Green/White Ranger) the Mexican-American teen who appear as an evil teen against the Power Rangers, who also is a great fighter , Amy Jo Johnson, (Kimberly Hart, Pink Ranger) the White American teen who is blonde, smart, pretty, and feminist strong type of fighter.

As the seasons progressed the diversity in each character at times went from better to worst. Of course they weren't going to make the mistake as the first season, even though many producers and directors working throughout the Power Rangers series did not think of it as a mistake. The colors were not truly based upon race, but on personalities to fill such as the leader, the jock, funny guy, the nerd, the sweetheart, and the smart girl. The most common races used in every season involved White, Native, Asian, every now and then they would add one African American or Hispanic to the group. Based upon the setting in every season it all differentiated based upon location and character portrayals, there were times where it would be one African American, White American, Asian American, or Mexican American, would either be goofy, serious, leader, or odd one out of the group. The role of the Red Ranger was meant for the leaders, strong, apprehensive, tall, where as the Blue Ranger was to be the smart sidekick, nerdy, but intellectually strong, yellow ranger, quite but a fighter, loyal and pretty, Pink Ranger, the beautiful girl of the group, smart yet pretty to surpass it and every now and then in need of hope. Finally, the Green/Black/White Rangers, all are basically extras who fit in with the Power Rangers, these are usually the evil yet comedic guy, also strong and second hand leader traits who are portrayed by teens in ways of serious, tough guy, mysterious ways. Even today as they are on the 22th season its amazing how the diversity has grown, the leader Red Ranger, is now a Mexican American smart, and tough while being apprehensive, a Filipino teen as the Blue Ranger who has a caveman back story, learning to communicate in the 21st century, a White American teen Green Ranger, is smart yet witty being the crazy one of the group, a Black Ranger, Mexican American who has the american jock feeling, staying relaxed and maintaining street smarts, and now the Pink Ranger, a African American teen who is smart, beautiful, and beginner of the Rangers. Many do not look past these traits because the Power Ranger all appear s heroes, we were told to not judge a book by its cover at a young age, and we looked up to these 5 heroes. As we mature we realize the how different each character is portrayed, all there is left is to make a woman a leader of The Power Rangers, even though the series is as huge as it once was, shows like these are what influence most of our children today, as they develop to live between right and wrong they play a major part of what we fight for, the good or evil in the world in school, work, family, and ourselves.

Diversity in The Avengers - September 13, 2015

In films today both racial and gender diversity have sparked controversy of the basic male and female roles in both reality and imagination creating wrong thoughts of what we the people are truly meant for in this world. Men in films have been portrayed as muscular, romantics, funny, or serious leaving the women in films to appear as hopeless, adventurous, and witty at times. The percentage of women to have been known to have lead roles in movies is below 15%, while men have been portrayed to have the main role in films at a percentage of over 85%. Its unreal how men can be portrayed from modern day father, to at night father killing people left to right, tracking down his kidnapped daughter (Taken with Liam Neeson), and women to being the beautiful blonde neighbor next door, to badass kung foo master killer (Kill Bill).

Marvel Inc. has been known for films, comic books, toys, shows and much more. The films created and inspired by Marvel comics has had a surplus of male roles as many super heroes are portrayed as, but what many people do not look or pay attention to much is the color of the skin and whether the lead role is by a male or female. Now, all superheroes are believed to have the simple traits of being tall, handsome, strong, smooth, smart, etc. From Spiderman to The Hulk both characters have these traits which make them approachable to the mind thought of a superhero, and in past Marvel films they have both been portrayed by white men, where in society today many know the controversy the film would have if possibly a Mexican, or an African American man. Throughout the movie The Avengers only one woman is portrayed to have a major role in the movie and that is Black Widow,beautiful, trained, sharp shooter woman, who is unafraid to die, kill, and stand up for what she believes in. In the Avengers there is a 5 to 1 ratio of men to women in the movie, some may say its not intentional but the roles have been like this in all of Marvel films and comics for years. The amount of omen superheroes are barely found in movies today,if she is not pretty or has a unrealistic power, its not what the people want or would even care about. The next films that are going to come out and even things up about the racial and gender diversity are Captain Marvel(Emily Blunt Date Not Released) a superwoman with the ability to fly, have super strength, and shoot lasers from her hands and also Captain America 3 where the character Falcon(Anthony Mackie May 6, 2016) will have a major role where it might possibly lead to a movie of his character in a later on film. Overall i see a huge difference on roles in both men and women racially and gender-like growing in the world, many of today's films continue to show what both men and women are more capable of doing then just having one gender be more dominant than the other.