Link to 360Cities’ Florence: The Birthplace of the Renaissance Considering my love of history, it is no surprise that any virtual tour of historical areas will be of interest. Florence’s role as the hub of the Italian Renaissance makes it a location that I would love to see. If I can see what I learned…
Category: Spring 21
Freier Fall (Free Fall), a German LGBTQ film
Freier Fall or Free Fall, is a German LGBTQ+ film. The 2013 drama film was directed by Stephan Lacant who wrote the script with Karsten Dahlem. The story follows German police officer Marc Borgmann who is training for the riot control unit. While training at the academy, he befriends male officer Kay Engel. Their friendship soon…
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham… is a Bollywood film. This movie is available to watch on the streaming service Netflix. This film tells a story about family and social class. The film focuses on a wealthy family in India who is very traditional. The father follows traditions and wants to arrange for his son to marry…
Comparing Cultural Aspects from Netflix’s Cable Girls to women in America in the 1920’s
For this week’s assignment, I decided to research the Netflix original show Cable Girls. It takes place in 1920’s Spain to portray the lives and rights of women in Spain during this time period. The episode in specific I am comparing to America in the 1920s is the first episode “Chapter 1: Dreams” as I…
Subtitles Blog: A Cultural Comparison Are You Listening!
A Comparison of the Bangladeshi film Are You Listening! to the New Jersey lifestyle. The film can be rented from YouTube here: https://youtu.be/ckoLiJ7P91g. It is $3.99 for Standard Definition and $4.99 for High Definition. Background The film Are You Listening! is a film about the rural Bangladeshi village of Sutarkhali in 2011. Two years earlier,…
Exploring another culture through television
I took a look at episode one of Nuestra Lucha Libre. The show follows the lives of Mexican wrestlers and shows what they do inside and outside of wrestling. There were many cultural aspects in this show, there were so many bright colors and featured clips of people playing music on guitars and such. Click…
The Intouchables
I watched the movie “The Intouchables” and was touched by the movie. Although I am an English speaker and the movie was in French, I put subtitles on and could understand what was going on. The movie was about a man in a wheelchair who needed a caretaker. He hires a man named Driss, and…
Cultural Comparison – The Life Ahead
The Life Ahead is an Italian movie that is based in the port city of Bari, Apulia, Italy. It follows the story of a twelve-year-old orphan named Momo who gets taken in by the woman he robbed Madam Rosa. Madam Rosa is an elderly holocaust survivor. Momo and Madam Rosa develop a deep bond that…
Google Earth in the Classroom
What is Google Earth? Google Earth is a feature within Google that shows 3D and real visual representation using images collected from satellites. What is especially cool about this feature is that people are able to see any part of the world, just as the name of the tool suggests. This tool is accessible through…
Use Google Earth in all school subjects for global collaborations
One of Google’s well known apps is Google Earth. Google Earth is a computer program that enables users to view a 3D representation of the Earth’s surface. The satellite images can show detailed and updated pictures of locations. Both the app and the web version also provides descriptions of each location that is searched. Regarding…