A Bat in the Wind :: Movie Script Film Creative Papers

A Bat in the WindAssume you are a screenspellr in the year 2010. You have been commissioned to write a movie script about womens sports and current society. What is the theme? Who are the protagonists? What are the issues and how does the movie end?A Bat in the Windsempiternal themes of equality, truth and perseverance are presented in this heartwarming tale of one courageous soft dinner gown player and the wiffle bat that she adored. It all begins one summer mean solar day shortly after Tegans sixth birthday. The scene opens with the young girl enviously take noteing a group of children play wiffle ball in the park crossways the street from her grandmothers house. She furtively glances rear her at the kitchen entrance and listens to the sounds of lunch preparations while contemplating the distance to the door. With a determined look in her eye, she takes a shaky duncical breath and dashes out to the park to join the game, all the while looking back and wondering what her grandm a would say. She approaches the field and stands by the rusty fence behind the plate. One of the older girls she looks about ten or twelve spots Tegan and invites her to join in. The kids show her how to swing the bat and the pitcher starts to toss the ball in her direction they let her keep swinging until she hits one. When she does, the light wiffle ball catches the wind, floats high in the air, swirls around a bit, and lands two inches from Tegans feet. After staring at the ball in wonder, she looks up and a slow smile spreads across her face. The other kids laugh and Tegan joins in with glee. The boy at first base looks at his watch and yells, Hey, its lunch time, causing all the wiffle ball players to scatter and race home in search of food. The girl that invited Tegan to play tells her to come back tomorrow in the morning to play a game with them and Tegan agrees with an enthusiastic nod of the head. She turns to run back for lunch, and sees her grandmother waiting by the fe nce. Why didnt you tell me where you were going, Tegan? I couldnt break you in the house and I was worried. I thought youd be mad at me, the young girl cried. For playing a game?

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899

Benevolent Assimilation The the Statesn Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903Miller provides an account of the American-Philippines war from 1899-1903, reveal aspects of United States imperialism that are often forgotten. Miller provides both a military biography as well as a demonstration of the way America lied and forgot its history, justifying war and colonization as a step for greater good. Americas involvement in the Philippines is sometimes remembered as an behave to protect Filipinos from Spain, and to teach them American democracy. separate historians look to the war as a part of American imperialism linked to its capitalist and racist nature. Many other historians argue that imperialism was a short lived dislocate in American history that was just one stumble in the countrys greatness. Millers account shows, in great detail, the slipperiness of events which happened, and the ways in which individuals can consent the power of nations. Generally Americas conquest o f the Philippines is understood to be motivated by the expansion of democracy. The United States was already actively expanding and conquering land and nation, but for the more or less part they were doing so in regions thought to be geographically logical. Expanding to the west was not considered colonization, but once the U.S. reached the far away islands of the Philippines, their actions seemed to need a larger explanation to be justified. The United States moving beyond its natural proximity made the Philippines a more problematic site, and therefore easier to understand as an act of imperialism.Miller argues that when the United States was just beginning to get involved in the Philippines few people new anything about the islands. There were no intention... ...d Beveridge, the anti-imperialists were letting the people off the hook and in their own way preserving the American sense of innocenceIf anything, they seemed to take their cues from their leader in the White House by world-class putting out of mind all the sordid episodes in the conquest, and then forgetting the entire war itself (253).The United States conquest of the Philippines and the ways it is remembered is one aspect of this countries history of imperialism. This war stems out of energy left from the Civil War, the United States competition with Spain, and later feeds into the Vietnam War. This story is all too reflective of the current situation in Iraq and the war on terrorism. According to Miller, the United States hides its imperialism behind the name of democracy and civilization, claiming to act for the better of people unable to govern themselves.