Ever since the 1980's, the gay community has gained the courage to stand up for their rights. As a community, they had a vision, which was to gain the respect and same treatment as for every other citizen. The constant marches, protests and other social involved activities that have been carried out by such community have been executed for a purpose, and that purpose is more than well stated in Brokeback Mountain. The repression and disrespect towards a minority only causes a domino effect in which together as a community it rises and begins demanding equality.
Since I come from Hispanic background I'll talk about the oppression of the gay community in Latin America. Latin America is far less openminded than North America and Europe. In a way that the traditions and ideology that the founders of this continent stood up for, are still in visioned upon present generations. It becomes very hard for most minorities to become accepted, since a change or difference scares all humans in general. As the movie Signs, by M. Night Shyamalan visualizes the panic of the human race towards an outsider, the same concept may be applied to further understand the fear towards the different. In my home country, for example, the first protest ever carried out by the gay community took place a couple of months ago this year. Due to the out of control violence towards the homosexuals, a march was carried out in one of the most popular streets of the capital city, and was actually broadcasted by the media. Though very few in number, a couple of members of the gay community took action and decided this type of behavior was not going to go on anymore. Few has been done ever since y the authorities, being a country with such high index of violence, but a lot was done as well.
Back in the early 1960's, when Brokeback Mountain, being an open homosexual was out of question, that is of course you had a death wish. Which was exactly what happened to Earl, the cowboy Ennis talked about that was left in a ditch for living with another man. This picture, trapped in Ennis's mind, is what causes the main conflict of the story. I believe so because, it was many times Jack pursued Ennis into moving forward, accepting each others feelings, yet it is Ennis that seems to always hold back. and stop Jack's illusions of something that was impossible for him to happen. Hence Jack's fate becomes deja vu all over again for Ennis, and he succumbs to guilt in a sense in which he gets in touch with Jacks's wife and parents as well. While in Jack's parents ranch, he offers himself to carry out Jack's wish of his ashes being dropped at Brokeback Mountain, which he does not accomplish to carry out.
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Your last sentence in paragraph two is unclear. Please proof your blog before posting First sentence of Brokeback paragraph is unclear; you need to say when "Brokeback Mountain" began or was set. And you need to say, "UNLESS ONE had a death wish." Do not use the second person pronoun because it is unclear who the reader is, secondly you must say unless because you need that statement to clarify the meaning of the sentence.
You need do write your blog in word, check the grammar, and then copy and post on the blog. While you have some excellent ideas, your weak grammar is distracting to the reader. Please check your grammar before posting your blog. This is the second writing class required by Loyola, so you must write grammatically correct blogs.
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