Citizenship Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Corporations have been blamed for so many problems in the world. Chief among these is air, land and water pollution. Mining firms and oil companies have also been blamed for vast, environmental degradation. Not only have they abused nature, but also they have abused people as well. To lower costs, they exploit impoverished workers in developing countries. Corporations clearly have a great influence on government, the entire community and even the environment. Unfortunately, this influence has been used in a bad way, mainly for the benefit of the corporations especially their owners and senior officers, leading to the abuse ...

The two films, the beautiful duckling, and the 10+10 are both set in Taiwan. The main reason for this is to enable the study of Taiwan and its culture among other characteristics. These films show how the Taiwan society runs themselves, the challenges that they face as well as their strengths as a small group in the society.
In the film, the beautiful duckling, there are many themes. For instance, there is the theme of love. It is evident from the relationship that the daughter has with the father that love is present in the family ant there ...

Identification of Health Issues from the Movie “Sick around the World” and the Reaction

The movie entitled, “Sick around the World” reported by Thomas Roy Reid features the way healthcare system operations occur from five other capitalist nations in the World. Reid visited United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland to help America improve its health care system from the lessons learned from these nations. Health issues that came out evident from the movie include poor management of chronic diseases, low health practitioners’ motivation, high cost of healthcare services, little research in health care system and unequal health care provision amongst citizens. The movie begins by featuring the healthcare system in United Kingdom. ...

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In the documentary film, “Fed Up,” there is a frightening look inside America’s health crisis involving obesity. The lack of real food in American diets is to blame. The entities behind creating this problem are the big corporations in America that manufacture these foods. These “foods” are processed foods, with high sugar content that can lead to numerous health problems including heart disease and diabetes. Advertisers are marketing processed foods made of high sugar content to young children and putting sugar into the formulas to get them while they’re young. They have people hooked on sugar, ...

The Man of Marble is a movie set as a denunciation of the communist government that existed in Poland and was grossly misleading and manipulative. The movie director is more concerned with painting a picture of the exploitation by bourgeois traditionalism image that had been created by communist authorities who had taken over the Polish nation (The Man Of Marble). The Man of Iron was also set as a continuation of the story line of The Man of Marble and is also about a young worker involved in anti-communist labour movement as well as a young man working for ...

Morganton City Council Meeting by June 17, 2013 – Budget Public Hearing

At the beginning of this public hearing, the mayor of the city, Mel Cohen, greets the audience, thanks everyone for the presence and announces the purpose of the meeting, namely the discussion of the presentation of the budget. The elected officials and the advisory committee remind the audience that the topic of the discussion is the increasing tax rate proposal. The mayor asks the citizens to come to the podium one by one and state their complaints. He asks the audience to be attentive to the time limitation, namely 3 minutes for each citizen, and to mention only those ...

This paper critiques the film King Corn based on specified prompts

Overview
King Corn is a very insightful movie, which focuses on the crop species, corn. The makers of the film, two university students, embark on a journey to ascertain what they had discovered from a laboratory test. The filmmakers, while at the university had a test of the human hair to find out its composition. To their surprise, they found out that the main component of the human hair was corn. This was something that bewildered most other students at the university. Consequently, they embarked on a journey to their ancestral land in the state of Iowa. While at ...

Documentary Review of Person of Interest (2004)
The Persons of Interest is an educative politically oriented documentary that explores the plight of the Arabs and Muslim Americans in a biased mainstream society. The perception towards the individuals of these cultures changed considerably especially after the 9/11 tragic experience. The movie highlights the stereotypic attitude assumed by the mainstream American community that subjects the Arabs and Muslim Americans to serious discriminations. The producer of the film attempts to challenge some of these stereotypic assumptions by showing how they are often misinformed. The US government assumed a generalized position towards individuals of ...

Sicko is a documentary film with the focus on depicting cons of the U.S. health care system. The primary theme of this movie is a failure of the U.S. government to create an effective health care system, so all U.S. citizens receive adequate and affordable medical treatment. Moore, the author of the documentary film, shows that in other developed countries, such as Canada, France, Great Britain, health care system is publicly funded, and governments provide various services and reimburse all out-of-pocket payments. Moore states that according to the World Health Organization, health care system of the United States is ...

Introduction

Terrorism and Kebab film shows the fictional action of complex offices in the government annoying some of the ordinary citizens. It was acted in 1992, and due to the corrupt officials and their laxity on social and political life ending in the demonstration. In the film, the crowd attacked a police officer who was seen to be of several forms of corruption and abuse of power.

How does the film portray the Egyptian Government and its representatives?

According to the movie, its shows that the Egyptian government and its representatives were so much into corruption and reluctant to form strategies for solving the issue. With the arising complaints in corruption, ...

The mysterious growth of the Chinese economy today had diverse effects on the social well-being of the country. The economic growth in the country failed to portray equal social development among the citizens. This fantastic colossal growth of the economy has impacted negatively on the social lives of the people in the country. Through globalization, today cultural crashes and the need to embrace the changes continuously affect the national development in a country (Williams, 2008). In the case of China, a communist country is trying to adapt to the capitalist world to sustain its development. With the integration of ...

Movie Review on the movie ‘Inequality for all'

The movie ‘Inequality for all' is about the story of the American widening income gap between the hugely rich and the rest of the Americans. As told by the narrator, the smart, funny and articulate university professor, Robert Riech, a former labor secretary under the leadership of Bill Clinton.Riech narrates his arguments in a class setting through a series of lecture about the ‘how and the why' of the decline in the American middle class. The 90-minutes documentary was shot at the University of California, Berkeley.
The best thing I liked about the movie is how Riech continuously makes corny, self-deprecating ...

Fracknation, a documentary movie by Phelim McAleer is an attempt to explain people that Fracking does not cause contamination of water and air. The movie tries to prove its authenticity to the anti-frackers about the importance of fracking, and how essential it is for any nation to generate energy and gas. McAleer provokes Joshua fox, the director of Gasland; a documentary that released in 2010, to prove fracking can have dangerous and ill effects on the people living the areas that have gas stations. Fracknation also contains a few clippings from the Gasland movie that are used to show how non-authentic are ...

INVICTUS (2009)

Introduction

Nelson Mandela unites with the Springboks captain Francois Pienaar in an attempt to unite the South African country a country that due to apartheid is divided across racial and economical aspects. The two presume the roles of the heroes in the movie Invictus in an endeavor that they end up uniting the country through the love of sport. The entire movie has employed Campbell’s concepts and ideas of how a hero comes to being, how he is nurtured, designed and prepared to be termed as a hero in society. As it will be noted in this discussion, the journey ...

“Freedom Riders” is an insightful and impressive film regarding the non-violent movement for civil rights in the early 1960’s. The plan was the brainchild of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The idea was that several supporters of the civil rights movement-black, white, male, and female-would board commercial buses and travel from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana in May of 1961.
There are several parts of the film that speak to the viewer. The first, and most notable, is that nearly a century following the Civil War, human beings, regardless of race or gender, could still be ...

American gangster movies have been in vogue for a very long time and have been a favorite of the American audience. The issues which surround law and order in the country have been captured well by gangster movies which depict criminals and vivid crime scenes. Although the movie is basically about letting the bad guys lose and the good guys emerge triumphant at the end, the movies usually swerve with the bad guys in the movie going about their crimes successfully without getting caught. Although the public has a clear recognition between the good and the bad, it is ...

The Key Constitutional Concepts is a film that focuses the creation of the American Constitution during the historic Constitutional Convention (Key Constitutional Concepts). It has three segments that examine the creation of the American Constitution and two constitutional conflicts that were landmark cases of the Supreme Court. The cases include Youngstown V. Sawyer and Gideon V. Wainwright and Youngstown v. Sawyer.
Specifically, the first section of the three-part documentary examines the creation of American Constitution (Key Constitutional Concepts). In 1787, the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall brought together the Founding Fathers who faced the daunting task ...

«The City of God» - that is how they call the poor slums of Rio de Janeiro, it is a place where poverty coexist with the highest amount of crime - local kids get guns after they learn how to walk. Since the favelas were built to isolate the city center from the poor neighborhoods, the law eventually eft this place and the local gangs began to rule the streets. The narrator of the story, a guy named Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) tells about three generations of gangs, which lived in the favela.
The film starts with a beautifully shot ...

Stop-and-Frisk policy is not an effective model of urban policing especially the way it is being implemented in New York City. Reports show that only 6% of those frisked lead to an arrest and 1.2% turn up a weapon. The effectiveness of the policy in identifying criminal elements is questionable given that most of the people stopped to be frisked are innocent citizens. The video on NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk clearly shows that this strategy is nothing more than racial profiling based on an unproven premise that most victims of crime report that their attackers were men of color (NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk: ...

A Place at the Table is a movie in which three different individuals from entirely different parts of the United States search for adequate nutrition, (“A Place at the Table,” 2013). This is a fascinating study of nutrition and culture within the United States because we do not have healthy food and we have one of the highest obesity rates in the world. The reason for this is our portions. Within the United States, the average plate is double the size of what you find in foreign countries. What happens as a result is that the average American ends ...

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The case that was tried in “A Civil Action” pertained to a case that was based on events that happened in Woburn, Massachusetts, (A Civil Action). The events that led up to the court case were the fact that six families filed suit against W.R. Grace & Co. due to the fact that their chemical plant that manufactured food-processing equipment had improper disposal of toxic chemicals that polluted the local ground water that flowed to the two local municipal wells, (A Civil Action). This improper disposal of these chemicals was believed to cause leukemia for several local residents, (A Civil ...

The Great Gatsby

Movies are often a reflection of the political and social changes that are occurring at the time of their creation. Movies typically reflect the views and attitudes of society and do so in a way that is dramatic and captivating. This holds true for The Great Gatsby, both during the time period in which it was written as well as during the 1970s when the motion picture was released. Written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald, the story takes place during the Roaring Twenties, a time in history many refer to as a period of great transformation and wealth. Following World ...

Invictus (2009) film

The film talks about the inspiring life of Nelson Mandela and how he worked in unison with the captain of the rugby team of South Africa to bring the country together. The new president knows that his country is in a state of disintegration because of the discrimination and all forms of apartheid. He believed that he could use sports to unite his people in the Rugby World Cup Championship tournament.

Mandela is released from the dungeons of prisons and his rise to power to become the president of South Africa indicates a form of radical change. Because of apartheid, the ...

Movie Review: "Crash"

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Movie Review: "Crash"
Paul Higgins, writer and director for the controversial movie “Crash” does an excellent job in delivering heavy duty sociological issues in American culture through this riveting film. Numerous concepts and theories studied in sociology can be identified in nearly every scene of the movie. The uncomfortable topics of racism, classism, and sexism are at the hub of the storyline of Higgins film, forcing the audience to acknowledge the truth about morally troubling behavior and actions that are still currently issues in American society. Although the movie has received both acclaim and ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
Fixing the Law System In the U.S. Activists can do
There are three videos concerning fixing and reforming the legal system in the United States that I want to discuss and analyze in this paper. They all depict people who care a lot about what is happening and who have a lot of ideas and proposals of solving the actual problems. These people are Philip K. Howard, Jeffrey Brenner and Marc Micozzi.
The first video is the speech of the founder of the Common Good, Philip K. Howard, ...

The South Korean courtroom drama “The Attorney” by Woo-seok Yang was shot in 2013 and was nominated for the multiple awards, among which are the Asian Film Awards 2014, Baek Sang Art Awards 2014 and Udine Far East Film Festival 2014. The movie even won in several categories. Though “The Attorney” cuts to the heart of the spectator by the emotional and touching truth and reality of South Korea in the 1980s. Though the film lasts more than two hours, it keeps the spectator in permanent tension and even draws to tears.
Woo-seok Yang managed to create a film ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two sisters, ...

Death of Senator Ted Kennedy who used to fight for Universal Health Insurance in the Congress and other senate representatives was a big blow to the Universal healthcare bill proposed by president Obama. Scott Brown’s election as Republicans made the Democrats to lose the 60-vote majority that they used to enjoy before. Decision by the executive arm of federal government to make the negotiations on the new healthcare plan public for the sake of transparency is what shaped American politics leading to more grassroots support for Democrats. The President announced that he was going to engage doctors, pharmacist’s, ...

Introduction

For many years, indigenous people around the world, for example the Alaska Natives and Native American Indians have often received less government healthcare support and also less health status in comparison to their fellow citizens. Disparities have often characterized the health sector and governments have been accused of neglecting the indigenous people by relatively denying them one of the basic human rights, and that is good health .These health disparities together with the usually weak economic situations of the indigenous communities have inadvertently led to the life expectancy levels of the indigenous communities being lower than those of their ...

The movie “V for Vendetta,” directed by James McTeigue, follows the actions of a freedom fighter who operates under the alias “V” and uses guerrilla tactics to oppose the totalitarian regime established in England. When he rescues Evey Hammond from the secret police, he also gains an accomplice.
James McTeigue, the director of “V for Vendetta,” entered the film industry during the 1980s, and he became an assistant director in 1991. He was an assistant director known for participating in the creation of “The Matrix” series and “Star Wars Episode II.” The movie “V for Vendetta” was his debut ...

Movie Review: Farmingville

If someone were to ask me what I think about illegal immigration, I would have a hard time figuring out where to get started. Honestly, I have never really thought about the issue of illegal immigration, and it is not something that directly affects me in any way. However, I am fond of documentary films in which political and social climates are analyzed, and Farmingville (2004), directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini is one such documentary. Moreover, the issue of illegal immigration that this documentary film raises is also a good debate, especially since it is a political and social issue ...

Technology has been welcomed by people across the globe from time immemorial. However, the rate at which thinks happen nowadays creates worries than solutions to the human race. With the rampant increases in the level of technology people are confused whether to appreciate disown technology as far as god’s creation is concerned. People have always argued that god did not intent to create a lazy being thus he gave human beings minds to liberate themselves from their woes. They argue that god’s intention was to restructure the world by insisting that only those who work have to eat. ...

The movie starts with the statement of W.H. Auden “Thousands had lived without love, not one without water”. The opening quote has given the movie FLOW, short for “For the Love of Water” a brief message of what to be expected from the documentary movie by 2008 Irene Salina. The documentary movie is a timely tackles the global issue currently faced by everyone – that is the continuously diminishing supply of fresh water and potable water used by humans. Aside from showing how valuable water is for humans to live, it also investigates how water is being wasted and polluted by various ...