Control Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The Appalachian Mountains can be seen to be a barrier and divide between developed and rural America. The people who live in the region are certainly steeped in past rural traditions and are stuck in their lot with not much hope for improvement. Since the settlements and towns here are cut off from the regional towns and cities in West Virginia such as Wheeling and Charleston, they are also in a sense detached from reality. In the short documentary, The Hollow we can observe this sense of detachment and as such the society here is deviant from the norms which we ...

Charlie Chaplin's 1936 silent comedy Modern Times has the classic tramp navigating an increasingly complex and frightening modern world of industrialization. There are many messages and things that a 21st century audience can take from this film; despite the fact that technology has increased much more than in the 1930s, the same themes resonate. Audiences in the 21st century can often feel like Chaplin's Little Tramp character, constantly trapped and threatened by these cogs and large buildings. In one particular scene, Chaplin is conveyed along a series of gears, his body swimming through the twists and turns of the movement of ...

In The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman, the chilling interviews Dr. Dietz conducted with Richard Kuklinski demonstrate a man with significant psychological damage, which led him to kill over two hundred people over the course of his life, through various and sadistic means. If one were to look at his condition from a Freudian perspective, it is easy to see that he has many psychosexual issues related to his mother. Growing up in a violent environment, with his mother beating him often and violently, Kuklinski learned that violence was the way to get what you wanted, leaving him in the latent period ...

I would like to agree with Michael Moore for producing such an informative documentary. In deed, Bowling for Columbine presents a real scenario on gun violence and the mysteries surrounding the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre in which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students along side their teacher (Howe, D., 2002). The movie is compelling and gives a lot of information regarding this shooting which caused a lot of agonies to many people. The possession of guns had not become an issue of concern in the United States of America (USA) during that time. This explains why it ...

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The film, The Graduate, is Mike Nichol’s 1967 comedy-drama adaptation of Charles Webb’s novel of the same title. The story follows Benjamin Braddock, a 21 years old recent college graduate who has no well-defined aims in life. In his idleness, Benjamin gets seduced by an older woman, the family friend Mrs. Robinson. But things get even more heated when he falls in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter Elaine.
It explores, among others, the theme of family and becomes a good portrayal of just how delicate the family can be, how the dynamics of factors, often subtle in ...

The film Citizen Kane was produced on September 5th 1941. The lead actors were Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton and Dorothy Comingore. The film was directed by Orson Welles who was also the lead actor in the film. The head of cinematography was Gregg Toland. Charles, the lead actor in the film, is depicted as a man who is so engulfed in his search for material things that he loses his humanity and soul and becomes a greedy man . The plot of the film is developed through the eyes of the young Charles, giving the audience a window into the ...

Control Room

The feature-length documentary, Control Room is a gritty and realistic presentation of the media’s role in modern warfare. The film’s premise is to demonstrate the contrast between the perception of the Al Jazeera news network in comparison with its reality. Released in 2004, Control Room was filmed, on the ground, during the American 2003 invasion of Iraq in an attempt to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime and liberate the Iraqi people. The complaint regularly made by western broadcasters and indeed, the U.S. government and military, is that Al Jazeera is sympathetic to the causes of men like Osama ...

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In his seminal work, A History of the Nine Principles of Policing, Robert Peel of the London Metropolitan Police (LMP) mentioned two important principles of policing. First, “no quality is more indispensable to a policeman than a perfect command of temper; a quiet, determined manner has more effect than violent action.” Second, “The securing and training of proper persons is at the root of efficiency.” This review will apply these principles in the context of law enforcer management and training.

The importance of temper control

When the term ‘temper’ is mentioned, it always refers to ‘bad temper’ because there is virtually no such thing ...

Psychology

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The Stanford Prison experiment was a psychological study conducted at Stanford University to determine how becoming a guard or a prisoner in a prison environment affected the behavior of a participant. The rationale of the experiment was to critique the ‘dispositional hypothesis’, which maintained that prisoners and guards behave in typical fashions because of their inherent nature (McGreal, 2013).
On August 14, 1971, Zimbardo laid down the ground rules for the guards. He made it clear that the guards could not hit the prisoners. However, they could instill feelings of boredom, frustration amongst the prisoners. The prisoners would be under constant ...

Social Control theorists maintain that most people obey the laws, rules and regulations of mainstream society because they have been trained and socialized to do so, while those who are more likely to become criminals and delinquents have weal social and community bonds. Travis Hirshi wrote the classic work on social control theory, Causes of Delinquency in 1969. Numerous studies of juvenile delinquents over the last forty years have confirmed Hirschi’s views that such youths do feel detached from society and conventional morality, and have a weak attachment to family, friends and school. Poverty, segregation and racism are the ...

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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, ...

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The Hunger Games, based on the series of novels by Suzanne Collin’s, is about a televised competition in which two teenagers are chosen at random to fight to the death. The film is “directed by Gary Ross, with a screenplay by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik” (Hunger Games). The story follows the struggle of one girl, Katness Everdeen, who graciously takes the place of her younger sibling in the games. Thus, The Hunger Games is extraordinarily packed with deep sociological concepts and ideas within ‘ ...

Since British slave owner Willie Lynch gave his speech on how to control slaves at the colony of Virginia in 1712, it seems like a lot has changed to improve for Black American citizens (Lynch ¶ 1). The Emancipation Proclamation officially abolished slavery in America, and the civil rights movement throughout the 20th century brought the right to vote, desegregation, America has its first Black President, and recognition of other rights for equality for Blacks fought for by the American Civil Liberties Union, NAACP, and other organizations focused on rights and opportunity. At the same time, it seems very little has ...

The situation on the HSM Bounty presents an excellent opportunity for studying organizational behavior, administration, and organizational decline. In particular, the film Mutiny on the bounty deals with issues such as attitudes towards leadership, toxic leadership, communication, ethics, and organizational culture. In the film, the HMS Bounty was commissioned by the English government on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. William Bligh served as captain, the first time he was holding that position on a ship. Fletcher Christian, a man from a distinguished and wealthy family, serves as his second-in-command. Before ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

Question 1) The ethical issues observed in the video

There are multiple ethical issues observed in the video. They include:
Chuck, who is VP of Engineering at Phaust, has a brother-in-law who is the sales representative for Lutz and Lutz (L&L), a company that sells controls. Fred is initially instructed to purchase controls from L&L, though Wally informs him that the existing relationship has no bearing.
Fred is faced with having to determine whether to line the ponds – a practice legally required in the US – to reduce or avoid toxic/dangerous waste from entering the soil in the area. Even though local laws/regulations are “clearly inadequate,” this is an issue, ...

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In “The New Rules of the Game” episode of the “Commanding Heights,” it asserts that trade in the context of globalization is uncontrollable. It said that the governments in the third world countries should adapt to the fast developments or else their economies will collapse. The documentary made it appear that after the fall of communism, capitalism flourished through free trade that caused governments’ economies to thrive. Although it presented that the system has further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, it did not suggest solutions that will control the unpredictable ...

Control Room was a very powerful documentary made by Al Jazeera television in 2004 about the early phase of the Iraq War and the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. Almost off of it takes place in the Coalition Forces Media Center for Central Command (CENTCOM), where the journalists are attempting to get real information about what was happening in the war. One problem with the film is that some parts are in Arabic and not translated or given subtitles, so English-speakers can only guess at what they are saying. Its point of view was clearly opposed to the war ...

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Introduction
The following paper is a movie review for the movie “Inside Job” used as an example to discuss various aspects of business ethics. The paper will discuss what ethical or unethical business decisions were taken into account in the movie along with the stance of the movie maker or characters about those ethical or unethical practices. The paper will also analyze the rationales behind those decisions and what lessons can be learned and what steps can be taken to ensure more ethical business decisions by an organization.
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- Depicts Catwoman at her apartment, having yoghurt or something from a packet and listening to messages from her answering machine
- The house and just about everything in here is faded pink in colour (pink is a feminine colour). Appears both exhausted and frustrated
- Answering machine gives advert about one of Shreck’s perfume that would make your boss want you to work late
- She flies into a rage, and ransacks her apartment, smashes just about everything including teddies. Street cats are coming through the walls. She has blood on her face
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Human psychology deals with the nature and behavior of human beings. There are many disorders that human beings face and affect even their mental nature. One of the most common psychological disorders is the bipolar disorder; it is mostly experienced in the teenage years which were the case with Pollock. Most of the cases of this disorder begins before the age of 25 but might start and a young age or later in life. When one suffers from bipolar disorder, he/she experiences a shift in mood. The behavior is also influenced, and the mood shifts from low to high and even ...

Death defying stunts, combat aerobatics and epic matchups are just some of the notable features comprising a martial arts movie. People who are unaware or disinterested in this genre would often argue that these movies just advocate violence and killing. However, this conceptualization of martial arts films had been refurbished and reinvented by one man as his work ethic, ideology, acting, directing, and way of the fist exemplified that there is more to martial arts films than just pure violence and conflict. Many people – from artists, martial arts practitioners to fans – would hail this man as an indispensable foundation to ...

The Coen Brothers have, one may say created an absolute masterpiece of a movie, which some may say is an amalgamation of the Wild West movies of old and a horror story. “The wide open plains, cowboys, Texas, guns and horses but has the syntax of a film noir even sometimes a horror movie. There is a murderer, one could even call him an unstoppable force, he kills without mercy and with a semi-novelty killing device. It deals with a man who finds a loot of money and must escape his pursuers who are a bunch of dirty business men, corrupted by greed and the lust for power ...

1. In which way did the Big Eight dominate by the late 1930's the "Big Eight" the domestic and foreign markets? Please provide some examples.
In the 1930’s, the Big Eight managed to control all of the markets through taking control of every aspect of filmmaking, from creation to distribution and selling. These companies managed to maintain a foothold over the entire filmmaking industry, allowing them to reap most of the profit. They also made sure that the first-run theatres were run by them, as it determined how a film did overall. This led to higher salaries and paychecks ...

Hunger Games are the modern day phenomenon. The books have become bestsellers, and the films gathered millions of viewers. But behind the action scenes and fights were explored different moral and ethical issues. The most obvious questions uncovered were the change of personality, struggle against the system and the struggle for freedom. As the plot unfolds, we can see how Katniss's personality changes from an ordinary girl who loves nature and wants the best for her family into the active fighter for freedom, ready to spill the blood of the oppressors. The oppressive government of Panem turns our attention ...

In the early 1960s, a lot of people had no doubt that soon a third world war would start. It was supposed to be a nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, which would lead to the destruction of humanity, or at least to the collapse of modern civilization. Regularly occurring conflicts like the Korean War of 1950-1953 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 intensified the tensions and cultivated the fear in society. Sooner or later, with malicious intent or by mistake, the Cold War could turn into a "Hot War". Everyone understood it, and there ...

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The short movie on yoga by Yoga instructor Seane Corn informs about the benefits of breathing, and the breathing methods that help in keeping the mind and body healthy. Yoga has been existing since ages and many people have benefitted using it in their daily lives. Breathing in Yoga does not only help keep a person physically healthy, but also helps in relaxing the mind and makes a person mentally healthy. The video shows the different types of breathing techniques which have a positive effect on the different parts of the body. Every part of the ...

Art has always been one of the most valuable things in the whole society. People appreciate art because it keeps the history and memory of the humanity. Paintings, sculptures, memoirs can be more valuable than even some of the history books. The reason is quite simple. The history books may be rewritten in accordance with the requirements of the current government. However, such memorable things as paintings and sculptures are almost the immortal reminders of the human history. The film The Monuments Men is a historical drama that shows how people tried to save works of art during the ...

Probably killed by life's adversities, everybody has at least once dreamed about how it would be nice if Paradise and prosperity reigned on the Earth. Only a few of us thought about the fact than it can be troublesome. Paradise is not a panacea and living in it would be boringWhy? Everything is simple: constant satisfaction and the quiet tends to simply annoy the man so that he wants adventure and adrenaline. There is no good without evil and evil without good. If everything is so good, how do people distinguish good from evil, if the second simply will ...

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The ‘Prime Suspect’, is an exceptional television series movie analysis, that provides a deeply profound and insightful picture of how a female officer, handles a murder investigation, with a murder squad of male comrades or counterparts on her team.
In this movie, we find that DCI Jane Tennison, is the first available female officer of her rank, who is summoned by the higher authorities of the Metropolitan police force, to take charge of a murder investigation case, due to a crisis, where her superior DCI John Shefford, suffers an immediate cardiac arrest. In this review, we come across the ...

There is a vast number of versions and remakes on R. L. Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, 1886. But the two are have appeared to be the most impressive for me are the following: a very close remake – “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, 1985, filmed in the USSR and another one – though far from the plot, but still – related to the same subject “Fight Club”, 1999. And as we can see, every person has an alter ego that may at any time show the dark side of his soul.

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“12 O’clock high” is a classic movie of the Hollywood Golden Era. This movie is shown as an example of leadership, courage and a real male friendship. It focuses exclusively on the principle of command and leadership and could be used as a tool for commanders.
In the beginning of the movie we see the problem of lack of discipline in the so-called “hard luck” bomber group that raids over Nazi Germany. Colonel Keith Davenport show us that his leadership style is aimed to save his men’s lives, but on the other hand, he is no capable of sending ...

Frank, Lester and Lt. Colonel Frank are all middle-aged men who experience existential crisis. This crisis is caused by their lives being dull. They see that their prime time in life has passed and they develop new personal characteristics. This is triggered by specific events around them that make them behave in a way that puzzles the people around them. Deeply down they are unhappy and that is why they behave in a strange and inappropriate way to bring back their youth. They don’t even feel responsible for their actions.
There are shared traits among the three characters. Lester ...

Death by Moonlight:Bomber Command is a documentary directed by Brian Mckenna and released in 1992. It is about Canadian bombers who were sent to Britain to help the British Forces, RAF in their fight against Hitler and Nazis in the World War 2. At first they were targeting industrial and military targets but eventually they also bombed households and civilians. Not all of them were aware of the targets.
Some 50.000 Canadians came to bomb Germany. They had a base in Yorkshire, where people can still see the house where they wrote graffiti, such as their names, for remembrance. Most ...

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In the movie 13 days, one can identify ten skills and behaviours of leadership amongst certain characters. The first skill of leadership that can be identified in the movie is, in some parts, certain leaders seem to take upon themselves to encourage others when situations get out of hand. Through direct eye contact, they relay a friendly message and warm response to the other within the group. One can identify a unique skill of leadership that some characters seem to portray in influencing courage within the groups. It is important for leaders to take into account others feeling, and in the ...

Waiting for “Superman”

Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary film produced by Lesley Chilcott and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary produced in 2010 analyzes the shortcomings of the American public school system by following the struggles of several students and their families to gain access into a charter school (Guggenheim, 2012). It features students from across America that has been negatively affected by the public school system. These students together with their families have numerous hardships to overcome yet show a strong determination to succeed and an attitude of never giving up (Spina, 2011). The producer says that the problem lies with the public schools ...

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The movie “A Beautiful Mind”, directed by Ron Howard, and released in 2001 is the true story of John Forbes Nash Jr. A leading mathematician, he is as arrogant as he is brilliant. He marries a student, Alicia, and sets himself up on the fast track in mathematics, making advancements in “game theory” which earns him accolades from his peers. Eventually, Nash is visited by CIA Agent William Parcher, who attempts to recruit him work with for code-breaking activities for the U.S. government. However, evidence begins to suggest that Nash may not perceive reality as it really is. His sanity ...

Introduction The Odd Couple is a film written by Neil Simon. It is an American comedy with a unique theme. The film stars two divorced men, Felix (Jack Lemmon), a clean freak and perfectionist, and Oscar (Walter Matthau), crude, disorganized divorced man whose life can be likened to slob. The two men decide to co-habit despite their different personalities, and the results are disastrous.Plot Oscar feels incomplete without his wife and kids. He misses them and wishes he could have been more supportive (by making his alimony payments) than he was. Felix also wallows in self pity when he is free because ...

The film Red Cliff was directed by John Woo and released in 2009. The historical event depicted in the film is the Battle of Red Cliffs which took place at the Red Cliff in 208-209 AD (Woo, 2010). Historically, the Battle of the Red Cliffs was fought at the end of the rule of the Han Dynasty, which formally ended in 220 AD. The war had been fought 8 years earlier (208 AD) between the numerically superior forces of Cao Cao, who was the Northern warlord and the southernly allied forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan (Woo, 2010).
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Ethics is an integral part for any organization as all organizations deal with human beings. Ethical theories are put in place by the system so as to protect human and animal rights. This paper discusses the ethical theories that are prevalent in the agriculture and food industry. The purpose of this ethical code of conduct is to protect the animals, the workers and the consumers. There are regulatory bodies such the FDA and the USDA that were set up to ensure that the companies followed a particular code of conduct. The paper analyzes the popular documentary Food ...

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The movie “bottle rocket” by Wes Anderson clearly shows how criminal behavior is learned through interactions. As such, individuals learn criminal behavior by interacting with others who influence their actions in the undesired manner. Social learning is one of the theories used in criminal law to explain how criminal behavior is acquired through interactions. According to the theory, individuals learn criminal behavior through associating with other people who have criminal thoughts, values, and attitudes. For instance, in the movie, Anthony acquired criminal behavior through interacting with Dignan. Additionally, the theory asserts that reinforcements play a significant role in the acquisition ...

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. ...

“The Wolf of Wall Street” is about the glorious uprising and eventual downfall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Based off a book by the real Jordan Belfort, director Martin Scorsese shows us what it was like to work on Wall Street in the 90s. Belfort’s story starts off as him being the typical self-made-man, beginning at the bottom of a tall ladder and being let go after his employer’s firm closed. He takes a job selling penny-stock for companies no one has heard of and quickly creates a niche allowing him to open his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. With commission on penny-stock ...

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The film, The Hunger Games is a trilogy that tells a story of unending oppression, exploitation and injustice in the society. In the plot, there are twelve districts that are ruled by the capitol, and they are destitute, most of the inhabitants die as a result of starvation. The trilogy Hunger Games is set at some time in the future, and this story takes place in Panem. The setting consists of a capitol and twelve other districts though they were initially thirteen which were and ruled by the capitol.The Social Justice Issues
Social injustice manifestation occurs in relation to poverty. Evidently, there ...

The American sugar market has many types of sweeteners but sugar is the most commonly used. Sugarcane and sugar beets are the plants that produce the amounts of sugar that can meet the demands of the economy. The Farm Bill is a sugar policy that seeks to give sugar producers economic support via domestic market controls, tariff-rate quotas and preferential loan agreements. This means that the government has a say in the sugar industry pricing mechanisms.
Through the Farm Bill the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) guarantees sugar producers a minimum price despite the prevailing market conditions. This is the ...

Motion in the basic and simple functions in a movie or artistic work is to break the monotony that could accrue from still scenes. When the actors and actresses move about during the film, it helps the viewer or the audience in general to accept and appreciate newer scenes that would be equally interesting. This is one benefit that the motion has over still scenes and still films, where all the scenes are acted, or role played in a still or stagnant place. The overriding disadvantage of motion is that the viewer or the audience may lose grip and control of ...

Watching the film offers inspiration and enlightenment on doing something within set personal goals. The setting is at Welton Academy located in Vermont. The school presents a traditional set-up of a boy’s preparatory school. The film represents events that took place in 1959. During the period, the school has not received external pressure to admit young black students. Further, it represents the perceptions of young white scholars who have access to a vast wealth. The film revolves around an alumnus of the institution and seeks to return as an English teacher. His style shakes up the institution due to the enthusiasm ...

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1. "Well, i guess the gentlemen are in a pretty tall hurry to get me out of here. The way the evidence has piled up against me, I can't say i blame them much. And I’m quite willing to go, sir, when they vote it that way-but before that happens I’ve got a few things i want to say to this body. I tried to say them once before, and i got stopped colder than a mackerel. Well, I’d like to get them said at this time, sir. And as a matter of fact, I'm not going to leave this body ...

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Lester Burnham
Diagnosis:
Mid-life Crisis, Sexual Addiction, Marijuana Addiction
Burnham was showing signs of three basic issues. The first one was that he was suffering from sexual addiction. He also showed signs of marijuana addiction. Lastly, he was suffering through a mid-life crisis. Between these three factors, he lost many great aspects of his life. One thing that seemed to be a theme within his life was that he was building the number of issues based off of the basic idea that he was suffering the mid-life crisis.
A mid-life crisis will cause a person to suffer many ...

The Official Story (La historia oficial), the 1985 film, marks a splendid point of withdrawal for the study of the recent culture of Argentina. Perhaps that is a staple in many Latin American culture courses throughout Europe and the United States, as a result of which its relevance has remained intact in this decade.
Although it may seem that the film has a tragic ending, it is arguable that there are signs that point toward hopeful, positive changes in the future of Latin American women. Alicia’s insistent demonstrations and the push for change in the streets can be seen as a sign ...

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The United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank hosted a debate concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The debate had the following proposition “Behavior change in generalized epidemics has not reduced new HIV infections and is an unwise use of HIV prevention resources.” Panelists supporting the proposal had a number of reasons that they presented. They argued that the individuals carrying out behavior change implementation had not done a thorough evaluation of their work. For this reason, there are many unknowns in this strategy. For instance, scholars involved have not been able to come up with a behavior change model. Such a model ...

Epic is an animated film by Blue Sky Studios that is loosely based on William Joyce’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs (2013; 2001). The movie was created after a discussion between Joyce and the director, Chris Wedge, about how they should place a story in a detailed forest inhabited by something like fairies (Sarto, 2013). The movie took about eleven years to be made from the time of that discussion and involved a huge number of decisions. Because the movie was animated, the creators could control literally every detail about how movie finally looked, which is not the ...

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Erickson’s Psychological Development stages explain 8 stages through which a developing human who is healthy have to pass from infancy to the late adulthood. According to him, in every stage an individual confronts and buoyantly masters new challenges.
Turning back to the video, it is unquestionably that it is related to Erickson’s Psychological Development stages since from the interview we understand that the “princess boy” enters autonomy vs. shame and doubt stage with more trust than distrust hence this helps him carry the virtue of courage into the remaining stages of development. The boy is very courageous ...

The Handmaid's Tale movie is an adaptation of the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It is directed by Volker Schlondoff and the screen play written by Harold Pinter. The movie is about the republic of Gilead. It was set in totalitarian future of America. It tells of Kate’s story as a handmaid where she is subjected to bear children so as to avoid facing criminal charges. Kate nicknamed as Offred is the protagonist in the movie who is trained to become a Handmaid and a concubine for one of the barren couple’s ruling the countries religious primary regimes. ...

Nursing: Parenthood TV series (2010)

Parenthood TV series (2010) captures parenthood occurring within the Braverman family expanding through three generations. Featured characters include father Zeek Braverman and mother Camille Braverman; oldest son Adam; his wife and three children; daughter Sarah and her two children; second son Crosby, Jasmine his new wife, Jabbar another son and last child daughter Julia, her husband Joel and their daughter Sydney, and adopted son, Victor. Julia Graham played Erika Christensen is the character of focus for this movie review. Importantly, she is the youngest of four Braverman siblings and an astute lawyer at a top ...

The 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction, directed by Marc Forster and starring Will Ferrell, tells the tale of a humdrum IRS agent (Will Ferrell) who finds himself learning that he is actually a fictional construct, a character in a story being written by Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson). As he deals with the constant meddling of an authorial force in his life, and making sure he is not insane with the help of a professor (Dustin Hoffman), he soon learns that Eiffel plans to kill him off in her own story, in order to make her writing interesting and cure her writer's block. The film ...

Chan-wook Park's 2003 thriller Oldboy tells the story of Oh Dae-su, a middle-aged father who is kidnapped mysteriously one day, being left in an abandoned hotel room with little to sustain him. Being kept alive but locked in the room, Dae-su is eventually released after 15 years, and he vows to take his revenge on the person who kept him there for seemingly no reason. Park's unique take on the revenge thriller is fantastically made, intensely raw in its emotion, and uncompromising in the lengths it will go to in order to shock and affect its audience. The movie is ...

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Oedipus the King is a play by Sophocles in which Christopher Plummer lays the role of the psychologically disturbed Oedipus. This play is about a successful kingdom, which begins to fall apart as the king discovers that he had killed his own father and married his mother. The play carries a strong message or moral lesson. The moral lesson is so clear in the play. Prophecies and fate should not control life. The play reinforces the idea that we should strive to do what is right and shy away from doing what is wrong since it comes with consequences. The mistakes or wrongs ...

Full Metal Jacket, produced in 1987, is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, which highlights the experiences of Vietnam War soldiers. The title of the movie depicts the metal jackets worn by foot soldiers. Through the film, the director seeks to showcase Gustav Hasford’s novel (The Short-timers) by following a platoon of U.S marines. New recruits undergo a rigorous training under the command of a drill instructor, Sergeant Hartman, who prepares them for grueling combats ahead. Full Metal Jacket earned rare plaudits from the Academy Award after its nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and after the American Film Institute put the movie ...

“Dr. Phil” is a one hour program that airs daily on day time television. This show has been an innovator of the “talk show genre” by employing a real psychologist as its host. Dr. Phil McGraw spends that hour addressing and advising individuals who are going through crisis. Sometimes those problems are everyday issues, such as getting along with in-laws or dealing with a problem child. Other times more complex issues are explored, such as counseling the victim of a heinous crime or giving insight into high profile media stories. “Dr. Phil” presents a very clinical approach to the portrayal of gender on their ...