Situation Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction:

The Restaveks are what can be termed as child slaves in Haiti where child abuse is rampant and terrible. According to the latest United Nations estimates there are over 300,000 child slaves in Haiti who toil about in horrific conditions without any sort of hope for their future. These child slaves are part and parcel of Haitian culture and they are accepted in the whole scheme of things.
The recent earthquake also created a situation where the poor turned desperately poor and child slavery has increased substantially in a situation such as this. Impoverished families really have no choice ...

Shot by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Losing Isaiah is an American film depicting the drama of two different women united by the love to the same child, Isaiah. The film starts from the point when the breastfed child does not fit in his mother’s lifestyle – the cocaine addicted Khaila leaves him in the box in the trash. She loves Isaiah but she loves drugs more, and fortunately for the child, he is eventually found by the garbage collectors. Forwarded to the hospital, the child soon finds the safe hands and the loving family. The conflict happens when after three years ...

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 ...

Section 1

There are various literature sources that discuss Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). The immense interest in this type of therapy is derived from the fact that it forms a seminal method of handling mental health issues that cannot be treated by medical doctors. This literature review however will focus on the works by Katy Grazebrook and Anne Garland (2005), as well as Richard G. Heimberg (2002). These authors bring out the concept of CBT in the clearest manner possible helping their readers understand that what they think can affect their feelings. They also have almost similar view about how best CBT ...

Analysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

Instutional AffilationAnalysis of ‘The Bobs’ Interview

There are several things that The Bobs did right in the interview. For instance, he and his associate were able to remain calm and composed despite the fact that Peter seemed to be disorganized and unprepared for the interview. He was also able to ask Peter some questions that would help in job analysis and work flow analysis. For example, he asks Peter what his typical work day is like. Such a question can help in understanding the activities a worker is involved in during a working day and how they are undertaken

What is ‘wrong’ about how “The Bobs” conducted the interview?

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Patient safety, ethical stand and patient centered care is more concerned with healthcare givers providing patients which they deem harmless and also takes into account their wellbeing both emotionally and physically. Effective communication is the key tool that can be used to address the problem of undesirable patient outcomes since it has been established that a reduction in stress and anxiety is usually brought about by patients complying with their medication and also being involved in a proactive form of effective communication. In addition to reduced stress levels, it is also crucial to note that effective communication boosts the ...

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 ...

American Feature Film Critique

The Pursuit of Happiness
Introduction

An emotionally wrenching story of a father and son's struggle for survival from life's challenges has been the thematic foundation of the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness (otherwise spelled as Happyness)”. The film starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner together with real-life son Jaden Smith have delivered a remarkable performance portraying the characters based on real-life accounts. It was directed by Gabrielle Mucciono and was released in cinemas on December 15, 2006. The movie was inspired by the life story of the now CEO and founder of Gardner Rich & Co. Christopher Paul Gardner (Henning, n.d., ...

Whose Life is it anyway?

Summary of Plot
The film, ‘whose life is it anyway’ is a clear demonstration of the types of medical dilemmas which face healthcare practitioners on a day-to-day basis. It is starred by Ken Harrison who was involved in an accident and had to be admitted to hospital. Owing to his deteriorated quadriplegic condition, he sued to be allowed to end his life. The premise for this position was the fact that he could no longer pursue his passion of creating art and he could not make love. His normal existence and style of life had been tampered with and ...

The play I saw was “The Producers.” I saw it at Saginaw Valley State University. I saw it on April 11, 2014. The play was inspiring and as close to the original Broadway production as I could have hoped for at a university showing.
The actors went off the original script; the playwright for “The Producers” is Mel Brooks. The play is also a musical, which contained the original composition done by Mel Brooks, as well. As it turns out, Mel Brooks was also the lyricist of the play. The play was written in 1968 and is representational and presentational, ...

Introduction

Careful examination of a person’s behavior can sometimes be the most challenging part. People may not open up about what they are going through or what they are experiencing. It is upon an individual who has proper counseling skills to look at a person and come up with the correct diagnosis of the problem in question. Not all the time would one come up with the correct diagnosis, but the essence is to develop a plan of action with respect to the disability of the individual. The movie ‘Towelhead’ provides a challenge of conceptualization (Ball, 2008). The movie provides a broad converse over ...

Communication is the art of sharing, receiving and passing information between two or more people. During the conversations, the medical team of Professor Vivian Bearing employ some techniques reminisce in the nursing profession. To start with, there is an elaborate use of silence as a communication technique, especially in the instances where there is interior monolog. It is demonstrated by the use of dots to connote silence. For instance, when she says, “I can’t believe that my life has become so Corny,” shows that it was silence as a technique. Reflecting is also a technique that Dr Bearing uses as a communication ...

Introduction

The understanding of mental health issues is impacted significantly by the images portrayed in various sources such as printed media, news media, film and drama as well as real-life experiences. The movie “Snake Pit” by Anatole Litvak brings about images of poor psychiatric care in a State Mental Institution. The movie is based in the 1940s and provides a closer view of the dire state of mental treatment at state facilities. The story is told from the perspective of de Havilland, a young writer who is taken to Juniper Hill State mental facility by her husband (The snake pit, 1948). One 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 ...

Hotel Rwanda movie is based on a true story of a man who against all odds tries to save people in the midst of genocide in Rwanda. It was an organized murder of almost a million Rwandans. He gives hope to people in a country when there is no hope left. Rwanda descends into total chaos and madness and the whole world opts out. Nobody wants to help the Africans as they are viewed as dung. He opens arms to the helpless and by this saves many lives. The movie is all about the atrocities conducted against humanity in Rwanda. The tension that ...

Movie Review (Crash, 2004)

Interpersonal Conflict in Film

Interpersonal conflict is a part of an everyday interpersonal relationships. In the principles of communication, one has to establish contact with another individual. On the other hand, another person should respond to the contact being initiated to create communication. It is a two way process that involves an exchange of responses to create an idea, one has to encode a message while the other will act as the receiver (Sole, 2011, c. 7.2). The exchange of responses makes up a continuous communication. However, when one of the two neglected or did not respond to the message, or in other ...

The Merchants of Cool is a PBS documentary which deals with how young people are completely influenced by the material culture which surrounds them every day. The principal problem Rushkoff presents is the fact that young people are extremely gullible and will do anything to look cool and please their peers with the resultant fact that they end up purchasing things and gadgets which they do not really need.
Under the Radar marketing is continually practiced by several firms who make use of sophisticated marketing techniques to enquire what young people deem to be cool thus then passing on ...

Violence and aggression are the hallmark of old patriarchal societies where men’s supremacy was the main value underpinning a family. However and unfortunately, it would be too early to talk about such type of social structure using the past tense, since even in our today’s open-minded world patriarchal families based on men’s violence and women’s oppression are not a rare case.
While trying to understand why such a situation could take place and why Beth could follow and obey her husband so long, it would be helpful to address the theoretical approach suggested by Andersen ...

It is always difficult to watch movies about impaired people, let alone see them in real life. However, it is the real life that we must accept. Cinema is an excellent field and sphere to analyze the potential symptoms of characters playing the role of an impaired man or woman. Forrest Gump is an excellent example of the director’s and actor’s mastery at showing the people what a real psychopathology is.
Watching Forrest Gump one always thinks of the protagonist as mentally retarded (or rather suffering from mental retardation - a congenital form of an intellectual disability ...

Introduction: The movie, Moonstruck, is not just about love, but also about family relationships and expectations. The film also depicts a tightly bound Italian family and the mini stories within the larger one, are intertwined and connected by the theme of family.
Description of family: The Castorini’s are the central family with the Cammareri’s also playing a major role in the movie. Grown children from both families are central figures in the story with Loretta Castorini falling in love with one of the Cammareri sons (Ronny) while engaged to another (Johnny). This is the main conflict in ...

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 ...

The documentary from the PBS and Frontline with the title Two American families, is presenting the ordinary and middle income families over the time period of 22 years. The documentary was released in the year 2013. The documentary wanted to present the reality of the American dreams to have a family, own a house and have a steady income with the possibility of retirement at older age. The efforts of two American families the Nuemanns and the Stanleys to succeed in two decades despite the hard work did not work out. It shows that despite the race all middle ...

Which principle of IDEA was challenged in this case?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 is a law that has undergone many changes to help the disabled to access proper education in schools including public ones. The core principle that was being challenged in this movie was the right of the disabled Stephen Jeffers, who was autistic, to free and appropriate education in the public school if they qualify despite their disabilities. The issue was that the School District had offered to Stephen Jeffers a program that would not qualify as appropriate according to the standards of the IDEA. Since the parents had already withdrawn ...

I love Lucy is one of the pioneer sitcom comedies shot in front of a live audience in the US. The setting of the sitcom is in New York with the show following the life of Lucy Ricardo and her husband Ricky Ricardo, who is a professional singer. The show also includes the couple's friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz. The show follows the life of Lucy, who is naïve in her ambitions to become a star in the big city. Together, the cast gets into various hilarious situations that are brought about by the actions of Lucy in ...

One of the most interesting documentaries is The Square, which relates to the ongoing Egyptian state crisis. The documentary is directed by the Jehane Noujaim, who talks about the disaster that happened up to recently 2013. Much of the documentary covers the Egyptian revolution of 2011 although it is American based. Due to the creativeness in the movie, it has won different awards including three Emmy awards and nominated for various honors in the industry.
The Square Movie was released on January 17, 2013, and received a lot of media attention. Since that time, it still maintains one hundred ...

A Kalahari Family is a film consisted of five series released in 2002, directed by John Marshall, an anthropologist. The film depicts the life of a family Ju/'hoansi, who lives in Nyae Nyae. It took 14 years to make this film and the story follows the family from 1951-2001 for fifty years. These people are Bushmen and their main occupation is hunting and gathering.
The film succeeded in telling the story it set out to tell in a way that it depicted Ju/'hoansi as they really recorded them doing their everyday activities. The main character is ≠Oma Tsamkxao and ...

The hero, Claireece Precious Jones is 16, beefy beyond belief, and ignorant. Her inactive mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), treats her like a slave, beating and manhandling her relentlessly. Her dad, on the uncommon events when he shows up, grabs the chance to assault her. These fierce considerations brought about her bearing him a kid when she was twelve; as the film starts, she is pregnant with another. The principal infant has Down disorder and is named "Mongo" ("short for 'mongoloid,'"); to her favorable luck, the young lady lives with Precious' grandma, aside from when Mary quickly imports her to ...

The movie “A Dog’s Love” is a short film that was made in 1914. Despite that this is an old movie I think it is still very efficient. Charlie Chaplin once said that babies and dogs are the best actors. This movie truly proves it. The plot involves a rich little girl. No one wants to play with her, because she is rich. Her parents don’t play with her too.I think that this situation is common even nowadays.

Children don’t need money, they need to communicate with the others. A lot of times children don’t want to ...

Introduction

The ability to assist someone to understand himself or herself and his or her capacities besides developing his or her potentialities to solve the problems at hand and achieve social and psychological compatibility depends on a number of factors. The counselor needs to have better communication skills, knowledge and experience, passion, adequate resources, among others. Everyone needs guidance and counseling, which is vital in helping one solve the everyday problems.

Lack of guidance and counseling when one is going through difficulties eventually makes one become sick and even is some circumstances makes one commit suicide as a better way to deal ...

Introduction

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 ...

Based on the definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), what is the responsibility of the bank? What should it do?

In a manner corresponding to corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Manhattan Bank has the responsibility for its impact on society. The responsibility mandates the Bank to integrate or combine both social and environmental concerns in the business interactions and operations with its stakeholders. It is necessary to achieve a distribution of economic, social and environmental imperatives. The bank’s responsibility is also to protect its property, employee’s lives as well as the community it serves. According to the movie, it seems that there was no experienced security that could trace the robbers and get the information since the movie shows ...

Psychology

Icon 1: Questions 3 and 4 (p. 21)
James says, “I feel like an outsider.” How might you work with his statement?
I could work with this statement by telling James to point out when he has those particular feelings. I would let him know that he could perhaps find one person in the group that he trusted and begin by talking to that person.

Jacqueline says, “I feel stupid when I ramble.” How would you deal with her self-deprication in the first session?

Jacqueline would have to first explain what she meant by rambling so I could have a better understanding of her situation. She would then have to make note of when she does it ...

The Influences of an Urban Setting to an Everyday Living

Introduction
The Goddess is a story of a struggling, lower class woman in China in 1930s who is left with no choice but to submit her life into prostitution and degradation in order to survive and make a living to provide for her son. It is important to highlight that she belongs to an era where prostitution was a taboo subject (Wordpress, 2008, p.1). It is the intention of the film to make a social analysis of the current times, based on the situation of a woman who is forced to sacrifice herself in doing extreme actions in order for them to survive with ...

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 film Of Gods and Men begins with a quotation from the Bible "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." This neatly sums the theme of the film – everyone is a child of God - and also offers an ominous foreshadowing of the ending. Set in an Algerian monastery, nine Catholic monks live in a Muslim area, where they are accepted by the peaceful and friendly community. However, as the true story develops the safety of the monastery is threatened ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris
Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ideas of Lem, ...

Ernst Lubitsch (1942): To be or not to be
Ernst Lubitsch, a Jewish-German, directed the film to be or not to be in 1942 together with Jack Benny, and Carole Lombard, who act the couple Torra. This is a couple of actors who had led a theatre team in Warsaw and were busy in rehearsing an anti-Nazi play a time when Germans had invaded Poland. In the film, the group becomes an active secretive participant and through their costumes they manage to deceive the Nazis together with their cooperators. The film illustrates the Nazis racism and violence instead of the military ...

Introduction

Cyrus Nowrasteh is a film director widely known for his true story based film production. True story films present an actual situation or a condition. They serve a communication purpose of informing the public of a certain issue of human concern happening in a particular area. True story based films may also be geared to eliminate certain undesired norms practiced by a certain community in a society. A good example of a true based story film is “The Storming of Soraya M.”. This is a drama film presented in American Persian language. It is adopted from Freidoune Sahebjam’s book entitled “La Femme Lapidee” which is a true life ...

Movie Review:

This short documentary film (duration about 13 minutes) has a Portuguese narrative commentary with subtitles in English, was produced in 1990 and was directed by Jorge Furtado.
Although on the surface it is the story of a tomato, documenting what happens to it from the moment it is picked from a plant in the fields to being eventually thrown as garbage into a landfill (and beyond), it is in reality a story about humanity and morality.
The movie tells how this tomato, on the face of it a useful and purchasable food item, is bought by a supermarket customer along with more tomatoes and ...

Foreign aid is still the largest external source investment for most economies. At the recent UN convention on least developed countries in 2011, there were calls from several quarters to increase this type of investment . Has foreign aid encouraged (under)development in Africa? With over a half century since the aid model of foreign investment was introduced in a largely post-colonial Africa, the continent has nothing to show for it economically . An estimated $1 trillion has been injected into the African economy in the period, but the ultimate result has been that the economic situation of African nation is getting worse ...

Question 1

The film slum dog millionaire by Danny Boyle clearly brings out numerous aspects of the Indian culture. He creatively uses a wide range of techniques to capture the most significant societal aspects of the geographical region which forms the setting of his film.
The diligent and highly reputable film director Danny Boyle starts his piece of work, the slum dog millionaire with captivating stand still captions that depicts the true nature and situation of the Indian society. The Indian religion popularly recognized as Hinduism is clearly brought out in the film to depict the Indian traditional religion. This reveals ...

Movie Title: The Pursuit of Happ(y)ness

Released Date : 2006
Director: Gabrielle Muccino
Written by : Steven Conrad
Cinematography : Phedon Papamichael
Produced by : David Alper, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Mark Clayman, Louis D'Esposito, Chris Gardner, James Lessiter, Will Smith, Steve Tisch and Teddy Zee.

Genre: Drama

Story : Bibliographical, based on the true-to-life story of Christopher Gardner
Main Cast : 1. Will Smith as Chris Gardner, 2. Jaden Smith as Christopher 3. Thandie Newton as Linda

Plot Summary

The movie is based from the true events on the life of a man named ...

The archeologist studied the life of a farmer in the San Juan, Mexico to understand how the manufacture and trade of matateos and menois in the ancient city of Copan was carried out. The study of Filemeno Gabriel’s way of life shed light to how and why the farmers in ancient city of Copan manufactured the matateos and menois. It was noted that Gabriel made matateos in his spare time so as to supplement his budget. This was because as a farmer Gabriel could only produce what was enough for him, his family and the domestic animals he owned.
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Movie Review: The Reader

The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg, David Kross as young Michael Berg, and Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, is an unusual film because unlike most pieces that tackle the touchy subject of the Holocaust, it deals mostly with the lives of ordinary Germans at the time. Additionally, it brings the film into the modern day, showing the effects on German lives almost half a century after the time of the atrocities.
The movie’s form is that of a retrospect. It opens in Berlin in 1995 with Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes), a lawyer, admitting ...

The movie is in a town set up whereby the characters are discussing something in the living room. The group is made up of women most of them with identical eating disorder and almost the same physical characteristics except for some few women who are trying to advise them on what they did to have a better shape. The sitting room has much furniture that enabled the women to sit in a conference like manner and have a mutual talk. At the background of the living room, there are various hangings and photos as well as paintings on the wall. Since this is a ...

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One of the indirect effects of the scene is that it changed the way Elle’s friend thinks about her. Hence, Elle’s friend changes her perspective towards her and fails to recognize Elle's achievements during her internship period with Professor Callahan, where she encountered different clients and gained her trust. This is because she misinterprets the sexual harassment from the famous Prof. Callahan to be caused by Elle herself. Another indirect effect of the scene is that it affected Elle's parents.
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Some of the direct effects of the sexual harassment to the law student include; ...

Certified Health Education Specialists

The medical field, for the past decades, has been undergoing improvements and breakthroughs. Continuous innovations in the field of health care is being made and discovered, and obviously, the human race will benefit from this the most. However, though this may seem like everything is in its good place, there are also controversies, issues, and challenges that are surrounding the medical field. One way to address these issues are through Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES). These specialists have seven responsibilities in order to fully provide the aid needed by medical specialists.

Responsibilities of a CHES

The movie “A Band Played On”, released in ...

America and other developed countries are struggling to build democracy. Equality is the foundation of democracy and social equality of women has an important role in the development of society. The website NOW Foundation is aimed to achieve full equality for women all over the world via education and litigation.
America and European countries are the most advanced and loyal towards women. However, even in these countries women's rights very infringed some years ago. Women were not allowed to any decent work. They could only do housework or difficult work, which did not require education, such as work in ...

Both films are a representative of a historical period and developments that took place in the 20th century. However, a biopic movie, Chaplin, represents historical period and transformation better compared to the Searcher. This is because; Chaplin has a larger transition of duties and livelihood from the young age to old age and prosperity (Burr 2). This allows the viewers to follow the development process and hence, the historical period is vividly presented. In the film Chaplin, we see Chaplin taking over his mother's duty in stage and growing to become a director in Hollywood. Chaplin involves himself so ...

Aladdin is a classic Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author, length or plot, but there is always one similarity – focus on main characters. The screen adaptation of the fairy tale ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a film directed by Ben Stiller. It is worth noting that he is also the lead actor and producer of the film. It is based on the best-selling book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty authored by James Thurber. The objective of this paper is to look at the story of how Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) gave meaning to the various objects scenes that can be found and watched (respectively) in the movie. This theatrical analysis will focus on two things: the meanings and story and plot analysis.
When it comes to ...

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 ...

The Chinese film “Red Cliff” presents the epic war story of the battle between the Kingdom of Wei and “rebels” – the Kingdoms of Chu and Wu. It was directed by John Woo, who tried to pass the atmosphere of ancient China - the time when the Han dynasty came to its end. The film is separated into two parts, as the story takes in total over four hours. The heroes of the film are presented greatly – they all have different characters and life positions, their hobbies differ too (“Red Cliff”).

How do the characters make reference to Confucianism and personify its value?

Confucianism considered morality, ethics and governance issues, so the ...

The documentary Black Harvest, which showed some events from life of the white explorer’s descendant Joe Leahy and the Ganiga tribe in Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, made me to take a side of the man. Leahy looked like a true victim in this movie. The man worked hard to improve and enlarge his coffee plantation. Leahy wanted to share his profits with Ganiga people. He offered them the smaller part, but this decision was reasonable, because the man charged himself with the whole financial responsibility. It was not Leahy’s fault that coffee prices decreased. Ganiga ...

Remember the Titans (2000)

What does this statement mean to you – “Attitude reflects leadership?” Explain your answer!

ANSWER: “Attitude reflects leadership,” in the movie “Remember the Titans” (Yakin), mean that dispositional beliefs, values, and feelings of players was dictated by their leader’s own attitude. In the directive (task) dimension of leadership, a leader helps his team players achieve their goal through one-way communication using motivational speech, for instance. Examples include giving direction, defining goals, attaining a goal, and evaluating an outcome. In the supportive (relationship) dimension of leadership, a leader assists his members by means of two-way communication to feel comfortable among themselves. In the effective dimension of leadership, a leader ...

Sinem Saban and Damien Curtis’s “Our Generation” is a documentary film released in 2010 which discusses the ongoing fight of Australian aboriginals to preserve their culture , their freedom and their lands, in the context of governmental pressure to give up land rights in exchange for education, housing and other services. The filmmakers succeeded in presenting a comprehensive picture of the complex issues affecting Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory today. The success of this film is based upon its reliance on witness accounts, and in particular, on the testimony of ordinary people from aboriginal communities. The footage from ...

Social Justice issues:

The Verdict captures the growth of Frank Galvin, a character who goes from being a keen law graduate to a chronic alcoholic after being framed by his firm’s senior partner for jury trampling, when Frank tried to expose the corrupt practices his firm employed. Post this incident, Frank loses interest in his career. He defines a person who has given up on his life. The defining moment in Frank’s life occurs when he takes up a case of medical negligence in which, a woman developed complications during child-birth and was rendered permanently vegetative due to lack of ...

It seems that almost each horror or science fiction film is being interpreted as an allegory of some particular realities; in addition, the supernatural characteristics described in such films are sometimes seen and described as symptoms of political and/or social diseases. For example, “zombie” horror movies tend to describe how paranoia and panic even among the beloved ones take over the common sense and traditional social norms. Current example of such movie is “28 Days Later” by Danny Boyle, in which he depicted post-apocalyptic world abandoned and destroyed by an epidemic that transforms ...

The movie I chose to analyze is Save The Tiger. The movie revolves around Harry Stoner (Jack Lemmon) and his life as his company nears ruin. The biggest issue facing Stoner is what he will do to keep himself afloat as his company begins to fall apart. It is a strange position to be in as it is at this point, when money and coldly logical decisions need to be made, when ethics matter the most. It is easy for a person to be ‘good’ and attempt to become a better person when everything is going their way but when trouble comes ...

Titanic is one of the timeless classic movies released into the media in the recent times. It is an epic romantic film directed, produced, co-edited and written by James Cameron. Its success in the big screen remains unrivalled because of the momentous influence it had on its audience. It is a fictionalized account depicting the sinking of the Titanic; a ship meant to be the epitome of luxurious cruising. The movie is a witness recount of the events that led to the sinking of the ship and the actions that transpired before it went under. It is based on a true story of ...