Essays on Documentary

Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans, is pointed to as one of the great method actors of our time. He totally immersed himself in the role actually killing and skinning his own food, learning the crafts of the Mohican tribe, and carrying a rifle with him everywhere during the shoot. Before the filming ever began he lived for six months in the woods and continued to do so throughout the shoot. By believing he was the character he was portraying, he convinced the audience as well as his co-stars who also gave more realistic and believable ...

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Aileen was a sad documentary. We are shown in the documentary that Aileen is a killer and a prostitute. The director tried to show that Aileen had brain problems. Her mother said she may have brain damage when she was born. This might have started all of her troubles with killing people and being a prostitute. The director shows us that Aileen is not evil but maybe needs help instead. Her moods change fast and she almost seems a different person in different minutes. Her history is bad. The documentary said she was abused and ran away. She was ...

Response to the Movie “We are Wizards”

The movie “We are Wizards” is a documentary film that portrays how the renowned Harry Potter series influenced the American youth. It shows that the franchise of J.K. Rowling’s movie has spawned movies and books, but also a lot of genres of creativity such as musical bands. The fans of the series have grown in their creative genres as Harry Potter grows up in his magical world in the movie. Young people, particularly women, were inspired to produce Harry Potter-related blogs, images, and other forms of art. Although the novel has great impact upon the American society and ...

Response 1

In response 1, the student does try to explain how the author of the article approaches counseling. He is keen to note that the author somewhat adopts a holistic approach which incorporates a little bit of everything. However, Dr. Thomas does not necessarily adopt a holistic approach. Rather, he tends to employ different approaches in different settings. He observes “the approaches I employ include psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, Jungian and other humanistic approaches” (Thomas, 2008). The author does acknowledge that not a single approach can work for everyone but rather approaches should be tailor-made to suit the different ...

The documentary, The City (1939), examines the various phases which were involved in the development of the city. The poverty and grime of city life had its roots in the pastoral New England where the workers started living. It has been shown how the labor of the industrial city gives rise to the metropolis. The way of escaping from the jammed streets of the metropolitan city, the countryside sees the emergence of highways which deface the landscape and thus mar the beauty of nature and the habitat of the surroundings. The film ...

- Robins, G. “Understanding Ancient Egyptian Art”. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Robins. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. 12-29. Ancient Egyptian Art continued essentially unaltered throughout the long history of the Ancient Egyptians. In order therefore to be able to understand it, one should learn about the functions and techniques of art in Ancient Egypt but also about the religious and cosmological beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians. Robins, places Ancient Egyptian art into its cultural, social and religious context and thus allows the reader to fully comprehend it. As we have covered Ancient Egyptian and discussed its characteristics ...

The documentary, Inside Job, was released in 2010. It mainly focuses on the financial crisis that was witnessed between 2007 and 2009. Viewers opine that the financial crisis was an instigation of few individuals in the USA. The US government officials and top players in the financial services industry intentionally made decisions that would later lead the American economy into turmoil. From the documentary, it is evident that the financial service industry was led into a trap by its own leaders, who had full knowledge of what would happen. More so, the people responsible for ...

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 ...

The discipline of children has been a growing concern for the parents and educators as well as authorities. Parents are constantly striving to shape the discipline and gender roles of their children through different initiatives. Additionally, educators and policy formulators are striving to ensure that, these gender roles are reinforced as well as learned in the schools. Different studies have indicated that, most parents in the United States and in different countries of the world do not spend much time with their children. These children are either left at home with their care takers or sent to day care ...

Racism started early in the sixteenth century with many Africans falling victim to the menace due to the economic situation in Africa. The documentary, A History of Racism (BBC) analyzes the colonial developments in the world from various perspectives. The main idea in the documentary tackles racism and themes about racism. Most victims in the documentary hailed from Africa and Asia, but Africans took a larger share. The documentary utilizes scholarly sources to show the evolution of racism in the past 500 years and the changing relationship between Africa, Europe, and America. Furthermore, the documentary review racial discrimination consistently ...

Ethiopia was mainly ruled by Emperors till 1974, where a military coup overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie from power. The documentary looks at some of the major sites that had been built by former emperors and their significances. One of the outstanding things in this documentary is the form of architecture and cosmopolitan-ship by the look of the buildings. In addition, different emperors are isolated, which helps in preserving culture among the Ethiopians. It is crucial to note that most emperors believe that their power was from God and that some Ethiopians fell under King Solomon’s lineage. Given that ...

In the late1960’s, just before being adopted from a Korean Orphanage by an American family, Deann’s Identity was switched with that of another girl named Cha Jung Hee. Originally, her Korean name was Kang Ok Jin. After this issue happened to, the then, 8 year old Deann, she was told to handle the whole issue with uttermost secrecy. No one should ever know what transpired concerning the switch of her identity during the adoption process. Up to date, her passport and drivers license still reads Cha Jung Hee; even her birthday was manipulated, and her true identity ...

“Through Deaf Eyes”, directed by Diane Carey and Lawrence R. Hott, and narrated by Stockard Channing features many stories of figures from the Deaf community that are interwoven (2007). They show what it is like to be a Deaf person from the 19th century to the present. The film features individuals who attended a school for the deaf, as well as prominent figures in the Deaf community, like Marlee Matlin. The documentary’s aims are simple: to show the evolution of Deaf culture and that Deaf people are, at their core, human and no different than anybody else. There ...

The movie, “Through Deaf Eyes” is a very touching story about how several individuals learned they were deaf, and coped with the life without sound. The documentary peers into deaf culture through the 19th century to the present. It attempts to show how deaf individuals felt, what they went through, and how they were treated as well as how they are treated now. The documentary aims to celebrate the culture and create an environment of awareness. Though there was not much understanding of these individuals to begin with, they are a strong culture now, with many things to offer ...

The miracle of face is a movie that explains the impacts that beauty plays as far as our life is concerned. For example, babies are drawn to beautiful faces, and they tend to spend a lot of time scaring at them. But when it comes to ugly faces, they cannot withstand scaring at them-most of the time they will cry while looking for an escape since they are scared by ugly faces. Research has been conducted, and it clearly depicts that even older individuals are scared when it comes to socializing with scary people. Henry having his eye removed-due ...

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Movie makers make movies with the purpose of exploring people’s talents and also for entertainment purposes. To many people, movies are a source of entertainment especially after a long day of work (Manchel 435). While others may prefer to go to the cinema and watch a certain movie, others will just wait for the movie to be on Blu-ray disk. Then, they can purchase the disk and watch the movie in the comfort of their sofa back at home. In a nutshell, movies are a source of flexible entertainment, which one can enjoy, in whatever style they wish ...

Rick Rosner was obsessed and strongly believed in correcting his past mistakes in order to shape his future. He believed that he could correct every failure in order to enable him achieve success in life. He could not give up in tough moments and situations of despair and failure in life. When things refused to work for him in life, he went on and corrected every situation in life. He strived on and press forward towards a positive change in his life. Rick refused to give up when the things were not going his way. He went back to ...

One thing that the 1-hour-long video documentary, “Growing Up Online,” does well is that it demonstrates how the Internet has created many new challenges in recent years. John Maggio and Rachel Dretzin, the producers of this documentary, explore the meaning of being a teenager in today’s digital age, and what educating these teenagers is like, who expect education to be entertaining and have fleeting attention spans. Indeed, setting boundaries and teaching their children about the safe use of the Internet has become more difficult for parents. How the budding sense of identity, school work, and social of a ...

Darkness and Light, the documentary film by Helen Whitney, follows the life’s work of Richard Avedon, a legend who sparked a revolution in the world of fashion and portrait photography. The documentary provides viewers with in-depth insight into the inspirations, personal life, and work ethics of Avedon. The thing that stands out about Avedon after watching the documentary is the fact that he tries to nurture perceptions that are discarded by most people. Richard Avedon appears to be a photographer who is really in tune with himself. It is easy to be impressed by Avedon, mainly because of ...

Art is a universal language. Music, as a part of art, is also a language that crosses cultural and ethnic boundaries and connects different people through expressive and receptive communication. Some psychologists distinguish a kind of language called “subconscious”: understanding of the word’s meaning without speaking the language initially. After watching A night in 67, I understood that my subconsciousness can determine words, phrases and even whole sentences. Disregarding the fact that I was not very well aware of Brazilian culture, I still was able to enjoy the music, let myself get absorbed into the atmosphere of ...

The ancient structure Stonehenge, located in Salisbury Plains, England has stood silent for over thousands of years. Through the years, people have always marveled how this massive structure was built? Who built it? What was the purpose? Archaeologists have been trying to answer the underlying mystery of the Stonehenge with modern tools and new perspectives. Several theories about the Stonehenge have emerged over decades of years of study. The documentary Secrets of Stonehenge shows how to the mystery of this engineering feat is unearthed by a group of distinguished experts. The Stonehenge date back about 4500 years ago, before ...

‘Sicko’ is a documentary film directed by Michael Moore. It is a document on the national system of health in U.S. The thematic core of the documentary is the health system in the United States and the way it is provided by the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) which are described and seen to be functioning clearly oriented by their non-stop need to keep increasing their profits. The documentary describes the established health system in the United Systems and compares it to the corresponding health system of Canada and other European countries, trying to arise questions regarding the ethical aspects ...

Women and Gender Studies: Reaction Paper to Inocente

The short documentary with the title of Inocente works to highlight the reality that included the influence that one’s family life has on his or her life. The financial prosperity can have a great psychological value for him or her as well. The central character of the documentary did not have anything in her life that was working in her favor because she was a member of a poor family that had colored background. The poverty did not let her have a wonderful childhood as a child, and she did lean in order to have toys, but her ...

Just as narrative film has evolved, so have documentaries – the changing nature of cultural tastes, historical events, and film technology has allowed documentary films to be given a unique and constantly changing sensibility throughout the years. According to Grierson, documentaries as a film format are typically considered as being “made from natural material,” meaning that the events being filmed are happening organically, without the use of scripts or actors or sets. However, even within that strict definition there are ways to stretch and alter the very fabric of what it means to be a documentary, evoking the cultural and ...

“Seven Islands and a Metro” and “Bombay: Our City”

The United Nations reported in 2009 that by the year 2030, 41% of the population of India will reside in urban areas. Mumbai is one of one of the 20 largest cities in the world with a population of 2.21 billion in 2011. With almost twice the growth overall of the urban population, urban area slums are growing the most quickly (Reliancefoundation.org 2014). These types of housing conditions created by rapid population growth result in numerous problems: poor health conditions and more diseases, increased crime, lessened access to civic agencies, environmental degradation, increase in slum housing, and overcrowding. It ...

(Institute Affiliation) 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 ...

Institutional Affilitation

What does this documentary tell us about intimate partner relationships “back in the day” (i.e., when the women were first arrested)? The documentary tells us that intimate partner relationships that involved a married couple do not take into account the weight of the women’s testimony and experience. In the case of Ruby Jameson, her lawyer gave her advice to avoid mention of domestic violence and explicitly discouraged Ruby from using and citing the “Battered Woman Syndrome” that could have alleviated the prison sentence. Back in the day, the issue of domestic violence was not taken nearly as ...

The documentary Erasing Hate offers an interesting perspective on the social reasons behind gang affiliation. Bryon Widner grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and describes himself as a “street kid.” He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother who told him he was worthless. He was a chronic runaway. skinhead gangs provided the sense of belonging and family support he needed. He started in the White Power Movement when he was 14, and his evolution as a skinhead continued when he moved from New Mexico to Indiana. He was white and poor and was looking for answers in life. He ...

Thames Television produced the series in the 1980, and it explored the making of Hollywood Studio and the influence it had on the culture of 1920s. Every episode of the thirteen in the series was made to center on a precise characteristic of Hollywood past. This term paper examines two episodes of “Hollywood-The Silent Era” namely; “The Pioneers” and “The Man with the Megaphone”. The documentary is written and directed by Kevin Burrow and David Gill.

The pioneers

The Pioneers is the first episode of the series, and it outlines the transition of the film over a period. The episode details ...

‘The Suicide Plan’ is a ninety minute documentary film that reflects the shadows of assisted suicides. The main focus of the movie revolves round incidents that dictate underground actualities people who assist others to make an end to their lives. The movie portrays personal stories to establish its relevance with the frequency of the suicides around the United States. Assisted suicide is illegal in almost all the states. The Suicide Plan is directed, produced and written by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor. It represents a vital conversation which is directly linked with the humanity itself. It is worth to ...

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Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, explored Spurlock’s own experimentation with going on a McDonald’s-only diet for a consecutive thirty days. Being a vegetarian and generally active person, this transformation became incredibly dramatic, with dramatic changes in weight, mood, chemical makeup, sex drive and more. The documentary poses the question of how culpable McDonald’s customers are in their own health habits, or whether or not McDonald’s themselves are responsible for the increasing obesity and health problems found in America. Looking at these questions, and the documentary itself, through the ...

Film analysis of "Alain Resnais - Night and Fog (1956)" and "Jean Luc Godard - Breathless (1959)" Each movie is a small story. Each movie carries its own information. Each movie opens the whole world to the viewer, no matter if it is full-length film or a short film or even a documentary. Still, it gives a chance to make own decisions about some particular moments. Another question is how ideal the information was given – did the director in his or her picture manage to cover all the needed aspects. It is not only related to the script. A ...

Introduction

Nicholas Kurzon’s ‘Sight Unseen’ is an ethnographic documentary film, having claimed about a dozen local and international film distinctions. The documentary focuses on ‘Bali’, an Island Province of Indonesia. Bali has metamorphosed into a great international tourist fascination. The main impetus behind this charisma is that Bali has been encountering a process of ‘Balinese Globalization’. Globalization can be defined as the process of international integration of ideas, politics, economy and products with the inherited cultural change appeal of the mentioned items. Increasing global adherence and appreciation for Democracy, Capitalism, Free Trade, coupled with the resultant advancements in means ...

The “Save Our Souls” episode of the “This Is Civilization” series is a consistent piece of documentary cinematography that gave me an interesting insight on the life of the British art critic John Ruskin. I deeply enjoyed an incredible journey to the Victorian Era with Matthew Collings, and was amazed by the beautiful pieces of art and architecture shown in this episode. The documentary made me open my eyes and take a critical look at the world around. A travel back in time to the 19th century was very educational. I find the comparison of the Industrialization Era with ...

The verite documentary movement was a way of separating documentary film technique of new works from the previous era of sound documentaries from the 1930s and 1950s. Verite can be characterized by a greater dedication to realism in form, without the staginess and artificiality of previous schools of filmmaking. D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back, about Bob Dylan’s concert tour in the United Kingdom, is an incredible work of cinema verite, with its stark realism and matter-of-factness in presentation of these events. Perhaps one of the most perfect examples of the ‘new grammar’ of verite as a ...

Scientists are traveling the whole World to present some interesting stories about plants. From director Erna Buffie and her documentary “What plants talk about” we can learn so many interesting things, have a chance to look into world of plants with completely new perspective and to be amazed with such world. Documentary is covering few areas, trying to present active life of plants in few well connected sections. There are many similarities between animals and plants that are presented. Revealing how plants act and respond to surrounding and comparing it to animal behavior. Plants are able to search for ...

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 ...

Documentary Food Inc., directed by Robert Kenner, is telling a story about food industry that is in control by huge corporations. Documentary itself is divided in several smaller portions that are connected. Every topic is well covered and explained, with appropriate witnesses and facts. Sometimes documentary is shocking and hard to believe. Shocking to see enormous fields full of cows that are waiting to be slaughtered and transformed to products. Fields full of corn, so long and wide that seems as there is no end to it. Hard to imagine how is possible to keep human population in dark ...

Latin American cinema is no stranger to the subject of revolution. In particular, Cuban cinema, in all of its experimental and documentary glory, is accustomed to the assemblage of realism in the face of the Revolution of 1959. The quintessential film in this regard is Tomas Gutierrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment, which narrates the story of a bourgeois intellectual writer, Sergio, who has stayed behind amidst the chaos of revolution. He stays in the country when his parents and his wife go to Miami, in his desire to observe the continuing developments in Cuba. The film is based ...

This essay seeks to examine the proceedings in the “Generation Like” Documentary and answer the various questions. The Documentary indicates various social media and their attributed influences among the teens. Various equipment is displayed as the facilitators of social media. They include laptops, tablet and phones among others. The following questions are answered according to the Generation Like documentary. - According to Generation Like, in what ways do social media empower the youth of today? The social media have enabled the youth in numerous, which include realization of self-potential in connecting and socializing with anybody in the world. These ...

The definition of capital may take different directions. Some people refer to capital as the ability to gather money and other resources for investments. It is a valuable production element that requires extensive effort to acquire. However, some people argue of capital as a process and not a thing. There are unique arguments that may support the argument of capital as a process. Capital is a major requirement for the start of the business. However, it does not have to be collected in a fortnight. It is impossible to find a business that relies on the initial capital. At ...

The definition of capital may take different directions. Some people refer to capital as the ability to gather money and other resources for investments. It is a valuable production element that requires extensive effort to acquire. However, some people argue of capital as a process and not a thing. There are unique arguments that may support the argument of capital as a process. Capital is a major requirement for the start of the business. However, it does not have to be collected in a fortnight. It is impossible to find a business that relies on the initial capital. At ...

Analysis of Inequalities in Healthcare

Introduction Leadership in healthcare demands a lot of competencies and sensitivities in order to attain desired results. There is the need for the mastery of important concepts, terminology and the management of change. This is done within a stakeholder framework which includes clinical, financial and other operational aspects of healthcare management and health initiatives relevant to the facility a given healthcare professional in a leadership position is opened to. One of the main aspects relevant to leadership in healthcare includes addressing elements and aspects of marginalization in society as well as examining the sociological variables relevant to a given ...

The book, “Elementary Catechism on the Constitution of the United States” is 1828 documentary that address issues such human trafficking in the western world. The book was first published by Arthur J. Stansbury. According to the book, human trafficking was one of the major reasons that influenced slavery in the 18th century. The issue influenced a number of concerns to the western administrations stating that human trafficking was a major issue. Prostitution and slavery was one of the major problems that faced migrant workers during this period. During the time, laws were not implemented to secure people from practicing ...

H20 MX is a very thought-provoking social documentary that explores the various problems people in the city of Mexico face in looking for access to clean water. The access to clean water is a very important and essential human right and which every person requires for adequate living. The over 22 million population in Mexico City is faced with many political, geographical, economic, and environmental problems that affect their access to a reliable clean water source. Some of these problems include the hazardous detergent increase in the clouds, farmers using wastewater for irrigation, and Chalco citizens who are affected ...

Even in our quickly advancing, modern world where it appears that men and women are on an ever-evening playing field, there are some parts of the world where women are still hidden in complete obscurity. Sometimes women are so undervalued in a family they are killed once they are born, or murdered because the dowry that came with them on their wedding night was not large enough. India is a place where to be a woman and to be afraid are sometimes synonymous. Forced into labor before their bones are even fully formed, and never allowed to make a ...

“Waiting for ‘Superman’” is a powerful documentary movie that highlights and explores the issues and problems with American education system. It brings to fore the failure by schools, teachers, and government to stamp out myriad of problems that students encounter in their pursuit of good education. All the children captured in the documentary have great dreams. For instance, Daisy aspires to be a medic. She has written to one of the colleges to preserve her place. However, Guggenheim is very skeptical about the realization of this dream given the failure rates of most public schools. Guggenheim aptly demonstrates reduced ...

Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006) The documentary narrates the journey of the crew of Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship, on a whaling expedition that takes months in the open sea. Barney and Bjork are dressed in traditional Japanese attire while riding in the shipping expedition. Barney is an alumnus of Yale University where he was recruited as an athlete to play football. Initially, is intentions were towards a career in medicine. Nonetheless, he graduated with a degree in arts. While Barney was an artist by profession, he did not necessarily earn his living from his artistic pieces. He ...

ARTICLE REVIEW: CONCEPTS OF PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND INFANCY IN CH’ING DYNASTY CHINA BY CHARLOTTE FURTH

Introductory Paragraph History has seen the prevalence of patriarchal concepts throughout almost every major civilization. In fact, the subordination of women as inferior to men has since manifested through a variety of social constructs that has extended beyond customary practices towards acceptance as universal facts. This review on an article authored by Charlotte Furth, entitled Concepts of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infancy in Ch’ing Dynasty China, seeks to tackle a social construct that has framed women as inferior to men treated as a universal fact within a social setting – the reproductive system of women as seen in pregnancy, childbirth ...

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A television documentary by PBS called “Inside the Teenage Brain” describes teenage behavior from the neurosciences point of view. The main theme revolves around the observation that teenagers are not yet adults but not quite children, and the state of their developing brain determines part of their behavior. Through state-of-art imaging techniques, the documentary shows how researchers study the teenager brain. Adolescence is proposed as a phase in normal child development. Scientists compare the teenage brain to that of babies, because both periods involve fast brain developing, especially in the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC). During this time, gray matter thickens ...

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Film Studies – Authenticity

The fundamental aspect of any documentary film is to accurately portray the truth. The truth as in reality and not the way it is perceived by the documentary maker. This is a very powerful statement. Time and again we tend to see things the way that we want to see them and also portray them the way we understand – the normal human behaviour. The moot question is how authentic is what we are ...

Movie review

Narco Cultura is a 2013 documentary film describing Mexican Drug War in the borderland city of Juarez, directed by Shaul Schwarz. The following documentary focuses on two main story lines: fragments of life and career of Edgar Quintero, American singer, songwriter, and the member of Mexican folk style band named “Buknas de Culiacan”. Another story line portrays daily routine of Ricardo Soto, a crime scene investigator and the member of the police unit investigating numerous drug-related killings in the city of Juarez. The documentary shows a depressing picture of the city of Juarez struck by the ongoing war on ...

Adversity and advantage is a story about a small country, which makes a remarkable difference by rebranding the Jewish state in living rooms of America as an innovative, ethical nation that works industriously and tirelessly to solve national and global problems. The Israel inside is a savvy and smart documentary approach to public diplomacy as it does not advocate arguing, advocacy or convincing whatsoever. Politics has not been majorly discussed in the film. Rather, the documentary creates an emotional, inspiring perception that places Israel at a better level in terms of financial and technological advancement over the last 60 ...

Invisible Children

Introduction ‘Invisible Children: Discover the Unseen’ is a fifty-five minute documentary video-a masterpiece at the use of rhetorical appeal and the use of mass advocacy. The video is a an appeal made by the Invisible Children human rights and activism group to the citizens of the United States of America and other parts of the world to donate funds and create awareness in order to apprehend Kony. At this point, one may be led to ask who is Kony? Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army-a militarized faction that terrorizes parts of Northern Uganda in ...

Review of the Documentary; Family Across the Sea

Scene 1: Arrival of the Gullah delegation in Sierra Leone. This scene is set in a ‘dark airport’ as described by the narrator, Augusta Baker, where a crowd is gathered to receive the Gullah descendants, who are on a trip from South Carolina, USA, to Sierra Leone where they trace their roots to. The visitors are believed to be descendants of escaped slaves, and have managed to maintain their culture and way of life despite being thousands of miles away from home. In this reunion scene, there is happiness in the air, with traditional songs of joy being sung. ...

Summary- Lives on the Boundary / Race to Nowhere

At the beginning of the book, Rose talks about Laura, the daughter of a food vendor in Tijuana and one of his students. She has a lot of difficulty in the remedial English class that Rose teaches; she is always afraid of taking risks and making mistakes. Rose compares this to the goddess Grammatica, an ugly figure with pincers and a scalpel to eat regular people alive; this is meant to show the difficulty of writing, both for Rose and his remedial students. Even at UCLA, these immigrant students face tough challenges trying to catch up to the American ...

Introduction

In Morgan Spurlock’s controversial and influential 2004 documentary Super Size Me, the documentarian – a devoted vegetarian and health nut – chose to eat only food purchased from McDonald’s for thirty days straight. Over the course of that film, Morgan goes from a thin, clear-headed individual with good health and a healthy relationship to an overweight man with health problems and a strained relationship. In essence, the question being posed to the audience is one grounded in virtue ethics, utilitarianism and consequentialism – in essence, the culpability of the customers of McDonald’s are explored, and the consequences of their ...

Summary

Fed Up is a film directed, produced and written by Stephanie Soechtig, and it is more of a U.S documentary. The film majorly focuses on causes of obesity in the U.S, caused by sugary drinks and processed foods. The obesity rates are further elevated by ineffective policies by the government, prevented by lobbying commercial interests of ‘Big Sugar’ processors. It shows the upending wisdom on how we loose weight and how we gain it. It shows how America is addicted to unhealthy food, thus giving clear warnings on the need to change what we eat. The documentary is a ...

Niall Ferguson, in his famous documentary, The Ascent of Money, presents a detailed account of financial history. Ferguson is a historian who has a profound understanding of economics. His research and way of presenting his arguments is accurate, scientific and commendable. Ferguson presents his arguments in accordance to appropriate facts and figures that educate readers about the European financial history in a realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss Niall Ferguson’s documentary along with discussing other related aspects of the area under discussion. The documentary is about history of borrowing currency. It also educates readers when people started ...

Introduction

Simply put, media is any communication that is disseminated to the broadcast by means of news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages. There are varied forms of media in the modern dispensation. The different forms of media include broadcasting medium such as radio, newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, telephone, direct mail, fax, and Internet. Television, radio and newspapers are traditional forms of media and are, therefore, referred to us mainstreams broadcasting platforms. The presiding purpose of the media is to influence the public concerning different issues in the society. Different forms of media model and inform the basis over which ...