Essays on Documentary

Why we fight is a documentary that explains the U.S agenda on militarism and why it extends its military from region to region. The documentary shows that there have been many cases where the U.S has had to intervene in order to secure its interests and to promote the American ideology, mainly the capitalist agenda. This has worked in cases where the containment of communism has been seen as a necessity and where the American military deemed necessary; it planted its roots in that region. Even though America is a democratic country, the military is one institution that has ...

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 ...

When photography arrived about 150 years ago, it was considered as a documentary medium because of the exact replicas of the subject. The technologically advanced cameras and development of photojournalism led to the development of realistic photos. Those photographs were considered a witnesses of reality as they expose the facts of life (Mullen 6). Gradually, manipulation in photography was looked upon to necessary to display the subject accurately. This was because the event was not self-explanatory or clear in photographs at times. Thus, the photographer was compelled at times to edit those images. Documentary photography is seen to belong ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the interpersonal reflection after viewing the given video, i.e., “The Class Divided”. The video is based on the exploration of the nature of prejudice. It has been established that in this video, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher intentionally developed a specific situation. The situation was mainly aimed at teaching the students about the feeling of feeling discriminated, on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender, orientation, etc. The given video is found to be the repeated representation of the classic documentary on the exercise of Jane Elliott, i.e., “blue eyes/brown eyes”. Jane ...

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Abstract George Washington was the first president of the U.S. There are many portraits of Washington. Some of them are well-known while others are less-known. “George Washington Miniature” is an investigative documentary on a historical point, i.e. tiny colored painting of a man, who is labeled as “G. Washington.” It was a less known painting. On the back of the painting, it was written, “Property of White Matlack. New York, 1790.” This painting was present in a Manhattan’s old building. Wes Cowan, who was a host of "History Detectives" investigated the painting in 2009. He ...

The Domain of the Documentary by Nichols

Nichols argues that lovers of documentaries are meant to enjoy both the documentary aspects as a film and as a form of philosophy. Therefore, understanding the role that people play when developing solutions for films is one of the main ways through which documentaries have been noted for playing a significant role in enforcing the way people think and what they view. As such, creating numerous problems is developing a love for the documentary. In this context, documentaries play a major role in contributing to our understanding of various problems in the society whereas movies play a role in ...

Argumentative essay on the topic

Nowadays, people drink coffee, and coffee beans can be seen at numerous coffee shops. However, if people eat chocolate, they are unlikely to have seen cocoa beans, which have a form of the pinkish almond-like seeds and grow on cacao trees. The native region of the trees is South America but now they grow all over the world only near the equator. Ivory Coast in West Africa is the largest cocoa producer along with Ghana, Indonesia, Brazil, and Nigeria. Intensive labor is required to harvest and produce cocoa beans; however, government and economic forces are gradually driving the price ...

Discovery documentary explains how the drugs affect person’s body by conducting the series of experiments to test coordination, concentration stress-resilience and strength, as well as general health condition of regular drug users. Some of the experiments’ results and body’s reactions were well-known and predictable, while the others were quite surprising. I found the experiments very informative, as they explained the biological aspects of drug effects. The most unexpected behavior for me was the heroin abuser, as she does not look as an addict, and what is more, does not act like one. She is driving a car ...

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The purpose of this documentary essay is to provide significant insight of the movie ‘Born to Be Wild’ alongside exploring the criteria of the documentary which are entailed as rehabilitation of species into their natural habitat, destruction of natural habitat, nuanced animal behavior, and spreading awareness about saving animal lives. It is an American documentary, which was released in the year 2011. The documentary is based on the heartwarming efforts put forward by two women for the protection of wildlife. The story is entrenched with the essence of love, dedication, and the commendable bond between humans and animals as ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was created by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to show the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military were working with their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. The paper would show why I view this movie as an excellent documentary. Over the years since the "war on terror" began hundreds of prisoners, who have been ...

Femicide in the U.S. and Mexico Femicide in the U.S. and Mexico This paper seeks to focus on femicide and physical violence against women in both the US and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Femicide is the act of murdering women for the simple reason that they are of female gender (Koutsoyannis, 2011). Essentially, gender inequality is one of the most long-lived social, political, and economic struggles globally. The idea that women are lesser beings just because they are females is a primitive perspective in the contemporary world where liberty and civil rights have now come of age. As such, ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was commissioned and broadcasted by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to expose the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military torture and interrogates their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. With this light, this paper utilizes various criteria to determine why I view this documentary as an excellent and distinctive documentary. I enjoyed the suspenseful, creative ...

At 5 hours 30 minutes AM on July 16, 1945 the United States tested an atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo in New Mexico. The test was a triumphant success. The explosion was stronger than expected - it was an explosion equivalent to about 20 kilotons of trinitrotoluol (Rhodes, 1986). The US President Harry S. Truman was to decide what US policy should be carried out toward nuclear bomb (Bernstein, 1975). Truman knew nothing about the bomb until he became the president, and he was informed about it by Henry L. Stimson, the US Secretary of Defense, and ...

Documentary photography is often used as a synonym for photojournalism, and the documentarians are seen as a different species of the photographer. The idea of a film with a purpose and documentary character can be traced back to France (What Is Documentary Photography 2013). Documents were seen as a form of evidence to teach something or inform. However, even the most abstract photographic images carry an image. It is when a photograph is taken with the lens cap on to create a document of worth; one reaches an entirely different platform. Alfred Stieglitz and his photograph Steerage of 1907 ...

Released in 2014, Mary Mazzio’s “Underwater Dreams” is a documentary which tells the story of four high school students of Mexican origin who manage to win the first prize in a national underwater robotics competition after competing against prestigious colleges such as MIT. This documentary focuses on the story itself, but also provides an insight into the problems that the students of the Carl Hayden High School have to face every day. In particular, these students, most of whom are the sons and daughter of Mexican immigrants, face gang violence, poverty, prison and even deportation, as many of ...

Tourism has grown over the past few decades, improving the lives of a country and its citizens. One major attribution to the change is globalization and exchange of culture. The report by UNEP looks into both positive and negative effects of tourism and what the future holds for countries that solemnly depend on it for its daily practices. The Rice to Riches documentary shows the change from agriculture to tourism in Indonesia. As stated earlier, not all changes are positive towards the people and country. There are environmental concerns registered by Vicki Arroyo in her talk. These three sources ...

Young Minority Delinquency as Explained through the Lenses of Strain and Social Learning Theory: Insights from “Crips and Bloods: Made in America”, “Grand Torino” and “A Better Life” Young Minority Delinquency as Explained through the Lenses of Strain and Social Learning Theory: Insights from “Crips and Bloods: Made in America”, “Grand Torino” and “A Better Life”

Introduction

Young minority males from poor families are more likely to turn to delinquency than any other group in the United States of America. In an attempt to explain this tendency by means of well-established criminal law theories, this paper will look at three ...

Amy Winehouse and the Media

Amy Winehouse, a tiny jewish woman, undoubtedly, was a great talent, her music was terrific, and her voice – exceptional. She was one of those out of the ordinary popular western performers, who write their own lyrics and music. Since the majority of women “of pop” serve as middling executors of what sound producers cultivate and consider profitable. Amy Winehouse was a difficult child. Is it excluded from normal, and from drama school. The reason for that was inappropriate behavior, striking appearance, singing in class, academic failure, and drugs. Amy wasn’t worried. She planned to be a singer, but ...

1.0. Introduction I am making a research on development of Nigerian film and music industry. I have to carry out the whole set of responsibilities relating to a documentary on it to be organized by me. By now, I have completed major part of my research and the preplanning of the given project undertaken by me. I have gone through video and audio testing, and now plan to conduct a survey to assess the audience’s choice in the most exact manner. Core purpose of the project is to enlighten the showbiz fans’ opinion on interesting facts as well ...

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Gendercide in India is an issue that is not new to the country; it has been going on for centuries and today the practice is still in vogue, even though, there is much awareness on the issue today. Gendercide is practiced due to a variety of reason, mostly discrimination and that too with the female child in place of the male child; where most Indians wish they have male heirs and sons after them rather than giving birth to females. Many cultural, social, as well as religious ...

Abstract

The problem on obesity has big a growing issue for many people worldwide. In lieu with the predicament and the accompanying illness that comes with obesity, the different government worldwide as well as the different health institutions are finding ways to combat the problem. One of the ways of addressing the issue was standardizing food label to consist of information that would inform people of the contents of the food they eat. However, this solution is not widely accepted. Critics believe that knowledge on how to read and understand food label cannot do anything to solve obesity. In a ...

Capital punishment has always been a controversial issue. In 1791, before the French Revolution. Maximillian Robespierre delivered a speech arguing against the death penalty. A few years later he led the Reign of Terror, and organized mass executions, which exemplifies the way capital punishment is often politicized and used for specific agendas, rather than as a form of rational punishment. Today, in the U.S., recent technological advancements, including DNA testing, has exonerated inmates on death row. There is a racial and socioeconomic element to the debate, because more inmates on Death Row are poor minorities. Some highly publicized cases ...

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World War I was one of the worst modern warfare with regards to the amount of destruction it caused. Its impact was based on the use of advanced weapons able to cause massive damage, the involvement of a huge population in the war, huge investments, economic sabotage, and barbarity. Nevertheless, it helped to end the war, allow for negotiations, solve border conflicts, and establish the League of Nations to manage global peace. However, it failed to achieve permanent agreements and left different countries dissatisfied and ready to revenge on their adversaries. There was also antagonism between the negotiators due to ...

1. Individual place in society according to Horse Boy

The Horse Boy is a documentary film with a crafted footage that depicts spontaneous social interaction that contributes to its appeal and image. The perception of a social anthropologist that studies autism makes a conscious decision to focus on the experiences of autistic people, Instead of people around them. Parents of autistic children desire attention for one to understand their experiences and perspectives. The Horse Boy is a crucial reminder of the obvious fact that every autistic adult has a history of being an autistic child. Parents play an influencing role to the children lives ...

Introduction

Dilawar, a taxi driver and an Afghan citizen, was considered as a kind and honest man by the villagers. As such, when the U.S. military detained him, after he had picked up three customers, denizens could not understand why. Picking the innocent taxi driver and hold him in prison without trial remained questionable. Five days after his arrest, his mysterious death in Bagram prison cell followed. Death of Dilawar came just a week after another mysterious death of an Afghan at Bagram. The documentary indicated that, the taxi driver and the other detainee died from injuries sustained at the prison. Injuries inflicted ...

1. Jiro Dreams of Sushi In this documentary, acclaimed sushi chef Jiro is shown working in his small restaurant in a subway station. Having been the recipient of three Michelin stars, Jiro is still shown to be dedicated to his craft, always seeking perfection and never being satisfied with what he has. The documentary delves into the expectations placed on his son, as well as briefly into the phenomenon of overfishing in the Pacific Ocean, while also providing mouthwatering footage of the sushi Jiro prepares.

2. Rashomon This film follows the attempt to figure out the culprit ...

Undisputedly, social identity has a psychological dimension. However, in the sociological imagination, Wright Mills explains that ‘neither the life of an individual nor the history of society can be understood without understanding both’ (Mills, 1959). Therefore, when exploring social identity it is vital to assess the social and cultural factors that shape an individual in the milieu that it is fashioned in the contemporary society. This means that, we must look at both the power the individual has to exercise agency and the structure, or society into which they are born; the society, which already exist. Sociologist Emile Durkheim ...

The prison system that currently exists today offers a retribution measure instead of corrective actions to assert and ensure that the convicted assailants, after serving their prison time, could go back to the community as responsible individuals. While this is the case, a documentary featured in 2005 and 2009 documents a different role of prisons. Aside from housing convicted individuals, it also serves as a modern day asylum for mentally-ill individuals convicted of committing a crime against society.

I am writing this memo as my personal take on the existing problem regarding the release of convicted mentally-ill individuals to the society after serving ...

Rationale

The Climate Change has been a hot issue since the end of the 20th Century. After several United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; governments signed a protocol in Kyoto, Japan that marked their commitments in saving the environment. The commitment is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol. An article (UNFCCC, 2012) explains that the Kyoto Protocol binds the countries to reduce their carbon emissions and penalized violators thereof. Also, it was in this protocol that benchmarked the market-based mechanism on carbon trading that will offset the too much green house gases emission of a certain country.

After almost two decades ...

One of the topics that stand out from the documentary Cowboy Del Amor is Ivan’s view of women. From the documentary, Ivan is a man who believes that a woman’s place is at home. His view is that women should not progress. His actions when his wife decides to learn English evidence this aspect of Ivan’s character. Her decision to learn English leads to him leaving her since she was no longer, what he wanted in a woman. It is also evident that he views women as commodities in a market. Thus, he starts a business where his main aim is ...

The documentary I have chosen for my analysis is The Trials of Henry Kissinger. This documentary is based on Christopher Hitchens’s 2001 bestselling book The Trial of Henry Kissinger where he makes the argument that Kissinger was not the great public hero people thought he was but was nothing short of a war criminal guilty of terrible crimes against humanity. The most important point made here is that leaders of any sort, not just public figures like presidents and judges, should be held to a higher moral standard than the standards of ordinary people. Henry Kissinger was an extremely powerful ...

The documentary which I selected for this analysis is The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr. The documentary revolves around the famous mixed martial artist and wrestler Mark Kerr and his problems with drug use. The greater issue in the film is the fate of mixed martial arts as not just a sport but a business enterprise. The reason why Kerr’s career took the route it did was because mixed martial arts fights were banned in the USA because they were too bloody and dangerous. This forced Kerr to go abroad to Japan where he ...

The essay presents a comparative analysis of the iconic central characters in the two movies, 'Batman Begins' and 'The Queen'. In spite of the presence such an iconic character in both the movies, the movies employ distinct techniques in portraying these characters in a peculiar way. It is important to understand the differences in the genre and the type of audience suitable for the two films. The stage setting of various scenes in both the movies varies distinctly in order to present the required effects. In the movie, ‘The Queen', the stage setting aims at creating an impression about the royal ...

Overall the film King Corn was really interesting; it was fascinating to see the entire process of growing corn, but also to see that corn is actually everywhere in our diet. Besides eating corn in its natural form, corn is added to everyday foods in the form of high fructose corn syrup; corn is also used to feed our cattle that we eventually eat.

Corn is used to feed our cattle because when the cattle graze on grass it takes much longer for them to reach the weight required to reach market rate. This is because if they were ...

A “Globalization has caused discrimination?” said First Deputy Managing Director, Stanley Fischer; “I thought it was the opposite” (Pilger, 2001) As in, because of discrimination, globalization is the moneymaker it is today for certain people, and always has been. Fischer’s statement was not an expression of ignorance, or a remark made in crudeness. To my mind, his point is valid, I agree with it, but not because it counters an argument but underlines it.

How capitalist powers have profited from decades, centuries, off of nonindustrial countries, will continue to do so until usurped. This is because globalization “ ...

The documentary which I chose for this analysis is Super Size Me. This documentary film uses the mega-fast-food corporation, McDonalds, as its subject matter. The entire documentary is an experiment conducted by Morgan Spurlock on himself where he spends an entire month eating nothing but McDonald’s meals. He had several rules as to how he would go about the experiment so that it would be a solid, scientific research effort which would be usable and reproducible. His rules were: (1) Eat McDonald’s meals 3 times a day, (2) Consume all the items on the menu once over the one ...

Globalization brings about the needs of global companies to operate more efficiently with the aim to gain competitive advantages and to face the contemporary issues and challenges in the contemporary world. A critical factor in optimizing organizational efficient operations of these companies is the IHRM (Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b). The HRM operations helps in developing and motivating the workforce of the companies to improve skills, knowledge, and the modernization required for the companies to vie with ...

Everyone experiences the world in different ways; however, sometimes physical differences contribute to the development of a different culture, as is the case with deaf artists. Hilari Scarl’s film See what I’m Saying allows the world to glimpse what such a culture is like. Making use of different techniques, the director immerses the viewer in a profound analysis of this culture, including the emulation of what this population actually hears. The waking of consciousness that results of this is important and beneficial, as it allows the viewer to empathize with the people that have this condition. Finally, while many could ...

Children’s products and foods is an enormous market offering great profits and potential growth for companies. While giving parents increasing difficulties in raising and managing their children. Modern commercials are becoming increasingly influential on the things children want and tends to go against what their parents want or know is best for them. In America and the rest of the industrialized world the fight against child advertising is in full swing by governments and various campaigners. In an effort to enact better regulation and standards for making commercials geared towards children, as well as fighting for improvements in ...

Question 1

Before responding to the issues raised by the parents, and passing any judgments, it is imperative to take note of what the law says before any decisions that might go against the law. Secondly, I make an objective analysis of the situation presented by the documentary in order to make an informed decision about what I feel about it before committing myself to responding to the issues raised by the parents. I would then go on to seek information and data from the department of education so as to know their stance on ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Inconvenient Truth Emotional Impacts and Personal commitment

The film, Inconvenient Truth, shows a documentary of Al Gore, the global campaigner against global warming. In documentary, the director covered the global travels by Al Gore in his struggle to create awareness on the need for fast action on climate change and the imminent dangers. The great efforts and global journeys made by Al Gore and the facts about the severity of the global warming triggered strong reactions from me. The reaction evoked a shocking feeling. Based on the appalling scientific evidences, the negative impacts of climate change are severe and can wipe human population in the region. The drought that ...

Introduction

In part 1 of The Ascent of Money, Harvard University’s Professor Niall Ferguson explains how the concepts of money and banking came into existence. He explains this in the context of the 2008 global financial meltdown. This part of the documentary lays the groundwork that will enable the narrator explain how the effect of bankruptcy of a few institutions could impact so heavily and widely on the financial system. The existence of banks in the financial system as a link between lenders and borrowers is critical to the survival of the concept of money. Yet the strength of the financial ...

Numerous authors have instigated ideas related to freedom; however, nobody has done it better than Eric Foner. He is a renowned Columbian historian who portrays a different concept in the art of freedom in his book Voices of Freedom. Foner agrees that the freedom in America has a different definition from the world’s views. The use of freedom by the American community has always changed, and it has the best tool in the definition of their identity and history. There are authors claiming that the freedom is a tool used to discover oneself. However, Foner believes that the freedom can be used ...

In the Business Ethics course, we encounter philosophies dealing with the appropriate decisions and actions in the face of business circumstances. It is often that business practices solely prioritize raking in money that is possibly disregarding economic impact. To expound on this issue, we would discuss the infamous 2008 Subprime crisis.

The year 2008 made a critical impact to the world of business, especially to the economy of a powerful nation, the United States of America. The economic downfall or in other terms, the financial crisis, that took place in the late 2000s made a lot of people pay for the unfortunate ...

Ethnography Caught on Celluloid: Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)

The cinema is a medium perfectly suited to the recording of a particular community’s beliefs, practices, and cultural milieu. Many anthropologists see films as media of representation in their own right, as opposed to seeing ethnographic film-making as merely an adjunct activity to data gathering (Homiak 185). This has been true not only in the modern landscape, but also in the early years of cinema and the anthropological medium. In fact, one of the first and most celebrated filmmakers during the 1920s essentially used his lens to document the culture and practices of a specific community. He is Robert Flaherty, and ...

Annotated Bibliography

Clarke-Stewart, A., & Brentano, C. (2006). Divorce: Causes and Consequences (Current

Perspectives in Psychology) ISBN 13-978-0-300—11044-9. Retrieved from

http://www.amazon.com/Divorce-Consequences-Current-Perspectives- Psychology/dp/0300110448/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417574934&sr=1- 1&keywords=9780300110449

In this book the authors examine current research on divorce and use scientific

evidence to uncover what is said about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. This book is gives valuable information and provides a balance review that can be used in the study being undertaken. Daly, K., & Chesney-Lind, M. Feminism and Criminology. Retrieved from http://people.stfx.ca/x2011/x2011ael/Daly_JQ_88.pdf

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In the age that we live in today, the media are a great tool for companies, both small and large, to get their marketing messages across to a vast range of viewers. This is especially true for visual media, i.e. Television and Film, where, a huge amount of audience almost always guarantees that the advertisements projected for a certain brand will result in sales.

The movie 'The Greatest Movie Ever Sold', was a documentary that premiered first in January of 2011. The documentary was based on product placement and how brands market themselves using Film and Television media. The unique part about the ...

Introduction to Part III

Welcome to Part III of the Research Assignment for HIST 105. In Part II you used a scholarly monograph - one kind of secondary source - to learn about the historical roots of your chosen contemporary issue. You analyzed this source, learned how to properly cite monographs using Chicago-style citation, and used it to revise your research question. In Part III, you will continue to use scholarly sources to investigate the historical roots of your contemporary issue, but this time you will locate a secondary scholarly article and primary source.

After you've completed Part III, your instructor or your ...

Summary

The filmmaker, Lee Fulkerson, explores the possibility of reversing diseases that he refers to as a “diseases of affluence.” In the documentary, he claims that there is a possibility of reversing the occurrence of the diseases through the adjustment of diets to constitute animal-based foods and less processed foods. Through observation, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn realized that certain diseases were less prevalent on people who fed entirely on plant foods. A study carried out in China by Dr. Campbell revealed that an entire plant-based diet could reverse and prevent degenerative conditions such as heart conditions, some ...

Sexually transmitted diseases pose a health challenge among the adolescents in Newark, New Jersey. Recent statistics indicate that there have occurred 3,022 cases of Chlamydia along with 1,228 cases of gonorrhea during 2012 in the region. Going by this statistics, STD`s appear to present a health challenge within the region which requires addressing as per the goals stated under healthy people 2020 (Office of Population Affairs, 2010). The scope of the health education covers a specific age group within the region. The health education focuses on teenagers and raising awareness regarding the diseases. The education needs revolve around the ...

Summary of the video/documentary

The topic that will be conveyed in the video/documentary will be Interest Groups and the audience for this video will be investors and those people who have the power to invest for government. The topic will cover all the types of interest groups and internal lobbying that is used in interest groups. We will be making video showing the politicians, investors’, different charitable organizations, agricultural groups, labor groups, and professional investors.

As it is said, Americans are thought to be involved more in political and social movements than any other country of the world, and we will be taking ...

Street racing has been known to be illegal everywhere in the world. It is very dangerous to the driver and people bystanders. Many racers have either been killed during racing or been arrested by the police. In the early 1900's many people moved to California to get a better life. Many people owned automobiles, and street racing became very popular. Drag racing was the next form of horse racing. The infamous drag racing has been around since horse racing. Society took it as a bad habit and police started hunting down racers. Racing took place on the streets that I ...

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 performances. ...

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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 poor. She sold herself to ...

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 yields ...

In his argument about the film “American Splendor,” Hight (2007) seems to propose that adaptation of the comic into a film overcame most of the challenges and barriers that face such an attempt. In order to prove that Hight brought about this argument, there is a need to look into arguments by other writers with regard to adaptation of comics into films. This paper does so by looking at arguments by two film analysts. It will first look at the challenges associated with adapting a comic into a film. With this background, the paper will then look at how the producers ...

The Inside Job is a documentary narrated by Charles Ferguson that gives an analysis of the main events that led to the collapse of Wall Street economy (Riley 3). This documentary focuses on the roles played by both the government and private sector in accelerating the financial meltdown that cost millions of people their jobs, homes, and savings (Marshall 13).

The banking institution forms one of the major private sectors that bear the blame of the financial crisis in the film “The Inside Job”. The film provided a wide range of view on how corrupt the US banking institutions are ...

In Deborah Scranton's documentary, War Tapes, focuses on the war that happened in Iraq using the soldiers' point of view and personal war stories, as well as their families' who are all based in the United States. What started out simply as a documentary of events that transpired in Iraq has grown into a movie-like presentation of the actual events. The documentary was wrought with emotions and thus, bleeding with human-interest factors. While this type of news reporting is nothing new considering what is known as participatory reporting, the question about objectivity arises as well in that the stories all ...

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 people. The response fails to ...