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Documentary Analysis

Four corner documentary: Rise of Super Bugs

The four corner documentary is a quarter hour video that fairly discloses the use and misuse of antibiotics. While drugs have done wonders in the medicinal field, at the same time, its incorrect usage have lead to secondary and tertiary problems. With a view to kill the bugs through antibiotics, mankind has given rise to superbugs that tangibly and intangibly causes more harm to our body systems. The documentary on the rise of super bugs depicts the extreme positive effects of antibiotics. This documentary is a fine example of the use of drugs and medicines ...

This paper is to research the nature of documentary films, their history and theory. Documentary films are movies with close-to-reality plots. The themes of documentary films are often thoroughly chosen and arranged according to the unknown things of the world. The documentaries give the audience the lessons and warning about the peculiarities of the arrangement of different things. Many components of the films are analyzed through the impact they carry along with background voices and meaning of the scenes. These components are timbre, gender, texture, tone etc. They have connotative meanings similarly to those which modes of documentary films ...

Documentary Film

What is documentary filmmaking? In early 20th century a lot of operators started featuring nonfiction items – calling them documentaries, expedition films, interest films, after 1907 – travelogues. (Barnouw, 1993) The first documentary films in the United states and France were either short news reports, records of important meetings and events, or travelogues that didn’t have any original story-telling, script or staging. Grierson, one of the first documentary filmmakers, defines it as "creative treatment of actuality".

Documentary is one of fundamental genres of filmmaking. Filmmakers are trying to explain or show really important social problems and dilemmas that ...

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 social attributes of a ...

Introduction

Archeology has helped scholars to reconstruct the story of the Bible from its utopist genesis to epic battles and struggles of the patriarchs of Israel. Archeologists have found evidence of the kingdoms, kings, temples and the people of Biblical times. Archeological excavations have corroborated some biblical events, contradicted others while entirely dismissing the occurrence of others because of the absence of archeological evidence and logical proof (Finkelstein & Silberman 15). This paper will examine the existing archeological evidence in relation to the biblical accounts of the Exodus and the life of Jesus in Early Rome. The paper will analyze two ...

This article reviews the rising popularity of nature documentaries and films that was taking place in August; 2007.This is against the backdrop of movies like the Winged Migration and the March of the Penguins. This period also saw the release of films like the Arctic Tale with the release of Elephants of the Okavango, Turtle’s Song and Earth to follow. It also discusses the success of Meerkat Manor by Animal Planet. Following two successful seasons, Meerkat Manor inspired the BBC and Discovery Network to produce their versions (Rebensdorf, 1).

These documentaries have in fact earned themselves the name ‘ ...

Our society has been influenced by television since its invention in 1920’s. Likewise, film production, being a part of magnificent TV empire, seems to manipulate people greatly without them realizing it. Namely, it may impose and establish stereotypes of racial-ethnic groups, thus, perpetuating strong, more often negative, images of a specific racial group in society’s consciousness. On the contrary, films can also impose positive attitude towards racial issue, making people feel themselves as a comprehensive whole, disregarding race, gender and age. This makes film industry very helpful in getting rid of stereotypes. It may seem paradoxical, but it is media that ...

Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly discusses the discrimination against women by the use of media when doing advertisements. For instance, she believes that the media portray women in negative ways that kill their self-esteem and ego. In her documentaries, she demonstrates that gender inequality becomes predominant by representing women conspicuously as second-class creature to men (Kilbourne 1). Moreover, there is the reality of her presentations as her support argument are the pictures that these advertisers use in their posts. One of the commonly known cases is that women are presented almost naked while men are shown well dressed ...

Movie review: This film is not yet rated

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 to enjoy it.
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Business Ethics Case: Application of Ethical Tenets

Introduction
Contemporary organizations have increasingly promoted social responsibility and conformity to ethical standards. Two of the most popular global organizations are Wal-Mart and McDonald’s. According to Wal-Mart’s official website:
- “Wal-Mart operates over 11,000 retail units under 71 banners in 27 countries
- Wal-Mart employs 2.2 million associates around the world — 1.3 million in the U.S. alone” .

- Established “more than 35,000 local restaurants;
- serving nearly 70 million people,
- in more than 100 countries each day” .
As such, these two organizations touch and influence millions of people ...

The classic association of the country of The United States of America is the word “Freedom.” The United States is synonymous with “the land of the free.” It is core to the values of the US where in American democracy freedoms is considered essential to citizen’s way of life. The definition of democracy is an organization of government in which people have a say in policies, and are educated enough to make informed decisions. A “good” democracy then requires a way for them to determine what is going on in their government in country in order to make choices, which ...

Bus 174 is a documentary that takes us through the incidence of June 12 2000 where a young man hijacked the bus and terrorized the passengers. After four hours of the experience, the police came in and in their attempt to shoot the young man, they short one of the hostages who was a woman. After interrogations with the young man, it was realized that he did not have a good background, which mainly contributed, to his criminal life. On the other hand, representing the body is literature by Bill Nichol who focuses on the representation of documentaries basing on historic facts. He ...

With increased competition in marketing, healthcare providers recognize the significance of marketing in the industry. Healthcare providers are emphasizing on educating and engaging patients through marketing on their growing function as health care clients. Marketing impacts are only achieved if the right marketing strategy and channel are used. This paper analyzes the direct impact of marketing to an elderly care facility, the strategy the health care provider will use to ensure their products and services are used and finally the marketing strategy that will be effective for the organization.
Marketing in health care organizations has led to various benefits ...

What is Up? Graff’s Book

In his book “They Say I Say. Hidden Intellectualism” Graff is focused on the pedagogy issues that are related to the bringing up the new generation of people who are convinced in the priorities of living and thinking in an intellectual way. The ideas expressed by Graff are useful from many points of views, especially in the context of formation ideals in the new generation. Graff is convinced that every issue in modern life, even in the frames of our consuming world can be discussed and regarded intellectually. In his opinion, the task of education is to make youth ...

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 this musical documentary and ...

Every person needs passion in their life. It is a driving force that gives life a sense and makes it meaningful. People may have many interests and that means that their intellect is being stimulated by more than one area in life. Voltaire said that a person can change everything, except their passions.
What I am passionate about is art, especially film art. In my opinion art and culture are very connected. I like to watch films an make some short films. That is a very personal process and it makes a person grow. The soul makes a selection of what we should consider ...

Executive Summary

The name of the business will be The Parrain, New Orleans’ slang for “The Godfather” and the catch phrase will be serving the best. The Parrain will be a Food Truck business offering a variety of cold and hot sandwiches, salads and particular healthy recipes.
Studies demonstrate that customers are requesting for healthy food that is inexpensive, available, and from convenient locations. The Parrain Truck will cater for the needs of working class, through a food truck that is portable and can venture out to diverse parts of the New Orleans City Metropolis. The Parrain Truck will give appealing and tasty ...

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 filmmaking technique comes ...

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Reflective Essay on Hidden Colors 1 and Hidden Colors 2

I believe that the above quote encapsulates the message that the presenters of the documentaries, Hidden Colors 1 and Hidden Colors 2 desire to send the African community, especially members of that community who are based in America. The presenters as well as the director of the film series, Tariq Nasheed, intend to educate African descendants of their history and origin. In addition, these experts intend to inform them of the systematic operation of racism, and how it is used to by oppressors, who are of European descent to control or even eradicate who they ...

Essay Chapter 1

Question 3: What is "knowledge"? Why is it useful? Is it ever possible to have knowledge? Is it ever possible to know that you have knowledge? Why, or why not?
The ability to familiarize, analyze, and understand something or someone is known as knowledge (Knowledge par. 1). Some of the things include information skills facts and skills. One learns most of these through education and a few from personal experience. Knowledge is essential in one’s day-to-day life. Having the general knowledge of the current matters gives one an edge in the society. People, especially in the workplace, ...

McDonaldization is a term utilized by sociologist George Ritzer within his book, The McDonaldization of Society (1993). He clarifies that it is showed when a society adopts the attributes of a fast-food restaurant. McDonaldization is a re-conceptualization of legitimization, or moving from customary to judicious modes of thought, and experimental management. Where Max Weber utilized the model of the organization to speak to the direction of this evolving public opinion, Ritzer sees the fast-food trend as having turn into a more illustrative contemporary standard.
In contemporary public opinion, the idea of McDonaldization is picking up consideration in diverse perspectives, for example, culture. McDonaldization ...

The Oprah Winfrey Show commonly known as Oprah is the most successful female talk show in the history of American TV. It is an American syndicate talk that has been aired for 22 years; that is from 1886 to 2011. It was also one of the most influential and popular daytime talks shows in America (Garson 221). The show had interesting and highly influential topics that penetrated into the American pop-culture awareness. Markedly, Winfrey used this show as a platform to inspire, teach, and motivate viewers. This show included uplifting experiences that featured book clubs, self-improvement segments, compelling interviews, and ...

Literature is the art of communication that explains the diverse nature of the environment in which we live. It is the point of reference for all humans which existed at the time of any event or were born after the event and would like to feed their imaginative situation by reading what happened then. Literature can be categorized into two main groups. These groups are oral and written literature. Oral literature is the art of communication through the word of mouth, but most of it is not recorded anywhere. This literature used to happen in the ancient times where ...

A critique of Final JFK Conspiracy Paper

Introduction
Bartholomae is an expert of literature whose work, “Inventing the University” remains a resourceful tool for genre analysis and understanding. My paper, JFK Conspiracy paper attempted to adopt some of the skills and lessons picked from his works. JKF Conspiracy paper is an historical account of the conspiracy and intrigues that surrounded the assassination of John F Kennedy. It adopts the lessons learnt from the work of Batholomae. In that paper, I explain why I believe the JFK assassination was a conspiracy and why I strongly believe the government was involved.
I approach the paper in an impressive ...

1. Explain how they represent the fundamental ideas and techniques of that movement while at the same time reflecting the individual styles of the filmmakers involved.
In The History of the Devil, the idea of Satan as a philosophical and psychological figure throughout history is examined, in a History Channel-documentary style program that demonstrates the new direction for these kinds of televised documentaries. The filmmakers present an extremely slick and sensational documentary with this film, offering many different interviews, powerful narration by a haunting British voice, and many moving illustrations that are dynamic and provocative. The beginning title splash card involves a ...

Beauty or Truth: Point of View in ‘Roger & Me’ and ‘The Man With the Camera’

Documentary filmmaking is a matter of perspective. Few examples exist of strictly objective and scrupulously balanced documentary considerations of a given subject or issue. This would, after all, amount to little more than straightforward journalism, and a simple recounting of facts. But Michael Moore’s tactics, the film’s exaggerated line of questioning and the mock serio-comic tone that Moore adopts in his narrative clearly identify Roger & Me as anything but journalistic. In a 1990 New York Times review, Richard Bernstein noted that “Mr. Moorewas no more operating within the standard framework of journalism than was Jonathan Swift when he wrote his ‘Modest ...

Assignment One: Portfolio of work Maximum

Skyfall
Plot

A hard-drive that contains vital information about all the NATO operatives, who are undercover in the terrorist organizations, has been stolen and the head of British Intelligence – M is put under an embarrassing scrutiny by bureaucrats. After a near near-death incident, an out of colour 007 is sent out to retrieve the drive, as he is led to a man called Silva, who is out on a revenge mission to destroy both MI6 and M.

Review

Sam Mendes seems to be playing with the old themes, as well as the new ones with the return of 007 on its 50th ...

A marketplace of ideas can be defined as freedom granted to individuals to express their views, under the umbrella of liberty. It is rising beyond the analogy of economic barriers and other legislative restrictions in order to make known one’s ideas. The concept is said to influence truth and accountability, since it generates a competitive environment whence perceptions and personal ideologies can be expressed.

The concept is however not ideally viable, due to the countless constraints that are present at any one given place and time. The nature of the marketplace of ideas has been marred by commercial quests, ...