Trade Movie Reviews Samples For Students

In this documentary film, Art historian Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Africa to explore the fascinating history of the great kingdom of Zimbabwe. Produced by BBC in 2010, Great Zimbabwe is the third season of the Lost Kingdoms of Africa documentaries, which were being aired by BBC Four. Directed by Sarah Howitt and Ian Lilley, the film has a runtime of 51 minutes, with the narration part solely done by Gus Casely-Hayford. Casely is among the many historians, archaeologists and researchers of the recent past who have devoted their efforts to unravel the history of Africa and its incredible preserved treasures ...

The new Era of Stock Trading

The videos discuss as how the human mind is getting evated from trading activity on Wall Street and is rather performed by high performing super computers which have the capacity to trade billions of stock, even before a blink of a human eye. However, these super computers works on programming of math wizards and are not aware of the value of companies for which they are trading. Thus, the Securities Exchange Commission and Members of the Congress Senate has raised some questions against suitability and usefulness of these machines in stock trading and also alleges that some institutions might be using ...

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

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today was a talk delivered by known economist Paul Krugman at Princeton University. The talk focused on the phenomena of Globalization and what it did to the world and its role the ‘mess’ it caused. He gave a short history of globalization by saying that it is not new to the world because it was ongoing during the late 19th century. In his talk Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today , Krugman addressed what were the changes, one of the changes he pointed out was technology. People were replaced by machines, he mentioned, because longshoremen were replaced ...

Trade Liberalization in Jamaica began in the 1970s following the International Monetary Fund stabilization programs and further accelerated by the World Bank structural programs in the 1980s. During this period, the Jamaican government six agreements with the World Bank and eight with the International Monetary fund. In the 1990s, the trade liberalization in the country continued because of modification of CET (the common external tariff) and pressure from the World Trade Organization to comply with the international trade regime (Witter, “Trade Liberalization; the Jamaican Experience”).
During the post-world war two period, Jamaica’s main exports were the agricultural ...

The archeologist studied the life of a farmer in the San Juan, Mexico to understand how the manufacture and trade of matateos and menois in the ancient city of Copan was carried out. The study of Filemeno Gabriel’s way of life shed light to how and why the farmers in ancient city of Copan manufactured the matateos and menois. It was noted that Gabriel made matateos in his spare time so as to supplement his budget. This was because as a farmer Gabriel could only produce what was enough for him, his family and the domestic animals he owned.
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‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...

Illicit: The Dark Trade

Introduction
Illicit: The Dark Trade is a documentary about the growth of illicit trade throughout the world. The movie highlights how trafficking in men, dirty and counterfeit money, drugs and money laundering is changing the world. Also, how illicit trade is able to undermine government’s authority, killing or injuring people, overcome regulatory barriers through a corrupt system of bribes. Illicit trade has become monstrosity globally that is considered a transnational problem. Since no country can tackle the issue alone, illicit trade keeps growing as they become a source of employment for the locals and revenue (tax and bribes) ...

____(3) 1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. (awareness/social concerns, biography, research/informative, investigative)
This documentary fits best into the category of awareness/social concerns because the slave trade was a terrible event that more people need to be aware about because it destroyed the lives of many African families for at least 400 years.
____(3) 2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of a paragraph for each theme and ...

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Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

This documentary provides a challenging environment to the economy of America. This documentary shows a competitive relationship between producers and big retailers represented by Wal-Mart, who contribute to some of the American businesses becoming bankrupt and increasing the rate of unemployment. Wal-Mart came up with low-cost shopping at outsourcing at large sellers after lesser local companies. Those who are winners or losers are examined as discussed as shown here;

International retailers have superseded producers in decision making concerning the type, quality of products, and price.

They ensure that the Americans can afford to purchase Chinese goods which are low priced as compared to products made in America. This is a ...

Business Law

Facts: The documentary began by showing the lead character of Kenneth Lay who later became the founder of the company called “Enron” that was incorporated in 1985. His credentials include a degree in business course in at the University of Missouri and University of Houston, where Lay completed a Ph.D. degree in economics in the year 1970 (Clinard and Meier, 2008, p. 180). Prior to the incorporation of Enron, he started as an executive in an energy company during the 1980s at the time of then President Ronald Reagan. This became his stepping stone to merge two companies: Houston Natural Gas ...

The film is a great expose about the story behind the supermarket foods. It educates the viewers about the misconception and sometimes deception being employed by the supermarket giants. It tells the story of the very few big retailers that controlled the supermarket business and the control they have at the farmers and price. Aside from the animal welfare issues that are raised by the film, labor practices are also questionable because the workers’ right and safety are also put in danger.
Most chicken farms are being subsidized by giant food companies. These farmhouses chickens in a tightly cramped space ...

Asian horror, as a genre, carries with it a generous mix of scathing subtext and grotesque images. Whether witnessing the wrath of an uncanny ghost girl, seeing people murdered in mountains of gore, or the many subtle avenues in between, many of the best Asian horror films combine shocking sights with potent messages in order to convey an anxiety present in that society at the time. "Setting aside the moral ramifications of such manifest extremities, we can identify the current boom enjoyed by Asian horror and extreme cinema and discern a complex nexus of local, regional and global relationships in play" (Choi ...

The genre of film noir is an expansion of the classic Hollywood genre of film known as the crime film. The crime film persists as one of the most popular and enduring of all types of Hollywood films - ever since the sound era, it has remained a particularly potent and popular genre (Leitch 1). As the years have progressed, the noir film has been replaced with the neo-noir - a modern film genre which takes the trappings of noir and places them outside of its typical comfort zone. In the case of 2010's Winter's Bone, the typical film noir detective ...

“Slavery by another name”, the 90 minutes documentary which was aired on February 13, 2012, and directed by Sam Pollard, is an adaptation of the book by same (authored by Douglas Blackmon) name which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 (Pbs,"Slavery by another Name"). Like the book, this documentary has some very strong analytical insights on breaking the most popular misconception that the African- American (referred as ‘blacks’) were actually emancipated with the Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of the year 1963. The documentary specifically works on the time span between the civil war and the World War II ...

12 Years a Slave

The concepts of freedom and democracy in America have developed significantly since the colonial periods. The foundation of these concepts lay in the enlightenment period when the colonists sought independence from the Crown. However, soon after the enlightenment period and independence only white people benefited in terms of freedom and independence. African American citizens continued to live with limited freedom and did not enjoy the benefits of democracy such as voting. Although America was independent, the thought of freedom and majority rule did not mean much to African Americans who were subjected to serve their ...

1. Describe the emergence of abolitionism in American society and its significance. Give examples.
2. Describe the distribution of slavery in the South. Describe slave culture and how it helped slaves bear up under the pressures of slavery. How did southern whites defend slavery?
The Southern states of America were growing in economic power through their plantation system. After the first plantations were expanding and the new were emerging, the plantation owners needed more people, in particular, slaves for work, and, thus, more slaves have been brought from Africa. Gradually, the number of slaves started rising and ...

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

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 lending to other ...

The Middleton Family Visits the 1939 World’s Fair

This is a 1939 film which was directed by Robert S. Snody. The film is a depiction of a middle class family from Indiana which had visited the New York World’s Fair in 1939. The New York World’s Fair was meant to show case the positive prospects of the future in the American corporate world. The Middletons are the object of this depiction and display. The family visits the Westinghouse building only despite the event exhibiting a wide range of other exhibitions. The family visits the Battle of the centuries, the Scientific Playground, the television display, the Hall of Power, the ...

a. Pablo Escobar’s history of violence led to his ascension towards the leadership of the Medellin cartel. The lack of law and order in the Colombian countryside – where much of the drug trade has been going on, provided a favorable environment for Escobar’s brand of violence. He started rising through the ranks of the Medellin cartel when he traded drugs with then-cartel leader Fabio Restrepo. With the knowledge that he is taken too lightly for looking like a “street criminal” in the eyes of the cartel, his notoriety for violence soon enabled him to get Restrepo out of the ...

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In Bulworth, a Democratic Senator with very liberal or leftist views that were more typical of the 1960s becomes burned out and disappointed by the conservative direction that the country has taken. Senator Jay Billington Bulworth decides to commit suicide by staging his own assassination and takes out a $10 million life insurance policy. Even his name implies that much of was he says is not really particularly sincere or meaningful, and he has already become a ‘moderate’ Democrat like Bill Clinton, taking money from various banks and corporations instead of ...