...Paper #2 [Rhetorical Analysis Assignment (1)] (4 full pp. double-spaced) Sicko Analysis In 2007 documentary Sicko Michael Moore addresses the issue of America’s health care system. This topic has been in continuous debate among our political leaders for many years now. Michael Moore believes America’s health system is morally corrupt which is unreasonable for being the wealthiest country in the world. In many instances throughout the film, he argues the fact that the American health care system is subject to fraudulent decisions, aiming towards governmental funds, rather than the rights of American citizens. Furthermore, he compares health care conditions from around the world, arguing that countries with this benefit are much better off than those that are not. This movie is an attempt to encourage middle class individuals to stand up for what Moore thinks of their Constitutional right, health care. In the movie Moore uses different techniques to support his argument that universal health care is better than government regulated health care. One of which was to interview individuals around the United States about their health insurance experiences. One of the most memorable stories came from a mother whose four-year-old daughter died because she was refused care at a hospital. The way Moore sets up this particular interview is unforgettable. As she begins telling her chilling account, the camera zooms into her face. When the camera zooms out, we see that behind her is...
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...“Minsan sa Isang Taon” 1. Identify the economic problems shown in the documentary. Various problems were shown in the documentary “Minsan sa Isang Taon”. First and foremost is the Malnutrition problems of the B’laan children which is so called “Kwashiorkor” brought about by a severe lack of protein because all they eat is sweet potato. Problem in the system of education was obviously shown also. Because their community were so distant from the civilization, maybe all they know is how to write and read and in worst case, they know nothing. Halfway through their journey, Environmental problems were envisaged by the group were they witnessed a very devastated mountain wherein most of the trees were cut away. The documentary also reveal the huge predicament in transportation were the Abaca Farmers need to walk for about six hours just to sell their processed abaca. It is then clearly shown the Unemployment Dilemma of our country. It’s hard to think that abaca farming is their only way to earn money, sad to think, maybe Kaingin is their alternative way.Rising Insurgency in our country were also revealed. With the continued problems in our country, many groups have posed grave threats to the Government and so the group need to backed-up by some CAFGU and Philippine Armies. All throughout, this issues were the reasons why 20% of the Filipino people were below poverty line and I am pretty sure that the B’laan tribe belongs to that portion. 2. How ECONOMICS can help address...
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...Toxic Hot Seat Opinion Paper The HBO film Toxic Hot Seat is a documentary bringing the threats of flame retardant furniture to the public’s attention. The California legislative branch passed a bill called Technical Bulletin 117, which forced furniture manufacturers to make their products flame retardant for sale to the Californian population. These manufacturers found it would be less costly to just make all the furniture they sell to all of America flame retardant. The documentary than went into depth of how the chemicals used to make the furniture flame retardant can cause cancer and other health defects throughout time. Many of the protestors of this technical bulletin were firefighters because of the dangers these pieces of furniture brought when burning and letting off smoke. The smoke that comes off the furniture was mixed with the chemicals used to protect it are extremely deadly and could cause a person to develop cancer much quicker. Many scientists, political figures, firefighters and concerned parents have tried to eliminate the Technical Bulletin 117 for many years after discovering the dangers of the furniture but have come up short and unsuccessful in banning it all together. In my opinion, I believe the California legislator made the right choice to make furniture flame retardant because at the time it seemed like it was a phenomenal idea. Giving people 12 more seconds to evacuate their home before their furniture was fully engulfed in flames was a great...
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...Prof. Adam Pfleegor Professional Enhancement Response July 2, 2012 Reflection Paper Response to “Hoop Dreams” Many things in this documentary stood out to me involving the culture of this ethnic group in Chicago. The people’s lives covered in this film were portrayed to be extremely simple, but complex. The film provided public exposure to the myriad problems of race, poverty, parenting concerns, coaching motives, and the amount of emphasis a young black gentleman places on sport. Encompassed by all of these issues was always disregard for one another, as well. Throughout the whole film, I could not help but notice the painful trend of negligence and carelessness towards black individuals. This black culture addressed in the Chicago area didn’t seem to give one another much value either. For some reason there is a lack of motivation to succeed early on unless it is sport. The parents do not seem to enforce a positive work ethic, honesty, and respect. It is no wonder that there was so much violence, drugs, premature pregnancy, and academic drop-outs. From generation to generation in that community, parents fail to teach their children high standards. It could be that children are raising children, which was the issue in William Gates case. In addition, if all they know is basketball growing up and before they reach 16 years old they have a baby on the way, they surely didn’t have enough time to retain anything in their short life before parenthood other...
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...“Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...The Interrupters The thought of watching an almost two hour documentary seems rather boring, but that is the opposite emotion I received while watching “The Interrupters”. Every second was engaging, and every story brought emotion to my heart. It’s one thing to hear about gangs in communities, but actually seeing things they do is another. Gangs are not something anyone should be apart of, and it’s terrible to see how many adults and teenagers, just like myself, are devoting their lives to violence and horror. The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they were once apart of. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a nation symbol for the violence in our cities. During this period, the city was overwhelmed with numerous shootings, fights and even deaths. There were three specific incidents in the documentary that stood out to me. Tio Hardimar, creator and director of the Violence Interrupters program, mentioned how when he was 14 years old, this boy beat him up; then his stepfather walked outside and killed that young boy right in front of Tio’s eyes. Tio stated, “I felt good about it, really.” Violence is the answer to every problem. That’s how all those kids were raised, and that’s all they knew. It is disturbing to see how violent these communities are, and how no one cares. Another incident that occurred was...
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...Andrea Mitchell John Cannon Sociology 101 November 23, 2014 Discussion Assignment 4 After watching the documentary about for-profit schools, their roles, and their impact on students professionally, academically, and financially; it has definitely shed some light on a progressive issue that a lot of people may take lightly. We know that federal grants and loans are like “saviors” to students who want to further their education and have learned that they are like “cash cows” to for-profit schools. Most of the total revenue at these for-profit schools come from federal financial aid. It’s hard for most graduates to repay their student loans in a timely matter because the money/ income they may have been expecting to make with the education they have earned isn’t what they expected to fully support their situations. I definitely hold these “for-profit” schools partly responsible for this problem because they do sell the dream of a better life, career and financial stability to students; signing them up for loans they know they can’t afford but their hopeful that after finishing school their futures will basically pay it off and it doesn’t work like that at all. In the documentary they talked about making “gainful employment” one of the main regulations for these for-profit schools, but shouldn’t that have already been top priority? One of the former directors from the Apollo group said that education is a business unless you are one of those lucky people who can afford...
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...Sample Final: International Payments I, MCQ 1, A shipping document indicating the details of the shipment and delivery of the goods and their ownership is a A, B/L (True: This is the most important transport document) B, Sight draft (False: This is a type of B/E) C, Time draft (False: This is a type of B/E) D, L/C (False: this is a method of payment) 2, A written statement by the exporter ordering the importer to pay a specific amount of money upon presentation to drawee to whom it is addressed is known as a A, B/L (False: This is a transport document) B, Sight draft (True: This is the type of B/E that requires payment upon presentation) C, Time draft (False: This is the type of B/E that requires payment at a future date after presentation) D, L/C (False: this is a method of payment) 3, L/C may be payable at all but one of the following locations: A, Confirming Bank’s counters (False: Confirming Bank has irrevocable undertaking to Beneficiary) B, Nominated Bank’s counters, or at the counters of any bank if L/C is freely negotiable (False: Nominated Bank pays Beneficiary on behalf of Issuing Bank (Confirming Bank)) C, Issuing Bank’s counters (False: Confirming Bank has irrevocable undertaking to Beneficiary) D, Reimbursing Bank’s counters (True: Reimbursing Bank has no undertaking towards Beneficiary. It only functions to reimburse other banks with authorization of Issuing Bank) 4, Which of the following can be combined under a credit available with the Issuing...
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...BBC Future of Food- Part 2: Senegal Last week, BBC released the second part to their series of documentaries called the Future of Food. Part 2 largely concentrated on Senegal which really excited me and probably excites you as well, as a global farmers’ movement. Although the title says, “Senegal”, the documentary focuses of global food crises- moving from India to Kenya while always relating their issues back to England. In these documentaries, George Alagiah travels around the world to to reveal a global food crisis whose complete and thunderous effects can only be felt years from today. The series aims to create awareness on the unprecedented competition for food due to population growth and changing diets and also looks for viable solutions. Part one is where George heads out to India to bring to light how a changing diet in the developing world is putting pressure on the world's limited food resources. He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is impacting food supplies across the continents. Part two is one where he travels to Senegal and investigates the fishing trade the country is famous for and how globalisation has impacted the local fishermen of the area. He highlights how most often, the local fishermen are run out of their century long businesses and how despite fishes being the primary source of protein, available in abundance, are now slowly getting more expensive such that the local people are malnourished. From Senegal, he travels to India, the largest...
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...imagine what these families felt, when they new there was something wrong with their child, if he wasn’t breathing correctly or he was missing limb. Holding your breath standing their in shock wondering what I did to deserve this or how I am going to cope with this; is he ever going to live a normal life? The With Out Pity Documentary was truly captivating in so many ways, it really shows you that you need to enjoy life, cause no matter what there is always going to be someone who has to overcome something far greater then you will ever imagine. That boy with no limbs really set the peak for truly amazing and unbelievable; how he was able to get around by rolling like a barrel; in my mind he could truly inspire a whole nation with his accomplishments. I truly respect the family of that little boy for not pitying him; they made him work for everything from the dinner table to the farm, they didn’t want him to get used to the idea of pity and having everyone feel sorry, they wanted to give him the idea that there is hope for the future and that he is still capable of doing so many things. Another inspirational story in the Documentary I really enjoyed was the man married to the women with cerebral palsy, two people truly in love and over coming the stereo types and difficulties of everyday life. He even had a child with her to show his true commitment to her, and people would stare and whisper about how a woman with cerebral palsy shouldn’t even be allowed to...
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...Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...the craft of sushi making. At the age of eighty-five with two sons who also work in the same industry he isn’t stopping and still works on improving his skills which is the mark of a true Shokunin, a skilled craftsman who does the exact same thing everyday to the highest possible level in the never ending pursuit of perfection. We can see Jiro in his quest for perfection as he does everything with utmost dedication and always strives to be better than he was yesterday. This film is a beautifully shot documentary by David Gelb that captures everything you would want to know about Jiro’s three Michelin star restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro. It shows the journey that Jiro had to go through to get to where he is now and that is making perfectly delicious sushi with his apprentices and eldest son Yoshikazu that will soon take over his father’s business in the future. It will be challenging succeeding his father’s position because as Yamamoto said in the documentary no matter how talented Yoshikazu is, he will need to be even more talented than his father in order to achieve the same levels of success. II. Highlights David Gelb uses a variety of angles and framing to capture Jiro’s world. Throughout the film the cinematography of the film varies. In shots of interviews it is usually a medium close-up shot that frames the subject from just below the shoulders to the top of the head. We can see this highlighted when Jiro is being interviewed about his passion for sushi...
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...The first argumentative strategy dialogic can be defined by a conversation between people. Most of the time when someone uses the dialogic strategy, it consists of two characters. In stories, dialogic often have two characters that have a dialogue conversation. Usually, one of characters says more things than the other with two different points of views. In “Apology of Socrates”, Socrates tries to plead for his innocence and talks to Meletus. The majority of the time, Socrates tried to persuade his audience into believing what he was doing was right. There was a few times where Meletus spoke to answer a few of Socrates’ questions. Confessional is the second argumentative strategy in which someone opens up to their intentions. Confessional can be used when someone reveals their motivation for doing something. It can also be used to talk about a purpose for an action someone took. David Henry Thoreau wrote “Why I Went to the woods” to explain why he did not want to live the city. He tries to convince his readers that living life means to not live in city but to live in the wilderness. He explains his reasons why he believed that living in city was not living. Didactic can be defined as a lecture. The argumentative strategy is meant to teach an audience new lessons and new things. When teachers and professors teach their classes, they lecture and use a didactic approach to teach their students. In “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell attempts to teach his readers...
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...Marc Singer's documentary Dark Days follows a group of homeless men and women who live in an abandoned subway tunnel in New York City. They have built one room huts, they even have electricity, pets, beds, and they work hard to scrounge to earn money. They feel lucky to be a step above the homeless on the street who have nothing to call their own. Their participation in the making of this film allows them to eventually move out of the tunnels when forced to by Amtrak officials. This is not just a film on the lives of the homeless, it is about human condition. How they got there, how they get by, and how they get out. We learn in detail the cause and effects of how this small group of people ended up living in a tunnel together and formed a community. Some have turned to drugs to forget the horrors of losing children and doing jail time. Others are simply unwanted by their familes or society. As dangerous as it looks, they found the safest place to live where they could still live their lives on their own terms; never losing their wit and humor. Decisions on making this documentary were all made spontaniously. The director Marc Singer does not appear in the film, Singer explained his process by stating, "I'd been living in the tunnel for about three months before the idea came up about making the film and really became good friends with the people" (Singer, 2000). He had never even seen a movie film camera before. Singer ultimately used a 16mm camera with black-and-white...
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...Facts, fiction and coding When we turn on the TV, we immediately decode what sort of program we are watching. If we watch “Paradise Hotel”, we expect a reality show and everything we associate with the genre. We expect drama, fighting, sex, betrayal and so forth. If we turn on the News, we expect to be fed with factual information about the happenings in the world. If we see a film, we also have certain expectations. When we see a romance film, we expect love. When we see an action film, we expect a fast pace and violence. When we see a horror film, we expect to be scared and so forth. We call these genre expectations. Within the world of media/literature, we deal with two major categories, facts and fiction. Facts tell us something about events and situations, which have already happened; facts therefor have an obligation to reality. Facts involve factual information, which can be subsequently checked for accuracy. However, fiction is made up where neither the people nor the events have root in the real world. Fiction therefore has no obligation to be factually correct and we cannot subsequently check for accuracy. When we watch films, TV programs or read texts, a sort of contract of understanding occurs. The contract is defined as agreements where the sender, in accordance with the receiver, agree on whether the film/text is fact or fiction. To make sure the receiver and sender are in accord, we use fact and fiction coding to decipher/ sort out fact from fiction and...
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