The Movie Bones Research Paper

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To unravel a murder, you have to strip it to the bone. Over my summer break, I spent much of my time watching a show called Bones. Bones was created by Hart Hanson and directed by Dwight Little and is still currently in production. It features the work of Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, and John Boyd as the main cast. The show has a recurring cast consisting of Patricia Belcher, Ryan O’Neal, Eugene Byrd, Michael Grant Terry, Carla Gallo, Joel David Moore, Ryan Cartwright, Pej Vahdat, Luke Kleintank, Brian Klugman, Ignacio Serricchio, and Laura Spencer. Bones is a crime-comedy-drama TV show that premiered on Fox on September 13, 2005. The series is inspired by the life of forensic anthropologists and author, Kathy Reichs, who also produces the show. The show itself is about Dr. Temperance Brennan (Deschanel), who is the head of forensic anthropology at the Jeffersonian …show more content…
They tell us to be truthful, compassionate, just, part of a community, and in partnership. In Bones, all the Dominican Values are present. Truth means to be honest in what you say and do. Compassion means to have a mutual feeling to others or to have a great passion about something you love doing. Justice is knowing what’s right or wrong in choices we make. Community is living in harmony with everyone around us. Partnership is being together with someone you care for and work together through thick and thin. All the Values are present in many different ways in the show. Truth in how Dr. Brennan finds out in how a person was murdered. Compassion in how Dr. Brennan and everyone who works at Jeffersonian feel about their job and in how they all feel about the significant other in their lives. Justice, Community, and Partnership when Booth and Brennan and everyone who work in the FBI and Jeffersonian work together to find the

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