My inspiration to do my project on Cystic Fibrosis dated back on Nov, 2016 when I participated Student Success Leadership Conference at Virginia Beach. One of the motivational speaker at the end of her speech played music video by One Republic “I lived”. In that video clip a teenager with cystic fibrosis was shown and explained how it feel living with cystic Fibrosis. The boy explained that having cystic fibrosis caused him to have breathing problem and he said that he felt he is breathing with a straw. As he continued explaining he said the more he tried to breathe the more he has pain.…
Learning about the Olmec was interesting to me. When the video stated that they was the first Americans And that some of their things was used by the Mayans and the Aztec. But I would like to know more of how they vanish and why there wasn’t enough material about them. They build large statues that are very detailed, shows that the Olmec could have been some knowledgeable people.…
Radiolab did a segment on how our facial expressions can be hints to our inner emotions by interviewing Paul Ekman, a renowned psychologist who is a pioneer in the study of emotions. The radio segment begins with a psychologist by the name of Gordon Burghardt. Burghardt studies snakes particularly the hognose snake. Gordon studies them by putting a chicken puppet inside the cage and begins to attack the snake with this puppet.…
Sierra Amundson Jim Crow Summary Response Notebook The Jim Crow Laws were local and state segregation laws that ruled harshly in the South and remained enact until later in 1965. Throughout a documentary based off of the Jim Crow laws there was shocking information and information common but was gone into greater detail in this hour long video. This video gives a great viewpoint from both sides of the war on segregation with the interviews that had constructed.…
Though it teeters on the edge of loving its style far more than its substance, Edgar Wright's exhilarating Baby Driver is a film that takes the getaway driver/crime story and turns it on its ear. Almost Literally. Through the use of a near constant, 30-plus song soundtrack that keeps the music pulsing and shifting gears like the transmissions our titular character pushes to the limits in all the cars he commandeers and drives in and around a busy few weeks in Atlanta. Known as Baby, our soft-cheeked protagonist is played by Ansel Elgort, quietly exuding a simmering confidence as the #1 choice as getaway driver for Doc (Kevin Spacey), a ringleader of numerous heists and robberies in the city. Doc never uses the same team twice and Baby is constantly having to reintroduce himself to the ragtag crew Doc assembles.…
The video of the natural birth seemed painful and I would never go through that I think the woman is rally brave for doing it and I applaud her. I felt weird while I was watching because I know I will experience this in the future and it’s something unpleasant that will can create a child inside of us. The C-section video I didn’t feel that weir about.…
Rape in the Fields, a 2013 PBS documentary, showcases the epidemic of sexual assault in America 's fields and farms. The sexual assault is primarily committed on undocumented women by their superiors and has gone, for the most part, unchallenged by the American government. Undocumented workers in all areas of America are vulnerable to exploitation. There are only a few jobs available to them and, with the lack of available resources and support, employers have no incentive to provide humane working conditions.…
The featured documentary ‘Side by Side’ was an enjoyable, informative documentary that discussed the history of the film industries use of emulsion film and the cautionary switch-over to the new digital movie format. Beginning in the late 1800’s with continued development of emulsion roll film by Eastman and the pioneering photography work of Edweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince the advent of capturing and projecting moving images was at hand. The documentary covers the important developments in the economic and industrial aspects of the film industry, specifically as pertaining to movies and Hollywood in general. Presenting a persuasive argument for the adoption of the new digital medium while extolling the philosophical and existential advantages of traditional emulsion process film.…
The Normal Heart is a film by HBO that represent a love story, found of HIV/AIDS, discrimination of gay people, and a feudal society in USA during 1980’s. This film quickly into the spindle, not stuffy, but very heavy, but also many from the United States government retreating angle, criticized the then public health policy; when the US government has been reluctant to face the problem of AIDS, and even suppress comrades and scientific development, to write this black history, which is undoubtedly a major challenge to the rights of the authorities, allowing the audience to see many human tragic and valuable.…
Filmmakers use a variety of techniques to make their films captivating to the viewers. Movie scene transition techniques include the dissolve, the wipe, the jump cut, and the fade. Camera shot and angle techniques used by filmmakers are low, high, and level camera angles, pan, p.o.v, close up, and long shot. All of those filmmaking techniques are utilized throughout the Lost Names’, “An Empire for Rubber Balls” storyboard and work together to create a special meaning for what the viewer sees on screen.…
Film Analysis: Baby Mama 1. Introduction Michael McCullers film “Baby Mama” is based on the idea of infertility and surrogacy. This film was produced in 2008 by Micheal McCullers. Overall, I thought this film was an excellent film because it was comical and kept the audience engaged. However, from a sociological perspective this film left out a lot of important aspects of surrogacy such as the many people who endure endless amounts of boundaries when it comes to infertility treatments which resulted in a lack of realistic component to the film.…
In film, there are both visual and sound aspects that allow the audience to know the true meaning of a story. Two aspects equally important in a modern aged film. The award winning movie Up (2009) is brilliant at combining these two aspects. The film is about an old man’s adventurous journey to forfill a promise by traveling through a floating house carried by hundreds of balloons. Today I am going to analyze a scene in the beginning of the film about Carl’s past.…
DOPE is a crime dramedy written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa about a black teenager named Malcolm living in Inglewood trying to get into law school. He and his two friends Diggy and Jib are then roped into a wild goose chase when Malcolm is given a large amount of drugs amidst an intense gang war. He struggles to maintain his chances of getting into Harvard while surviving this unfortunate situation. DOPE grapples with several issues regarding race including issues with the school system and with depictions of African Americans in the media. The film parodies and challenges the common depiction of black communities in crime dramas.…
I was very intrigued at the beginning of this podcast when the radio announcers introduced Kelley and Tom. I was fascinated to hear both of their insights on the situation and not be biased if they were in the same room speaking about the topic together. It gave a different look on how serious the situation was and how both of them coped differently. The first question listed on the out-of-class assignment was asking how the couple tried to get pregnant; well, they spoke of several ways they tried over the years. Kelley took drugs that made several eggs at once drop; I was unable to receive the name of the drug.…
I would like to see the video go into more detail of the story of Jesus’s birth. The story about the angel from the Lord telling Mary that she will have a child and the child will be God’s Son. I would also like to have seen the video tell more about the miracles Jesus did. The Bible tells that Jesus healed the sick, healed the deaf and the blind. In one story of the Bible it tells that Jesus raised Lazarus from the…