Central Park

Filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon made a film called The Central Park Five which was based on a 1989 case. It is about a group of 5 boys who were wrongly convicted of raping a woman who was jogging around Central Park. The five boys did not know each other and were questioned without an attorney. The police were interrogating them until they got a confession out of them. Once they got a confession, they were in prison for 6-13 years. The society was against them and their…

Unfair The Central Park 5 case is among the many cases that have drawn attention to problematic facets of the American criminal justice system. The facts provided by Sarah Burn’s book, The Central Park Five and Adam Benforado’s book, Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice each declare that systematic failures are to blame for many miscarriages of justice. Moreover, Burn’s explains the circumstances surrounding the infamous verdict of the Central Park Five case while Benforado illustrates…

Bias is being in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another. Being bias means having favoritism and being prejudice. Bias played a huge role in the Central Park Five. The Central Park Five focuses on the five black and Latino teens who were convicted of the crime, served their sentences, but were later discharged after the real rapist came forward in 2002. It was more as a racial bias. The detectives would tell the teenagers what to do, even if they were innocent they…

In the Central Park Five case language is used throughout the newspapers and press to bring in stereotype causing racism of the color people. Five young teenger were convicted of rapping a white jogger. “People fear crime..coming from poor minority..black and Latino…

The documentary ‘Central Park Five’ was told in such a captivating, vivid way, which really allows the viewer to feel the emotional realism and angst in the story. It was so devastating to watch these young men go through this time distressing time of injustice. In the 1980’s there were many issues present within society surrounding race and economic status, which brought a tremendous amount of violent crime. In the documentary you were given an insiders view of the life each of these boys lived…

The movie about The Central Park Five produced by Ken Burns, it about the story of the five black boy (Korey Wise, sixteen years old, Kevin Richardson, fourteen years old, Yusef Salaam, fifteen years old and Antron McCray, thirteen years old) and one Latino (Raymond Santana, fourteen years old), so they were wrongly convicted of rape a white woman in New York City in April, 1989. In about 1984 in New York City it was danger and people were selling drugs, gang’s wars, and the economy was terrible…

The Central Park Five: Background and Bias The 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, revisits the 1989 Central Park jogger case. Five teenagers were coerced into confessing to a rape of which they were innocent, which was not discovered until over ten years later. The filmmakers and producers of this film are Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. Ken Burns, who has directed or co-directed 27 films, is often named the best-known documentary filmmaker in America.…

Central Park painted by Adolf Dehn in 1942 using watercolor on paper, light colors in the front of the painting caught my eye when I was examining the photos. Adolf Dehn uses light colors such as a light green and people strolling through the park to portray the light side of New York City which is in the back of the painting with dark and grey colors with cloudy skies. In the center of the painting Dehn uses a white and light green mixture, suggesting the calmness of the painting. There are…

The Central Park Five chronicles the wrongful conviction of five African-American and Hispanic teenagers from Harlem, who were falsely accused and later convicted of brutally raping and inhumanely beating a white woman in New York’s beloved Central Park. Ken Burns, the director, seeks redress to prove the innocence of the completely dehumanized five, who were held accountable of a brutal crime by cruel detectives and prosecutors. Ken Burns uses archival footage, interviews and camera shots as…

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