Cinematic techniques

Informational Interview Summary “An Informational Interview (also known as an Informational conversation) is a meeting in which a potential job seeker seeks advice on their career, the industry, and the corporate culture of a potential future workplace” (Wikipedia) As part of my ALS class I was assigned to find a person that has experience in a job/career that I might be interested in having in the future. For my informational interview I choose to interview my cousin Vlad Spector, Vlad…

I interviewed an eighth grade student named Jorden Johnson, who currently attends Paul Robeson/Malcolm X Academy, located in Detroit. My reason behind choosing Jorden for this interview is simply because of the requirement to interview a student, which I am very glad he ended up being my interviewee. When I spoke to Jorden in regards to the interview, he did not sound very interested in the interview. However, I convinced him that this is simply just an interview to see what eight graders think…

Introduction The semi structured interview was conducted with the clear goal of obtaining information on my proposed PhD research landscape. Unlike the open ended interview, the approach in semi structured interview was less narrative. Questions for this interview was direct with less elaborate narration. I approached the interviewee over email and discussed about the proposed interview. I explained to him the purpose of the interview and gave him an outline of the topics on which the interview…

Two wrongs don’t make a right, how can you morally solve a problem is there is no ethically correct answer. Torture is a problem from hell, sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils. BBC conducted a survey in 2006 about the use of torture. The survey included over 27,000 people from 25 different countries. The majority of the population agreed that torture in prisons should not be allowed; it is immoral and it weakens human right standards. Although there was a mass agreement about…

Zero Dark Thirty: Torture Introduction Popular 2012 film “Zero Dark Thirty” depicted several scenes of intense questioning and the use of torture on captured persons believed to be connected to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden (OBL). The conclusion to that part of the story consisted of a resilient prisoner being kept awake for four days straight, and when he recovered he found himself being rewarded. His captors told him he had broken and given them information, so they were treating him nicely…

The United Nation convention defined torture as an act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information from him or other. In the ancient Roma and Greece practiced torture for those who were found guilt. In Roma, slaves were torture for, as either witnesses or as the accused. “common punishments included crucifixion, mutilation, and the subjection of the allegedly guilty person to the appetites of wild animals in an…

-An interview is a meeting between two people that has a definite purpose and is accepted by both individuals (Kadushin & Kadushin, 2013). An interview can involve both verbal and nonverbal communication between individuals where they share ideas or feelings (Kadushin & Kadushin, 2013). An interview has a goal or purpose for conducting verbal and nonverbal communication. The interview should have structure when discussing specific content or a clear direction for where the interview will lead…

Corporation [BBC], 2014). Enhanced interrogations have been used for a long time. They have been around for thousands of years, but the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began using enhanced interrogation techniques around the year 1950 (McCoy, 2006). The techniques used in these interrogations became especially prominent in the years of the Cold War and the Vietnam War which would be between the years of 1954 to 1975 (McCoy, 2006). In the early 50s, the CIA began brainstorming…

There are three frameworks that Hallowell talks about in the selection step, all that help a leader select the right people. The first is a structured interview, “The Hallowell Self-Report Job-Fit Scale.” This scale is taken a couple of days before the interview to allow for deeper conversation and clarification during the interview. The second, framework, is “Find the flow” to matching a person and task together to create flow. Csikszentmihalyi, who has studied the concept of flow extensively,…

On Wednesday, March 7th, I took place in an interview with the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office. There were three interviewers that conducted this interview, over Facetime, this afternoon at 3:39 pm, which were Debra, Steve and Peter. The interview process began with Peter Inouye, in which he introduced the other interviewers and then began the interview questions by asking me to introduce myself. In response, I let them know that I was a senior at the University of California, Irvine…