Cinematic techniques

When I first heard about this assignment I had mixed emotions, I felt nervous, anxious and I kept obsessing over who I might have as my mentor. I felt this way because I kept on thinking who is this person I will have as my mentor who will I have to interview. I was stepping out of my comfort zone by talking to someone I never met or knew. My beliefs on reading and writing in the field before I did the interview was that I knew that reading was involved with the interview and writing also but I…

Throughout human history, torture has been used to methodically obtain information by inflicting psychological or physical pain on an individual. The practice of torture has been prohibited under The United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights, which has been sanctioned by 155 nations (The United Nations, 1984). Nevertheless, the United States has ratified the use of torture as recently as 2008. The Bush administration allowed the use of torture methods in interrogations of individuals connected…

The difficult task about this assignment was to find a social worker that would allow me an opportunity to walk in their shoes. Conducting this interview in my opinion was a two head sword, for me it gave insight into a career path defines dignity and respect of the elderly and for the social worker it gave an opportunity for her to share in her shoes. I was relaxed in this interview because I wanted to learn without interrupting with my own experience of shadowing other social workers. I know…

An Interview of Your Choice For this interview I used my husband, Benjamin Tamate Toimoana, as my client. Before starting the interview, I compiled a list of questions that I could ask for general purposes to get more information about my client. I also made sure to review the ethics code of The American Counseling Association for 2014, and I was able to make sure that everything I did with this interview was ethical. The questions that I used in my interview I found in my own opinion to…

3.5 Semi-Structured Interviews An interview is basically a verbal conversation between two people with the aim of collecting relevant data for the purpose of research. According to McNamara (1999), interviews are particularly useful for acquiring the story behind a participant’s experiences while the interviewer can pursue in depth information around the topic. Besides, there are underlying assumptions that that the non-verbal acts are more real and basic while the verbal acts are epiphenomenal…

1) Discuss your level of preparations for this mock interview—what you did, or perhaps what you could have done, to prepare better? STEPS TAKEN TO PREPARE FOR THE INTERVIEW: Reviewing the questions and Dressing for success: I briefly reviewed all my interview questions. I created a list about all my accomplishments on my previous job, my strengths, and my weaknesses. Before doing the final mock interview I practice answering questions. I made sure that I dress appropriately for my mock interview…

When it comes to the topic of torture, we can readily agree that it is a very controversial topic, where this agreement ends however, is on whether or not we should allow torture used by government agencies and even our police force. Some people say that torture should not be allowed under any circumstances, while others believe that torture should be used regularly as a form of interrogation. I believe that torture should only be used under rare circumstances. Some circumstances may include…

known methods of torture and they can be dated back to centuries before today. Marie- Monique Robin, a documentary filmmaker, reviews the history of torture and brings up how governments teach each other different torture techniques (Thornton). Waterboarding, for instance, is a technique when the suspect…

Under what circumstances should national security hold greater importance than human rights? In order to mitigate the direct threat of terrorist acts, what policies should democratic nations enact? Both civil society and political leaders seek to answer these philosophical questions – especially during times of war – in an effort to reach moral clarity. Issues surrounding torture are controversial and extremely emotional, therefore most individuals may avoid taking a position. American-born film…

In as early as 530AD the Romans utilized torture techniques with the accusation that it developed the highest form of truth. Is torture truly effective? CIA director Michael Hayden believes so who stated “coercive interrogation techniques employed against detainees such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as and ‘irreplaceable’ tool that helped yield information that has helped disrupt several terrorist…