experts and people with first-hand experience. Looking at Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2 of First Contact, this essay will discuss how conventions and language features have been used in the documentary to explore opinions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The main purpose of all documentaries is to deliver factual information to enlighten and also to educate their audience. First Contact can be seen to reach the widest audience of critical thinkers by using nationwide…
time it is to show their dominance over the other group. In “Arts of the contact zone”, Pratt talks about encounter between Spanish and the Incas. Pratt defines this as contact zone where two cultures meet and clash. She talks about how the encounter between these two cultures did not go very well because the Spaniards were too greedy and arrogant. Similarly, in Rodriguez’s story, his encounter with the Americans is also contact zone. When Rodriguez went to American school he was very quiet…
more likely to believe the force was excessive than those who were not injured during the contact with police. (74%). Overall, blacks (2.8%) were more likely than whites (1.0%) and Hispanics (1.4 %) to perceive the threat or use of nonfatal force was excessive. Residents with police contact who experienced threat or use of force, by race or Hispanic origin, 2002–11 Race or Hispanic origin Face-to-face contact Force threatened or used Excessive force…
harmful or offensive contact to Dillion’s person by first putting out his cigarette in Dillion’s coffee cup followed by taking out an unloaded shotgun and placing it on his lap causing Dillion to have a stroke resulting in him hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk suffering a serious concussion and unforeseeable and extreme brain damage? “Battery: Harmful contact an actor is subject to liability to another for battery if (a) he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the…
Isolation, Contact, and Change of Cyberbullying Cyberbullying is one of of the worst ways that someone can be bullied. It is a way of bullying that can be hidden from society. For instance, you may randomly or anonymously be messaged something that could potentially self harm them. The isolation, contact, and change of cyberbullying are very crucial for you to know. Numerous people don’t know want bullying is, nevermind cyberbullying. The definition of bullying is when an individual or…
Family physical contact or friends physical contact are both way that Diots and Wake-Up Call videos try to pass their message. In fact, we can see at the end of the video Wake-Up Call, the main character dream and finally regret to have buy an object like everyone get because the time he have to think about it and the time that he buy it, is time he had miss with their family, their child. We can compare and contrast it with Diots because it’s editing the same way. Diots represent robots and…
For the group project, we met at the classroom and decided to go to the library and watch the videos together in a study room. Gabriella had her laptop out and we used her laptop to watch the videos. I wrote all the group members’ names and what two concepts they put together for their videos. Sarai and Eleni both took notes on the pros and cons of each video that was played. Before each video, we would so a short introduction stating what two concepts we chose and how we combined them into a…
1. Body Language Body language is the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements, or the simple definition is communicating without words. It’s important because it has a lot of functions, examples: - To express our feelings about what are we discussing. Body language can help us determine how someone feels about what they are saying. - You can now when someone is lying to you. - To understand how we come across to other people and be able to…
Interstitial Keratitis, or its abbreviation “IK” for many ophthalmologists, is an inflammation of the cornea. “Keratitis” is the term for inflammation of the cornea, while “interstitial” refers to the area between cells. In this case, it refers to the stroma—the area between the epithelium and endothelium of the cornea. Other names include “nonulcerative keratitis”, which describes the inflammation as not breaking through the epithelial layer of the cornea via sores, “syphilitic keratitis,”…
Europeans First Contact with the First Nations The First Nations people of Canada are a part of a larger group of people that are now known as the Aboriginal people of Canada. The Aboriginals are the first inhabitants known to exist in Canada. The Aboriginals also include the Metis and the Inuit (“Who Are”). It is assumed that the First Nations have been in Canada for at least 12,000 years. Today, the people of the First Nations tribe have a population of more than 850,000 people. The First…