Documentary film techniques

Wil Hughes Ms. Lusby English Composition 12/1/16 Justice system vs. Reputation Has the justice system in present time and in the past has been fair to every inmate in the prisons throughout the United States? Throughout this paper I will explain how the justice system has and has not been fair to the inmate’s that have been through a court of law. There are improvements that the justice system can make to make sure that the person who committed the crime is the person who gets put into prison…

Jessica Wolfendale discusses what permitting torture would involve realistically in her work Training Torturers: A Critique of the “Ticking Bomb” Argument. The hypothetical ticking bomb argument fails to distinguish a justification of the general practice and individual instances of torture. She refers to the discussion as “a new war in which moral constraints do not apply”, for to allow torture is to allow the training of torturers. Historically they have been chosen for obedience,…

“Force-Feeding: Cruel at Guantánamo, but O.K. for Our Parents” is an article in the New York Times that talks about the cruelness of giving patients a feeding tube who don’t necessarily require it. It goes through the immoral ethics of putting a patient through the possibility of pressure ulcers on their back from lying in bed, clogging or dislodging of the tube, general discomfort, and pain. The article goes on to claim that feeding tubes also cause agony for the families of patients, as they…

“We tortured some folks.” Barack Obama, President of the United States, said in response to the release of the CIA torture report when he addressed post-9/11 America. Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of spying on the Senate’s intelligence committee. John Brennan, director of the CIA, denied that accusation. However, an investigation brought forth the truth; the CIA had penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee and found that the Senate was preparing a report…

to downplay the brutality of the technique and claimed that it had saved British lives (Siddique & McGreal). The British went further, confirming that they share in President Obama's position that waterboarding indeed constitutes torture (Siddique & McGreal). In addition, former Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, who was subjected to torture techniques as a soldier in Vietnam, has long professed that waterboarding is a “horrible torture technique” and a “terrible and odious…

pain. Sleep deprivation was used as an interrogating technique in which the victims were kept awake for several days standing or with hands retrained above their heads until the victims were forced to tell the truth or even lie to make the pain stop. According to United States Senate Committee on the interrogation program reported that “the most enhanced interrogation technique used in this program is sleep deprivation.” This means that this technique was the most popular for the government in…

Torture has been the focus of ethical debate for quite some time. Many people have very different, opposing thoughts on whether it is alright to torture somebody or not. Whether it be torturing for information to save lives or punishment, the morals of have been discussed. Two schools of thought with differing views would be Human Rights advocates and the Consequentialists. A Human Rights advocate would suggest that torture is a cruel, unreliable method for retrieving information while a…

So what could Americans or their government say if torture were to be used against our own military? What would be the rationale for why it’s wrong? The excuse of the ticking time bomb may not work for those countries or groups that would seek to use torture against us, but there will always be another equally plausible excuse for torture, even if that excuse is simply the need for information that might save their people. And therein lies the difficulty of using torture against others, even…

Osama Bin Laden was found because of torture on terrorist subjects associated with him, yet many Americans are still in opposition of this strategy that captured the most dangerous man in the world just a few years ago. The effective use of maltreatment to avert a probable threat against the U.S. (terrorism) is often undermined because of its immorality in the perception of society. This maltreatment is often referred to as torture. This horrid or brutally immoral tactic term is loathed by many…

Torturers in the Middle Ages were used to violently frighten, force confessions, punish, and to satisfy personal hatred towards the accused. (McDonald 1) Torture in the Medieval Times was today’s form of interrogation, but was used with multiple torturing devices. Torture was performed in the torture chambers or the dungeons, usually located in the lower parts of the castles. Before torture was approved the accused would have to be proven mostly guilty, but not completely, before torture was…