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Discoveries lead to new perceptions of the world, new values and new understandings of ourselves and others. Ivan O’Mahoney’s Go Back to Where You Came From, 2011, follows 6 ordinary Aussies as they are challenged to review their preconceived notions about refugees by embarking on a refugee journey backwards. It is a confronting and provocative 25-day journey for the 6 participants that aims to stimulate new ideas for the participants and the viewer. The late 19th century poem, Invictus is a…

Michael Moore is a writer, director, actor and political activist. He was born in Flint, Michigan on April 23, 1954. He started his career in print journalism and was briefly the editor of Mother Jones magazine. Moore uses satirical comedy to campaign for. issues firearm legislation, medical care, Bush ’s position on Irak war and major company closures. His first film, Roger & Me(1989), became the most successful American documentary of all time. .His main documentaries are Fahreneit (2004),…

Overview On November 24th, Chicago police officer, Jason Van Dyke, was indicted on six-counts of murder and one-count of misconduct in the shooting death of a 17-year-old, African American male, Laquan McDonald (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). A dash cam revealed the officer shooting the teen 16 times while he walked away from the officer (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). In late January, the officer’s attorney announced his plans to seek a different venue for the trial (Relerford & Maragos, 2016). The…

Even the white man gets blamed for crimes. In modern America whenever a black man gets shot by someone that is not black, people call injustice. A recent event shows just this. Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug. 9, 2014, by Darren Wilson. Keep in mind that Michael was black, and the officer Darren was white. At 11:54 a.m Michael Brown, and Dorian Johnson leave the Ferguson Market and Liquor. Surveillance video shows Michael Brown stealing some cigarillos…

Corner’s: Underground Homosexual Kingdom in the Eyes of Lesbians As the Taiwanese film critic Huang Jianye concludes, documentary in Taiwan has been developed into an ascendant genre after the success of the inaugural “International Documentary Biennial Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been…

In the films Munich and One Day in September, we as the audience gain knowledge as to what happened in Munich during the 1972 Olympic Games. One Day in September is the official documentary of what happened to the Israelis who were assonated in the hands of Palestinians. The film Munich directed by Steven Spielberg discusses how the Israeli government came up with the ideal counter-terrorism plan against the Palestinians after the massacre in Munich. The film’s plots are in the same ballpark…

In the US today the similar technology we have are microphones and surveillance cameras. Surveillance cameras in the US today are generally only used for protection, to have evidence of a crime if one is committed and otherwise the footage is useless. In 1984 all footage from a telescreen may be carefully looked through to detect any indicator of criminality in the citizens. They also use microphones in places where telescreens would be inconvenient. Instead of leaving microphones out in the…

This week the students analyzed a video pertaining to 9/11. This video showed a detailed account of what actually happened on 9/11, as it showed live footage of the World Trade Center. Educators must transfer the content knowledge and then enhance the learning experience by making learning meaningful. Showing footage of that sad day in September truly does that, as learners can then see what the city of New York and Washington dc had to deal with. Mr. Allen also used a great strategy…

sure that the mass on the scale and the timer were visible in the video. The tablet was dropped into the water and the timer was started at the exact time. The data was collected for one hundred seconds. After collecting all of the data, the video footage was reviewed and the mass was recorded for every ten seconds. Once completed, the process was repeated for two more…

In the voice-over, Paikea explains the story of how her people are led and the importance of the whale rider in her tribe. While she is speaking, the film repeatedly cuts between the footage of a whale swimming in an ocean to Paikea’s mother giving birth to twins. The voice-over begins with, “In the old days, the land felt a great emptiness, it was waiting to be filled up. Waiting for someone to love it, waiting for a leader. And he came…