Francis Capra

Iris is a documentary film made by Albert maysles on the story an ageless woman that dress flamboyantly; the documentary is more than a fashion and a design icon. These films talks more about creativity represent a singular woman whose life has passion for fashion and art. Iris is one of the world best known fashion design innovator and educators which worked for woman’s wear daily before she now opening her interior design business, she also a celebrity that people recognize her in magazine as…

“I saw it in a movie once!” Everyone has heard these words at least sometime in their lives and everyone knows that whatever came before it is most likely not true. Most movies are meant to entertain with various fantastical events that one way or another couldn’t really happen in reality. However, movies like this don’t present themselves as informational. But what about those that do? Documentaries by definition are movies that contain factual information. The documentary genre has, in recent…

Documentary and War Photography “Is it in the interest of purity that society should hang its morally stained linens upon its lines to be stared at?” Jacob Riis, a documentary photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries asked this very question in an effort to stir the thoughts of documentary photographers around the world, as well as their audiences. Documentary photography can be defined as a type of photography that documents historically relevant events and scenes as well as…

From the time of the creation of the first films, films have reflected the values society holds at the time of the films creation. The film Imitation of life is no different, in two films adaptations it is easy to see the society and ideals reflected in both movies. Both of the films are similar in the issues that are dealt with in them, but are depicted differently on screen because of the vast time difference between the two periods. In the 1934 Version of the film by Director John M.…

Documentaries are different from movies in the fact that they work to inform the public of facts instead of entertaining them. An example of this is the Oscar winning documentary A Murder on a Sunday Morning. The documentary talks about how a woman was shot and killed on a Sunday morning and a young black male was arrested and how the defense builds a case that frees the wrongly convicted man. The documentary mainly talks racism, the imperfections of the police system, and the injustice in said…

Did you know that genetically engineered bacteria is used to create human insulin? The medication Humulin is given to diabetic people who lack insulin. Scientists used enzymes to “cut” the section in our DNA that codes for creating insulin. They detached the gene and inserted it into the DNA of the bacteria. It resulted in a bacteria that carries human insulin. We’ve all seen genetic engineering succeed, like Dolly the sheep for example, the first ever mammal to be cloned, but will we see it…

Throughout my Education years, I’ve always wondered if the schools that I attended, will I really learn everything about America history? I feel like the school system has been hiding so much that they think we as students should not know about. I even noticed that some teachers or even most teachers do not like to teach the curriculum that was given. I remember reading my history textbook about the Holocaust and my teacher would get mad at the text because not all the information that happened…

The main character, Benjamin Martin, was portraying Francis Marion during that time period. Throughout the movie Benjamin is portrayed as a family man with strong morals and regret for his actions during the French and Indian War. When in actuality, Francis Marion was known for his love for killing Indians and he also enjoyed raping his slaves as well. This misrepresentation greatly changes the outlook…

Discoveries in the field of genetics have given the world hope for a brighter future. With promises of disease eradication, increased intelligence, and longer lifespans, it is no wonder that people believe that this altering our genetic code is the solution to all of our problems. However, with all of these potential benefits, there come potential dangers. A new scientific breakthrough has come our way. Referred to as CRISPR, this new technology is the easiest, cheapest, and most reliable way of…

The Structure of DNA Somewhere in someone’s brain a curiosity is born that starts a wanting to find an answer. Not everybody gets these feelings to act upon their feelings of wanting to find out an answer, but for some people it does. An Austrian monk, Greg Mendel was a for-father of finding “basic patterns of inheritance.” He started doing his scientific experiments around 1854 in his gardens researching “the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids” (Bio, a Biography of Gregor…