Ron Fricke

Overview The documentary Boys of Baraka, produced and directed by Heidi Ewing, and Rachel Grady is about 20 at risk boys from Baltimore, Maryland, who were selected to spend 2 years at a boarding school in Kenya, East Africa. The Baraka school is intended to change the attitude and behavior of their students, and give them specialized instruction to meet their educational needs. By removing them from their negative environment, it allowed them to focus on their education and themselves. The goals of the Baraka school are to get their students accepted into good high schools, and get a chance at better opportunities. 76 percent of black males from Baltimore do not graduate from high school, and 50 percent end up in jail. This statistic probably motivated many parents to agree to send their children to Kenya to avoid them becoming a statistic. The documentary follows four boys and their families in their transition from Baltimore to Kenya. Although, the boys struggled with their behavior, schoolwork and they missed their families; they made it through the first year with success (Ewing & Grady, 2005; “Film description the boys of baraka”, 2006). Cultural and Diversity Issues Issues presented in the documentary relevant to cultural and diversity is poverty and education. The boys in the documentary were living in a crime and drug filled environment. This type of environment is toxic, and could possibly influence people to partake in the bad activities in their neighborhood.…

very interesting foreign policy of “Non-intervention”. A lot people regard the libertarian party an alternative to the republican party where one is fiscally conservative while at the same following democratic beliefs such as legalizing gay marriage, legalizing drugs etc. With regards to the ongoing election where a large majority of voters are stuck to choose between the lesser of the two evils the libertarian part saw a huge increase in their party membership. As of today the libertarian…

I loved Jack so much he was my best friend and a brother to run to when things got bad, what I miss the most about him along with his smile, laugh, idiotic dancing, drinking competitions, crying on his shoulder, hanging out at Cronulla and just being around him made you forget everything on your mind. Before we all lost jack, I would sit there and hug him so tight and talk to him for hours each day, that 's how I know so much about depression, pain and other mental illnesses. I saw it all…

The first major difference is the way Harry is rescued from the Dursley’s. While the Dursley’s are having company over, Harry is warned that he needs to be on his best behavior and stay upstairs so they do not know he exists. He unexpectedly gets an unwanted visitor. It is a house elf named Dobby who wants to protect Harry and warns him not to go back to Hogwarts. When Harry refuses, Dobby gets very upset and makes a scene which makes the Dursley’s mad and they declare Harry is not going back to…

Like at the Ministry, Harry, Ron, and Hermione plan for months and consider all their options before settling on the plan to use the Polyjuice Potion. Ron suggests that only he and Harry go underneath the Invisibility Cloak, which leads to a discussion about why each of them should stay behind. This conversation results in the understanding that each of them possess an important skill that will be needed at the Ministry, and as they are too big to all fit under the cloak, the potion is their…

It leaves everything up to interpretation by whoever is in charge. Special needs can be anything from a documented need written by a doctor to a need to be fluent in English. Who is to decide which children have special enough reasons to be allowed into bilingual classes? - The huge injustice of waivers was caught and began to be amended, but it has not been amended enough. It will not be amended enough until it is all gone. All children need to have access to whichever classes will benefit…

Sanj took a deep breath and pressed submit. The application for her awaiting trip to Dominican Republic had been sent to the organization Rustic Pathway. Her heart started beating rapidly as if she had completed a marathon. Her eyes were entranced by the scenic photos of Dominican Republic. Her smile stretched from ear to ear. In a few weeks, she will be leaving her suburban home and begin her nine days’ exotic journey. Sanj’s international travels only had been to India and England with her…

In the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Hermione Granger is a muggle born witch who is constantly mocked by other students for her know-it-all persona. She acts like it does not bother her when it really makes her feel embarrassed, but her strongest most important character trait is her intelligence. Hermione is confident in herself because she knows that she is an amazing witch with many different talents, including spell casting and potion brewing, this confidence leads others…

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, is about a eleven year old boy named Will. Will is part of large family and lives a close to normal life until the day of his eleventh birthday. On Will’s eleventh birthday,he is told that he has powers and needs to use his power and the help of the rest of the light to defeat the dark. Throughout the book, Susan Cooper developes many themes for the Will, and the reader to understand. One of the themes in The Dark is Rising is that unity is power. Another…

pretty, they’re supposed to protect you” (Rowling 606). The Patronus charm is a very difficult defensive spell to master which shows that these students are particularly exception at producing the spells that will defend them while in a safe environment. But when out facing danger, they, besides a few such as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and possibly Neville, don’t know what those dark witches and wizards will truly do to them. Most of their first experiences with trauma such as that is while in the…