The Documentary

The documentary, Unnatural Causes (Adelman, 2008), highlights the phenomenon of excess death occurring among the poorer echelons of society in Louisville, Kentucky. In society, within given time frames, an estimate of the occurrence of death within a population can be fairly estimated. When the number of actual deaths surpasses this estimate it is termed excess death (Adelman, 2008). An analysis into this troubling find can be explained using systems theory, with particular emphasis on the…

requirements for our school lunches. The food currently being offered to adolescents in the cafeteria, school store, café area, and are filled with sugars and carbohydrates, that likely promote an unhealthy diet and continued obesity. Upon watching the documentary FED UP in Health, a coalition of students will be asking for policy change, citing the movie as their evidence. FED UP argues that the worldwide epidemic of obesity is endangering our children as a result of the increased sugar…

Electoral Dysfunction is a Participatory Non-fiction Documentary that follows Mo Rocca as he learns about the electoral college and voting. In the first scene Mo starts off and asks people where voting is a right or a privilege and 4 out of 5 people say that it is a right. After this clear plurality consensus he turns to the Constitution to see what it says, it is then realized that nowhere in the constitution does it acknowledge voting as a right nor a privilege it is simply not brought up.…

Blackfish The documentary “Blackfish” is mainly about an orca named Tilikum and his life as a performing whale at seaworld. Tilikum was separated from his family when he was at the age of two. While capturing him, the other orcas kept on making sounds to communicate with Tilikum. Shortly he was placed into Sealand, a much more smaller version of seaworld. Tilikum would perform most often, and train the other times. When training he would get raked, when a whale scratches another whale with…

in black and white. Her Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera is different from a normal SLR camera, as it has different viewfinder system, and enables Maier to view from above at her waist level, which provides the street photograph to be nature. Documentary photography is difficult to set up the camera with the shortage time, especially, the film camera that it takes longer than a digital camera. Maier did not prepare to take this photo, as she normally had the outing with the children she looked…

In the known documentary, Food Inc., there are several sides people can take. In todays society, people are either very aware of what they put into their mouth or they are not and they just do not care. America is all about capitalism, and it comes as no surprise to anyone that our food system is all about making a profit. Through this documentary there has been many social changes such as people not wanting to state their personal opinions on this topic, to these businesses being the creation…

everything. This advanced technology allows billions of people watching tv to see hungry children beg for food in an area struck by famine. Each one of us can pull out a credit card and phone in a donation to aid an organization. According to the documentary “#Chicago Girl,” Alaa Basatneh helps the people in Syria by posting videos on YouTube to show people what is really happening in Syria. She also uses social media to bring awareness and get people to join her cause. What if people do not…

In the documentary “The Impact of Global Warming” it showed many ways of how global warming can effect and is effect our society and our planet. One of the impacts of global warming that the documentary addressed was the rise in sea level. There are many causes that effect the rise in sea level but one specific effect is the melting of glaciers and ice caps. When our temperature increases dramatically high it causes many of the glaciers that are situated across the globe to melt, whether its…

Though these genetic compositions are a dense and quite complex system to understand, and even in this era of advanced futuristic technology, DNA has not been able to be studied one hundred percent. This is what “The Secret of Genes” shows, this documentary exhibit’s how the build of different proteins, oxygen, and your metabolic rate affects how long you live. This video showed in great detail how the DNA molecule is affected by what is ingested in human body and what other molecules help or…

The documentary film We Are Not Beggars depicts the life of several children as street performers in a modern Chinese city, Chengdun in 1995. Nana and her siblings, the oldest is 14 and the youngest is 7 years old, have been wandering the country as street performers for four years to earn money. As Nana’s brother, Sihai said that their family is really poor and their mother is sick. Moreover, Nana’s mother has mentioned that there are seven children in their family despite the Single Child…