The Documentary

Documentary: The Champions Source: Amazon Video The argument proposed in The Champions: Pit Bulls only become a vicious when treated harshly with abuse. Agree: In The Champions, producer and director Darcy Dennett explains the consequences over 50 pit bulls have experienced coming out of an illegal dog fighting ring ran by Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons former quarter back. Today, many organizations have come together to help many homeless and hurt animals. Although corporations like PETA and…

Obesity is a rapid growing epidemic in American. The makers of the documentary Fed Up, producer Stephanie Soechtig and narrator Katie Couric, set out to find the truth behind food and the things that the food industry does not want you to see. The documentary states that the food industry is corrupt and is cause of the obesity epidemic in America. The film starts out with opening credits and news clips playing in the intro. The news clips are saying that obesity is a growing fast, obesity is…

The documentary "Born Into Brothels" sheds light upon the tragic everyday life of poor people in developing nations. The film focuses on the poor class in India, particularly the poor women and children that are forced in live in an environment with rampant prostitution, crime, and lawlessness. It depicts how the poor women in the red light district resort to prostitution in order to bring home a source of income for themselves and their family members. The most notable thing about the film is…

The Soldiers Heart video is a documentary about the psychological cost of war. Many people assume that once a soldier returns home physically unharmed that the worst has past. Many would think that it can only get better from there, but that is often not true. War costs money, minds, and lives. Post traumatic stress disorder does not just harm the victim, it can be devastating for their families, friends, and communities. Soldiers have had problems psychologically during and after wars…

Fed Up The film that I have reviewed is Fed Up, this is a documentary by Stephanie Soechting and executive producers by Katie Couric and Laurie David, Couric also narrated the film. This film talks about the corruption in the food industry, and how is more important to make money than to provide healthy products for us and our kids and it explains that because of the corruption there's an obesity epidemic in America. They are willing to put our health and the health of our loved ones in…

My culture guide and I attended the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for my second activity. We viewed the documentary movie, The Freedom to Marry, which documents the Supreme Court decision affirming same-sex marriage. Originally, we planned on going to a gay bar, but Johnny changed our plans. On our drive to the movie festival, Johnny revealed to me that he suffers from anxiety and depression. In fact, it is the reason he decided on taking me to the movie instead of a gay bar.…

Happiness is something that everyone wants to achieve, so what makes people truly happy? In the documentary, by Roko Belic, it explores true happiness and compares and contrasts the level of happiness between various countries. In the video, it talks about how achieving true happiness can lead to the achievement of other goals such as financial success. In the video, a researcher states that there are two types of goals people value and strive for: intrinsic and extrinsic goals. Intrinsic goals…

This documentary follows a young group of activists who study the lives of dolphins, whales, porpoises, and other marine mammals. The group goes travels around the world and goes to the area’s where they are slaughtering these animals for food and other resources. The film speaks of how it’s not the fact that killing them for food is not the reason to alert the world but the sole fact in the way that they do it. These people slaughter the mammals by luring them into this certain area called “the…

sphere are able to maintain control by manipulating how "knowledge" and "truth" are defined. I will provide an assessment of the post-modern approach to global politics in the works of Said, Foucault, Nietzsche, Dalby, Rochlin and the Venezuelan documentary “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”. The lack of a single “truth”, may make people more likely to inquire on the behaviour of authority figures, but also allows for the rationalization of action that, under the modern epistemology, would…

problems included under pay, long work hours, and poor living standards. To show the general public the horrific living standards of migrant workers, in 1962 CBS aired a documentary called “Harvest of Shame” (Kenneth 842). One grower even said, “We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.” (Southern farmer 842). The documentary caused an outcry from the American people who called for better living conditions for these workers. The Migrant Health Act was passed, which gave basic health…