The Documentary

Eye on Diversity: Social Construction of Delinquency “Me facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” is a documentary about a little girl sentenced to life for a murder that she committed when she was sixteen years old. At a young age Cyntoia’s biological mother gave her to a foster mother and father. Growing up she was always being judged by her mother, she wanted her to grow up being perfect like her sister with no problems. She was abused by her father and was then introduced to prostitution as a get away…

American public education system. Throughout the movie, diverse moments of the American public education system are being tested. Facts were shown such as passive reaction in order to fire a teacher which is overusing his teacher’s rights. The documentary clearly shows that teachers have a huge impact on the educational system, which limits the student’s options. In this movie the teaching process is being questioned for bureaucracy that’s spread out to high authorities, levels beginning from…

This documentary illustrated the harsh reality of the Native American people living the in the United States. The United States recognized these people as a sovereign state. This means we allow them to govern their people, allow them to make economic decisions, protected rights, govern their own lands. With this said, Native Americans do not have the economic resources to educate its people about diseases, addiction, and education. They need special interest groups, non-profit organizations,…

As Stewart Dunlop, writer of “What Makes a Good Documentary?” Said, “the essential element of a good documentary is simple, the story.” What makes a worthy story and how do we gather it? It all starts with the art of persuasion, done by appealing to logos, ethos, and pathos. The first component is logos where the creator makes a claim or argument that is later proven using evidence like action or still shots that are credible and reveal the truth. Next is ethos, this is when filmmakers keep an…

The documentary, MAKERS: Women in Space, discusses and addresses the journey and struggles of female astronauts, before being allowed to go into space by NASA. The documentary discusses the history of the U.S. space program and specifically focuses on women in space. Women’s involvement in getting to space started with the Lovelace: Women in Space Program, which explored the idea of women going to space that tested their physical and medical fitness, however this program was shut down in 1962.…

attention. Suddenly, my emotion found place in the photo and I felt that imagine was spoken directly to me. I could not believe that a freeze event in that small paper will change my thoughts about life. According with the article “Ethical limits in documentary photography” in Not Just a Document”, the author debates the photojournalism ethical code. The author explains how photojournalists first do their jobs, and some cases they intervene. Also, he/she describes one of the famous photograph…

One of the things that caught my attention during this week was a type of documentary about The Stolen Generation, where many indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies in Australia. Thus, in this documentary or kind of film called Rabbit Proof Fence is possible to come up with the concept of Transculturation. I didn't know nothing about Australian's history so this is very interesting for me; when I watched Rabbit proof fence, I…

Thin Introduction When I watched the Thin documentary going into it I had some sort of knowledge as to what might happen. The women who had to go through such a traumatic period in their lives. Will go through any lengths, either to maintain their skinny weight or lose more. I truly felt bad for not only the women, but the families who had to watch their love ones suffer. I never realized how an eating disorder can really affect someone’s life. Hearing about eating disorders, and reading…

Cox writes about how she feels excitement for Jenner for being who she truly is and coming out to the world and opening herself up to judgment by others. In the documentary the women tell their stories and how they were treated by others and how it differs from person to person. Jenner is more commonly known and does not receive the same treatment as a transgender from a local town might. Saying that, that does not…

The journal describes how selection process can be improved using a structured interview, and also asses the many way an interview can be structured. In addition, it’s important to mention the article have evaluated the structure or the standardization of interview and divided them into two particular categories; first through what influence the subject matter of the of a particular interview, and second by the process of evaluation of the information received within a given interview. The…