In the documentary On The Way to School they describe and show the physical and cultural difficulties that some of the children in developing countries have to persevere through. Someone who could benefit the concept of a smart village is 12 year old Zahira. Zahira lives in Morocco‚ it is a very rigid‚ rocky‚ and arid place. These physical issues could make it very difficult for her to travel to school. It also doesn’t help that it is a 4 hour walk‚ though it is a boarding school and she only travels
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In the documentary “Reel Injun”‚ the director explores the portrayal of Native American in film. It does so through stereotypes‚ and profiling. It also reveals how natives would speak comically in their own tongue‚ and how Italians and jewish people were used to play Native Americans. Stereotyping of the Native Americans in American westerns was one of the main points covered in this documentary. In most films‚ so that the audience could follow along‚ all Native Americans were all dressed up as
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Analysis: "Breaking Vegas" (History Channel Documentary) This story is about group of brilliant students from MIT who were recruited to join a blackjack team that utilized statistics to beat the casino out of its money. This team visited the top casinos throughout the world‚ betting incredible sums of money and winning millions of dollars. While the team was able to utilize training‚ strategy and mental toughness to outwit the casino they had to overcome an aggressive security system that specifically
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Although watching this film made me sad‚ it made me realize what your body and mind can and will do to survive any situation. The body and minds of humans are so amazing that when they are put in these life or death situations‚ they will willing to survive with anything. On October 1972‚ Flight 52 went down in the Andes. On this plane was a Rugby team along with peers and family members. They knew that if they were gonna survive they needed warmth. They quickly dug through what was remaining of the
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HCM 762: Global Health Disease on the Screen Jonah Fummey Franklin University Disease on the Screen The movie chosen for this assignment is the “Andromeda Strain”‚ a 1971 movie directed by Robert Wise. The movie was based on a novel by Michael Crichton. I chose this movie because I wanted to know about the perception of global health over forty years ago. Some of the contemporary diseases like SARS‚ Avian Flu‚ and swine flu that threaten global health today were either unheard of or
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End Black History Month Documentary My opinion on the End Black History Month documentary is that we should end Black History month because black history is a part of American History and it should not be limited to just a month. Black History is a lot of history that African American people and children should know about. It’s so much important history for it to be just narrowed down to the three basic people all the time which are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Harriet Tubman
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9/11 Movie 1. Order of Events: The movie started out with two French brothers named Guidden and Jules Naudet who planned on making a film a boy becoming a Man and with the help of fire fighter James Hannlon. They then picked a man named Tony who was a probe at the same station as James. The followed him around for five weeks‚ watching him clean dishes‚ wash the engines‚ paint tools‚ and make beds‚ nothing exciting was really happening and then on September 11th it all changed. The fire fighters
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9/18/2013 Poor Kids I could relate to the movie because I also grew up poor. It’s full of incredibly sad circumstances. It’s sad to see families‚ or anyone really‚ living in a homeless shelter. It’s sad that in a country where there is so much excess‚ anyone has to be homeless. It is truly depressing when a person‚ especially a child‚ sees other people have nice‚ clean things and eating food‚ food that is a special treat for a poor person. The ridicule and humiliation that stem
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Forum # 5 In the documentary “Growing up Trans” the main conclusion is that there is another way to battle certain issues. “In the film‚ Alex who is a transgender boy was born a girl who felt uncomfortable with her body and decided the best option was to become a boy”(Growing up Trans) It demonstrates just because a person is born a boy or girl‚ it does not mean their sexuality has to be confined to society’s standards. He same concept can be applied to sexuality because a person’s sexuality does
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in chemicals‚ inedible until processed‚ the production of high fructose corn syrup‚ the loss of small family farms‚ it’s damage to the environment‚ and its use as cattle feed are a few of the reasons this new era of corn needs to be changed. The documentary King Corn follows two guys fresh out of college as they travel to Iowa in attempt to better know where their food is coming from. There‚ they are allowed to use one acre to grow corn‚ and learn all the ways farming has changed since their great
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