Review on the movie Erin Brokovich “She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.” This tagline indeed summarized the movie Erin Brokovich. The movie was about a not-so-privileged but strong willed woman who was able to impact and make a difference to the life of hundreds of people to a community. Erin (Julia Roberts) was a woman who was out of a job‚ did not have a special training for anything‚ was divorced twice‚ and is a mother of three – 8-year old Matthew‚ 6-year
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Movie Response 1 (50 points): This first essay is a response to Food‚ Inc. and Fed Up!‚ should be between 2 and 4 pages long‚ and must be submitted to Moodle. Your responses should answer the questions listed in the rubric‚ demonstrate media literacy‚ critique the movies and offer suggestions for how their messages could be improved‚ and integrate knowledge you gained from class discussion‚ lectures‚ or other movies. This essay should also demonstrate that you took notes while we watched the movies
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Babies Movie Response • What was your emotional reaction to this video? It was not my first viewing of the film. A few years ago I accidentally found it on YouTube and revised several times. No matter what‚ I still can say that this is a great movie with a great director’s work and a lot of moments that really can be perceived in different ways. I think that this movie can not leave someone emotionally indifferent. • What moments are sticking with you? Such moments are quite a few: • The first
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Lincoln Response Paper There is a lot that happened in the movie last week. Overall I liked it. It was interesting to see what it was like back then. Some of my favorite parts are where Lincoln tells his stories. I was watching it and paid attention to how he said it. In that very soft and slow tone‚ he told the members‚ with almost no emotion until the endings. If I remember right Lincoln woke some of his employees up around three a.m. to try to decide if he should pardon a young man who took
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scientific procedure that are positive. The first positive outcome of genetic engineering in the movie was that it allows the parents of children to choose how they want their children to be. When having a child‚ in the first few months‚ parents do not know the gender or any of the traits‚ unless they are genetically tested to determine the phenotype of their offspring. With the genetic engineering the movie‚ Anton’s parents were allowed to pick out exactly what they wanted their son to look like and
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considered their own nation. The movie Gallipoli illustrates how the World War I was important in helping Australia find their identity and create a sense of patriotism. Australian moviemaking had its highs and lows through the Twentieth Century. After the 1970’s‚ a new age of Australian films started to flow from the country and “historical films became the most visible internationally” (Bordwell 628). Gallipoli was a film made in 1981 by Peter Weir. The movie not only tells the story of two young
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“Sicko” Sicko is a 2007 film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit‚ non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada‚ the United Kingdom‚ France‚ and Cuba. Even though‚ we live in one of the top countries in the world‚ we still can not get the medical care for free. I think everyone deserves a right
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Into the Wild Essay Eng 12 “I now walk into the wild‚ might be very a long time before I come back” Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover their true roots. Chris McCandleess leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United States‚ which eventually brings him to the place known as Alaska. In the book Into the Wild the main character Chris McCandless had changed his name to Alex Supertramp. Although Alex did some questionable
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REFLECTION PAPER ON ERIN BROKOVICH The movie entitled Erin Brokovich depicts a lesson that teaches us on true leadership‚ persistency against odds; motivating people‚ purpose‚ passion‚ corruption and how to deal with people to respond. This film is based on a true story on the real scenario of events about a woman who have been down on her luck‚ a single mother of three children‚ divorce twice and fallen near into the brink of poverty. But instead of hitting rock bottom‚ she manages to get up on
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first case of feminization of poverty. Being a woman who does not have any proper education or skill‚ no one is willing to provide her with any form of opportunity through which she can provide for her young children. This situation goes on even after Erin is involved in an accident and goes ahead to lose the case which she had filed against the driver. Lack of employment and the necessary skills are highlighted from the interview scene where she had applied for employment in the doctor’s office (Brumley
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