“The Age of AIDS” by frontline is an apt study for two reasons. First it details the process of identifying a disease which was new and mysterious; second in doing so it gives us insight on how epidemiology plays an important role. This gives us an understanding of epidemiology and its basic concepts in force while executing this role. The objectives of epidemiology of identifying the cause of disease‚ in this case AIDS‚ extent to which it has penetrated. Finding records for similar cases for further
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Truth is a concept that exists throughout the cross-section of society. Telling the truth is extremely complex as truth is compromised by commercial self-interests. This is represented by the satirical television series Frontline directed by Rob Sitch et al. Frontline humorously mocks a typical current affairs show and its representation of the truth. In the episodes ‘The Siege’ and ‘Smaller Fish to Fry’‚ Sitch utilises sophisticated techniques to demonstrate how truth is manipulated and concealed
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basilicas and architecturally ambitious projects in the city itself...And what he does is [to] religiously relocate the center of gravity of the city around the places where Christ had suffered‚ where he had been buried‚ or where he [had] been raised.” (Frontline‚ From Jesus to Christ”) Bishops use Constantine’s good mood and interest of Christology‚ the Trinity and Church organization to have bibles copied at the public’s expense. Christians can finally worship openly with their architectures and huge
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The PBS Frontline documentary “Rape in the Fields” reveals the gross atrocities of human rights violations against undocumented immigrant women throughout America’s vast farmlands. The group consists of a half-million female workers. Culturally they are from a male dominated society that migrates to the U.S. for economic opportunity. These women are underprivileged workers without access to learn English. They are unaware of American laws that protect persons from violence and crime. They are very
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World War I‚ or the "Great War" was a trench battle. Men would dig trenches and stay there‚ hundreds of them‚ and there they would wait with their bayonets and other weapons and look over a small piece of land. Imagine that you are in the middle of a field. The field is maybe a quarter mile wide and on the other side of the field is your enemy. There are no tanks or bombers to give you cover. There are no fancy heat-seeking missiles. You are going to have to kill or be killed for a piece of earth
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“WITH SATIRE‚ WE LAUGH AND WE LEARN” Sitch et al’s “Frontline” demonstrates in the episode‚ “…Add Sex & Stir”‚ how the truth can be easily manipulated with the aid of technology in hope of producing a controversial “true” story that will boost the ratings. It also shows how in the world of mass media‚ credibility is considered to be of vital importance and is practically treated as the product traded in the industry. Sitch et al satirises that commercial TV‚ despite having the absolute care
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In the summer of 1996‚ The Frontline Documentary The Lost Children of Rockdale County investigated what happens when teenagers did not have enough supervision from their parents at home. The documentary took a place in the town of Conyers that is located 15 miles East of Atlanta. In this town‚ the majority of these teenagers come from wealthy families of a middle class. They did not seem to suffer from economic problems because their parents spend most of their time away from home working. Since
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The documentary that I chose to do an analysis on is “Growing Up Trans”‚ a film that is showed on a T.V. a series called Frontline directed‚ by Martin Smith. In this documentary film it goes through the life of young kids that are planning to change there identity to a different gender. While the kids plan on taking hormone blockers they are being educated by doctors at Children’s Hospital in Chicago‚ Illinois on how the hormone blockers are processed. Some of the parents are nervous because
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In the PBS Frontline film A Class Divided a third-grade teacher‚ Jane Elliot‚ challenges her student’s perceived views on prejudice‚ racism‚ bigotry‚ and the act of discrimination. Originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968‚ Elliott’s “blue eyes/brown eyes” exercise engaged the young children in her class to further explore the concepts of racism and prejudice by segregating the class into two distinct categories‚ one took the role
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The Siege focuses on a gunman holding his children hostage over a custody battle. Panic sets in when the Frontline team learns of the siege and the entire team’s priority becomes this news story. Emma‚ the able journalist finds the phone number of the farmhouse and ties up the phone line‚ Marty is attempting to sensationalise the rather "dull" footage‚ and Mike is running late wanting to know whether he can pick up Macdonalds on the way to work. Mikes unawareness of the importance of the situation
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