Foster Intro to Documentary Film Midterm Paper What Is Documentary Film? I once heard a quote from an unknown man who said‚ "Words are only words until you invest some meaning into them." I didn ’t fully comprehend what he meant by this statement. Surely every word has its own definition‚ giving it some type of meaning. So why would they being meaningless without me? Not until I entered this class and focused on documentary film did I re evaluate this statement. What the man meant was we can
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Film Analysis: “MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING” Introduction to Sociology “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ is a wonderful movie all about the Greek sub-culture in Chicago. This movie explores‚ and demonstrates many sociological points. This movie is exceptional because‚ this movie also shows the values of Greek immigrants living in America. Furthermore‚ the American Greeks in this movie promotes three traditional values - marry a Greek boy or girl‚ have Greek babies‚ and feed everyone. This is a value that
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Gutman‚ founder of the HealthTap Company‚ states that a simple smile has the power to make things better. Accordingly‚ he refers to a smile as a superpower. He explains that the act of smiling itself makes you feel better rather than smiling being a result of feeling good. So the purpose of this lecture may have been to encourage one’s ability to smile and be happy even in the hardest of times. Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling which reveals some surprising results and discusses how
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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Film Analysis: Bernie In the movie “Bernie”‚ we follow the story and between a Carthage‚ Texas funeral director Bernie Tiede‚ and his co-dependent relationship with a wealthy widow‚ Marjorie Nugent. As “Bernie” unfolds‚ we see the companionship turn for the worse as Ms. Nugent’s ill-temper causes Bernie to snap – and lands her dead in her freezer. This movie brings up some questions‚ specifically regarding image. After analysis‚ the question I keep coming back to is “Was Bernie genuine and sincere
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revelation. The mackerel in the silver tray. You know those abstract patterns on the mackerel‚ those ridged shapes. They were visually really stimulating… glistening and wet‚ and black and silver and what have you... I was a bit excited at the time too because I knew I was going somewhere new. I had a fair idea of what would happen‚ I wouldn’t be unsuccessful in making an image from them. (Shinnors
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Six Month Smiles In Webster‚ TX Are you the type of person who doesn’t want to wait through years of orthodontic treatment to straighten your teeth? Being outfitted with traditional metal braces can be a pain in many ways. Not only does it take years to straighten your teeth‚ but the braces can be hard to clean and uncomfortable. If you are looking for a quick and easy way to straighten your teeth in Webster‚ TX‚ check out Six Month Smiles! Your confidence will be sky-high after straightening your
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In this essay‚ author Mona Eltahawy‚ discusses what it is like to be a Muslim in America after 9/11. Through the eyes of the author‚ she speaks out against the stereo type that all Muslims are terrorists. That the men that carried out the attacks were not American Muslims and she is sick of being harassed because of her religion. I have learned that war propaganda had influenced our youth into thinking that all Muslims are terrorists. I feel that when 9/11 happened it was we were instantly stereo
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A Woman’s Smile “Why Woman Smile” is a persuasive essay written by Amy Cunningham‚ an essay that explores the theme of gender differences in our society‚ specifically the difference between the frequency that women smile compared to men. She believes the frequency of a woman’s smile has more to do with the social pressure put on her to smile than it does her actual state of happiness. Cunningham uses historical‚ biological and cultural examples as evidence to support her opinion that these types
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Prompt #1 What does Creswell say about the ethics of data collection? Compare and contrast that with the ethics of data collection one might encounter in the fields of intelligence‚ counter-terrorism‚ and protection. Within the study of the social sciences‚ qualitative research requires data collection that is both accurate and collected in an ethical manner. The forms of data collection are generally grouped into four basic categories‚ although new forms are emerging over time‚ such as journals
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