King Corn is a documentary about two recent graduates from Yale University, Curtis Ellis and Ian Cheney. As they begin their journey to finding out where corn originated from, both men made a visit to Stephen Macko also known as the Hair detective/he tested both strands of hair from each men to see what they had in it and to their surprise they found corn in their hair, which made them make a drastic move from Boston to Greene, Iowa and bought eight Acres of land to plant their seeds. They believe that their parents were going to outlive their generation because of how much fast food their generation was consuming on a daily base. When consuming these product no one is becoming aware of what was going into their body because in reality not
In the documentary Waging a Living, 4 families are presented that are living in poverty. Among those four individuals is Mary Venittelli. Mary is a single mother of three living in poverty. She is a waitress and makes $2.18 per night, plus tips. Throughout the documentary, we see Mary’s life and her struggling to make ends meet.
Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans.
The documentary LaLee Kin is based on a family from Tallahatchie County, who has fallen on harsh times. Laura Lee Wallace, known as LaLee, took care her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She provided shelter, clothing and food. LaLee was introduced to poverty at an early age, she discontinued her education to pick cotton for income. As she grew older her monthly income came from fixing lunch for the farm workers. We have all heard it time and time again, “Get your education.” In fact: it has been embodied in our skills. The economy being what it is, no education generally leads to unemployment.
As the class discussed in lecture, the myth created a personalized connection between the Native Americans and the Earth and allowed the Native Americans to identify with their landscape. Because they believed that corn came from recycled human flesh, they could see it as an animate, personalized being, rather than just an object. Merchant explains how the Native Americans also believed, because of the Corn Mother, that “the Earth would continue to regenerate the human body through the corn plant.” This shows that rather than just seeing corn as an object to cultivate, it was a sacred gift given to them by the land. Because the land gave the gift of corn to them, they believed the land should be treated with
You are starving and your family is starving, but the law told you that you could not feed your family, would you obey the law or do you decide to feed your family anyway despite what the law says? To Tommy Pikok Sr., “When I am hungry, I can protest the law. I can use my stomach as a reason to protest the law” (Edwardsen, Duck-In). In the documentary, The Duck-In, the Iñupiat people of Barrow, Alaska fought against the law by coming together as a whole community to get what should be their right as native people. The Iñupiat people would rather hunt for their food than consume white people food on a daily basis. It is our culture, tradition, and duty to hunt for food and no one or anything could change our way of thinking. The citizens of Barrow, Alaska should watch the Duck-In because the documentary informs the citizens
The Ivory game is a documentary about the illegal poaching that is going on in Africa. It is aimed at bringing awareness to the black market business of ivory that is running rampant in China and the danger that it poses on elephants and even people who want to help against poaching. The producers of the movie are Kief Davidson, Wolfgang Knopfler, and Walter Kohler. These people worked together to bring the movie that has information about the illegal ivory trading in China and Africa and released the movie in the year 2016. The documentary did an amazing job at conveying it’s message with the logos and pathos fields, although it needed to strengthen the ethos section of the triangle.
Hungry for Change is a thought provoking documentary produced by James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch that delves into the implications of eating a modern diet. Using pathos, facts and figures, and association, Hungry for Change delivers a meritorious performance that engages viewers and leaves them questioning their own diet and lifestyle choices. The film’s use of rhetorical and advertising strategies and its ability to captivate viewers make this an effective, life changing documentary.
The King of the Cowboys and the Queen of the West...Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans
The documentary, South of the Border, informs its viewers about the conflict between South American leaders and the institutions of the United States, mainly the government and media. The events shown and narrated through the film may be interpreted with the use of sociological theories, which is the main purpose of this film analysis. This paper aims to explain the causes of the realities presented through concepts and theories from the field of Sociology.
Is corn the future of the world? Will our human race develop an immunity and need for corn? Nations across the world are turning to cheaper, unhealthy ideas using subsidies such as corn. Since corn is cheap and useful to the agricultural businesses, our world has lost respect for one’s health. Monocropping corn is a growing problem creating health issues and destroying our fragile ecosystems; therefore, the only solution is change.
The movie I decided to analyze for this course was American History X (1998), which stars Edward Norton. Though this movie isn’t widely known, it is one of the more interesting movies I have seen. It’s probably one of the best films that depict the Neo Nazi plague on American culture. The film takes place from the mid to late 1990’s during the Internet boom, and touches on subjects from affirmative action to Rodney King. One of the highlights of this movie that really relates to one of the key aspects of this course is the deterrence of capital punishment. Edward Norton’s portrayal as the grief stricken older brother who turns to racist ideologies and violence to cope with his fathers death, completely disregards the consequences of his actions as he brutally murders someone in front of his family for trying to steal his car. The unstable mentality that he developed after his father’s death really goes hand-to-hand specifically with Isaac Ehrlich’s study of capital punishment and deterrence. Although this movie is entirely fictional, a lot of the central themes (racism, crime punishment, gang pervasiveness, and one’s own vulnerability) are accurate representations of the very problems that essentially afflict us as a society.
In the documentary In Whose Honor? Director Jay Rosenstein focuses on protests of a then University of Illinois graduate student, Charlene Teters. She is a Spokane Indian whose campaign against Chief Illiniwek, mascot of the University of Illinois. The beloved mascot team of University of Illinois, turned a college town upside down and made many people rethink the larger issues of culture and identity. Started in 1926, the mascot has undergone many changes, but has largely remained a very stereotyped Indian image. Initially coming to the U. of Illinois from Santa Fe, and recruited to help bring diversity to the university, she recalls first seeing the Chief at a basketball game, and watching the reaction of her children. On other hand her
The name corn, though funny-sounding, is a condition that does not exactly induce hilarity. These corns normally grow on feet and they can be extremely painful. So much so that the prevention and treatment of them has become a thriving business. Doctors can be consulted in how to treat or remove corns.
Recently, corn smut has emerged as a delicacy in dozens of countries across the world and has become a common ground for scientific research in vaccinations; however, its health benefits and risk factors have been debated for thousands of years (McMeekin). Huitlacoche, the common Mexican name for corn smut, has been utilized as a food source since the 1700s when the Aztecs embraced it as one of their most valued meals and the Europeans claimed it caused severe health complications such as extreme hair loss among men (McMeekin). Today, Mexicans can more than 100 tons of corn smut a year for consumption and the health risks have been evaluated extensively (Patarky).
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.