911 Phone Calls: A Textual Analysis

What is the tone of this video? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? Did you like the video, or not? Why?

While the other films involved in the lesson also seemed intriguing, this one really affected me. It practically made it obligatory for me to discuss it while also providing people with the opportunity to learn more concerning the event.

That video seemed to build credibility at the beginning through the news room background but lost the credibility, in my eyes, through the offensive language used by multiple people in the video. Also the credibility was lost when the “news anchor” did not seem too interested in talking about the topic by saying things like “a desperate attempt”. Also one of the “witnesses” says “I’m an older man, so you can trust what I say”, to try to build his personal credibility. There is also a expert mentioned to assist the speaker to help persuade his audience while making his point. Personally, I did not find any pathos in the video, but did spot some logos. There were a couple of graphs shown, which shows a sign of fact in the video, but they didn’t help the speaker and his point because his credibility was destroyed by the language

How did the information in this video make you feel? Were you surprised by any of your feelings?

The first thing I liked about this clip was the girls’ confidence. This greatly had a huge impact on the overall video and on me because these girls were confident with what they were saying. Anybody can say claims and counterclaims regarding what they are speaking for but, if they don’t have a loud, clear and strong

1. What do you think is the most important thing you learned from this documentary?

this video has impacted me and what I will take away from this video. Also, what will be

I saw many things that were in the video unlike what I saw in the book or things I read that weren’t like the movie in “The Speckled Band”. These differences varied from visual differences some physical and some changes in the actions of people.

Watching the video has educated me to think differently and not to form conclusions based on what I see on TV. I cannot say I can relate to anything that had happened to everyone in the video, but being an African myself I feel like there a lot of things that might be happening around me that I do not notice. The only things I can say is that when I was younger most of the things I saw on TV scared me and haunted me day after day. There were even times I did not want to spend time outside because of the fear I had of running into someone who might harm me. The Mean World Syndrome is a fear of the world where people cannot trust each other or people from other social groups. For this reason, the way I see TV will be different because if

In certain respects, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is indeed workable and achieves some of its intended goals. VAWA was originally designed to make communities and homes safer for women, as well as to protect women’s civil rights. According to Modi, Palmer, and Armstrong (2014), since the implementation of VAWA in 1994, the rate of domestic violence directed towards women declined by 53% between 1993 and 2008. The overall estimated number of victims of intimate partner violence in the U.S dropped immensely, from 2.4 million in 1994 to 907,000 in 2010 (Modi, Palmer & Armstrong, 2014).

Civil Rights is a very overwhelming event to explain. The way these men and women lived was absolutely terrible. The video explained events that I never knew existed, and provided an eye opening experience I will never forget. As a young white woman who grew up in the twenty first century, I have never had to face obstacles such as these men and women faced. When living in the United States freedom is the overall dream, but no one actually has complete freedom. I unfortunately have not had to opportunity to vote, so I cannot relate their experiences to mine. I do however understand the value of a human being. There is no “perfect” human in the world, just those who think they are.

It really left me in awe. I could not believe what I was hearing and really felt bad for the family. This eleven year old boy suffers from the worst kind of Cerebral Palsy. He has been hospitalized about eight time in the last two months. He is medically fragile and on top of all that his mom goes through depression. Not only does she have to care for a kid with a severe condition in Cerebral Palsy, she also lost her husband in a war. He was murdered for sympathizing with the opposition. To add more unfortunate in the mother’s life, she was also sexually abused by her nurse who helps take care of her child. Like I said, I was really shocked and very intrigued to meet this patient and his mother. The doctor also told me that the boy has suffered from an arrest at home and in the hospital. She believes it’s because the mother is not giving the boy the right amount of dosage. The language barrier could have played a role, but it’s not for sure. The state is also considering taking him away from the mother due to everything that is going on. There is a lot going on in the case and I could fully understand why the mother suffers from

From looking at the duckweed, we created this question: Does duckweed grow more in small, medium or large amounts of water? We believe the duckweed will grow better in the small amount of water because sunlight can reach it easier. This is our hypothesis. We have had no prior experience with duckweed, but from observing other plants in water, we have proposed the idea that sunlight reaches plants easier in shallow water. Our control group was

What I have found the most thought provoking in this documentary is that innocent children can lose their life or be permanently

To understand someone, you have to have a strong education on every part of their culture, their land, and what groups of people are there and how each one is unique. The difference of having and not having a knowledge of this can make all the difference in the world. Without it, you would walk past someone and see them kneeling in front of a dresser with a little statue with burning sticks around it, mumbling to themselves. You wouldn’t understand it, and possibly think they aren’t stable human beings. If you knew of this culture and walked past, you would see someone kneeling at a shrine praying to their version of god and burning incense. How you see something is all about understanding, and that is not able to happen without knowledge.