The Thin Man

It was Errol Morris' dedication to the truth that enabled him to save a wrongly imprisoned man from a life time in jail and at the same time find the man who did it. I doubt if another documentary rings truer with regards to the voice of the documentary testifying to the character of the filmmaker, than 'The Thin Blue Line.' Something I think worth mentioning about 'The Thin Blue Line' is that Morris did not act in self-gratification to see if he was capable of persuading an audience to believe

surrounded by media brings pressure to teenage girls to have what society defines as the ideal body. As a teenager one wants to fit in with the most popular group. Recent movies like “Mean girls” and “16 wishes” have shown the role of the popular girl to be thin, beautiful, and smart. As a media consumer, females assume that if they achieve this look they will become popular as well. Many teenagers go through stressing situations in order to accomplish the ideal body image. For instance, many teenagers develop

such as the ideal man/woman. These sculptures are in an assortment of sizes that range from being taller than a full grown adult to being as minuscule as the length of a tiny dog. Numerous sculptors, through the past and up to now, have a fascination in making sculptures of women. Two, in particular, the Cycladic Figurine and Head of a Woman. The Cycladic Figurine is a simple sculpture of a woman. It has thin arms folded gently across the woman and a blank face, connected by a thin and long neck, with

The message that “Blink” conveys is a topic called thin slicing, that is, decision making made in the moment without much information or thought. Gladwell uses multiple scientific experimental cases and real life experiences to show how thin slices affects us and how we can tell more about a situation from a couple seconds rather than long periods of time. In the book Gladwell's structure is what, as a whole, conveys the message itself. He talks about real life examples and expert analysis to

muscular and manly. To certain degree the more muscular a man is the more attractive he generally is within society. A study from an international journal regarding social behavior and personality concluded that the attractiveness of a man is more important in determining social desirability than the age of the man in question (Perlini, 2001). Comparatively the results of these two studies add up to say that the attractiveness of a man is one of the main factors in determining societal desirability

thought was a stroll, to the train station. Where Manuel tied a rope around Buck’s neck and told the man he was talking to , “Twist it, an’ you’ll choke m’ plentee.” (Pg.6) Buck was not fed or given anything to drink for two nights and two days. During that time Buck had gone from being put on a train, fairey, and then another train to Seattle. After the train ride, Buck was taken to the man in the red sweater. Once Buck was let out of the kennel, he ran and started trying

Marita Bonner Purple Flower is a play about how African Americans are being oppressed in a metaphorical way. She talks about how the African Americans had goal of getting to the hill but couldn’t because of Whites or Devils known as White. The moral of the story is for the Us’s to get to the hill, White Devils consistntley but obstacles in their way, The Purple Flower is an allegory for its racial relations in the United States, it also could be applied to the environments of troubled people anywhere

It is common knowledge that numerous documentaries have been made throughout the years. Various of the documentaries had very minimal effect on the world if any effect at all. While, plenty of other documentaries changed how someone, some movement, or some country is perceived by society. The later is what is going to be mentioned in just a little bit. The definition of documentary is “a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report”. This definition is quite important

Prompt #3. Into thin air in-class essay In the book “Into thin air” by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer sought to report and write about his climb up mount everest. He knew it wouldn't be easy, but he did not and could not have predicted the barriers and conflicts that were inflicted upon him, by the mountain and it’s atmosphere. Due to these barriers and conflicts, it would be naive to say that the main conflict wasn’t man vs nature. Nevertheless, Krakauer had the worst experience of his life, climbing

and notices a strange man among the crowd, standing next to a Native American. "Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb, he had endeavored to conceal or abate the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne, that one of this man’s shoulders rose higher than the other." Hester instantly recognizes the man by the deformity which he carries on one of his shoulders. In fact, this is not the first time the reader is introduced to this man, he is briefly referred