African-America Documentary

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The weight of the nation was shot in Madison County it’s a 4 part serious produce by HBO it’s a documentary focusing on overweight American’s and there weight issues and the enormity of the obesity. The documentary breaks down the most pressing problems of obesity and the cause it has on our country in our future for of well-being in survival of the nation.
The most interesting thing that caught my attention in the documentary was the problems that come with being overweight like diabetes and sleep apnea also high blood pressure and the worse is extreme body pains and lost movement to body parts sometimes. Also there was a startling statement from the documentary that I didn’t let slip pass and that was 18 plus percent of children in the u.s.a Is obese so that mean if 68% of American adults are obese and 18 plus percent of American children are either obese or overweight that gives you a percentage of almost 90% of American’s that’s overweight or obese so with that being said that means 90%will develop one of the symptoms of being obese high blood pressure elevated cholesterol or even type 2 diabetes. Also two out of three for …show more content…
Also convenience stores come along and have prepackaged foods which is unhealthy also and theses convenience stores are located in poor neighborhoods on every corner. If playgrounds where more safe and was up to date on equipment and other structures surroundings. This is what keeps people glued to video games inactive and not active outside burning calorie staying healthy. The documentary also mention something about Schools often must sacrifice nutrition for efficiency as they struggle to feed hundreds of children with ever decreasing

Fighting Back Film Analysis

For my film review 4, I watched the Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back documentary, part 2 of 14. The subject of this film is about the attempt to desegregate the school system in Little Rock Arkansas. The film begins with a speech by Orval Faubus discussing what is happening in America. Then, the film continues talking about the segregation in America. After the film shows President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that is when Little Rock is brought up. After this, the film shifts completely to discussing…

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The Ivory Game Analysis

pieces of jewelry and art that showcased the status of the collector. This substance is known as Ivory and taken from the tusks of the African elephant. Centuries after the fall empire still saw the East and West very much in love with this substance and willing to go to any length to get it. Hunters centuries onward have…

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Jazz Ken Burns Essays

Jazz by Ken Burns “JAZZ” is a documentary by Ken Burns released 2001 that focuses on the creation and development of jazz, America’s “greatest cultural achievement.” The first episodes entitled, “Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917” and “The Gift (1917-1924), explain the early growth of jazz as it originates in New Orleans and its expands to Chicago and New York during the Jazz Age. In assessing the first two episodes of Ken Burns' 2001 documentary, "JAZZ," this essay will explore the history of jazz,…

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Afrolatinx In Latin America

and colorism took root. The Europeans settled and there were about 11.2 million Africans that survived the Middle Passage and landed in the New World; only 450,000 of that 11.2 million came to the United States. Afrolatinx are people of African descent in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and by extension those of African descent in the United States whose origins are in Latin America and the Caribbean. But the reality is that the term is not universally accepted…

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13TH Documentary Analysis

13TH is a documentary on Netflix that examines mass incarceration and the connections it has to slavery and Jim Crow segregation. The documentary focuses on how mass incarceration has become monetized and is the new form of slavery in the United States. This system also inherently encourages police and guard brutality. The Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s allowed African-Americans to overcome Jim Crow segregation in its current form. The systematic removal of black leaders like MLK, Malcolm…

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Larry Levine's Ethnic Notions

After watching Ethnic Notions which is a documentary about the history of African American men dating back to the middle of the twentieth century. I find it despicable that there were cartoons that mimicked blacks. Calling us things such as “Pickaninny, coon, sambo, and etc.” and we along with the rest of America had these cartoon images in homes and were acceptable to society for some time even now. Working their way into the mainstream American life and now some may even consider these to be antiques…

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The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Summary

The documentary “13th” and the chapter 1 from “The New Jim Crow” emphasize that the American communities of color are still facing with racial justice issues. The documentary brings back to the history of race, incarceration, and disempowerment of minority communities in the United States. The amount of prejudice and the crisis of mass incarceration are continued to link with history of slavery. Even though the thirteenth amendment states that slavery was abolished in 1865, and legally embedded,…

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Language You Cry In Speech

The much-acclaimed documentary, The Language You Cry In (1998), is the story of “how memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots”. It is the story of an Afro-American, Mary Moran, whose return to her roots in Sierra Leone, was a result of a lengthy anthropological research by many generations of scholars on a very old song that her mother, Amelia Dawley, use to sing. The search for matches for that song eventually brought…

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13th Documentary

The documentary "13th" offers a critical analysis of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution and how it is used to maintain racial inequity throughout the criminal justice system. It examines the background of racial discrimination in the US, emphasizing the change in racial control tactics from mass incarceration to slavery. The documentary explores the economic and political motives that have propelled the prison industrial complex, which has a disproportionate impact on communities…

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African American Slavery Analysis

slavery. This documentary provides, and expounds upon the degree of slavery, its impact on Africa, and on African descendants. Slavery is the embodiment of the African people and it is important to know what really happened, and why it happened. Once the magnitude of slavery is defined only then will the true comprehension of why slavery still has a huge and continuing impact on the African American community. Slavery is defined as the enslavement, and forceful taking of Africans from western and…

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