A member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday said a proposed Al Jazeera documentary on security along the United States' southwest border could have been "a powerful potential tool for terrorists to enter the United States. Rep. Rick Renzi, Arizona Republican, who outlined his concerns in a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Robert C. Bonner, said that while he was happy to see plans for the show had been dropped, he warned of increased attention by special- interest aliens in the United States' southern borders.
President Obama has officially kicked off his 2012 campaign with a 17 minute video entitled, "The Road We've Travelled." The video is a documentary directed by Academy Award winning director David Guggenheim, and narrated by Tom Hanks. The documentary is more than a campaign ad, because it will be used as a motivational tool to get the Democrats and Independents excited about the president's election and platform. In the documentary Rahm Emanuel, the former White House Chief of Staff said, "Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one president." The video/film starts with shouts of flags and cheering crowds from election night, when President Obama had just won the fight to become America's first Black president. The 17 minute film is everywhere o...
I often read references in historical literature and commentary to SDS "self-destructing.'' This seems to refer to a constellation of generalized forces including Maoist sectarian infiltration, the development of various brands of Marxist dogmatism among the "regulars," the drive toward hyper-militancy, violent confrontation, and ultimately "armed struggle," all within a bitta context of government repression. In some renditions of the death of SDS story there is the consoling air of historical inevitability-no matter what we in the national leadership would have done, SDS was destined (by the God of History, I suppose) to implode. In its infinitely long and involved seven year odyssey from Port Huron, 1962 to Chicago, 1969, SDS sought first of all to be a multi-issue radical organizati...
...Fortunately we have an educational tool that tells the story of the successful military reesistance to Vietnam, the recent documentary "Sir, No Sir!" Maybe chapters could adopt a milita...
The third documentary to be the premiered, "The A-G Requirements: Your Pathways to California's Colleges and Universities", is a collaborative project with San Diego County Office of Education (LRET Division) and Migrant Education Program (Region IX). "The A-G Requirements: Your Pathways to California's Colleges and Universities" shows both students and Spanish-speaking parents the importance of education and how it can positively influence their lives. Teen Producers explain the requirements needed at the high school level in order continue onto higher education by telling the story of a successful student, Stephanie Aguilar, and the sacrifices her family has made in order for her to pursue her education goals. The documentary is predominantly in Spanish with English subtitles, and is ...
... English subtitles, and is an informative tool that will be used in schools and libraries through...
MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: WALKING ON THE MOON 3D -- *** 1/2 -- Large-screen documentary about manned space missions; narrated by Tom Hanks; not rated, probable G (nothing offensive); see Page W2 for theaters. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D" is part "edu- tainment," part recruitment tool. Produced with the cooperation of NASA, this large-format documentary is clearly supposed to help renew interest in space exploration.
WASHINGTON, July 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Friday afternoon, the American Federation of Teachers biennial professional issues QuEST conference will feature a special pre-broadcast screening of the PBS documentary The Fire Next Time. The showing will be followed by a discussion with producer/director Patrice O'Neill on using the film as an educational tool. The latest installment in P.O.V., PBS's acclaimed independent nonfiction film series, the documentary examines how citizens of a Montana community struggled to deal with growth, prejudice, politics and the media. The hourlong film confronts critical social issues in America today: the conflict over development and environment, the rise of political polarization and the decline of discourse, and the role of some inflammatory media in pro...
... photographers who believed in documentary photography as an expressive medium and powerful ttool for exposing social problems. It also was a school...
Bill Hoefler's DVD marketing tool came about unexpectedly. Custom Auto's venture into documentary production began with the restoration of a 1968 Dodge Charger, a highly-prized vehicle by muscle car collectors. As a courtesy to the customer, Hoefler recorded the process on his home videocam.
In the documentary "," it's suggested that Lennon was a convenient tool of anti-war and anti- administration activists during the early 1970s. Protest movement leaders like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin seized on the opportunity to bring Lennon's peace-and-love persona, his celebrity and popularity into their sphere, the idea goes -- and that Lennon simply was taken advantage of.
Dan Everett, a linguist who studies Piraha, the language of a small tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, is raising academic hackles again with a new book. In his 2008 memoir, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes," the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night members of the Piraha -- the isolated Amazonian hunter-gatherers he first visited as a Christian missionary in the late 1970s -- tried to kill him.
... ambitious new book, "Language: The Cultural Tool," and a forthcoming television documentary that pr...
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