Happy Wednesday!  As we discussed on Monday night, I am open to using a different tool to practice our critical thinking skills on film night.  The Birth of A Nation (1915) was my original plan but I am asking all of you to post alternative suggestions in the comments under this post.  We will be critically analyze something.  I had planned for a film but it could be a poem, work of art etc.  I am leaning toward a film because we will have many other opportunities to look critically at written works.  If you have a suggestion, please leave the following in a comment:
    1. What do you propose we review/critically analyze?
    2. Why did you choose this?  Be very specific here...
    3. How will be access it?  Youtube?  You own it?  It is on campus?
We will discuss your suggestions in class next week and come to a decision as a group.  Have fun!

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  1. Naph LouSeptember 14, 2017 at 2:22 PM

    I'd love to read a poem. I don't personally read a lot of poetry, but I admire Maya Angelo's work and would like to read the poems from that Robin William's movie: something society.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 18, 2017 at 4:53 AM

    To be honest, watching even an hour long movie take me like 4 hours to watch so I'm not really good with knowing or finding good films. however I did come across a documentary while looking around for information on my research topic. The documentary is called "Americas Broken Education" and you can find it on youtube easily. I feel like it would be interesting to analyze a documentary because i feel like there are so many documentaries out there and it is so hard to figure out what actually holds truth and how to call out fake information. It seems to be very one sided, as i skimmed through it already. I feel like documentaries are normally looked at as reliable information and anyone can film a documentary and claim truths. so I was thinking if we go the documentary route in general, even if we don't use that specific one, it may help us in the long run identify reliable information.

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    1. BrianSeptember 18, 2017 at 6:41 AM

      This might be an interesting choice. I will take a look at it today. Thank you.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 18, 2017 at 5:39 AM

    I think we would all learn something from the film "Crash" made in 2004.

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    1. BrianSeptember 18, 2017 at 6:40 AM

      You skipped the second and third questions. Why would this be a good piece to critically analyze? How will we access it? I will do some research this afternoon.

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