Write an Essay to a Documentary.As you continue to read about and research your topics, you should be developing focus as you come to a Research Question. For your next reading response, I want you to watch one documentary on Kanopy and think about how the documentary makers build an argument. What is their central thesis? How do they tie the evidence to this argument? Write your response in at least 250 words. If you choose a series, you only have to respond to one episode, not the entire series. This must be a response to a documentary, not a movie. https://soundcloud.com/user-986944473/journal-entry-response-to-documentary1302/s-yXnV0CvRztB?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing List of Documentaries: (pick the documentary of your choice) “Teach Us All” – currently available on Netflix and Kanopy. https://www.teachusallfilm.org/ “Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, and Consipiracy” – currently available on Netflx. From the site: A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s. Kanopy Teach Us All | KanopySixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced mobs of racially charged hatred and became cornerstones of the Civil Rights movement, TEACH US ALL examin Broken on All Sides | KanopyToday, there are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. Prison State | KanopyWith this intimate, graphic film, award-winning director Dan Edge follows four residents of a housing project in Louisville, Ky., as they cycle in and Frontline: Left Behind America | KanopyIntimate stories of one Rust Belt city’s struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. Killing Us Softly | KanopyIn this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look The Crime of the Century | KanopyPurdue Pharma’s aggressive promotion of the highly addictive and lucrative OxyContin lays the groundwork for America’s opioid crisis. The Crime of the Century | KanopyWhile pharmaceutical companies mass-market the synthetic opioid fentanyl, lawmakers continue to grease the opioid pipeline. Public Enemy Number One | KanopyPUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE sheds light on the politics behind the war on drugs from Nixon to today, with first of its kind insight from .
