Documentary or Movie?

- If Hollywood attempted to depict the Freedom Riders in movie form, could it be done authentically with a close rendering of real events to the point where it was more effective for audiences than the documentary, or will the documentary always trump anything Hollywood could do, given that it's the "true" story?

Hollywood movies are most of the time, very successful, but in this instance, I feel like Hollywood would not be very successful in trying to depict something so important when you already have a successful documentary that has successfully preceded it. In this case, I feel like the documentary will trump a movie just because the documentary contains so much raw footage that Hollywood does not have. When someone is watching the documentary, it kind of puts the person watching in that place and puts them in the shoes of the people who were there during that time. When you watch a movie about the situation, it kind of gives you that feel that the movie is fictional and not real and it wont take you to that place as much. I also feel like a true story, like the Freedom Riders catches a viewers interest more and with a film, it would be interesting, but you would not leave with the true story. You wont have first hand accounts like in the documentary so you will not be able to witness first hand how those people felt back then when they were going through a period of segregation. I think overall, people have their preferences as to weather they want to see the truth of a situation or the made up story with the truth behind it. But personally I would rather see a documentary so I can really see what happened at a ceartain time and how people felt about it.

Parenting in 2012

I feel like adults of 2012 should parent their children with caution by being aware of the things that are happening in the outside world. Today in 2012 the world is crazy where there is a lot of younger generation smoking and doing drugs and there is also much violence and I believe that parents should protect their children from this without being over protective. When I am a parent I would want my child to have freedom and not being confined to the house like some parents do to their children. I would let my children do what they want but to a certain extent because I cant just let my child run buck wild and not be able to control him or herself. I also fell like adults in 2012 should talk to their children and know what goes on in their lives because our generation goes through so much and I feel like it is important that children have someone to open up to and I feel like the parent should make the child feel comfortable enough that they can talk to them about their situation. Some rules that I would give to my child, especially a teenager is to be home by a certain time because things happen in the world and I would want my children to be safe. I would never want to be over protective of my child because that is something that I experience and it is not any easy thing to deal with because you feel like you have no freedom and your guardian makes it seem like everything is a bad thing which it is not. I would want my child to be able to hang out with friends and have fun, something that an overprotective parent would not allow. Over all I believe that parents should lay down some ground rules and make sure that the child follows those simple basic rules. Also I believe that parents should be open with their children because parents can learn to be trusted by their kids and kids can be trusted by their parents. Lastly I feel like dicipline is important because without it the child may feel like they can get away with anything and everything.

 

Race-Relations

I feel like the race-relations are getting better in America today but I do see some instances where you still see racial insults within the younger generation and certain educational factors that are reared toward a certain race. My own experiences with race relations today have been from people telling me like for example my friend told me a story when she got on the school bus and there was a white boy sitting in the seat an she needed a place to sit so she had asked him she could sit with him. He basically told her that she belonged in the back of the bus where all of the black people sat referring to when the blacks sat in the backs of buses during the civil rights movement. I think that some of the important racial issues in America today for example is the presidential election. The last election, people felt like president Obama should not have been in office because he was black so the whites would not vote for him. But I have also seen some of the black majority vote for president Obama just because he is black and only based on that. That's something that I see occurring a lot in my church as well. Even though the church doesn't support just one candidate, some people within it do.