Movie Analysis Dancing On The Ashes Of The Drug War ...

In the short Just Say No:â€Å"Dancing On The Ashes Of the Drug War,† Eugene Jarecki combines dance, excerpts from political speeches and news-reports, and recent statistics, to assess the current War on Drugs in the United States (U.S.). When this video was released in 2014, the U.S. was the â€Å"jailing-est country on the planet† with 2.3 million prisoners and a higher imprisonment rate for drug crimes than both China and Russia. Over the years, the U.S. has made over 45 million drug-related arrests and spent around $1 trillion dollars on the War on Drugs. This video’s primary goals are to raise awareness about the â€Å"Smarter Sentencing Act,† which would shorten the mandatory minimum sentence for some drug offenses and release thousands of individuals, and convince viewers to sign the petition for this legislation, which is included at the end of the video. This video’s frenetic yet straight-forward construction captures what it feels like to be a Black American trapped in this unjust system and persuades viewers to join the movement against the War on Drugs. This video’s unique focus on dance gives the people most effected by the War on Drugs, Black Americans, a chance to express how they feel. According to the article that accompanies the video, Jarecki prompted the dancers by asking them to envision themselves â€Å"dancing on the ashes of the drug war.† Unlike in the American judicial system, where everything is decided for them, here they get to show how they feel; the fast-pacedShow MoreRelatedMarketing Mistakes and Successes175322 Words   |  702 Pagesinsights, we can also learn from successes and find nuggets by comparing the unsuccessful with the successful. With the addition of Google and Starbucks, we have moved Entrepreneurial Adventures up to the front of the book. We have continued Marketing Wars, which many of you recommended, and reinstated Comebacks of firms iii iv †¢ Preface rising from adversity. I have also brought back Ethical Mistakes, because I believe that organizations more than ever need to be responsive to society’s best Read MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pages There are logical—that is, appropriate—ways of doing this, as well as illogical ones. The goal is to add truths, not falsehoods. For example, you are waiting in the grocery store checkout line and notice a magazine’s front-page headline, World War II Bomber Discovered Intact on Surface of Moon. You didnt know that, did you? Well, it wouldnt be logical to believe it. Why not? Here are three reasons: (1) Bombers cant fly to the moon, (2) no one is going to bust the national budget to