DOCA

When signing this paper I believed that I was doing the right thing and preventing people who had lived their whole lives here from being sent to a country they had never to been. I later when to go hang out with some of my friends and found out that some of her cousins relied on DOCA to stay in the United States. I did not personally know any of my friend's cousins but after finding out this information I saw the people I was signing this document for no longer as strangers but as Mothers, bothers, fathers, and sisters. These mean something to somebody uprooting them from their live is not the correct thing to do. I felt more pride in my decision when signing this paper and faith in myself that signing it was the right thing to do.

Article Compare and Contrast

 The review on Cartel Land written by Manohla Dargis is similar to mine in a way of talking about how much emotion the film imcites within you when watching it or thinking back on it. The review begins to differ from mine when I begin to make more of a personal connect using examples to the emotions the film made me have. Dargis' review focused more on of a summary of the movie I'm which he mentions the emotions the films bring up within you due to the horrifying scenes shown but I tried to take more of a lighter approach like not talking about the decapitated heads or babies being killed. The style of the Dargis' review was of course more professional than mine was, I took more of a personal approach in my opinion.

Documentary Reflection

1) A specific scene that made me feel more understanding I would say is when the director was talking to the cartel in the desert in the middle of the night and one of them was saying how he know that they are hurting people and that to other they heartless gang members but to each other they are a family supporting each other because how else are they suppose to make money which by no way makes up for what they are doing but I understand better from both sides. I got to see a close up of the damage the cartel was doing to the people of Mexico.

2) I was surprised when I found out that Dr. Mireles was corrupt and was working with the cartel. I assumed he was one of the good guys judging from his story. As the film went on and on he began to do more suspicious thing. A clip in the film was seen of one of him meeting late at night with someone who is believed to be a cartel member.

3) The main question I had after watching this documentary was, "How does it all end?" "Who will put a stop to the cartel now?" The feeling of compassion and understanding stayed with me after the film because it the documentary helped me see things from other peoples lens. No, these feelings did not pop back up in life in unexpected ways because I live a better life than those people that I saw in the documentary and so far I have been taking it for granted like the fact that I don't have to wake up everyday and fear losing my parents or sibling in the cross fire between gang members and vigilantes.

5 problematic concepts are: Corruption, Violence, Poverty, Drugs, and Weapons

The Intro

Hello, my name is Max Ebong and I am 18 years old. I am a freshman at Lewis University, I also run track which I've been doing since 8th grade. I enjoy hanging out with friends, working out, and taking naps. I stay on campus in Founders Hall, don't be afraid to say wassup if you see me on campus.