Documentary theater, sometimes referred to as verbatim theater, attempts to bring social issues to the stage. Many times, theater has a hard time staying current and discussing the issues of today, and although some might argue that theater should an escape from the problems of the world, documentary theater’s aims to bring to light. If given the opportunity to create a documentary theater piece, I think it would be really interesting to talk about immigration to the United States. The United States was built, in part, by immigrants—and the nation has long been the beneficiary of the new energy and ingenuity that immigrants bring. Today, over 13 percent of the nation’s residents are foreign-born. Immigration has always been a topic I have …show more content…
I would ask people who immigrate das children how they feel about their situation. I would also ask if they ever feel like they are trapped between two worlds. The question I would be the most interested in would be whether or not they consider themselves American. I would probably finish by asking them what they think of when they think of home. I would also interview people who are not immigrants but are observers of immigration in the United States. For the American born children of immigrants, I would ask how they feel immigration has impacted their lives. For immigration advocates, I would ask them why the support immigrants and in the United States, and I would also be interested in hearing the opinions of those who oppose immigration and why do they do. I can imagine that by assembling such a diverse pool of interviewees all of different nationalities, race, ethnicity, age, and gender would be very thought-provoking and fascinating. I would try to compile all the responses in way that reflects all of that diverseness. It is my perception that people have a very narrow-minded view on immigration, so I think that this would be a very good use of documentary
The family member I interviewed is my mother, though she herself is not an immigrant, due to the circumstances of her upbringing, I thought she would relate more to Reyna Grande’s story than my father would. My mother has always shared stories of her upbringing with me and my siblings, she would often tell us stories of growing up in Hasidim from the ages of four to fifteen were like and how assimilating back into secular culture was like coming to a new country. Though I have heard the stories before and knew a majority of the answers to my questions I did find out some things I was not aware of. One of the major things I didn’t know before was that my mother had mostly spoken Yiddish in her childhood and coming back to secular culture a major challenge of that was overcoming a limited knowledge of the English language. And although she did come back to secular culture, knowing a fair amount of English due to the extreme censorship in Hasidim there was a large amount of words and concept she had never heard of before things like dinosaurs and science were completely foreign to her. I sat with my mother for well over and hour and we talked about these sort of things. In conclusion I came to terms with my own culture and feelings of disconnect with my Jewish heritage and
Immigration has a great impact on first generation immigrants. Studies show that acculturation and assimilation have wide-ranging effects on the groups involved, but mostly on the immigrants' lives. There are positive and negative attributes. Attributes that are due to the issues associated with integrating cultures, and broadly related to the greater issue of immigration. The issues and discrimination towards first generation immigrants cause them to have limitations throughout their lifetime, in the country that they have moved to. Furthermore, the Hispanic and Latino community have lived through this problem for so long. They are always the group to be affected by it because they lose a sense of self and are never really accepted by the dominant or other group involved. This is a big issue that requires more attention and efforts to come up with a solution.
On February 19th, 2017, I saw Richland Writes at Richland College in F108 Fanin Arena Theater. Richland Writes was a 10 minutes play festival. Richland student created eight segments of 10 minute plays for the audience to enjoy. They also had to put together the costumes for each play, stage directions and make sure there were props that were put in the correct place. In this play festival each play differed from the other, but they all connected in a way. They all were tied down to today's society. One play was about mexicans crossing the borders illegally, secret organizations, gays, rape, drugs, falling behind in school, depression, and a little religious content. In this paper I will be going over what
When Karl Marx wrote “the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” he interpreted the historical stage and his writing of history as parts of a theatre: he writes;
Specifically, the questions started very basic so that we could get a general feeling of the person that they are; such as, “Where are you from?” and “How long have you been in America?” After that, we moved into the questions about food specifically. First, about their favorite foods back home and what they ate on a daily basis. Then, how those foods were different here and why they thought that their food was not represented well in Manhattan and/or on the Kansas State Campus. Finally, we wanted to know if they had any ideas about what the university and/or Kansas State could do to help fix this problem for international students in the
Teachers arguably have one of the most important and influential job anyone can have. In their hands is the ability to shape the future. Mark Van Doren, an American poet and writer, once said that “the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Teachers bestow upon youth the proper learning devices and tools they will continue to use throughout the entirety of their lives. Why is it then quotes such as “those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” come about? Though teachers are not held on the same pedestal as brain surgeons and rockets scientists, they are still deserving of appreciation for the many challenges that arise with their career. Education, theatre education in specific, is a problematic career choice due to the scarcity of jobs, poor funding, and the comprehensive process one must go
First, my topic is immigration and poverty because I have experience immigration and poverty myself. Another reason I choose the topic of immigration and poverty is the interesting and complexity that effects the most vulnerable. Also, because it is important to inform, communicate, educate other individuals of the needs, and everything immigrants have to do to provide for their families.
The purpose of this assignment was to interview someone who is more than 30 years of age and who is of a different race than oneself. Research on the person being interviewed ethnic background had to be conduct, in addition to, materials covered in class and previous experiences were compiled into 7-10 open ended questions that were discussed during the interview. Below you would see the seven interview questions that were discussed, the answers given, and a biographical piece that bring everything together.
United States usually known as the “melting pot” and it is a typical immigrant country. In the past 400 years, United States has become a mixture of more than 100 ethnic groups. Immigrants bring they own dream and come to this land, some of them looking for better life for themselves and some want to make some money to send back home or they want their children to grow up in better condition. Throughout the history there’s few times of large wave of immigration and it is no exaggeration to say that immigrants created United States. For this paper I interview my neighbor and his immigration story is pretty interesting.
The 15-Minute Family Interview includes the five key steps of applying good manners, setting up a therapeutic conversation with a family, completing a genogram and ecomap, asking several therapeutic questions, and offering commendations (Wright & Leahey, 1999). Along with several components of the 15-minute interview, the Friedman Family Assessment Model explains type of family, cultural background, Religion, social class status and social class mobility. The genogram, ecomap and interview guide created for this assignment are included in this paper as appendix A, appendix B, and appendix C, respectively.
The 19th century was a time of change for Americans. The civil war took place in the 19th century which divided our country into two sides. Theater plays helped the people get through the war and hard times throughout all of history. The 19th century was a time of great change for American theater (19th century).
Cultural diversity is a very phenomenal topic to interview an individual. Exploring along with asking questions and receiving concise answers to say upon others view is a part of learning a culture. This topic allows an interviewer to further insight their questions to see the level of response they can collect according to what they want to find. However, some questions are sensitive enough for interviewees to acknowledge. Children around the world are appreciating of how they show themselves in society because their upbringing is from their own parents. Therefore, interviewing a parent (from different culture) will offer an opportunity for early childhood educators to understand children as a keen learner in a multicultural environment.
Theatre-In-Education The theatre education industry/movement has seen some rapid changes since its initial developments and establishment in the 1960’s. However its origins mainly lie in the early years of the last century. It was the initial establishment of companies such as Bertha Waddell’s in Scotland and Esme Church’s in the north of England that thoroughly established the main roots of TIE.
This is a critique of" Roger And Me", a documentary by Michael Moore. This is a film about a city that at one time had a great economy. The working class people lived the American dream. The majority of people in this town worked at the large GM factory. The factory is what gave these people security in their middle working class home life. Life in the city of Flint was good until Roger Smith the CEO of GM decided to close the factory. This destroyed the city. Violent crime became the highest in the nation, businesses went bankrupt, people were evicted from their rented homes. There were no jobs and no opportunity. Life was so bad that Money magazine named Flint the worst place to live in the entire nation. When news of the factory closing first broke, Michael Moore a native of flint decided to search for Roger Smith and bring him to Flint.
My experience watching a live theatre performance on stage was a fascinating one, most especially since it was my first time. I attended a staged performance of “The History Boys” in a small theatre called “The Little Theatre of Alexandria” at 8:00 pm on Wednesday June 8, 2016 in Alexandria, Virginia. The overall production of the play was a resounding experience for me particularly the performance of the actors and the design of the scene made the play seem real.