Global Issues Movie Essay #2

Rubric for Movie essays:

Due no later than 11:30 pm on December 3rd.

Must be uploaded in the Assignment boxes for the movie essays.

12 point font

Double-spaced

500 words minimum

USE paragraphs to organize your thoughts!

DO NOT SIMPLY TELL THE STORY IN THE MOVIE! The point is NOT to tell me the whole movie, but to use the movie to talk about points that affect international relations.

 Pick out the political issues that are part of the movie...for instance, on Mussolini, one of the issues would be authoritarian leadership in the world.  You would want to discuss HOW he was authoritarian/fascist, what impact that ideological attitude had on his leadership, on Italy, on the world.  

On a movie like Hotel Rwanda, you would want to talk about genocide and how it got started in that country.  What is the back story that set the stage for it?  What was the immediate cause that instigated it?  What was the extent of it?  What can be done to prevent genocide in the future?  

On Thirteen Days, you would talk about the decision-making process of both the US and the USSR going through the crisis, the role of back-channel or two tier diplomacy, the threat of nuclear war, the problems of diplomacy to avoid such confrontation, the fact that much of diplomacy does not involve words but actions instead and that actions are equal to words in these contexts, the need for open channels of diplomacy to aid in avoiding such crises...etc.