Blog 16: Independent Component #1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Paula Montano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• I watched a total of 11 movies, and Rivas my amazing house teacher was the one who gave me the idea to watch the films and review them. And my mentor Noreen Barcena recommended me to watch Lincoln Lawyer.

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  A scene from End of Watch Bryan and Miguel are checking out a complaint.

  Movie

  To Kill A Mockingbird

  Lincoln Lawyer

  12 Angry Men

  The Witness for the Prosecution

  My Cousin Vinny

  Presumed Innocent

  A Few Good Men

  The Paper Chase

  And Justice For All

  Conviction

  End of Watch

  
  
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  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
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  Date	Movie	Movie Length	Hours Spent
  12/21/2015	To Kill A Mockingbird	2 hrs 9 mins	4 hours
  12/22/2015	Lincoln Lawyer	1 hr 58 mins	3 hours 30 mins
  12/29/2015	12 Angry Men	1 hr 36 mins	3 hours
  12/31/2015	The Witness for the Prosecution	1 hr 56 mins	3 hours
  1/2/2016	My Cousin Vinny	2 hrs	3 hours 30 mins
  1/8/2016	Presumed Innocent	2 hrs 7 mins	3 hours
  1/9/2016	A Few Good Men	2 hrs 18 mins	3 hours 30 mins
  1/12/2016	The Paper Chase	1 hr 53 mins	3 hours
  1/15/2016	And Justice For All	2 hrs	3 hours
  1/21/2016	Conviction	1 hr 47 mins	2 hrs 30 mins
  1/25/2016	End of Watch	1 hr 49 mins	2 hours 23 mins
  Total Time:	34 hours 23 mins

  
  
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I watched 11 criminal justice films, and reviewed them. I was able to see different scenarios and interpret them in whichever way I wanted.
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
  



I was watching "To Kill a Mockingbird" and I was taking a break from watching the movie. I stopped at this scene and it made me giggle so I had fun with it,

• Each movie was able to show me a bit of what the criminal justice is like. They might be films, but when it comes to film there has to be an influence of real life. Courtroom scenarios, attorneys strategies, and police procedures are some of the important factors I was able to get from this.
• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• I already knew that everything in the criminal justice system was one big web, but watching these films gave me an idea of how it works when you focus on just one specific branch of the criminal justice system. The court room is a complete different process to what its like when someone is actually being arrested. I was able to view it from the jury, convict, and the attorneys side. The fact that evidence was really important was a repeating factor I saw.