Arts and Ideas - Documentary

       For the Arts and Ideas event I feel as if using a documentary film as a tool to teach rhetorical knowledge and skill would be useful. Last year, I attended many of theses events for Cultures and Civilization and they quite frequently showed documentaries or other films. I think that watching documentaries help us understand and appreciate the world around us more. The topics that different films focus on can inspire writers to dig deeper into that topic. The film opens the writers mind to that possibility. Also, the directors of these documentaries give the audience a real world version of the topic at hand. Seeing the topic in a real world setting can help the writer better understand the topic and therefore aide in the writers ability to write about it.