Documentary

      This film was called Hawaiian, the Legend of Eddie Aikau because Eddie was Hawaiian and it was a story about him. The topic of the documentary was Eddie himself, the focus was the Hawaiian identity and Eddie's surfing. The thesis I came up with for this documentary was, "Eddie embodied the original Hawaiian culture/spirit and kept it alive thorough his passion for family, community, and surfing." Since this documentary was made by ESPN, we can assume that it might not be as factual as if it were made by PBS or another company. Although this documentary was very informative and factual, it heavily focused of Eddie's surfing career opposed to focusing on more of the history of the Hawaiians.

6.    The blowing up of the Maine would be what I made my documentary about. The topic would be the Maine, the focus would be how it was falsely identified as an attack by the Spanish. The thesis would be, "Even though the Spanish didn't blow up the Maine, the Americans thought they did and were outraged, without this happening the war/conflict with Spain wouldn't have escalated to the levle that it did.