Words Edge Doc: Analysis of the Activists Documentary

During the late 1960s, the environmental movement focused mostly on public health and industrial themes. During this time of initial modern development, it received little attention from the champions of the social movements of the times such as civil rights and women’s equality. Most of the emphasis on environmental matters in these early years came from environmentally driven sociologists such as Paul Goodman, Murray Boochkin, and Herbert Marcuse. Many were exhilarated to become the heads of ecologically based institutions that would fight against government and corporation ecological mistreatments. Often times they would research and issue articles that pointed out abuses that directly affected the common household such as Boochkin’s “The Problems of Chemicals in Foods.” This type of research pointed out new types of environmental issues that either did not exist or did not matter before World War II and just now became identified. These types of papers had a message that reached everybody not just select individuals like many of the previous issues such as water management, and land

In the Michael Moore documentary Capitalism a Love Story examples what capitalism is and how it hurt so many citizens. Capitalism is a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government. The documentary teaches viewers the impact that big corporations have on americans. At the beginning of the film Moore is showing middle class people get there houses taken from them because of capitalism.

The purpose of the film was to call the target audience of environmentalists into action to help save the Virunga National Park. At the end of the documentary, there is a link that provides more information on how to further help out the cause, which is further adding to the logos of the argument, by providing a source. Through all of the rhetorical strategies and the numerous appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the documentary, the director effectively persuaded the target audience to join the cause of protecting the Virunga National Park against further SOCO destruction and rebel

The “Rise of ecology” was a very interesting and mind refreshing documentary film depicting the 10 different disasters that have devastated our planet. This documentary was a good teachable moment for us to take the necessary measure to ensure the safety of the citizens and the planet. The film also emphasized that we should minimize the amount to pollution that we release in to our atmosphere. We see that its always the people who suffer at the hands of major corporations who are just hungry for profits. The film mentions that these major corporations take the consequences of catastrophic events lightly. They do everything they can to increase the profits even at the expense of their own workers. The movie “Pandora” which I recently watched shares a lot of similarities to the documentary film “Rise of ecology” in a way that took me by a surprise. The movie tells a story of how human error came to cause the malfunction of a nuclear power plant causing the nation to go in to panic mode. The movie starts in an interesting way, a flashback where the main character and his friends were just children making assumptions of what the new mysterious development in their town was all about. Some of the kids responded by saying that the nuclear reactor plant was a rice cooker, another a robot and finally the little girl responded by saying that her teacher told her that “it was a box and that if it was open they would all be in trouble”.

Today the United States is the biggest economy, the biggest energy consumer, and the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. The film states, that by 2050 most economists predict that China’s economy will be larger than that of the U.S. By 2030 China will import as much oil as the U.S. however, oil is only part of the problem. The world’s most cited

To start with, Pezzullo successfully demonstrates how citizens critically interrupt the success story narrative about environmental activism in Warren County. Throughout the course of this reading, we see the residents of Warren County try to come up with a new conclusion to those narratives, one of which would include environmental cleanup. Additionally, Pezzullo presents two rhetorical tensions

The movie, Living Downstream’s, thesis on the dangers of the carcinogens in our environment is one that has been repeated often. So why then is Sandra Steingraber’s documentary such a revered piece of work? Why has it been called “thoughtfully designed” and “inspiring”? There are many thoughtfully used rhetorical strategies that have contributed to the impactfulness of this movie. The leading strategies used are a combination of emotional and logical appeal, usually structured with the emotional appeal coming first to draw you in and scientific information being added to support the claim. Another rhetorical strategy being used is Steingraber’s authority on the subject; her being both a scientist and a cancer patient, but not only does she have theses authority’s, but she presents them in a way which makes them more believable and endears you to her.

One of the statements in the movie that was shown on September 12 at the Lawrence Public Library, “This Changes Everything,” that really resounded with me was, “We are its [Earth’s] machine. We are its masters.” Throughout the movie different locations were described, from the oil in Canada that was destroying the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Yellowstone River in Montana, New York City, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, France, India, and China. It was interesting to link the different issues in those places to class. Each place had a similar environment issue, but each had problems that made their battle in preserving their environment unique.

We need to build partnerships with labor. While that may sound overly ambitious or optimistic, thankfully, there is hope. It turns out that, contrary to popular framing, union workers actually favor environmental protections at higher rates than the general population. Thus, we can team up with these environmentally conscious workers for the public good. Indeed, we can use the resources, networks, and institutional frameworks of unions to support the environmental

About education defines energy as “the ability to do work” (Helmenstine, A. 2016) which conveys that it can be used to produce electricity, cooling, heating and many more for our homes, office, and indeed for our environment. Although, it have undoubtedly became an important part of our life, making our task easier to achieve; it still has a lot of negative impacts whether it be on the environment, the health of humans, or the animals. The most common type of energy that is being used today is fossil fuels. “For many years, Aboriginal communities in Northern Canada have relied on technologies that use fossil fuels” (Issues Related to Energy Changes, 2016). Many of the negative impacts that fossil fuel has on the environment are global warming,

The beginning of the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century led to an exponential increase in our demand for energy to satisfy the growing needs of manufacturing, transport, production of raw materials, healthcare, and agriculture. Simple tasks are taken for granted such as “powering-up” the plethora of devices and gadgets that we “cannot live without” – such as our smart phones and computers. Whilst all of these things are central to our very existence on the planet, our increased dependence on energy has essentially been met to date by the burning of non-renewable fossil fuels, such as brown and black coal.

It has been claimed in class that this treatment results from the nature of capitalism as an economic system, not merely from the doings of “bad people”. Maltreatment of workers, animals, and the environment are depicted in the film “FOOD, INC”. Capitalism also known as “The Free Enterprise System” and “The Market Economy” is a mode of production under which social classes are determined by ownership or control of the means of production. A mode of production is a system by which material production in society is organized. Under capitalism individual rights are emphasized, everything used except human labor is privately owned, and income is based on marketplace competition. In regards to food, food has

Energy is the ability for something to do work, create heat, or emit light. By this definition, energy can be anything from a sandwich to uranium. However, for the sake of simplification, this essay will focus on the United States’ consumption of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas), which constitute eighty-six percent of American energy (Lehrman 2). That is a lot of energy, however it becomes an even larger amount when taken into consideration that even though America accounts for only five

Coal and natural gas are the United States’ main fossil fuels used as energy sources. These fossil fuels both contain mixtures of hydrocarbons, which is a chemical compound of carbon and hydrogen (Olah, 2005). Currently, fossil fuels provide eighty-five percent of commercial energy, such as businesses, worldwide and this eighty-five percent does not even account for residential use. Imagine if the residential energy use was accounted for in that eighty-five percent (Davison, 2007). According to Goodell (2006), “Between 1950 and 2000, the world population increased by 140 percent and fossil fuel consumption increased by 400 percent. By 2030, the world’s demand for energy is expected to more than double,” with most of the electricity

By the late 1800s, the world’s first coal powered electric generator was made, the world’s first electric light was used, and the world’s first hydroelectric plant was utilized. A few years later a new type of fuel was becoming well-known, petroleum. Initially it had been an inconvenience for polluting water but by the end of the century oil, turned into gasoline, powered up engines. With the spread of economical gas cars and electricity, society’s energy use rapidly increased. Power plants became massive and power lines stretched out from hundreds of miles between cities, even during The Great Depression. After World War II, the use of energy was quickly doubling every 10 years and it concerned no one.