Michael Moore Essay

Flint town is a small town in Michigan. Flint was a prosperous town when it had many General Motor workers. The General Motor factories made most of the people who lived in Flint middle-class citizens (Canepari, et al). They made about making about $80,000 a year. After General Motors shut down all of their factories in Flint, most of the people lost their jobs. This put Flint into major poverty and increased their crime rate (Canepari, et al). The documentary shows flint town in current years. After

The assigned material for this week's reflection assignment is a video titled "Semiautomatic rifle import ban of 1989".The video presentation does not feature a credited narrator. The video is hosted on the website youtube.com, and may be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=HKWshQWLVIM. The video was posted to the site by GunWebsites on 29 Sep 09. The video begins with a projection on the screen of a list of restrictions imposed by the United States government regarding the

In “Idiot Nation”, Michel Moore presents a very strong argument about this nation, America. Moore states that American is dealing with a world of idiots. He gives important points of what America has come down to and explains his frustration with the American education system and also political system. Moore discusses undeniable facts about why education in America is failing which also include elected political leaders. In this essay, the author is not only pointing out what is wrong with the nation

headlines of deaths, murders, crime rates that the public had beendesensitised to social issues that he had to go down the sensationalism route in order to provoke emotion and an uproar amongst the viewers. This is shown from the beginning where Micheal Moore goes into a bank in where you can apparently receive a gun by simply opening an account with the bank. This event after the documentary was proved to be a staged event, there is no bank in America where you can just walk in, open an

Introduction: April 20, 1999, is a day of remembrance for many people. The Columbine massacre had an effect not only on the Littleton, Colorado community but also on the entire country. In the book Columbine by Dave Cullen, the author tells the story of the tragedy that started with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The book begins with an introduction into both Eric and Dylan's thoughts, actions, and reasoning behind their plan to attack their high school. Throughout the book the author points out

In the expository documentary, Loose Change, director, Dylan Avery, challenges the master narrative dealing with the events that lead to, and occured on September 11, 2001. Throughout the film, he provides a multitude of theories that may better explain the pending questions about 9/11. But on a more broader sense, this documentary is a call to action for the american people to just simply, ask questions. Avery’s search for the truth, surfaced many inquiries that most U.S. citizens did not even know

Documentary reflection The assignment task for Term two was for a small group of people (three), to create a documentary and then each person to write a reflection. Before starting this documentary, we studied the history and development of documentaries. We then looked more into how different documentaries, Spellbound (objective) and Bowling for Columbine (subjective), how each separate style was created and made and how each different style affected people. We ran into conflict when we were choosing

driven by profit margins, compared to universal health care in different countries such as Canada, U.K., and France. The thesis of the film is the need for universal healthcare in United States and the US’s lack of a solution. The film began with Moore, the film’s director, interviewing some of the “privileged” Americans who were as he stated, “living the American dream,” by having insurance. The individuals interviewed shared some of their horror stories dealing with health insurance and hospitals

To what extent can BFC be viewed as drawing on key elements of Bakhtin’s notion of carnivalesque? Bowling for Columbine is a post-structural film produced by Mike Moore. It leaves a message about America and its people. Today, the world is not a safe place. However, the world is made unsafe by the people who don’t believe it is safe. This is what the film is based on: fear and guns. Bowling For Columbine is a carnivalesque to an extent as it contains many elements of a carnivalesque. These elements

“Columbine” by Dave Cullen presented me with a vast array of knowledge and insight into an incident which I had minimal knowledge of. What very little knowledge I had came from exposure to the incident through classroom discussions from years past, and occasional references to Columbine through media vectors such as television and music. I knew the incident occurred after I was born, but I was unaware of the actual date and far too young to have any sort of recollection in regards to it. I was aware