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The conversations and interactions people have with each other is a key necessity in becoming an active member in any society. The bonds and relationships that people make is what forms a community. In Robert D. Putnam’s (2000), Bowling Alone, there are three forms of capital; physical which as physical objects, human so properties of an individual like education, and social which are the connections between individuals. Social capital is what makes us branch out into the world and interact with

Bowling has always been competitive for me. Whenever I would play with my friends or family I would always try to play my best, and that competition kept bowling interesting for me. After bowling for a while, my mom signed me up for an Etihad Airways Bowling Tournament. From the moment I walked in, I felt I was out of my league. Most of them walked in with their own equipment and looked like they had been playing for years. That didn’t stop me from playing though. I felt this would be a great learning

What makes documentary filmmaking distinct to narrative filmmaking? There are a few contrasting objectives for both types of filmmaking that distinguishes them from each other. Simply put, narrative filmmaking is a movie with a pre-written script, actors and a story which is already crafted before they start shooting. while documentaries are filmmaking where real life events are captured, and a script is usually written afterwards. Narrative films rely on the three-act structure which goes Setup

Bowling for Columbine is a documentary directed by American filmmaker and activist, Michael Moore. The political documentary focuses on the 1999 school shootings that occurred in Columbine, Colorado, and Flint, Michigan and the correlation of guns to the high homicide rates in America. Moore argues that the number one problem the United States faces is gun control. Moore effectively uses ethos, pathos, and logos appeals to present an unbiased and informational view of the issue of gun violence in

Bowling for Columbine isan interactive or participatory documentary directed by Micheal More ( Farenheight 911, Sicko ) in 2002. In this documentry More explores the 1999 Colimbine Masacare, he investigates what lead up to this masacare as well as how Colombine reacted to it. He reads into the violence in the United States and the fact that america has the highest gun-murder rate in the world, he questions the right that Americans have to acessing guns. It is created with many conventions of the

has to understand that it is not the directors main objective to twist and morph the programme into whatever suits him but at times it is a nessicary evil in order to provide entertainment and to get the message across effectively. For example in Bowling for Columbine the documentary was released in 2002 at the time when the general public had been exposed to news headlines of deaths, murders, crime rates that the public had beendesensitised to social issues that he had to go down the sensationalism

Social capital is a concept identified by Robert D. Putnam that is “shorthand for social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trust to which those networks give rise” (Sander and Putnam 2010, p. 9). He developed this idea within the context of a disintegrating American public life. At the end of the twentieth century, Americans were no longer coming together for recreational and civic activities, rather they were isolating themselves. This trend led to distrust among communities and disengagement

One possible theme of Columbine would be change. Before the horrific catastrophe, an event as gruesome as the Columbine massacre was almost unheard of. Society as a whole would never for one second think that two young, seventeen year old boys would be capable of so much chaos; no one would think that the youth of our times could embody so much hatred. Once terror struck and the shooting occurred our entire country felt the sting of it. America reacted by having stricter security for

In the movie Bowling for Columbine, directed by Michael Moore, you see Moore talking to many people on why the Columbine shooting happened. He looks for clues on what could have caused this and how easily it may have been avoided. Macro-sociology is looking at a society as a whole. Some macro-sociological issues that could of contributed to the shooting is media and America's need to have a gun. Media plays a big role by having commercial after commercial about have amazing guns are. While they

Although many people think that Americans are gun nuts, in reality they’re just all nuts. This realization was shown in the documentary Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore. Throughout the film Michael Moore shows us many examples of why America has problems with guns. However after watching one realizes that the problem isn’t with guns but within the American people instead. When the film first begins we see Michael Moore going to a bank a getting a rifle from a bank just for opening a bank