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    Michael Moore is the writer and director of the highly relevant documentary film, Capitalism: A Love Story. To me, the most interesting chapter of the film is Dead Peasants. Moore talked about “capitalism is a system of giving and taking, mostly taking”. In my opinion, it sounds true for me. Moore illustrated Irma Johnson’s husband Dan ironic case. Who recently died of cancer, leaving behind Irma and their two sons. They filmed the woman cried and sadly talked about her husband. Her husband worked

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    Filmmaker Michael Moore takes up the lane and splits the nation with his controversial documentary Bowling for Columbine. The Oscar winning film shows America and it’s gun culture within it. Made in 2002, a bit after the infamous columbine shooting, this movie was made to open up all discussions on media and gun control. By asking the question of why America is so violent compared to other civilized countries, Michael Moore successfully raises awareness of the causes of gun violence. But how does

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    Casino Royale Symbolism

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    How James Bond is symbolism in the story Casino Royale by Ian Fleming such as how James Bond’s car is a symbol of him. Along with how his drink and his gadgets symbolized James Bond. In this book James Bond’s car was the Bentley 4.5 liter and it was supercharged and it is called the blower Bentley. The reason it is called the blower Bentley is because of the supercharger. Superchargers spin really fast with the RPMs of the motor while its spinning it’s blowing air into the engine that’s why it is

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    The film V for Vendetta directed by James McTique and the novel After the First Death by Robert Cormier both presents the issue of terrorism which is significant problem in the society. Similarly, both the text and the film portray the notion that terrorists use violence to achieve their goal of anarchy. The terrorists in both the film and the novel are willing to sacrifice themselves to fight for what they believe is right and pass the ideas onto the society. However, V, the terrorist in McTique’s

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    The Morality of Vigilantism From 2012 to present day a new superhero has been brought to our televisions. His name is Oliver Queen better known as the “Arrow”. In this hit series Oliver Queen, a party hard, billionaire playboy, ends up stranded on an island after his boat was shipwrecked. This island was unlike any other place, where Oliver had to overcome many perilous situations with some very dangerous people, which left him struggling for survival. Long story short, after being saved from the

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    Bowling For Columbine

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    Columbine is a documentary made by the filmmaker, Michael Moore in 2002. This documentary looks into the mysterious circumstances leading to the Columbine massacre in 1999, in which, 2 students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, aged 17 and 18 years, in their final year of high school, had killed 13 (12 students and 1 teachers), injuring many, before turning the gun on themselves. By utilising satirical, but persuasive dialogue and visuals, Michael Moore delves within the reasons of America’s high gun violence

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    Roger And Me Analysis

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    I. Introduction Roger and Me is a documentary from 1989 by Michael Moore about the deindustrialization of American society. The documentary uses Flint, Michigan, the world’s headquarters of General Motors, as a case study for deindustrialization. In addition to, showing how the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Deindustrialization, which is the decline in industrial activity such as manufacturing in a region, has negative economic and social consequences. As we see in Moore’s documentary,

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    Worth 15 points 1. Who is most to blame for the events depicted in the film? Were you angered by the events? Why? The government is to be blamed for the events in the film even though it was the banks that caused the harm. To begin with the government did little to nothing to regulate what was going on. In fact it was stated in the video that it deregulated and caused taxpayers billions of dollars. Instead of putting a stop to what was going on it signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which allowed

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    documentaries, focusing on the styles of Subjective and Objective. Earlier this term, our class had the opportunity of watching one of each style; Spellbound by Jeffrey Blitz which is an Objective style of documentary and Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore, the Subjective style. The difference between these two styles of documentary; is that one is bias and more likely to be opinionated and is made for entertainment purposes; which is Subjective. The other style shows an unbiased opinion that states

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    "Disoriented", the one word Rick Grimes uses to describe the moments he has been through before reuniting with his family. In a world driven into a apocalypse, filled with the undead and anarchy, everyone's will and faith are tested. One will either be changed for worst or for the better. This essay will analyze the actions of Rick Grimes, present my ideas if I were in Ricks position, and to answer for the actions of one more character. Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather

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