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I Am Sparknotes
I Am is a documentary made by Tom Shadyac who was in a bicycle accident that led to him having suffering from post-concussion syndrome, for short period in his life. The life altering accident led him to that ask the questions, what wrong with the world, and what can we do to change it.
After watching this film my assertion was that we are what wrong with the world I am what wrong with the world. In order to change the world we need to tart with our self’s, this how we change the world, but this a broad answer. Thru my analytical argument four work literary lost to millenniums will be used too make an argument, the four ancient stories are, The Buddha: Sermon at Benares, The Enuma Elish, and Plato: The Allegory of the Cave, Matthew 13.
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The next part of the first assertion question is our separation from the natural world. “From I Am the belief is that our job as people is to be consumers wanting and buying more stuff, more stuff equal more happiness.” This assumption I find to be a double edge sword because yes our economy drives off of consumerism but so does the world economy. When you take a look at the economy it’s the sell and providing of goods and services that generates money there for growing the firms, college, markets our society as a whole. Yes our job is to be consumers but that such a broad prospective word the woman at Walmart has as much an effect on our economy as the college paying for classes a service. Their nothing wrong with being a consumer it when you use the goods to fill a void that where you want happiness or becoming glutinous that makes it wrong. In “Doctrine in the mean the middle way is different for everyone” a millionaire consumption might seem wrong to me, but I’m basing it on my mean and this is

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