A documentary can be defined as a film that provides a factual record or report. But how factual is a documentary‚ really? This presentation aims to investigate the persuasive devices used in Bowling For Columbine. This is a documentary by well known director Michael Moore‚ which uses a range of filming techniques to persuade the audience that the Columbine shootings were a result of so much fear‚ greed and consumerism in America. This is his extremely biased idea of the truth. In Michael Moore’s
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Bowling at one time throughout the 1950s and 1960s and for a few more decades following was the most popular participation sport in America. Today it still remains popular among Americans‚ but not nearly at the level it once was. For whatever reason a town’s bowling alley or alleys in some cases close‚ the community loses a little piece of its identity. Individuals within that community lose some of their own sense of belonging to a community. Also in this natural chain reaction people become less
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YEAR 2008….THE PAST; HOW DID I SURVIVE? YEAR 2009…..THE PRESENT; WHAT WOULD BE MY DESTINY? According to Chinese Calendar‚ year 2008 is the year of rat exactly the same as calculated as equal to my birth year and happened to be my lucky year‚ the very reason for it… the blessings that I received up to the end. Early quarter of 2008..I remember how I supposed to be disciplined in terms of everything‚ I was starting to list all my target goal including my new year’s resolution‚ my plan
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The documentary “Bowling for Columbine” is an award-winning documentary directed by well-known filmmaker Michael Moore. The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature‚ as well as an Independent Spirit Award‚ a Cesar Award and many others. This bold movie criticizes America’s large number of gun related deaths annually compared to other countries around the world. He discusses why America seems to have such a problem with violence and how it has led to tragedy’s involving firearms like
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YOUR NAME:_______________________________ YOUR TAs NAME:___________________________ YOUR DISCUSSION #_____________ THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Department of Economics Economics 011 Section 14 Prof. Steve Suranovic Fall 2012 Problem Set #2 – Answers Answer all of the following questions from the book and those below. HW #2 is due in class on Wednesday Feb 22nd . A. Questions from Text and Readings R&T Chapter 2-5 (online)‚ Chapter 2.4 Review and Practice (in printed textbook);
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The preface of Bowling‚ and Bell Bottoms: Pop Culture of the 20th-Century American starts off by saying that the social movements were just the beginning of changing the lifestyle of Americans. The most visible movement was the youth movement that took place in many forms. College students protested across campuses and formed the Students for a Democratic Society. The hippy movement also came from the youth movement. The segregation of society led to the crescendo of the Civil Rights Movement‚ which
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and shots he needs to make his films interesting. His movies always dissect the most sensitive topics that are on the American citizens’ minds. Two of the most controversial movies of the 21st century were both made by Michael Moore. These are Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11. Fahrenheit 9/11 is his most recent documentary. This movie touches on what Moore believes is the gross negligence that he believes the Bush administration demonstrated before and during the attack on America
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film festival‚ became the first documentary to top $100 million at the domestic box office. Moore‚ who won the documentary Academy Award for "Bowling for Columbine‚" is pushing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the best picture category for the upcoming Oscars. Alluding to the controversy that erupted when he criticized Bush while accepting an Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine" in 2003‚ Moore told Archerd‚ "I don’t know if people want to see me on the stage of the Kodak [Theatre] again. However‚ since my
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asymmetrical balls (called lawn bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (called the Jack) than one’s opponent is able to do. The Lawn Bowls game is usually played on a large‚ rectangular‚ precisely levelled and manicured grass or synthetic surface known as a bowling green‚ but an indoor variation on carpet is also played. Lawn Bowls is a popular game in the United Kingdom‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Canada‚ and parts of the USA. Because of its relaxed pace and comparatively light physical demands‚ Lawn Bowls
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leaders. Similarly‚ the documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine composed by Michael Moore explores conflicting perspective of CHARACTER in order to REPRESENTATION PURPOSE. Another issue explored in Wag the Dog is the Albanian war. Levinson utilizes conflicting perspectives of this situation in order to suggest that the power to manipulate a country stem from the media rather than from the government. This is mirrored by ISSUE/SITUATION/EVENT as it is portrayed in Bowling for Columbine in order to PURPOSE
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