VISUAL TEXT – “Bowling for Columbine” Question: It is the director’s purpose to manipulate the audience to the point where they feel uncomfortable. “Bowling for Columbine” directed by Michael Moore‚ is a well-directed documentary that informs people about gun violence in America. Michael Moore is successful in showing that America has been going through many gun tragedies; and portrays the sense that America’s problems are out of control. He conveys this through statistics‚ archival footage‚
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not really caring how they bowled”. Moore questions “Why wasn’t bowling blamed for warping the minds of Eric and Dylan to commit their evil deeds?”. He questions how going bowling wasn’t a plausible cause to murder opposed to the Music of Marilyn Manson. In the documentary the audience is shown that well known armed force the Michigan Militia use bowling pins as shooting target practice as they have similar proportions to a human figure and how this could have triggered the Columbine High School
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it with family values‚ friendship‚ and quality of life. “A lot of celebrities just want money‚ fame‚ power‚ fancy cars‚ houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me‚ that ’s frightful behavior.” — Shirley Manson Shirley Ann Manson is best known internationally as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Garbage‚ and even though she is wealthy‚ her view on wealth seem to be that of a regular person. Our impressions of wealth‚ I think‚ are a product of upbringing
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constructs his interviews in an almost mocking fashion‚ even firing off questions rapidly to further put pressure on the interviewee. However‚ Moore does not always subtly mock his interviewees. We see this when he interviews Marilyn Manson. He gives Manson a lot of time to speak and asks him sensible questions that he can respond to with his opinion‚ showing that he agrees with Manson’s view about the role of media‚ and how they are embedding fear in American society. = Another technique
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Heavy metal has had a bad beat since the dawn of the genre onto the music scene. Slipknot‚ Ozzy Osborn‚ Marilyn Manson‚ Judas Priest‚ and Slayer are just some of the household names on the metal scene to have come under fire for supposedly inciting suicide‚ and in some cases murder. It’s a fire that the media has been more than happy to stoke‚ quick to insinuate links between the brutal lyrics and acts of violence. To quote Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider‚ “Every time a serial killer‚ mass
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When the Clinton controversy was brought up on Politically Incorrect‚ Marilyn Manson piped in with “oral sex is like handshakes and autographs‚ when you’re a celebrity it’s part of your job” (Manson 1998). Unsurprisingly‚ throughout the years Marilyn Manson has been an extremely controversial figure. Rumors as wild as Manson removing a rib for sexual purposes have been spread. With a rock-and-roll lifestyle and intense performance‚ it can be hard to shift the fact from the fiction. In Manson’s shock
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people’s reactions to all the major claims‚ than this documentary would not hold as much validity. After the Columbine shooting‚ there were many news stations putting the blame on music‚ but primarily Marilyn Manson. As his music might be too violent for children to listen to and idolize‚ Manson showed different values while in a personal interview with Moore. He spoke out and said that others did not listen as he would of‚ to the
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hurting other people’s feelings. Sometimes when we make decisions‚ we need other’s people comment and sometimes people are too scared to make their own decisions‚ they’re scared it wouldn’t be accepted and hurt their community of friends. Marilyn Manson said‚ "A lot of people don’t want to
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Youth" and "Charles Manson and the Manson Family"‚ you would know the answer to that question. The Hitler Youth and Charles Manson and the Manson Family are very similar in the fact that they both used a form of indoctrination and brainwashing to recruit members into their organization/cult. They both were prejudice against other racial groups/people different from them. However‚ the Hitler Youth and Charles Manson & the Manson Family
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- From the biography‚ what incident changed Dickens’ life and helped to shape him as a writer? From reading the biography of Charles Dickens the incident that changed Dickens’ life and shaped him to the writer he became was the traumatic events that occurred in his childhood. Dickens was psychologically scarred because his family was imprisoned and his traumatic experience working at the Warren’s Blacking Factory. - How old do you think Pip is? From the first chapter of ’’ Great Expectation’’‚ I
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