In the film Roger and Me‚ Michael Moore tells the story of the exploitation of the numerous workers in his hometown‚ Flint‚ Michigan. He follows the numerous employees of General Motors who have lost their jobs and consequently‚ tries to contact the power steering CEO of General Motors‚ Roger Smith. Smith closed down a large amount of the auto plants in Flint causing thousands of workers to be unemployed. Moore makes an attempt at demonstrating to Smith the harsh reality of the demise of Moore’s
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presenting a neutral view of the issues‚ it is clearly biased and purposely manipulates the viewers into agreeing with Moore’s opinions. In the process‚ Moore frequently uses incorrect statistics and information. In some cases fabricated evidence is also inserted. Documentaries should have close to no editing of the evidence‚ however in some cases Moore uses sly editing techniques to deceive the viewers. A prominent example of this can be seen in Charlton Heston’s speech. It appears as though the NRA
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Canada‚ Japan‚ Hungary‚ Sardinia and Australia. Since the early 1960s pub sessions are now the home for much of Irish Traditional music‚ which takes place at informal gatherings in pubs. The 1960s saw a number of innovative performers eg Christy Moore and Donal Lunny. The Clancy brothers broke open the field in the US in the early part of the decade which inspired vocal groups like the Dubliners and the Chieftains. Television and radio programmes and documentaries in recent years have also helped
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Reaction Essay: The Corporation The documentary The Corporation‚ directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar and produced in 2004‚ although bias‚ opens many doors for discussion in regard to capitalism and the role of corporations in our lives. I found the documentary to be presented professionally‚ and filled with legitimate facts more so than extreme opinion. The documentary truly outlines the "all-pervasive" role the corporation has taken as the "world’s dominant institution". The film opens
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as the best and bravest movie of 1957‚ which is described as a 50’s picket fence around love. It starts out in autumn of 1957 by the camera drifting through red and orange leaves through the perfect streets of Hartford. Cathy and Frank (Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid)‚ live in a perfect split-level house on a perfect street‚ however even though they seem to be the perfect couple outside their fancy house‚ in all reality they are not. This of course explains the tittle of the movie‚ “Far from Heaven”
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fiction‚ and experimental film making using a tones and editing styles.[17] The genre is not well-defined but might include works of early Soviet parliamentarians like Dziga Vertov‚ present-day filmmakers like Chris Marker‚ Agnes Varda‚ Michael Moore (Roger and Me‚ Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11)‚ Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line)‚ or Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me: A Film of Epic Proportions). Jean-Luc Godard describes his recent work as "film-essays".[18] Two filmmakers whose work was
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uncommon valor‚ and their loyalty to and love for one another during one of the most savage military battles in U.S. history. On November 14‚ 1965‚ in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam‚ in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray‚ Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and 400 troopers from the U.S. 7th Air Cavalry are surrounded by 2000 enemy soldiers in what would become the first‚ and perhaps the worst‚ major battle of the Vietnam War. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to do such things as understand one’s
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Michael Moore is the Leni Riefenstahl of our time. Or‚ perhaps he would be better characterized as a Bizzaro World Leni Riefenstahl‚ because while she propped up with propaganda the political powers of her time‚ Moore uses the same techniques to bring down the powers of our time‚ be it GM (Roger and Me)‚ the gun lobby (Bowling for Columbine)‚ the government (Fahrenheit 911)‚ the health care industry (Sicko)‚ or free enterprise (Capitalism: A Love Story). In this latest installment in his continuing
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A perspective is a representation of a particular event‚ situation or personality formulated due to varying ideologies prevalent within a particular time period. As such we see‚ persuasive texts endeavor to utilise the fears within our context‚ in order to instigate an emotive response through the use of manipulative language‚ which ultimately leads to the infiltration of our psyche. This is prevalent within Shakespeare’s historical tragedy Julius Caesar‚ the October 2001 TIME magazine article‚ “The
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was founded‚ the immediate effects that Intel made on the market‚ their marketing strategies‚ their competition‚ and finally‚ what Intel plans to do in the future. Intel didn’t just start out of thin air‚ it was created after Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore first founded Fairchild Semiconductor with six other colleagues. Fairchild Semiconductor was going pretty well for about ten years when Bob and Gordon decided to resign because they were tired of not being able to do things the way they wanted to;
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