the number of Germans killed with a gun‚ which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary‚ there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions. Viewing this film for the first time‚ I learned how appalling gun violence is in the United States
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wielding a gun) Following the massacre of Columbine High School‚ Colorado‚ controversial filmmaker Michael Moore‚ ventured into creating the societal criticism documentary that explored gun violence throughout the United States. The documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002)‚ directed‚ produced‚ and written by Moore‚ deconstructs the events of this massacre‚ other school shooting‚ American gun culture‚ media coverage of such events‚ paranoia‚ racism‚ and poverty and several other subjects through
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basketball is one of my favorite activities that I enjoy the most. When I was introduced to sports in high school‚ I played soccer‚ football and basketball. Playing soccer was not the kind of physical game that I liked to play because I was not really too good at kicking the ball with my foot; I didn’t like it too much. Playing Football‚ I got hit and got injured too much so I just didn’t think that I was fast enough to run those many yards‚ but basketball was one of the sports that I really liked
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My experiences of playing a sport Two years ago‚ I went to visit my relatives in Nha Trang and I tried playing scuba-diving. It was my wonderful experiences. First day‚ my cousin – a diving instructor of VietNam Dive Center (VinaDive) – invited me to take part in a scuba-diving tour. I thought it was a great idea and I was very interested. This was a chance of overcoming my fear of water. Next day‚ my cousin taught me about dive equipment‚ how to breathe and move underwater‚ basic skills and safe
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“History of Bowling” Research Paper Jeremy Isaiah Nettles Bowling (PHED) 136 -01 April 29‚ 2014 History of Bowling Bowling is a unique and interesting sport. Today it is one of the most popular sports in the world. A British anthropologist‚ Sir Flinders Petrie‚ discovered in the 1930 ’s a collection of objects that proves that bowling traces back to 3200 BC. A German historian‚ William Pehle‚ asserted that bowling began in his country about 300 AD. There is substantial evidence that
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The movie Bowling for Columbine has shown sorrow and happiness to the viewers. It shows the ugly things that happen in the world‚ but it also showed the changes that have been made so far. It shows how all the good in the world is slowly disappearing and turning into fear. Most people travel to work‚ schools‚ and many other places in fear of not being sure what kind of danger will appear before their eyes. When people are in their homes they make sure they lock their doors because they know if they
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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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In the sport of cricket‚ bowling is the action of propelling the ball towards the batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler. The act of bowling the ball towards the batsman is called a ball or a delivery. In the sport of cricket there are laws that govern how a ball can be bowled. If a ball is bowled illegally‚ an umpire will call it a ‘no ball’. If a ball is bowled too wide or high for the batsman to be able to hit it‚ an umpire will rule it a ‘wide’. There are other types of illegal
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resulting in the decrease of Social Capital in America. On one hand in Putnam’s Article “Bowling Alone”‚ the decline of civic engagement in citizens like voting is large with no signs of improvement‚ so the issue needs to be addressed in order to analyze the factors and find solutions to problems such as how to build more trust in the community. On the other hand‚ in Putnam’s more updated article “Still Bowling Alone”‚ the event everyone knows as the 9/11 terrorist attack has had a huge impact on the
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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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