Advanced English Telling The Truth Texts: The Justice Game (book) Bowling for Columbine (film) The Simpsons – Homer Badman (TV episode)?? Trials notes: • Further talk about Robertson’s civil rights agenda • Write in a way appropriate to text type – don’t rely on essay! If it’s a speech‚ address the audience often. General course notes: • All representations are tainted by perspective‚ bias‚ background‚ author’s intention‚ etc. • Truth cannot be represented with
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Allen Title: Alone on a Hilltop Summary of essay (be sure to use your own words‚ without quotations): “Alone on a Hilltop” was written by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. It is an exciting story about a young Sioux boy becoming a man and what that journey looked like for him. Four important points of the essay (be sure to use your own words‚ without quotations): 1) Indian children never being alone. 2) The peace pipe playing an important part in the young Sioux night alone. 3) The young
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October 17‚ 2010 Bowling for Columbine Thesis Statements 1) The high casualties caused by guns are a result of how easy it is to obtain one. If policies were made stricter‚ casualties would go down. I do not agree with this because it would only affect the people who go to obtain their guns legally. If you really wanted one all you would have to do is steal it‚ so the policies would then have no effect on you. 2) Minorities and blacks are made to be scarier than they are because they
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across. The possibilities are endless; dialogues can be shortened‚ scenes can be added or cut‚ or even switched around to be in any order desired. By doing such things‚ a very plain portion of footage can be used to argue an idea. In the movie‚ "Bowling for Columbine‚" Michael Moore is a genius when it comes to his editing choices concerning Charlton Heston and the NRA. Using a few well placed insert shots Moore is able to bring the attention away from Heston long enough to change around parts of
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A documentary film is one that aims to record real events or ideas in order to inform the viewer‚ present an opinion and generate public interest in a topics. There are many types of documentaries including: science‚ historical and social‚ nature and investigative. Documentaries in the past were strictly science or nature related. However in modern day documentaries are seen to be more for social interest and they engage the audience more‚ they are also seen to be more investigative as well. Historically
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debated in the United States. The US is one of few countries that allow its citizens the right to have firearms. Due to this‚ there are many more gun related fatalities compared to other countries that do not allow their citizens to keep firearms. Bowling for Columbine‚ directed by Michael Moore‚ focuses mostly on one tragic even that happened at Columbine High School‚ and uses it in order to persuade viewers to side against National Rifle Association‚ which is a big pro-gun group‚ and the whole gun
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But instead of a dominated obersevative nature that Cunnamulla consumed‚ the more modern Bowling for Columbine draws in the audience with its performative aspects. As in Cunnamulla‚ we see instances that make us know that the camera is there. For example‚ while Moore is tackling the debate head on regarding the sale of ammunition at the k-mart
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One Hour Alone For our first assignment in class‚ we were asked to do a “One Hour Alone” where you sit somewhere quiet‚ by yourself and just observe your senses and feelings. My one hour alone was very interesting. I chose to sit in my car in front of my house for one hour. At first it was very boring but then I started to think about my life. It was raining outside and I felt so relaxed. All I heard were rain drops dropping on the windshield and I was watching them fall as I laid in my seat
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Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved‚ I loved alone. Then- in my childhood‚ in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still: From the torrent‚ or the fountain‚ From the red cliff of the mountain‚ From
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students study the classic tales of Shakespere or the modern novels of J.K. Rowling they learn that some things never change. The literary themes and devices of ancient times develop throughout modern times. The modern saying that someone can feel alone in a crowded room sumarizes a similar theme between "The Seafarer" written by an unknown author and "You Found Me" written by The Fray. The two works portray a common theme that finding God helps change the emotion of lonliness and disappointment by
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