International College‚ which is a core course for the social science division. This course learns about the major paradigms in social sciences during the twentieth century. In the past few months‚ a lecturer‚ Eugene Jones‚ opened a documentary film named Bowling for Columbine. In this film‚ a filmmaker‚ Michael Moore‚ try to find the reason of butchery in the United States. After I watched this film‚ I had learned that there are numerous reasons why Americans are so violent. The first reason that is mentioned
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The book “Rinse‚ Spin‚ Repeat" authored by Edith Fassnidge‚ explains the unimaginable events that resulted from a Tsunami hitting Thailand during one family’s vacation. This book was chosen to review as it brings forward many aspects of loss that individuals embrace during and after any crisis. The story is told through the perspective of the author’s lens‚ creating an individualistc story of loss. However‚ while this story it unique‚ it allows readers to empathize with the unpredictability of life
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Case 5 Whirlpool Corporation – Giving ERP a Spin Time Context Third to last quarter of 1999 Viewpoint David R. Whitwam‚ Whirlpool Chairman and CEO Statement of the Problem * How could the Whirlpool Corp. cope up with the changes in the corporation due to implementation of ERP applications‚ including SAP? Objectives Amend problems regarding shipment delays that causes customer dissatisfaction. Improve the implementation of SAP for more organized and on-time order-delivery cycle and
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Introduction: • Let the Great World Spin is a complex series of stories that discusses many different themes and parallels. • Thesis: The novel explores themes of precariousness‚ risk‚ and love as they occur in ordinary lives and juxtaposes them with one extraordinary act in order to examine the events of 9/11. Body: Main Point 1: The tightrope walker symbolizes the precarious balance of life each character experiences‚ the risks they take‚ and the love they are rewarded with in the end. • Supporting
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are a tragedy that is all too common‚ particularly in the USA. Michael Moore chose to delve a little deeper to find the possible causes of this‚ particularly in relation to the 1999 school shooting at the town of Columbine through the documentary Bowling for Columbine. Based on this documentary‚ the causes of the school shooting are due to the environment: primarily the United States’ violent history‚ then the abundance of guns in the country. The cause of the school shooting was not violent media
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Top shelf: It is unknown why the potaka on the far left is encased in woven string. The two potaka with handles are examples of potaka kukume (humming tops). Bottom shelf: Four examples of stone carved potaka. In A Spin: A Global History of Spinning Tops Spinning tops are among the oldest objects of play in the world. They have been found by archeologists all over the globe and on every continent except Antarctica. Tops have been invented and reinvented by different cultures and can
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Major characters Govind: Govind Patel is an ordinary guy with whom anybody can relate. He has very few desires but he is obsessed with the desires he covets. His main ambition is to become a businessman as he thinks that being a Gujarati‚ business is in his blood. His best friends are Omi and Ish (Ishan). Govind is an agnostic. His father has abandoned him and his mother‚ who runs a business of selling home-made food items. To support her financially‚ he takes mathematics tuitions. He continues
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Cheyenne Crook Sociology 220 08 November 2014 Book Review No Easy Answers: The Truth behind Death at Columbine is a non-fiction novel‚ written by Brooks Brown‚ which provides insight to the behind-the-scenes factor to the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton‚ Colorado. On April 20th of 1999‚ two high school boys‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ entered their local high school by storm with shot guns and homemade pipe bombs. Before turning their weapons on themselves‚ Harris and Klebold killed
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“Documentary as a concept or practice occupies no fixed territory‚ It mobilizes no finite inventory of technique‚ addresses no set number of issues‚ and adopts no completely known taxonomy of forms‚ styles‚ or modes” (Nichols‚ 1991) Documentary was born thanks to the Lumiere brothers in 1895. In the beginning‚ it was just raw footage of normal life which were named ‘Actualities’. Today‚ the concept has grown into that of the Documentary – in which the filmmakers look to capture reality and usually
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Belonging can be either positive or negative‚ when you belong to a group you have a sense of security and being in a connection with other group members‚ when you are not connected you fill misfit and always in fear. This is shown in the documentary bowling for columbine by Michael Moore that shows American society and how different people react when they belong or not belong and what do they do to solve it. Michael Moore trains his humorous eye on America’s obsession with guns and violence in his
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