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    perfection‚ people must be obsessed with what they do‚ make every single detail in something perfect‚ and make everything they do be right on the money. One way for someone to reach perfection‚ is to be obsessed with what they do. In “The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever‚” the author Michael J. Mooney notes‚ “Bill Fongs run at perfection started as most of his nights do‚ with practice at around 5:30 pm. He bowls in four active leagues and he

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    Is it the bowling? It must be the Video games? Michael Moore’s award winning documentary; ‘Bowling for Columbine’ explores the reason for the violence in America and the reason for the Columbine High school mascara. In April 1999 two students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting rampage killing 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide‚ Moore looks at the background in which the massacre took place and assumptions about related issues. Moore uses Bill Nichols’ four modes of

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    The object of the game is to knock down all the bowling pins on the other team’s side. Mr. Dunn had the children line up and he split them into two groups. One group stood on a line on the far side of the gym and the other group stood on a line closer to the door. Each student got one bowling pin and was told to guard it. They could not touch the pin or stand in front of it‚ but they could knock balls out of the way with their hands when they were thrown at the pins by the opposing team. No

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    Justin Han October 20th‚ 2013 Bowling for Columbine Rhetorical Analysis Mr. Coleman (Period B3) On April 20th‚ 1999‚ a school shooting took place in the Columbine High School. Two students‚ fully armed with a variety of firearms‚ murdered numerous students. This catastrophe resulted in numerous disputes over the issues with gun control laws in relation to the Second Amendment of the US Bill of Rights‚ which gave US residents the right to bear arms. Later in 2002‚ Michael Moore explored the

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    1.14.03 Response Paper #1 In the first chapter of Bowling Alone‚ Robert D. Putnam claims that in the last several decades community groups have decreased in number and among the groups still in existence membership is low. Yet he also says that Americans now have more time on their hands. Could this be the effect of our world’s rapidly changing technological abilities and is this new technology decreasing one’s social capital? I think that it was because of events during the past that caused

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    mber Twenty: D’Angelo‚ ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ The best thing about this video is the simplicity of it. It’s just D’Angelo in front of a black screen...completely naked. He’s baring his soul and his six-pack. While Panic! at the Disco tried to recreate it in 2015‚ it doesn’t come close to the sensual‚ sexy‚ sweatiness of D’Angelo’s. Number Nineteen: Robin Thicke‚ ‘Blurred Lines’ Extremely popular when it came out in 2013‚ this controversial song and video were everywhere. The video features

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    The movie "Bowling for Columbine" was made after the shooting in Columbine high school and tries to explore the reasons for America’s violent nature. Moore believes that there is one main reason for this‚ the fact that there are relaxed gun laws in America. Therefore‚ Moore uses a number of different persuasive techniques in order to try and persuade the viewer to believe that this is the case. He uses certain visuals‚ music‚ sequences the scenes in a specific order and uses facts and opinions to

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    Comparative Essay: Bowling for Columbine & Touching the Void Introduction In the following essay I will compare two documentary films‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ Directed and written by Michael Moore‚ and Touching the Void‚ Directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from the book of the same name‚ focusing on documentary elements such as dramatic development‚ structure and subjective and objective aspects. I will also highlight and detail their presentational techniques. Bowling for Columbine A multi-award

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    Bowling alley turned into church‚ repository of religious art in Bulacan By Levine Andro Lao The Diocese of Malolos has inaugurated a past leisure destination—a bowling alley in front of a resort—as one of its parish churches in Bulacan‚ formally naming it as Santisima Trinidad‚ after the religious persona to whom the locals have been devoted to for more than a century now. “This structure where we now have our church‚ as we know‚ had been a bowling alley. But it no longer looks as one‚” said

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    11 127 is the number of people in the US that are killed because of gun crimes each year. In Germany that number is 381‚ while in Australia it’s 65. We’re given this information in the documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine (2002) that was written and directed by Michael Moore. The documentary discusses gun crime in America with the main focus on what happened in Columbine when two boys named Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold brought guns to school and killed 12 students and one teacher. A lot of people

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