is bombing hundreds of innocent Afghans and Iraqis everyday yet somehow that example of violence has no influence on American’s tendency towards aggressive behavior. The video also links some of the U.S.’s choices through history to what led to the 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ saying that arming and training the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were key factors in the
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us to believe that‚ in theory‚ we will become a smarter and a well-educated nation. According to Michael Moore‚ this is not the case. Moore is an American filmmaker‚ author‚ social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11‚ which is the highest grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d’or. In his essay “Idiot nation” excerpted from his book stupid white men and other sorry excuses for the state of our nation‚ Moore focuses on the collapsing educational
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BOWLING FOR COLOMBINE MICHEAL MOORE DOCUMANTARY There are many techniques that you can use to show in a documentary‚ facts about people‚ places and events and “Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary that shows all of those plus more. Michael Moore has got a unique way of using all the techniques that you would see in a documentary to get his story and opinion across to the viewers. Usually in documentaries the producers are behind the camera and in the editing room but what makes
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society always put special attention on black people or other minorities that due to their fear‚ or more precisely‚ the guilt since they recognized what their ancestor done to the local people and the cheap African slaves bought in Africa. At Fahrenheit 9/11‚ Michael Moore also talk about the unfair treatment. When he cut all the news footage together‚ it’s easily to find that all of them are emphasis that the suspect is black people‚ and government have different attitude towards white people and black
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montage of images involving heavy gun violence‚ shootings and military forces in other nations. The song is a large contradiction to the images of violence and destruction. The major impact of irony takes place in the last scene‚ when the footage of the 9/11 attack is shown while the song continues to play and hits climax. This technique of juxtaposing images and music attracts the audience’s attention‚ and clearly shows us that we are not really living in a "wonderful
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Jocelyn Hankins Professor Kelly Murphy College Composition II 26 February 2012 Rhetorical Essay of George W. Bush’s Speech‚ 9/11 Address to the Nation I read and watched George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” and found the speech to be ineffective. The President’s speech started off and ended efficiently with it’s appeal to pathos‚ however‚ it’s lack in logos overshadowed this and made the speech unsuccessful. This essay will examine the President’s use of rhetorical appeals and how
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Michael Moore’s ‘Bowling for Columbine’‚ the film which won an Oscar for best documentary‚ is not in fact a documentary‚ but rather more of a persuasive essay in film format. The widely accepted definition of ‘documentary’ is a film emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings‚ insertion of fictional matter‚ and minimal editting‚ and ‘Bowling for Columbine’ does not show any of these characteristics. Instead of presenting a neutral view of the issues‚ it is
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The attacks on the United States on September 11‚ 2001 were the direct result of the failure of US agencies‚ ranging from the White House to airport security‚ to recognize vulnerabilities present in the various symptoms. The reason why these vulnerabilities were not acknowledged and repaired is that these various agencies were trapped in a cognitive dissonance cycle of thinking. After the Cold War‚ terrorism was seen as a regional problem (9/11 Commission‚ 92). The majority of terrorist groups
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throughout the film‚ such as Charlton Heston‚ making it entertaining and humorous. The documentary uses a fast editing pace‚ with Michael Moore creatively putting shots that seem to be unrelated together‚ such as the Kosovo bombings and the September 11 attacks. As well as making it more captivating for the audience these shots evoke strong emotion and manipulates them into taking Moore’s side. His intensive use of music as
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Roger and Me is a documentary starring Michael Moore that reveals the hard hitting economic impact General Motors left on Flint‚ Michigan. Throughout the film it is clear that General Motors was a huge factor in Flint’s financial system and slowly by surely it becomes evident that many of the residents living in Flint were eventually someway shape or form affected by layoffs from General Motors. These layoffs came from General Motors attempt to adopt the concept of globalization‚ all the while General
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