Michael Moore so Controversial? Michael Moore was born in 1954 in Flint, Michigan -- "the home of the wealthiest corporation in the world: General Motors." (Roger and Me, 1989). The tragic plight of this once economically booming, blue-collar city Continue Reading...
Psychology How Sicko is Relevant to Psychology Michael Moore is an American filmmaker that has created a body of work and a niche market for hard hitting documentaries about issues critical to American culture. In 2007, he directed, produced, wrote Continue Reading...
Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore is an expert at tugging on viewer's heart strings, and never passes up an opportunity to do so in Capitalism: A Love Story -- even though the docu-tragi-comedy would ha Continue Reading...
Bowling for Columbine What makes America such a violent nation? Why have massacres involving guns become commonplace in American society? In his 2002 documentary titled "Bowling for Columbine," Michael Moore explores the many aspects of American soc Continue Reading...
Admittedly, there have been some minor improvements since 2007. Specifically, legislation enacted in 2009 by President Barack Obama eliminated the ability of health insurance companies to exclude certain individuals from coverage and to deny covera Continue Reading...
Idiot Nation Michael Moore's 'A Nation of Idiots' is a compilation of perspective. Moore provides an account of what his encounters with idiocy in the course of his life. Whether one wants to consider this fact is not necessarily personal opinion. M Continue Reading...
Fahrenheit 911: Movie Review Michael Moore's political documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, about the Bush administration's first four years in office has generated a lot of controversy and in the process broken all box-office records for the genre. The f Continue Reading...
Climate Change and the Hijacking of the Green MovementIntroductionThe Michael Moore produced 2019 documentary Planet of the Humans, directed by Jeff Gibbs, raised important questions, concerns and points about one of the most pressing issues in the c Continue Reading...
At the same time, there are reasons to question many of these claims. It has long been argued that the Canadian system is not as good as believed, for instance, though the film suggests otherwise. The truth about the Canadian and British systems in Continue Reading...
For example, one woman got into a car accident and expected insurance to pay for her expenses related to the accident, minus the deductible. The insurance company denied her claim on the spurious grounds that the woman had a "prior condition" that w Continue Reading...
Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine Michael Moore's motion picture Bowling for Columbine provides insight into the Columbine High School Massacre Event in 1999 and into a series of incidents such as the U.S.' tendency to promote weapons and confli Continue Reading...
Walzer ends his book with a call to reuse the narrative once more as a call to social liberations, much as it was used in the old African-American spiritual and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, ultimately putting for the a vision of soc Continue Reading...
He begins by introducing the concept of neo-Fordism (or neo-industrialization) which was characterized by product innovation. The age of neo-Fordism led to distance education adapting itself to the more demanding consumerist society as it started to Continue Reading...
Though they can cooperatively work well with other people, they would rather spend time for learning by themselves. Distant teacher. If traditional education teachers act as directors of learning - telling learners what, when, and how is it to be l Continue Reading...
Watergate was a viable accusation because it could be proved with recordings of the entire affair. Clinton's sexgate could be proved because there were people, individuals, who could vouch for what had happened. However, in this case, there is no ac Continue Reading...
Roger and Me: Automobile Industry Like All the President's Men, this work is a departure from fiction in film and in novels. Rather than portraying fictional characters in a contrived plot, "Roger and Me" takes us into the lives of actual men and wo Continue Reading...
The clearly unscripted dialogue between Moore and the spokesperson (Moore must return several times to get any satisfaction and the Kmart spokesperson stutters and clearly is just unconvincingly rehearsing the company line) gives the viewer a sense Continue Reading...
Universal healthcare is the only saving formula for this nation, which is doomed in a health care crisis of unprecedented proportions. There is a urgent need to transform healthcare from its present state of commercialism towards the humanitarian ap Continue Reading...
Film Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine is a documentary that illustrates that most American of virtues -- violence, and gun violence in particular. The author utilizes the documentary format to incorporate a wide variety of disparate scenes and Continue Reading...
(Berardinelli) Overall, the movies received lots of appreciation and did great business on the box office. Film was also shown in Iran where American films are not supposed to be shown. Film also received positive response by the critics. Most of t Continue Reading...
Sentencing in the US versus in Germany and the Netherlands There is one major difference between the sentencing and corrections policies of the US and the sentencing and corrections policies of Germany and the Netherlands. The former bases its polic Continue Reading...
As Moore continues, he notes, "Such time spent in designing and producing high-quality materials, planning teaching strategies, training trainers will increase the chances of success. There is a direct relationship between the institutional the effe Continue Reading...
In England, it was revealed that the medication on average costs $10 per prescription for working adults while everyone else could obtain the same medication at no cost. Furthermore in England, pre-natal care is free, emergency room visits are free, Continue Reading...
hit documentary movie by Michael Moore called "Bowling for Columbine" from a criminologist point-of-view. The criminologist point-of-view is obtained from referencing "Criminology: The Core, 8th edition" by Larry J. Siegel as well as various crimina Continue Reading...
Institutionalized Violence On the other hand, it does not make sense to focus so much on the availability of firearms, simply because most violent crimes involving firearms are committed with illegal firearms and not legally owned and possessed we Continue Reading...
Rereading America Critical Thinking Questions Based on "Rereading America" Michael Moore's uniquely facetious style of political commentary is on great display in his "Idiot Nation" essay. Inflammatory rhetoric aside, it is not so much Moore's inte Continue Reading...
Antisocial behavior is largely the result of poverty, prejudice, lack of education, and low social status rather than human nature or lack of character... Rightists believe that character is largely inborn and genetically inherited. Hence the emph Continue Reading...
That the film makes omissions is not a fault against it, as it would be impossible and boring to list ever argument or component implied in the healthcare crisis. In addition, while some may believe Moore's film to point out the obvious, it addresse Continue Reading...
In her article, "Aftermath of Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11 -from an organizer's point-of-view" the military could have done more. In particular the author asserts that General Myers who controlled such military operations, couls have do Continue Reading...
health care system delivery with other nations (European/Canada) with emphasis on its relative strengths and weaknesses? Michael Moore's Sicko reveals that nearly 50 million U.S. citizens are not insured, whereas many usually fall prey to insurance Continue Reading...
Private schools are just as vulnerable to the issues that public schools are facing today. Each one of us carries a responsibility for trying to improve the situation. Parents and familial groups have a huge responsibility to augment educational st Continue Reading...
The Issue of the EV: Is it Really Green and Good? Do Teslas Make the World a Better Place Introduction The electric vehicle (EV) has arrived and the 21st century is poised to be the century of the EV. However, there is still a great deal of controver Continue Reading...
After World War Two, Carson realized the extent to which the government was permitting the use of toxic chemicals and wrote a book to expose the practice. That book was called Silent Spring, and it "challenged the practices of agricultural scientist Continue Reading...
As Taibbi shows, it is not easy: "I'm going to say something radical about the Tea Partiers. They're not all crazy. They're not even always wrong. What they are, and they don't realize it, is an anachronism. They're fighting a 1960s battle in a worl Continue Reading...
Solitary Confinement Introduction As Clark (2017) points out, solitary confinement is typically a disciplinary, administrative or personal measure employed to punish, control or protect the individual who is isolated from others. However, the practic Continue Reading...
" The article goes on to say that a correspondent for a Pennsylvanian newspaper who visited the country in 2007 stated, "I asked the guide what Cubans did if they had a cold. The guide said that a Cuban would go to the doctor -- a visit free of cha Continue Reading...
On the other hand, guns kill people every day, yet we keep protecting the rights of gun owners and fight to prevent even something a simple as registration. Moore acts as a person trying to provoke a response on several occasions, returning to Colu Continue Reading...
From this came our insistence on the drama of the doorstep" (cited by Hardy 14-15). Grierson also notes that the early documentary filmmakers were concerned about the way the world was going and wanted to use all the tools at hand to push the publi Continue Reading...
