Moore Money Michael Moore is a prominent filmmaker who mainly bases his work around documentaries. Moore’s most famous piece of work is his influential documentary “Bowling for Columbine” however it contains insidious manipulation and ruthless misdirection of the audience. By Rene Zacchini “Bowling for Columbine” is a documentary based in the exploration of gun violence in American society. Moore uses the 1999 Columbine High School massacre as his hook to draw the viewers in by highlighting the death of young students by guns. However many viewers do not realise that documentaries are only a version of reality.
She also writes some about politicians and the Juvenile Justice system. Sternheimer points to other possible reasons for the violent acts of the youth such as, the home life. While it may be that juvenile crimes have declined and personal backgrounds effect actions, it cannot be said this proves video game violence has no effect on youth. Sternheimer begins by explaining how video games violence has become a “folk devil” (204) to explain unexplainable happenings of youth shootings and this is just the one to follow the many other explanations the media and politicians have given for problem youth. She then brings up the issue of unnerving newspaper headlines such as “Bloodlust Video Games Put Kids in the Crosshairs” (205).
In my opinion these school shootings would be more likely to occur in a society that traffics constantly in extremely violent media images, versus a society where such images don't occur at all. I don't know which is worse: two teenage boys gunning down there classmates, or the constant bombardment of the story, by the media. What I think can be done to solve this problem, for one Congress could step up political and legal pressure to more effectively limit and regulate the production and distribution of media violence. The mass media should cover stories like this, but there is no reason for it to be on the front page of every newspaper and magazine in the country. It was tragic, but there are far worse things going on in the world right now.
Bowling for Columbine, a documentary written and directed by Mr Michael Moore in 2002 after the horrific shooting at Columbine High School, on April 20th 1999. Not long after the shooting, Americans were quick to blame violent video games, movies and heavy metal music artists. Mr Moore believes that this is not the reason, but believes that it was caused by America's relaxed gun laws. Through the use of technical, written and audio codes Moore did an excellent job at portraying his negative views about America's gun laws and how racist America is. In this documentary Mr More used an audio code known as a voice over, one example is where he showed us a film of buildings being blown up and saying over the top of this clip “and the president ordered the bombing of another country we couldn’t pronounce”.
The university was struck by a gunman who killed 33 people including him, and 15 others were wounded. John Gramlich states in the article Arizona approves gun on college campus that “the governor of Arizona Jan Brewer has been a supporter of the bill” (Gramlich 1). Supporter’s, states that students and faculty would be able to protect themselves should someone attack with a firearm. But there is no reason to fight back with fire. More gunfire will only escalate violence, which only leads to more violence.
The controversial discussion about this right has been rose recently, and has begun to be more of a concern with the recent criminal activity involving shootings around America. Many Americans strongly support the right to bear arms for self-protection, but with all the recent activity involving shootings in theaters, schools, and in communities is the right to bear arms being used the way the Amendment states? There are many Americans who own firearms who are not legally permitted to do so. To obtain a firearm has been proven to be simple in America, for example, the shooting in Colorado, Aurora. A man by the name James Holmes was a college student dropout who entered a movie theater with military like weapons and ammunition from head to toe.
He then goes on openly explaining all the rules to Blitzball. At one point Finny even makes up a rule for Leper, one of his friends, so that he could be able to continue to play. Finny’s fun and open attitude displays his laid-back personality. Their clashing personalities and their attitude to Blitzball greatly impact the pivotal event at the end of chapter four. Gene feels as if Finny is able to win at everything, however, when he jounced the limb he felt like he controlled what Finny was able to
“It was good that Finny could shine at it. He could also shine at many other things, with people for instance, the others in our dormitory, the faculty; in fact, if you stopped to think about it, Finny could shine with everyone, he attracted everyone he met.” (Gene Forrester, page 30) Gene also finds himself gloating at Finny’s failure. As stated, Finny was able to charm his way out of every problem he found himself in. Each time Gene experienced a possible problem with Finny, he both feared and anticipated a punishment. For example, when Finny boldly used the Devon school tie as a belt, he risked dismay from the headmasters.
Comparing Brando’s early rebellion against authority to any average teenager’s quarrel with life itself. Denby also uses a lot of deductive reasoning in his writing. To get us from point a to point b. In this case he started talking about an old western movies and then from there he drew the reader out ever so precisely, and took them to a whole different conclusion about high school movies. David Denby’s short essay is a prime example of a persuasive essay.
There are already too many guns available to the public, and allowing them on an educational facility would greatly increase the likelihood of injury or death. Americans, as previously mentioned, have the right to bear arms, and this should be held sacred, and not infringed, taken away, or limited. However, stricter firearm control should be implemented for those who chose to carry a concealed weapon, and gun control should be done by having stricter certification processes before a firearm or gun permit is issued, intensive psychological evaluation for the person or persons applying for a gun permit or a gun,and greater educational requirements for gun owners and firearm safety. It is frightening how easily it is to obtain certification to own a gun, and in many states it is easier to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon once a gun permit has been issued. In Georgia, according to a website called georgiapacking.com, a citizen does not have to obtain a permit to carry a weapon as long as they are not prohibited from owning a firearm.