In this blog post I will select three controversial topics from the documentary Where to Invade Next and create a research question for each one. You can find a summary of the film on my previous blog post. #1
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This blog post is about a documentary we watched in class called Where to Invade Next, with Michael Moore as the interviewer. I will provide you with a summary of the film, as well as a rhetorical analysis. Below is a picture of Michael Moore surrounded by government officials. He used this false anecdote in the first scene of the documentary. He claimed that they came to him for help with saving America. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore travels to various countries around the world to learn about their methods on controversial topics such as work, drugs, school, maternity leave, and many others. The idea of the documentary is that Michael Moore “steals” the Europeans ideas and brings them back to convince America to use them. In the beginning of the film, Michael visits a middle-class couple in Italy. They begin to explain how each year, they are given an 8 week paid vacation, that even carries over into the following year if they still have days left over. They work short hours and get great benefits. The Italians believe that it is important to vacation. If you don’t, your brain becomes too stressed and too much stress causes illness. He then proceeded to visit France, Slovenia, and Finland. All three of these countries provide amazing, nearly free schooling for their students. France really emphasizes their lunch period. They extended it to be an hour long, with a 4-course meal freshly made by their school chefs. The French see lunch as an opportunity to teach children early about having a balanced diet and proper etiquette. In Norway, Michael visited their maximum-security prisons and was in shock. They allow their prisoners to have keys to their rooms, computers, music, good food, and freedom. They treat them with respect and surprisingly it created a lower reimprisonment rate for their country. This documentary shows you that European countries care more about the well-being of the people than anything else and thats something America needs to take into consideration. Rhetorical Analysis
A Life-Choice Memoir is a narrative written about a specific time in your life where you had to make a personal, difficult decision. I have chosen to write about my decision to not go to college immediately following high school. This blog post will provide you with some insight into how my process affected the writing of my Life-Choice Memoir.
Before I began this blog post, I watched a video on Reflective Writing to get a better understanding of staying focused on reflecting rather than just retelling. Below are a series of questions focusing on my positive and negative thoughts on the completion of my memoir. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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