Standout Moment Analysis

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There are many standout moments that I would like to mention, but first I would like to say that I am very impressed with this film, I always have been wondering all these things and I like the fact that we are learning about them in this class. The first standout moment for me was when the man and his family lost their farm. It called my attention because my family and some families from this area had to go through this same situation a few years ago. Second standout moment: the pilots’ salaries from 16,000 to 22,000 yearly! That’s ridiculous, some of them had to ask for food stamps, some of them have a second job, that remind me a time when a met a paramedic working at a warehouse, I asked him why he was working there, and he told me that he was getting pay more there for opening boxes than saving lives and even though he loved to be a paramedic he needed the money. …show more content…
On the other side I would like to highlight the moment when doctor Jonas Salk gave his cure to Polio for free and when somebody interview him and ask him why he didn’t patent the medicine he said: “ Could you patent the sun?” That was something that called my attention, we need more people like this, we need more Americans like him, and we need to be like this doctor. Another moment I liked was when they mentioned the company that was employee owned, where the CEO made the same salary as any other employee from the company. I hope that America was like that but in reality is hard to find people like this Doctor or companies with the same system as the one

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