Bowling for Columbine

Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, making the argument that global warming is real and humans are the cause for it, but we can also do something about it. On the other hand you have Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine, who is trying to make the argument that the gun violence in America is in large part due to the fear that is present in our daily lives in America and that is why we have more gun violence than other countries. Although they both did a job in presenting their arguments,…

In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore attempts to persuade the viewers that the Columbine High School shooting could have been avoided if America as a nation did not have such a high gun violence and loose gun control laws. Moore uses music, archival footage, humor, and real-life interviews to get his point across to the viewer. In the scene when Moore plays the song Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles he uses various videos of people with guns in order to show how guns are seen as such…

In American society, violence runs rampage throughout the country causing its citizens to be trepidacious and demoralize. One of the major components of violence in America emanates from guns. In the documentary, "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore, a famous filmmaker, addresses the ubiquitous situation in America. He argues that the use of gun in America co-insides or correlates to the recent massacres; as a whole, America should have stricter gun control laws. Throughout the film, Moore…

Final Reaction Experience In order to gain experience and have experiences with individuals with disabilities, I decided to go bowling with them. Every Saturday morning, Brookgate Lanes hosts a bowling league that is made up of individuals with disabilities. They were kind enough to let me spend the morning with them and bowl, and I had a great time filled with amazing experiences. 1) Your interactions with the individuals with disabilities. Describe your feelings at the beginning of the…

The bowling alley is open during all different times during the day, we have open bowl, leagues and cosmic bowling on the weekends. Open bowl is when anybody from the public can come and bowl, leagues is where you sign up and pay every week to bowl and cosmic is night bowling with lights and music. Leagues are on every day of the week except Thursdays and Saturdays. There is both men’s and women’s bowling teams. Even little kids to high school leagues,…

made the documentary Bowling for Combuline. In Moore’s documentary, he explores gun violence in America and the probable causes of it. One of the probable causes he addresses is the fear mongering used by the media. Moore also put a cartoon about the history of America which shows the relationship America has with guns. Within his documentary, he also gives different examples of gun violence in America. One example is, a shooting of a six-year-old in Flint, Michigan. In Bowling for Combuline,…

There are certain stereotypes that the audience might expect in the film such as drinking, smoking culture and mateship associated in the Australian bowling community. Inclusive language and Aussie slang is used providing a snapshot of stereotypical bowling culture, with Molloy explaining to his teammates “They’re not balls they’re bowls. And to tell you the truth it was pretty civilised actually, smoke like a chimney, the booze was cheap, the food’s…

history of bowling goes way back to the 3200BC in egypt. In the 1930’s Sir Flinders Petrie found a colection of objects that represented bowlig in a egyptions childs grave. There are documents that show a form of bowling in England in 1366, when King Edward III banned it inorder to make the troops focused on archery practice. It also seems that bowling during King Henry VIII time at throne was much alive. At this time there were still many variations of “pin games”, such as lawn bowling “bocce”,…

The shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 was a horrific event that prompted a lot of change not only in America, but the whole world. The only thing the Columbine shooting failed to change was America’s love for their guns. Bowling for Columbine is a documentary that takes a focus on this issue and tries to find why Americans are so fascinated with guns. The film, released in 2002, won several awards and was critically acclaimed. The director and star of the documentary, Michael…

Bowling can be a lot of fun with teams and practice. With bowling as a sport you can get you stress out and if you are stressed out just think about the pins being the person or thing that is making you mad, stress, sad, and etc. There are so many ways to bowl, straight, curve, and many ways you can think of especially grandma style, which we do for fun when the coach is not around and do other things when the coaches aren’t around with bowling. People just think bowling is just for fun which it…