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In 1995, Robert D. Putnam had released his highly influential book, Bowling Alone: The collapse and Revival of American Community; He interests the readers by informing them the ways that the United States has withdrawn from civic engagement over a period of time. And this decline has crippled the civil society. The research he presents indicates he is correct to a certain extent in his statement that Americans have disconnected civically. Putnam has developed a common framework for…

In my science class we started an experiment starting with a question. The question was “what recommendations will you give the Alley Cats Bowling Team to build a successful bowling lane?” In order to answer that it all started in background knowledge. Energy is power that can come from physical, chemical, electronic or other resources. Energy lets something more or react in a way, weather it wa happening in that moment or it will happen. Energy can also change from one type of energy to…

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…

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…

years, with more shooting and killing events, this topic has been more important than ever. Perhaps, this question comes to everyone that why someone kills others with firearm? The documentary “Bowling for Columbine” asks same question; what is the cause of the mass shooting in the America? The director of Bowling for columbine, Michael Moore, delve in to the some common answers that people…

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Do you talk to your neighbors? Do you trust our government or even the people around you? Have you involved yourself in any club and actually participated? If your answer was no to any of the previous questions, then you may be part of a statistic that expresses the decline of social capital. Social capital- the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively- has…

has declined. Bowling Alone gathered the data behind this trend and put social capital on the radar to be looked at as a problem. Social connections give rise to generalized mutual exchanges and trust. This is social capital. Social capital allows society to operate easily. People rely on social bonds for friendships, job referrals, and community and political organization. Social capital is linked to individual happiness and helps lower the crime rates, within the community. Bowling Alone…

The movie “Bowling for Columbine” was directed by Michael Moore is about finding the true cause of why America is so violent. The film is mostly about the massacre at Columbine high school. Michael Moore shows how easy it was to acquire firearms in America and talks about how large the homicide rate is in the country. Throughout the film, Moore travels to Canada to see why our neighboring country is not as violent and sees that the media in Canada is completely different when it comes to…

regarding Mr. Fong’s “quirks” throughout the story The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever. Mooney refers to a few peculiar actions made by Fong. These acts include, taking notes when there is the slightest error, the character making adjustments to how he is bowling in the game, his approach while bowling, and how Fong refers to himself as “lucky” regarding a few incidences. In the story, the author states, “If you count all the bowling alleys all over America, [someone] somewhere bowls a 300…

The excerpt which meets the criteria of being rhetorically effective was written by the author of the best-selling 2000 book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putman. Ethos has been established early on in the text as the speaker is a Harvard professor who also uses numerous sources to support his argument. Putman has written this passage in order to discuss the nature of television in American life and how it affects our relationship with our community.…