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I am currently employed as a Primary Care Paramedic by BC Ambulance service. I 'm writing anonymously with the aid of my coworkers to discuss concerns about working conditions as a part-time employee. There have been some interest in the public recently* regarding response times of ambulance paramedics to 911 calls, including some on the mainland which resulted in death*. In both of these circumstances, paramedics were blamed for not responding promptly. As a result, we are now being very…

today’s society, there will always be some element of truth amongst the lies, from horror films based on a “true story” to documentaries that present their opinion as fact. Award winning documentary maker, Michael Moore takes this idea and strikes hard with it. In the 2002 film, Bowling For Columbine, Moore successfully produced a documentary that conveys only a single side of the American attitude towards guns. He convinced audiences across the globe that strict gun control was the only way…

Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a conceited dystopian society where any possession of books is illegal? Well, in a dystopian society like Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, it is a community where firemen have to burn books for a living. People are not allowed to peruse books but only allowed to scan through training manuals for their jobs. When people who are against the government read the books, they will either get arrested and have a death penalty, or they either can…

the documentary mode: interactive participatory. Bowling for Columbine is an interactive participatory styled documentary written, produced and directed by the nationally acclaimed documentary writer Michael Moore who went on to direct Fahrenheit 9/11 aimed at the president George Bush and the war on terror. Michael Moore’s documentary style is described as neoliberal view of globalization and stands strongly for his personal “fiery left wing populism” of the American government according to…

Henry David Thoreau once wrote "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man." This statement is important in the Chris McCandless case on whether he is a transcendentalist or not for the reasoning that if you do not live the way you are supposed to, based on nature, you will ultimately die. Thoreau was considered a true transcendentalist; but when you really study him you will see how he does not match with all of the beliefs of a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists…

Burning the Blind: Silent Screams In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) many different literary elements were used in his writing to express his overall message for the book. Bradbury illustrates a futuristic community in which everybody is told what to do. Firefighters, which include Montag, are forced to burn every book in sight by the government. Montag had a very unusual encounter with a young girl who opened his eyes to the world in front of him. Rebelling against the government,…

The goal of Michael Moore’s documentary film, Bowling for Columbine, is to persuade his white, liberal, affluent audience to believe his theory that Americans (especially Americans living in the middle of the country) are trigger-happy, fearful people who rely on violence to solve problems. Moore attempts to establish the ethos of an “average gun-owning American” by describing how much he loved guns as a little boy and that he is a lifetime member of the NRA, but he undercuts his credibility by…

In the documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore suggests that the American society has been warped by guns and by the violence that surrounds them. As he sets out to explore the obscure reasoning behind the events at Columbine High School which claimed many lives, Moore supports his stance by incorporating statistics, and anecdotal evidence from Americans, demonstrating the easy accessibility to firearms and the harm caused by their use. Moore strives to illustrate this brutality as a…

Michael Moore 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…

“Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report” and “The Conspiracy Industry: Afterword to PM Expanded Investigation” are two articles both written for the Popular Mechanics magazine by James B. Meigs, the latter being written in 2006, one year after the former. “Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report” is an in-depth analysis of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the factual evidence that refutes these theories. “The Afterword” is a reflective piece that describes the uprising of…