The movie "Roger and me" by Michael Moore is a documentary about Roger Smith’s takeover of General Motors in the late 1980’s. Moore documents the transition from prosperity to poverty in the city of Flint‚ Michigan. There are three different angles from which to look at the situation in Flint. These three different angles are a conflict theorist’s view‚ a functional analysis’ view‚ and a symbolic interactionist’s view. The first view‚ conflict theory‚ is looking at who has the power‚ how they’re
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In the film Roger and Me‚ Michael Moore tells the story of the exploitation of the numerous workers in his hometown‚ Flint‚ Michigan. He follows the numerous employees of General Motors who have lost their jobs and consequently‚ tries to contact the power steering CEO of General Motors‚ Roger Smith. Smith closed down a large amount of the auto plants in Flint causing thousands of workers to be unemployed. Moore makes an attempt at demonstrating to Smith the harsh reality of the demise of Moore’s
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Chapter One Summary On his Granpa’s farm in the province of Natal in South Africa‚ an unnamed blonde infant is suckled by his black Zulu nanny. She sings to him of warriors and women washing at the baboons’ water hole. At five‚ the little boy’s mother has a nervous breakdown and he is sent to an Afrikaans boarding school. He is the youngest student by two years‚ and is hated because he is the only English-speaker in the school‚ which makes him a "rooinek" (Afrikaans for "redneck‚" a derogatory
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Capital One Financial Corporation 1. How is Capital One’s use of IT different from other mass customization strategies? Capital One uses IT through its information-based strategy (IBS) to “record‚ organize‚ and analyze data on the characteristics and behaviors of their customers‚” as stated by CEO Richard Fairbank. Their philosophy was to exploit information by constructing scientific models that could be used to both assess the creditworthiness of potential cardholders through
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nutritional value. In the film Super Size Me‚ the director and star Morgan Spurlock‚ does a 30-day diet of just McDonald’s fast food‚ for breakfast‚ lunch‚ and dinner. From the beginning of the movie‚ to the end‚ the viewer can observe how quickly fast food can drastically change someone’s health and life. It demonstrates how a perfectly healthy human can become so absorbed and addicted to fast food that it makes them sick and fat. Through the film Super Size Me‚ Morgan Spurlock is not advertising fast
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Supersize Me Supersize Me is the perfect movie to watch to understand the importance of diet and eating habits. It teaches us specifically about the dangers of fast food as well as what foods are better options! Supersize Me is a great teaching tool for all who watch. This documentary shows us the risks of eating fast food‚ specifically McDonald’s. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease‚ which
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“Supersize me” Opinion I felt like supersize me was a great way to finally educate consumers a little bit about how their food is made and to make more conscious decisions when deciding what to eat. It also made me feel disgusted with fast food in general and made me think twice before putting my money in their pockets for something that you just put in your mouth and can’t be called actual food because it isn’t food and has little to no nutritional value. I think that this documentary goes even
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‘Anita and Me’ is a first person narrative novel published in 1996. It was written by a British Asian actress and writer Meera Syal. The author grew up just outside Wolverhampton‚ where the novel Anita and Me is set‚ around the 1960s and 70s called Tollington. The novel is mainly focused on Syal’s own life and what was happening around her at that time. Moreover‚ life in the 1960s – 70s was rough for people who were immigrating and also people of Tollington as industrial were getting closed; which
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Influence of Cultures on "The Thousand and One Nights" Stories like Sindbad‚ Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work
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In the adventurous and comedic film‚ “Stand by Me” directed by Rob Reiner‚ follows the tale of four close friends‚ all around twelve years old‚ who live in the small fictional town of Castle Rock‚ Oregon‚ in 1959. Vern Tessio‚ known as the childish one‚ overhears his brother discussing a dead body of Ray Brower located just outside of town who was supposedly came in contact with a train. The four friends decide to leave Castle Rock with hopes of becoming heroes for finding Ray Brower’s body. On their
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