Today's class began with Mr. Rivers collecting some more copies of The Great Gatsby. So make sure to bring your copy if you did not already. After that, we went over the assignment for our research paper again. Mr. Rivers has laid out all the due dates for each part of the project so we can be held accountable for every part of the paper. We have to have our documentary chosen by monday January 30. After reviewing the guidelines for our reachearch paper, Mr. Rivers introduced the movie we will be examining in class as a outline of our paper. This movie is called Bowling for Columbine. It is a documentary about the school shooting in Littleton, Colorado on April 20,1999. Mr. Rivers gave us two questions to keep in mind while watching the film. They were: what argument does the film make and how does the director support that claim?
The claims made in the film were:
- It's too dangerous to sell guns at a bank→ shows violence of america
- Too simple for people to get guns
- Michigan is very pro guns→ people are being reckless with guns
- Bullets are sold too widely
The information given to support those claims were:
- Says it's too easy
- Points out issues with the process
- Walks out with gun in hand
- Advertisement → bank uses gun as main photo
- Underplays his intelligence
- Was given NRA award
- A dog shot a man
- People wouldn’t waste bullets on innocent people if ammunition was expensive
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