This blog post is an Annotated Bibliography of my research paper. My research paper is about how Philadelphia should have public schools instead of charter schools. I have several sources that are relevant to my paper that shows the difference between the two systems. First Source: Michael Moore's film Where to Invade Next .
Third Source:Kate Harveston https://intpolicydigest.org/2017/11/14/fixing-america-s-public-education-system/
In this blog I'm taking what I talked about in my previous blog Summary and Rhetorical Analysis of Where to Invade Next. In that blog post I wrote an summary about the Michael Moore film Where to Invade Next. I'm coming up with three different arguments on why we should have universal healthcare, free education, and better employment in the United States. There are a lot more issues that need to be discussed but these three are my main focus of my blog post. Topic: Health care in the United States of America.
Research Question: Should the United States of America provide free universal health care coverage for its citizens? Argument: The United States of America should provide free universal health care coverage for its citizens because so many Americans go without coverage because the government makes it so expensive to afford. No jobs really offer it and if they do it takes about your whole check to make the payments and then the coverage does not cover everything. If the government would use the taxpayer’s money to go into healthcare instead of wars that they start with other countries, then it would work. They should make it so that we take some of our taxes that get taken out go into like a universal big bowl and that would be able to go to families that can’t afford care and families that work. If we stop worrying about ourselves and stop being selfish then we could help each other. If one eats, then we all should eat. We give celebrities our money for them to live, but we can’t give that money to a needy family that needs medicine. Topic: Employee benefits in the United States of America. Research Question: Should the United States of America provide better employee benefits for its citizens? Arguments: The United States of America needs to provide better benefits for workers. How do they expect people to come to work everyday barely able to make ends meet? While we slave at work for employers that get to go home and not worry about what they must eat at night. They have no debt because workers like us make money for them to leave like fat rats. They offer little to no time off. Not to mention when you get sick or family issues they want to fire you when you must take off. Its like pulling teeth to get off work because they want to work you like a machine. Then if you want to go on vacation it’s like you must save for a year because you don’t make enough money to cover the cost. Don’t think about extending you families then once you do that you lose your job. If we keep more jobs here for us to do, then we would do better because all the money that we would make here in America would stay in our economy. They ship the jobs in other countries because they pay almost nothing to pay the workers just, so they can keep more money in their pockets. Disgusting. Topic: Education system in the United States of America. Research Question: Should the United States of America provide better Education for its citizens children? Argument: Here in the United States the children here have poor education due to the lack of money that goes into the education system. The education especially here in Philadelphia is out dated. There aren’t enough textbooks for the children. My daughter cannot even bring home a textbook with her homework because there are not enough. She brings her homework in a paper packet. Then they give them test on information on things that they don’t even know or never heard of because they don’t have the proper literature to teach them. The school lunches are so nasty that my daughter doesn’t even want to eat it and she asks me if I can either but or make her lunch. Our country only worries bout war that they forgot about the future and that is the children. How can there be anything for them if we can’t help them get there. Schools with the best education here are the ones that families can’t afford. Why should a child be subject to not being able to have the best education just because their parents don’t make enough money? It saddens me to know that my daughter and other children can’t get the best because we don’t have enough money. In this blog post I am focusing on the Michael Moore movie Where to Invade Next. This film focus was to show us how us as a country need to get better with our healthcare system, justice system, education system, and our employment system. He went to different countries across Europe, Germany and some other small places to show us their systems and to persuade us the audience to possibly take their ways of life to make it our own by making our voices actually work for us by going to the government to make our way of life better for now and the future generations to come . In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore went into different countries to find out all of their good and to persuade the audience on how we the people should use the examples for us here in America. He went to some countries in Europe, Germany, and other places to see how there systems work. in this film he showed us how their justice system, healthcare, education, employment are better than ours here in the United States of America. We seen how they treat their employees in Italy and give them 8 weeks off in one year for sick, personal, and vacation time. In France they give the children four course lunch no added sugars and real food that deserves to be in a restaurant. Finland had only public schools and it is illegal to even have private schools. No matter rich or poor every child's education was the same. This is just a few to mention. Every time he seen something good that he thought that we should be doing in the United States he would put his American flag down and say that he was taking the idea. · How does Michael Moore establish Ethos? In the film he shows us what everyone else does not want to show us. He does not try to be something that he is not. He is raw and does not hold any punches. Michael is not afraid to show the world or anyone that wants to listen what needs to be heard and what needs to be said. To show us that we as a country need to change.
· How does Michael Moore use Logos? In the film Michael Moore showed a picture of a graph and compared the taxes in Italy to the United States of America. In the graph he showed us how even in Italy they may pay a little more taxes, but those taxes are shown to help their economy. Where as in the united states we the people pay a lot more and we don’t have any resources for schools and the likes and end up paying more money out of pocket then they do. · How does Michael Moore appeal to Pathos? There was a scene in the film that made me tear up a little and that was the jail scene. While he was in Norway he was showing us the way they deal with their criminals. And even their maximum-security prisons are better than our jails period. The men here were getting beat to a pulp and bit by dogs not only that but are also still not being able to keep their right to vote. Norway, they get debates done inside of their jail to get the votes of the inmates because their vote still matters like wow really. Their cells look like small little rooms with private bathrooms. · What is Michael Moore's Telos? His purpose was to persuade. He informed in a persuasive way. He was being serious, but it was very fun to watch how he would sarcastically ask them like well ‘’Why would you listen to your employees’’, and the person who would have to answer would be looking like for real are you serious. · What is the Kairos of this film? When he would hear the good things that another country was doing while he was invading he would take that opportunity to then compare it to our country to show us how we need to grow. One country Finland I believe said that their education system idea they got from the United States. How could you have an idea and don’t use it. Sad. |
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