In this blog post, I am going to choose three topics from the documentary Where to Invade Next, and I have to create one research question for each topic. A brief summary of the documentary you can find it in my previous post blog: Summary of Where to Invade Next.
Topic: American Nutrition Class Research Question: Should America have a nutrition class in elementary school to help eliminate obesity? Argument: America should have a nutrition class because it will help to reduce the obesity which has a very high rate in US. By learning the habits of a healthy diet at a young age, it will help to maintain and use these lifelong habits. Topic: Free Colleges Research Question: Should America offer free college education for its citizens? Argument: America should offer free college education for its citizens because not everyone has the opportunity to pay the university debt, and many students abandon college attendance due to fear for non-payment of these debts. Topic: Women in American Government Research Question: Should America elect a woman president? Argument: America should elect a woman president because women are a strong gender, are more peaceful, more sensitive, more reasonable, more caring, more sincere, and they are less corrupt and irritable. They think with mind and act with heart. After 51 men in presidential post I think has come the time for the US presidency to be leaded from a woman. As they run their homes and their families, they will also lead America.
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Introduction Welcome to my next blog. In this blog post I will provide a brief summary of the documentary Where to Invade Next and a rhetorical analysis of the film. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore visits various European countries to notice changes in important social aspects between them and America. The purpose of this documentary is to “steal” their ideas and experiences and then bring them to America to better improve American life. The first destination is Italy, here Moore focused on the terms of businesses and employees. What impressed him more was the fact that no matter what kind of company or the position is, workers are given eight weeks paid vacation each year. Business owners think that vacations have an impact on the mental and physical health of workers, reducing the level of stress and consequently reduce the chance of getting sick. The second stop was France, where Moore focused on elementary schools and noted that in school children learn how to cook healthy foods and each school has its own chef. Educating kids how to cook proper nutrition it will reduce the spread of obesity. In Finland, Moore was curious to find out how Finland just a few years ago had the same educational level as America (in the bottom of the list), and now is leading the first place. The difference is that in Finland children go to school less, about 20 hours a week and have no homework. The principals think children have a lot of things to do after school, and this helps their growth and development. His next country was Slovenia where universities are free and everybody who attends the university does have no debt. He met with some American students who couldn’t pay the debts in US universities, so they had decided to study for free in Slovenia. In Germany where he travelled next workers work 36 hours a week, but are paid for 40 hours and are not allowed to do another job. Bosses don’t have the right to call or send emails after work, on weekends or during vacations, so employees are less stressed and more productive at work. His next country to invade was Portugal where the cops don’t arrest people for using drugs, and this has affected their drug rate to be lower than in United States. In Norway Moore focused in their prison system. The prisons are in the form of rehabilitation centers where every prisoner has his own room, his shower, his TV and his laundry. Prisoners are treated humane and are taught how to adapt to normal life after leaving the prison. Two last countries where he travelled were Tunisia and Iceland. In Tunisia, women have the same rights like men, the abortion is legal, and women’s health clinics are easily available, so it is their right to control their own bodies. His last country was Iceland. Iceland was the first country to elect a woman democratic president and now women are equal in all businesses. After visiting all the places Moore discovered that all these great ideas were given by the Americans himself, so he did not need to “steal” any idea because the ideas had been there, but they should use them. Rhetorical Analysis
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This week I had to listen a video about Reflective Writing. This video exactly explains that a reflective writing has to have more reflection and less descriptions. In this blog post, I will explain how I wrote my life-choice memoir and how I will revise it. Who did you work with to compose your life-choice memoir? Was this a good approach? I didn’t work with anyone to compose my life-choice memoir because no one except me could describe the emotions I experienced in those moments, although my husband was part of this decision, our feelings and experiences were different. I tried to project the scene once again in my mind to remember all the details about the feelings that I experienced at that time. What rhetorical mode and genre are you using? In my life-choice memoir I have used the Narrative rhetorical mode and the Creative nonfiction genre. When did you write this project? Good approach? I started to write this paper on February 13th during the class and I used the method of Free Writing. I kept working on it on February 20th, 24th, 25th and I finished it on February 26th. The Free Writing method was a good approach because it helped me to write down every thought without stopping and without judging its quality. I used this method three times, and after that I had enough information about the event. Where did you write this project? Good approach? I wrote this project in my class at Delaware County Community College and in my house late at night. I think it was efficient because I was concentrating on it without being bothered by others. Why did you choose to write about your chosen topic? Good choice? I have chosen to write about this topic of leaving my homeland and my family because this is the biggest decision I have taken so far in my life and it has completely changed it. I believe this is a good choice because writing about this issue can help other people who may be in the same situation with me and can find themselves in this story. How did it feel to write this narrative ("during, after, and since")? Do you have any "if only" moments that can help you revise the draft? While I was writing this narrative, I had to struggle with the weight of the emotions that appeared with the same force as at that moment when it happened and on the other hand, I had to describe every word and every feeling to pass it onto the reader with the same emotion I had experienced in those moments. I had difficulty to describe the fullness of feelings through words. After I finished the first draft I want to revise it and make it better. How will you revise your narrative? To revise my narrative, I will give to my cousin to read it, and I will accept her advice to correct and improve it. |
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