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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AuthorHello my name is Oljada Zani. This is my blog for my English Composition 1 class. Enjoy! Archives
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