In this blog post, I will be reflecting on my research paper and sharing with you my writing process in creating this paper.
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Where To Invade Next. Dir. Michael Moore. Dog Eat Dog Films. 2016. Online.
My first source is the film, "Where to Invade Next", directed by Michael Moore. In the film, Moore visits other countries and tries to find ideas to take for America. Creech, Mark H. "Universal Health Care Is Unbiblical." Universal Health Care, edited by Susan C. Hunnicutt, Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, libdb.dccc.edu/login?url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010668217/OVIC?u=pa_de_ccc&xid=ad047d00. Accessed 17 Nov. 2017. Fogel, Joshua. "Health Care." Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices, edited by Roger Chapman, and James Ciment, Routledge, 2nd edition, 2013. Credo Reference, https://libdb.dccc.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/sharpecw/health_care/0?institutionId=5109. Accessed 17 Nov 2017. In this blog post I will focus on three topics from the movie Where to Invade Next. I summarized the film in my last blog post, which is linked here. I will then create a research question for each topic, and write a brief argument responding to the question.
Topic: College debt in America Question: Should college be free to attend in America? Argument: I believe college education should be free to attend in America. Lots of people can not afford to attend college now and there are brilliant minds that will not have as many opportunities as others. Free college education would be ideal, but I do think that would be very hard to achieve. I certainly do not think it should be as expensive as it is now though. Topic: School Lunches in America Question: Should school lunches in America be healthier? Argument: I do believe school lunches in America should be healthier. Sometimes I look at my lunch in school and wonder if it is even real meat. America has a high obesity rate and healthier lunches at school could really decrease childhood obesity. Topic: Paid vacation days Question: Should America have 6 weeks paid vacation like in Italy? Argument: I do not think Americans should have 6 weeks paid vacation. Although it would be nice, I do not think we would get much productivity done. I do think we should be allowed some paid vacation though. Italians are much less stressed than Americans and have a longer life expectancy, and this could be a reason why. In the documentary Where To Invade Next, Micheal Moore visited several countries and explored the ways they are different from the United States. He first visits Italy, where he discovers they get about 6 weeks paid vacation leave per year, while most Americans get zero days of paid vacation. They also get paid for maternity leave, honeymoons, and other holidays. Many employees get two hour lunch breaks where they can go home and eat a home cooked meal. Even with all of these vacations, Italian companies still get their work done and have enough money to pay employees. Moore also visits France, where school meals are very advanced compared to American school lunches. They are served healthy, delicious meals which even includes a cheese course. This makes the kids happier and healthier in school and they have a lower obesity rate. Moore even shows them a picture of a school lunch from the U.S. and all the children are shocked. Next he visits Finland, which has one of the best education systems in the world. They do not have homework, and have shorter school days than the U.S.A. The one thing teachers want the most is for children to be happy. They also have no standardized testing in Finland. He also visits Slovenia where students go to college for free and have no debt. Slovenia colleges also accept American students for free. Micheal Moore explores all these countries and says he was taking the ideas and America was going to claim them as their own.
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