Class Review of This Week

This week we watched Capitalism: A Love story by Michael Moore, In it, he showed us his views on Capitalism and why he thinks its hurting more then helping us. It was a lengthy movie that had many good points, though it was somewhat biased and lacking perspectives from the accused "evil-doers". We then analyzed the movie to find the uses of rhetoric in it; we also went over what we thought the thesis statement for the movie was. On Friday, we used our book (Ch 14 specifically) and put ourselves in the perspective of different people from two pictures.  The pictures we used were taken from Hurricane Katrina and Haiti; both were powerful in their own way, and were open to different interpretations, especially the Hurricane Katrina picture. We also viewed a picture of a person (Christian Smith) who used three cameras to show himself, which represented the way many people see life in America today. We even talked about an artist who made plastic art using humans, which was very interesting to see.