In Michael Moore’s introduction to the novel, Stupid White Men, Moore talks about the state of the American nation during the twenty first century. Moore believes that the nation is falling apart because it is being overrun by the “stupid white men” who are controlling it. He equates all the corruption and downfall that is occurring throughout the United States with the election of former president George W. Bush. In this introduction he covers numerous controversial issues, which range from the economy and society to politics and the environment. Although much of what Moore says is exaggerated and one sided, many of his statements are true. Moore is correct in stating that the nation is falling downhill; however, he is wrong in saying that Bush is the only cause in America’s decline.
Moore blames everything that goes wrong in America on the "stolen" presidential election of 2000. Moore says that Bush did not win the election; Americans just gave him the presidency even though he did not receive the most votes. He states that the voting ballots are unusable and that people’s voices and opinions do not count anymore in America. However, this is not true. Bush did not steal the election because although he did not receive the majority vote, he did receive the most votes from the electoral college, which are the votes that count in presidential elections. Bush is not the cause of all that is wrong in America; however, he has contributed to some of it with his policies and cutbacks. Moore states that Americans have no health care. This is true because Bush did nothing to reform the corruption of the health care insurance companies. His new policies for health care just cut funding and left many Americans with no medic...
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...nd the Dow hitting a record low. The economy may just be going through a normal cycle, but the decline was certainly propelled by Bush being in office. Many people felt unsure with him as president and, therefore, felt unsafe about how he ran the economy. This caused many people to pull out of the stock market, which caused businesses to fail.
Michael Moore's introduction to Stupid White Men may not be completely factual, but he certainly has a point. Twenty first century America is going downhill and people are just sitting around watching it fall. Bush did not receive the majority vote in the 2000 election, but he did not cause all that is wrong in America. He contributed to some factors that caused America to decline, while other factors were beyond his control. America will have its ups and downs, and some presidents just contribute to the downs.
Michael Moore’s documentary, “Bowling for Columbine,” attempts to expose the truth of gun violence in the United States of America. While his argument is persuasive, its impact is lessened with his use of logical fallacies, such as hasty generalization, post hoc, and appeal to doubtful authority. Moore’s film is thrillingly entertaining, but it is hard to look past the gaping holes in some of his logic.
Gary Gerstle attempts to reinterpret twentieth-century American history in light of the power of race (and to a much lesser extent, or even not at all, class and gender). The American Crucible conceptualizes American liberals as well as whiteness scholars’ synthetic historiographical interpretations on mainstream Americanism like Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt- Theodore Roosevelt especially, due the author’s attention to the meaning of the liberal state and liberalism. However, above all that, Gerstle argues that inherent tensions between two powerful types of nationalism- racial and civic- have decisively shaped American history, policy-making and political debates in the twentieth
...d gas and with the increase in oil prices, more money is being taken away from the people. It is evident that although we may be entering into a recession on different terms than the one before, the United States is still in danger of once again becoming a victim of another Great Depression.
The longest-lasting economic downfall in the history of the United States was the Great Depression. The Great Depression generated close after the stock market crash. The stock market crash presented itself on October 1929. The stock market crash pushed Wall Street into hectic terror which eradicated millions of investors. Since the crash of the stock market, over the next numerous years, consumer spending and investment dropped. In consideration of consumer spending and investment dropping it caused steep declines in industrial manufacturing and rising levels of unemployment. Rising unemployment was caused by companies that were failing and laying off workers. When the Great Depression reached its all-time low, before 1933, some thirteen to
After nearly a decade of optimism and prosperity, the United States took a turn for the worse on October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed, better known as Black Tuesday and the official beginning of the Great Depression. The downfall of the economy during the presidency of Herbert Hoover led to much comparison when his successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took office. Although both presidents had their share of negative feedback, it is evident that Hoover’s inaction towards the crises and Roosevelt’s later eccentric methods to simulate the economy would place FDR in the positive limelight of fixing the nation in one of its worst times.
America is a façade hidden behind its notorious past, with an even more troubling present. The land of the free, home of the brave, and one nation claimed to be united under the presence of an omnipotent power, but is it really? America profits off of the so-called dream that is sold to the hopeful and broken. This nation has been riddled with violence, persecution, hatred, and a false sense of togetherness. Racism was not the beginning, it was the ending result of a power struggle between those who wanted control and those who had it. The systematic enslavement and dehumanization of blacks resulted in the concept of a racial caste division, creating the idea of us vs. them (Wacquant, 2002). The Jim Crow laws, prisons, and the creation of ghettos
that since the KKK was evil, that the NRA is also evil as it is made
hurricane Katrina and have since then moved on to the recession and loss of jobs. The recession
Economic problems have plagued our nations for years now. There is one man who can save us all from destruction, or so he thinks, and that man is Michael Moore. In his movie Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore goes all over the country trying to find the people responsible for all the economic turmoil. He tells the stories of normal citizens that are affected by these problems and through these stories he tries to convince the audience that the bankers and big businesses are cruel and evil, and need to pay for their crimes. These large corporations have done many unethical acts such as taking out life insurance policies on employees and infiltrating the government to pass their agenda. Moore also goes onto talk about how FDR wanted to create a new bill of rights to protect the working American citizen. To get his point across, Moore goes to the affected people to tell the story about corporations taking life insurance policies on their employees.
In The Racial Contract, it is argued that contemporary structures of white domination in the United States operate by means of an epistemology of ignorance for white people. White people inadvertently suffer from cognitive dysfunctions such that they cannot understand the racially (and racistly) structured world in which they live and, indeed, helped create. For Mills, while no person of any race is self-transparent, becoming a white person entails a particularly extreme form of self-opacity regarding issues of race that corresponds with a conspicuously bad or offensive misunderstanding of the world. Recently with the invasion of Iraq, the president has proven that white people believe that they are correct when that in any given conflict it must quell the conflict through force rather than understanding of the predicament. It must be astonishing to a lot of white Bush supporters to learn that the horrible conditions in Iraq would only be made worse when a foreign country whose leader represents Christian ideals (which aren’t the prevailing consensus in Iraq), believes that Iraqis people need another conflicting force in a country ravaged by extreme racism.
There wasn’t just a single action or event that sparked the stock market crash. It was a series of bad judgements and choices made by the consumers, over looked by expenses and the era they had just experienced full of wealth and prosperity. Nobody saw this coming, or could even suspect this of happening. Consumers continuously invested in the stock market, leading to over speculation, poor government policies and and all around an unstable economy. Large investors catching wind of a bad outlook and future in the stock market, pulled their money out of the market and went straight to the banks. Because of the crash and its aftermath which revealed serious flaws in American economy, it led up to the Great Depression. The crash caused over 5,000 banks to close and for the many who invested their money only in banks, it was devastating crisis. Farmers started facing tough times when unemployment rates rose. Nobody had the money to pay for the food leaving farm prices dirt cheap, which meant lower income...
The Panic of 1893 brought up the most severe depression the nation and YET experienced. In March 1893 when a company was unable to meet payments on loans, declared bankruptcy. After a few more months, another company failed too. This triggered a collapse of the stock market. A wave of bank failures soon began. It caused a contraction of credit, which meant that many of the new, aggressive, and ...
If it was not apparent enough that America’s education system is failing, Michael Moore’s “Idiot Nation” openly explains to us about the truth. America, for being the richest country, is behind in the educational standpoint. America needs to rethink their standards when it comes to education. America is more focused on corporate earning than educating our youth. The author of “Idiot Nation” makes the reader think about how America is viewed in the world. The purpose of Michael Moore’s essay is to point out what is wrong with this nation and also give the reader the motivation to actually do something about the situation at hand. Moore is trying to make readers aware of where we send our children. The author is trying to shock readers with the facts to do something to improve the American education system.
In the first article, “Hiding from Reality”, Bob Herbert talks about the reality of the state of the United States. He feels that America is in sad shape. Herbert states that from the economy, jobs, and public schools, the country is definitely in a decline. Herbert also feels that our country is in denial about how bad things really are. Unemployment rates are at their highest and that with our country going to war with no money to fund them, it is just another reason American’s are in a downward spiral. No one is sure if we can ever recover from the recession of 2009, and Herbert makes it very clear he doesn’t see an end to the suffering American’s are feeling anytime soon. Everyone from service employees, to state and local government agencies are feeling the effects of the recession. Every program and employee is feeling the cut backs. Taxes are being raised and employee’s benefits are being cut...
Something that may come to everyone’s mind now days and the number one thing that is looked at after a presidential election and every New Year is stock. Stocks determine the health of the economy, the money people are willing to invest, take risks on and win back or lose, but because of the crash, it discouraged people from investing in stocks and instead a huge amount of withdrawals happened leading to the economic collapse that occurred. The U.S government began to worry it would run out of gold because everyone began to turn the couple dollars they still had into gold so the Federal Reserve decided to increase the value of the dollar. Banks began to fail and lose savings; people had to withdrawal the money they had left, leaving banks no other choice but to shut down.