Roger and Me Analysis In this film, Michael Moore is satirizing corporate America, specifically the General Motors scenario in Flint, Michigan, during the late 1980's. ... Flint witnessed extreme unemployment rates, which eventually led to a high crime rate as people stole and fought for basic needs, such as clothing and food. ... I would be hard-pressed to find any viewers of Roger and Me who didn't end up adopting the views of Michael Moore on the subject. ...

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The only section that really freaked me out was the suburbs in Long Island where the groups of seventh and eighth graders rented limousines and had oral sex in corners of clubs. ... As stated in the article, these reasons could be from the rising of divorce rates, availability of condoms and earlier onset of puberty. ... The articles accuracy, to me, is right on and totally believable. ... The only shady part to me is when the psychologist says that they aren't ready, which is more than likely correct, but who are they to say how one should feel. ... To me, it's already too late ...

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This humble upbringing gave me the unique insight of how certain policies have both functioned and failed for many of the inhabitants of the lower-middle to lower economic classes. My parents wanted to instill in me the values and morals of self-worth, community, true monetary value, and viewing others as equals, among many others. Because of these virtues my parents possessed, they placed me into the local public school system even thought I pled repeatedly to be enrolled in a private institution. ... This has influenced the national dropout rate to be 7%. ... I plan to take away from this ...

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My years of adolescence in school and also the surrounding of the general public has helped me acknowledge the horrific incident that took place in Japan in 1945. Some individuals think of the atomic bomb as a useful means for settling conflict and making peace but to me, I think of it as a shadow hiding in the background, waiting for the consent to detonate and cause mass destruction to the people and the infrastructure that civilization has put so much effort into. ... Since science and technology has not grown at a constant rate but at an increasingly and incredible rate, I am afraid of ...

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Moore looks at many aspects of American society in the hunt for the reasons why America has such a high rate of gun-related homicides in comparison with the rest of the world. ... As a non-White; this was a sort of culture shock to me. ... He at least made me think. ...

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This project gave me an incentive to get to know her better. ... I asked her to clarify it for me. ... This alone is responsible for their very low divorce rate and the reason girls place high value on their virginity until marriage. Anca told me that divorces are very rare in Romania. ... Crime rate used to be very low when she lived there. ...

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For me it was heart wrenching knowing that children I left as infants were to be walking toddlers when I returned. Even as an adult with the power of reasoning and discernment it was very disheartening when I approached my younger child who seemingly no longer recognized me. ... There were unlimited ways to demonstrate this including providing us with first-rate tools and suitable working environments, providing us with decent living conditions, and additional pay allowances to sustain our families back home. ... Extended deployments are not easy, but for me it was best to concentrate on t...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report in September 2000 that found that most adult-rated shows, films, music and video games were marketed to children ("Television Content"). ... With this noticeable increase in violence appearing in television programs, the juvenile crime rate has increased. ... " TV did have an effect on me right from the beginning in the first grade, I was a member of a four kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns" (Brandon Tradeoff, NBC). ... It can be used by parents to block out any shows that are rated as violent or sexually explicit ("Television ...

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There's statistics saying that being a Latina girl from a low income family living in a neighborhood with a high rate of crimes means that I am destined to never get a college degree. ... Right now, I don't live in a neighborhood with a high rate of crime. ... This reminds me back to where I was in Mexico. ... Is sometimes hard for me to say no to a friend when they invite me to go out. ... If something bothers me I keep it to myself and try to show others a strong face just the way my mother had tough me. ...

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Reality Is Immorality "Uh, Mom and Dad, would you maybe like to pick out a set of gorgeous twins for me to date? ... Sounds more like a sexual fantasy to me. ... Call me conservative, but I don't want America's children thinking it is acceptable behavior to get engaged to someone because they"re rich. ... Maybe, but with the divorce rate higher than ever and still rising, American television does not need to endorse marriage in this context, and call it reality on top of it. ... Consequently, fewer people will be getting married; therefore the divorce rate goes down. ...

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Some may say it's a learning process and others will say it's a teaching process, but to me it is both learning and a teaching process. ... Two individuals get together and form a family and through faith they try to hard to make it work but continually the divorce rate grows. ... To me I feel that the substance of a relationship is no different after you get married. ...

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Another good thing that might help lower the handgun death rate would be to have the President do an inspection on personal firearms like he did in Iraq looking for nuclear weapons. ... With the necessity for firearms gone, and the gun-related death rate rising, it is easy for me to come to the conclusion that the guns need to go. ...

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However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. ... But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because of the homicide rate involving guns and because of the violence created by criminals using guns. ... Denmark and Finland also have high rates of gun ownership and low crime rates. The experience of these countries shows that widespread gun possession is compatible with low crime ra...

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Although the bank loaner's scams played a big part, other things such as the economy and the rate of people losing their jobs caused things to downfall. ... I learned that the banks are now trying to give loan modifications by lowering rates, which will further help the customers. ... They were offering struggling homeowners a chance to re-modify their home loans, by reducing their mortgage rates by two or three percent. ... The banks are only lowering rates by 2-3 percent, At the Cerritos Library, some statistics about home foreclosures from the Library Database were available. ... It&...

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This reminds me of a little something called the Third Reich, and their extermination of Jews. ... In 1987, Florida enacted a right to carry law (right to carry a gun), and murder and crime rates have steadily decreased. ... In contrast, some states that have allowed people to conceal weapons see their crime rates drastically dropping. ... This essay was fun for me, I guess. ...

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Blacks have also been shown to have higher crime rates than whites. Meaning by percentage of population and crime rate, blacks commit far more crimes. ... Are you telling me all minorities are incapable of being racist or discriminatory? ... And don't even get me started on the case of the black street punk who got punched by the cop. ...

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This reason is in fact true and appears to be one of the valid reasons for the high homicide rate. If you do not believe me, try this experiment. ... In the movie, Bowling for Columbine, an author that was interviewed found while researching that the murder rate has dropped by 20%, but the coverage has increased by 600%. Why is it that crime rates keep dropping but fear keeps increasing? ...

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Later in the essay Will states; "Two supposed signs of the "crisis" are America's high rate of infant mortality and low rate of immunization of preschool children. ... We know that the number of people living on our planet is growing at a soaring rate and that within a relatively short time we can expect it to total in the tens of billions.. ... In short, it appears to me that it would be better to start from the head rather than the tail. ...

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One of these pressing issues of today is the rate of teenage pregnancy. ... What I mean by this is, not being knowledgeable about the importance of using contraception and believing in false myths such as "it won't happen to you" or "if he pulls out, I won't get pregnant" is a crucial factor of the teen pregnancy rate here in America. ... Out of all these reasons, one that struck me the most was the fact that some adolescence say sex feels better without it, so they choose not to take proper precautions. ... Teenage pregnancies are associated with increased rates...

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Now more than ever people are venturing out and starting their own businesses and are succeeding at a tremendous rate. ... Despite the growth of personal business in the United States one discouraging factor is that of the increasing divorce rate in America. ... Even though America is mostly a Christian country we still manage to have one of the highest divorce rates in the world. ... With the trend of increasing divorce rates one can look at Kennedy's "Remarks on Church and State" to see how our country's democratic values shine through. ... He states that if he is elected president...

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I don't mind saying that this really pisses me off. 1 out of 6 dollars that I am taxed goes into someone's pocket that doesn't earn it. ... At that rate, a 40 hour work week will only gross $206.00. ... Reducing it by 10% every week until it gets to $50 seems about right to me. ...

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Paul Bou-Habib stated, "If the rate at which members of a specific racial group commits a crime is higher than that of other criminals will be caught if the police concentrate their efforts on investigating members of the racial group in question?... It makes me wonder how the mass incarceration of black males in society is so extreme, because of the poor communities many lived in. ... Research states that incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 extended about "100 to 200 prisoners per 100,000 people" (Khalek, 2011).  ... In the past 30 years crime rates do not explain the u...

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Some of the ideas I expressed above about Americans even started to sound peculiar to me as I was writing them, but Europe is a stark contrast of equal peculiarity. ... Perhaps Europe should be looking toward "Ireland, whom has been setting the pace by improving its GDP per person employed at more than twice the rate of that in America between 1980 and 2001.4- Ireland offers corporate tax breaks that appeal to multi-lateral corporations and encourage them to build or expand businesses within Ireland's boarders. ... The unemployment rates in the European union tend to be higher than in the...

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Dear Congressman Dan ____________, I am writing you about the Obamacare and insurance crisis in this country. I know we all need health insurance the start of the New Year. There are many people that are for Obamacare but, more and more people are struggling to afford insurance. I myself being one ...

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Yes, this does reduce the cost of the good but it also sends jobs elsewhere and drives the unemployment rate up high. ... This would give me (the business owner) ultimate freedom and the chance to obtain more profit. ...

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