bowling for columbine

In the video, Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore is trying to get across the point that guns are dangerous and how they should no longer be so accessible and that Americans have become more and more scared over time.  An example, is in the video he shows how right from the beginning when the pilgrims left England to modern day in the suburbs with all the locked doors, chained gates, and guns in the house.  He talks about how the boys that were the cause of the shooting at Columbine shot themselves after the massecre, probably because they were afraid of what would happen to them.  Lots of people are against the easy access of guns because there are so many homocides, but they seem to forget about all the people who have guns and don't go around shooting people, just because they are scared.

Moore supports his argument by showing showing an animation and actual footage from the shooting at Columbine.  In the animation, it shows how the Americans left England because they were afraid of persecution, then how they killed the natives because they were afraid of them, then there was the American Revolution and the civil war, both of which were caused of fear, the video then goes on to show how in modern times Americans have started locking their doors, barring their gates, and keeping guns around the house, all out of fear.  In the Bowling for Columbine video, he shows ac      

Disney and McDonalds
Disney would make a movie or TV show and then McDonalds would sell toys from that show. This helped promote both McDonalds and Disney, because a child would either watch a Disney movie and want the toy from McDonalds or buy the McDonalds toy and want the Disney movie.


Sprite, MTV and Viacom
Sprite paid teens $50 a pop to dance while there was Sprite logos everywhere