What is Michael Moore's thesis in Bowling for Columbine?
Some of Moore's conclusions are very dence, such as when he decides a welfare work program is responsible for a six-year-old shotting another six-year-old. He addresses these concerns, pointing out that if he was thinking like the media did when they blamed other kids for the Columbine shooting, he might as well conclude that bowling was responsible for the shootings, because the two resposible students went to only bowling class before the massacre had even started.

How does he support this thesis? and ideas + conventions.
He supports this by interviewing alot of people that have something to do with Columbine.

Kids Rebel Ideas from the School

Recently all the schools across Saskatchewan have been made non-smoking schools. This means that you aren’t allowed to have tobacco products on school grounds at any times. Teachers have the right to take away any kind of tobacco products that you may have. Some people think that this is unfair because it isn’t harming anyone to begin with. Another issue with school is that they are now energy drink free. Most people think that it is unfair. We are allowed to have them but not in schools. So if teens go and buy one at lunch time and cant bring it into school they end up drinking it really fast which is worse then sipping on it during breaks between classes or actually in the class. Personally most teens don’t think that this is a fair thing to be in school, it hasn’t been a problem and we don’t think it will be. Teens are smart enough not to have too much unless it’s needed to stay away during school.

Starting the new school year all the schools have been non-smoking. This is posted everywhere. But some don’t see how this will make a difference, kids will continue to smoke off of the grounds and most likely be late for class which will cause a problem to the school. So this idea pretty much isn’t helping anyone at all, just making everything harder for everyone. Some of us teens are not quite sure why they have decided to do this, but it may have something to do wit passer-byres maybe accidently inhaling some of the smoke as they walk by. But if it was really a big deal they wouldn’t even go near the tobacco to begin with. Also at the starting of this year the schools don’t allow energy drinks in the school, this confuses and frustrates most of the teens in school because some of us have them at lunch because most of us are tired from getting up so early. Schools may have band this because caffeine can be harmful to kids and so can most of the other things in the drinks.

Adults are thinking that all of this is better for the students because all these things are bad for us. Parents and Teachers are thinking that this is helping the kids because if we can’t smoke on school grounds we may as well quit then. They are thinking that if we don’t smoke now we are less likely not to smoke when we get out of school. In a way they will be helping us kids but in a way making everything harder for us. The government is thinking that this isn’t going to help them much because they find teens spend a lot of money on tobacco products.

Students should be allowed to have things that they want in school because I don’t think that this is going to make a difference in the way that kids think but make things harder for everyone else!

Article #1
House fire fatal

Who: 54-year-old man
What: Died in a house fire
When: Sunday
Where: Air Ronge
Why: Electrical fire

Article #2
B.C. woman drowns at Chitek

Who: 67-year-old woman from B.C.
What: Drowned in a lake
When: Sunday
Where: Chitek
Why: Unknown

Article #3
Lloydminster resident dies on Alta. hwy

Who: 47-year-old woman
What: Collision on the highway west of Stettler
When: Sunday
Where: 170 kilometres south of Edmonton
Why: 2 vehicles collided

NEWS PAPER

Ears

-Don’t diss Durant

-Soldier dies of wounds

Graphic

-2 football players

-soldier

-Courney Milne

-a tree

-potash corp. sign

-Peter Mansbridge

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-Don’t diss Durant (picture football player)

-Soldier dies of wounds (picture soldier)

-BHB Billiton denies talk of PotashCorp (picture potashcorp sign)

-3A high school football preview (picture high school football player)

Deck

Isnt one

Photo credit:

Cathy Chicoine

Index

Annie’s Mailbox-B2

Comics-C6

Jumpline

Please see story on page A3

Lead

Courtney Milne, the celebrated Saskatchewan photographer whose images chronicled the Canadian Praries and the world, died Sunday at his acreage home near Grandora. Milne, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2009.

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The StarPhoenix

Head

MILNE DEAD AT 66

Cut

Old man  (photo)

By-Line

By Jason Warick

Terminology

Conglomerate: A corporation consisting of a number of subsidiary companies or divisions in a variety of unrelated industries, usually as a result of merger or acquisition.
EX: Viacom


Demographic: A single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths.
EX: Females 16-24
Early Adopter: First people to create a style that will be followed later. 
EX: Bands

Coolhunting: Adults interveiwing and following kids to find out what us kids think is cool. So they can make things that we will buy.
EX: MTV

A Paradox of Coolhunting: How ''coolhunting" contridicts itself.
EX:

Synergy: The ability for people to be productive
EX: Sprite Party 


Horizontal Integration: When a company expands its business into different products that are similar to current lines.
 EX: McDonalds, and Disney

Ancillary Markets: generally refers to markets for feature films created by new television technologies.
EX:

A feedback loop: the causal path that leads from the initial generation of the feedback signal to the subsequent modification of the event EX: Interviewing then calculating results and sharing it with the company.

McDonalds, Disney, and "COOOOOOOOL"

Sprite
Sprite has a relationship with basketball players, in one of their commercials they have a basketball player drinking a bottle of sprite and saying how good it is and how much it helps since he is a basketball player. Sprite also has a relationship with MTV, they have a big sprite concert and MTV had filmed everyone in it doin what they like to do. In the background of this concert there was a huge sprite bottle and the sprite logo printed everywhere. Sprite also has a relationship with Viacom because Viacom owns MTV.

McDonalds and Disney

Similarities
-both Kroc and Walter were born in illinios
-both of the companies are successful
-both dropped out of highschool
-both have something to do with children
-both have something to do with sprite and MTV
-both were greedy

SONY

-What does Sony own?
   - Computers
   - TVs and Home Entertainment
   - Reader Digital Books
   - Cameras and Camcorders
   - MP3's and Portable Electronics
   - Headphones
   - Cars and Marine Auto
   - PlayStations

How does this impact the media we consume?