Columbine Essay!

Americans do not notice things going on around them, and their news stories make them believe the world is a bad place.

Pollution:

People around the area have not noticed that there is pollution in the air that is really affecting the earth because of all the violence that goes on.

News reporters:

The news reporters do not get the important stories and just go for the violent things because they think it will make better news.

T.V shows:

All they see on T.V is killing or something with violence.

Pedestrians:

People do not know things that go on around them besides what the news says

Introduction:

In America TONS of people are killed by gun violence every year. So this paper is going to tell you how Americans are do not notice the different things going on around them, and that their news stories make them believe that the world is a bad place. In my following paragraphs it is going to say why this statement is completely true. The topics that are going to be talked about are the pollution, news reporters, TV shows, and the people in American themselves.

Argument #1:

A problem that the Americans are not noticing about is the pollution that is going on around them. During the movie Moore asks a man what the news reporters were reporting and the man starts to tell Moore that they were there reporting an African American man with a gun. Moore then proceeded to ask him where the “HOLLYWOOD” sign was, the man looked over and hadn’t even noticed that it was not see able before. Moore was amazed at this. He also asked a Police man if they could arrest someone for polluting the air and he said “absolutely not” Moore tried to ask him why they couldn’t and he just ignored him and walked away. Moore was amazed that people around there did not care about the pollution and didn’t realize what was going on around their own city. This effects the Americans because it shows that they some what do not care what is going on and the do not even notice the really important things that are going on in life besides violence.

Argument #2:

Another problem is that on their T.V if they turn it on all they will see on the news is problems in America, like gun shootings or kidnappings, they never get to see anything but violence. This makes all of Americans scared of each other and pretty much forces them to all buy guns to stay safe. News reporters only report the things that they think will be watched, and example is when there was a shooting and also a drowning baby and the reporter chose the shooting. Why do you think he chose this one instead? Most likely because this is more interesting and will most likely is watched more. This effects the Americans because it proceeds to give them the wrong idea about what really goes on in the world and this also makes them frightened and worry about things that should not have to be worried about.

Argument #3:

When an American turns on the T.V (besides the news) they usually see things on there that are violent. One of the most watched shows in America is Cops, this T.V show is about police men catching the bad guys and taking them into custody. Normally this show has tons of violence that happens on it, and this proceeds to tell the Americans not to trust anyone because bad things can happen. During a little episode that they showed about this, an African American man was caught by the cops and he had, had a gun that he was attempting to use. This also makes the Americans think that they are safe if they go out and buy a gun, which leads to more violence out there.  This also effects the Americans because it make them think that it is not safe to be anywhere and makes them wonder why they need to trust anyone.

Argument #4

During this show there are tons of examples on how pedestrians don’t notice what is really going on around them. They did not notice the pollution; Charlton Heston is the old man that Moore had asked questions to. Turns out this man thinks that the only way that you can be safe is if you own a loaded gun, he also uses the excuse that “the law says I am allowed to have one”. This man did not even know that a little girl had been shot in a school and killed a while ago. This proves that not many of them know what is really happening around them and that even some violence is not interesting enough for them to get into. This effects the Americans because they need to realize that the world really isn’t a bad place and that they need to pay more attention to what goes on so that they know that violence is not going to help anything at all.

Conclusion:

This concludes that Americans need to pay more attention to what is going on around them so they know what to think and what not to think. Also that the evening news should stop trying to make the stories interesting, and calm down with the gun violence shows. If they did not make all the news about violence not many people would need guns and there would also be less violence and less killings.