The Big One
In the movie, The Big One, Michael Moore encounters many major social problems. He encounters people of all different social classes with all different types of conflicts. Moore encounters companies shutting down and the people that are being laid off because of the shutdowns. He encounters people who are not being paid enough and also investigates an issue on teenage workers in Indonesia. Michael Moore has many encounters with different social conflicts and in a non-typical type of way tries to resolve the problems. One of the very first problems Moore runs into is the company called Centralia shutting down. The conflict was that the company shutting down caused a large amount of workers to be laid off, or even fired. The people that Moore spoke to argued the affects of being laid off or fired. Not only does this mean that the workers would lose their job, but they would have to find a new one as well. They also were very upset and said that the suicide rate would go up, as would the divorce rate. A loss of employment affects a person, and how they react towards others. For example, a person who has just been laid off is more apt to come home in a bad mood and start an argument with a family member w
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Approximate Word count = 861
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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