The award-winning documentary film has been very effective in cultivating social awareness and political conscious ness among those who have seen it. The documentary particularly utilized the statistics of crimes and violence as well as gun ownership in With regards to the role of mass media in proliferating incidents of violence among the youth, particularly in the case of movies, TV shows and video games, such phenomena are likewise in sync with the lifestyles of other people across the USA where crimes are recorded to be lower. Although a lot of studies and researches have been conducted in order to explore the impact of mass media communication and their violent content to the behaviors of the viewers, direct correlation and cause-effect findings and results have been made between the violent media content and vio0lent behaviors. Research findings that support such claim are still limited to some extent by the broad measures of the relationship of the said variables. The documentary likewise tackles the social contexts and concepts of race and fear. The film has been very profound and bold in its claims regarding racism and other inequalities in the society as differentiated by economic status, religious affiliations as well as cultural orientation along with the other impacts of globalization trends. On the issues of politics-based international relations illustrated in the documentary, the elusive definition of freedom and protective measures between and among territories that follow ideologically opposite form of governance, has been proven to be an underlying root cause of threats to global peace and general well-being and welfare of humanity. The fact is, fear of assault from other countries which leads to standard operation procedures of protecting territories and national sovereignty result to another country's tendency to alert its war system and defensive structure. Finally, self-vested interest and corrupt orientation of highly influential and empowered individuals and organizations that are driven by their strict beliefs and/or financial claims to gain power contribute to threats of international order and peace. All these have been wittingly tackled and included in Moore's documentary which, despite enormous criticisms, was very successful in its argument that constant inquiry of the way things are as well as the questions regarding the underlying explanations on relevant social events that have happened and are occurring to promote collective thinking is highly important. |
Microfinance has grown from a small program in the 1970s in Bangladesh to a worldwide movement today. Microfinance is basically the small loans that are granted to the third world poor. Such microloans are usually provided through non-profit, humanitarian organizations. These new mechanisms are often referred to as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) whose focus is on empowering poor families. The movement to expand financial services for the poor as a grassroots development strategy is a relatively recent phenomenon. Microfinance, which emphasizes granting small loans to the poorest of the poor without requiring collateral, rests upon the notion that the most impoverished people in developing countries typically do not otherwise have access to traditional financial; services, but that they do possess modest survival skills that make them credit-worthy....
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