13) Optional Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. One of my favorite moments this year was getting to watch Where to Invade Next. A documentary about a man, Michele Moore who goes on a journey around the world searching for ideas to r=bring back to the united states. He visits countries like Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Norway and more. He discusses topics like sex education, working and time off, education, free healthcare and prison system. When I first heard the title thought that it was going to be one of the most boring movie ever. Also that it would be almost impossible for me to find something about this movie that I would be interested in doing research for. I was so wrong this movie opened my eyes up to so many interesting things about the world that I didn’t know was even happening. After watching this movie, I couldn’t wait to tell my family, friends and even my boss about it. Learning about how Italy takes care of its workers, by giving them tons of vacation time and extra pay at the end of the year. Then to learn how Slovenia has a free college education and their student are willing to protest for such a cause. To see that there are children eating four course quality school lunches that are cheaper or the same price as he unhealthy lunches they feed Americans was mind blowing to me. Also learning about the prison system in Norway (which was favorite by the way) it’s built on rehabilitation they treat their prisoners like human beings and teach them to become the good citizens that they want them to be. Norway has a very low recidivism rate by the way. Then to compare this to what’s going on in America was so interesting to me. The topics talked about in this movie were all so new to me. What made this one of my favorite moments was that it was something different I got to learn about something that I was interested in, something that was relevant to today that made me reflect. Most of my favorite moments in this class were the moments that provoked a thought and made me reflect and that was what made this moment such a favorite for me. The fact that I was so interested in the movie made writing my research paper even easier because It was a topic that I wanted to know more about. Truth be told it was hard for me to pick a topic because they were all so interesting. In the past I’ve had to write papers on topics that I didn’t really care for so to get the opportunity to write about something that was relevant and interesting to me was awesome. This movie is one that I think everyone should watch. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone I come across I always tell people about it. This movie taught me so much and I am so happy that I got the chance to watch it and learn about the world that I live in. I hope to look into some of the other topics from the movie soon.
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