Bowling for Columbine 1/22/18

Today we talked about how we will soon have to start a research paper on a documentary of our choice. We took a look at documentary "Bowling for Columbine" to see what Micheal Moore was arguing in his documentary and, to serve as inspiration for what documentary's we were going to pick, Before we saw that we first talked about tactics for connecting to an audience. To connect to a a specific audience, your topic is either binary or gradient, most likely and preferably, your topic should a gradient because a gradient topic is a that people can partially support. If they like what your saying, but don't support all of it that is a gradient topic. An example being if a friend ask's you "Hey do you like Wendy's?" and you say "yes I love their burgers just not their chili." for you that would be a gradient topic. Binary topics are topics that just black and white either you agree or you don't agree, yes or no. Like saying "Do you like bowling?" if you say no, that's it end of story. The reason why gradient topics are better is because they have more to talk about. They're more "meaty" than binary, say we go back to the question I asked before about Wendy's, so if you like everything about Wendy's but the chili binary topics dictate you have to hate Wendy's because you don't like their chili. I guess what you could learn from this is the right topics to bring up and to breakdown, why binary topics are kind of one sided and that you should go with gradient topics because they can procure better themes than what binary topics can. Other than today was a productive day and we will be continuing with "Bowling for Columbine" tomorrow.