Test 2: Movies Flashcards

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Light Bulb Conspiracy

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  • reduced life span of incandescent light bulb
  • Planned Obsolescence: desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary
  • waste was piling up:illegal dumps in the Third World
  • until consumers started rebelling
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The One Percent

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tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S.

  • this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life
  • personal interviews
  • reveals how the super-rich work to preserve their own monetary dominance.
  • gets rare access to an exclusive wealth conference at which the über rich learn strategies for preserving their fortunes
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Between: Living in the Hyphen

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  • examines cultural identity in Canada
  • discuss their approach to navigating the divide between their multiple backgrounds and their personal struggles with the perceptions and expectations of society
  • examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized
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Between: Living in the Hyphen

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-By focusing on seven Canadian individuals who have one parent from a European background and one of a visible minority, she attempts to get at the root of what it means to be multiethnic in a world that wants each person to fit into a single category. Finding a satisfactory frame of reference in our ‘multicultural utopia’ turns out to be more complex than one might think. offers a provocative glimpse of what the future holds: a departure from hyphenated names towards a celebration of fluidity and being mixed

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