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Read "Blank is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World" Klein,Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007. Print. You can find this article in Blackboard under Course Notes. 3 Respond to the documentary. What do you think about it? Did you like it? Hated it? Not sure what to think? Give your opinion on what you saw and state why. Think about the themes of the course. Be sure to support your views with examples from the documentary you chose and information from the article "Blank is Beautiful". 4 Below are some guiding questions and things that I will be looking for in your response. • What is the thesis of the "Shock Doctrine"? • Who was Milton Friedman and the Chicago School economists? What was/is their economic ideology/philosophy? How were their ideas implemented? • What does Klein mean by the term "Disaster Capitalism"? • What does the video say about democracy and capitalism/ dictatorships and capitalism. • What is the connection between violence and capitalism? • What is the "alternative history of how this savage stream of pure capitalism… came to dominant the world." that the film discusses? • What are the economic policies of the Chicago School and neoliberalism? • How does the film relate to globalization? How does it portray free market capitalism's spread around the globe?