Greece's economic crisis makes the U.S. recession look "ok"

Greece is in an economic crisis right now because they were hit hard from the global economic recession which started back in 2007.  Tourism and shipping were Greece's two largest industries which lost a lot of revenue because of the global recession.  This led to Greece going through four austerity phases within the last two years in an attempt to solve their economic crisis.  Austerity is a policy to spend less, cut services, and cut benefits.  Greece's economy was growing exponentially from the years of 2000-2007.  Greece's economy is bringing the Euro currency's value down with them.  This economic crisis has brought Greece's citizens to constant riots and protests throughout 2010 and 2011.  An example of one of the protests is the recent one at November 17th, 2011.  28,000 people took part in the protest and 7,000 officers were monitoring the crowd.  The protests are so violent and chaotic, police officers use tear gas, stun grenades, and riot gear to disrupt the crowd. (http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-11-17/business/30418829_1_riot-police-thessaloniki-greece)

I keep comparing and thinking about our "Occupy" protests.  If our economy becomes as awful as Greece's, I can actually imagine how our riots and protests will be; just as chaotic as Greece's protests, or worse.  It's a terrible way to think about it that way, but I'm just being realistic.  If the U.S. was 18% unemployed, lost benefits (such as insurance), had extra salary cuts, and lost more public services, then there will be an uproar.  Our "Occupy" protests are like a baby version of Greece's protests, but can become as monstrous as Greece's protests. 

Greece's economic crisis must be seen and learned from. 
 
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_debt_crisis
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-11-17/business/30418829_1_riot-police-thessaloniki-greece/2
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-06-19/news/29676026_1_protest-austerity-prime-minister-george-papandreou-greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Greek_protests
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_financial_crisis

Mr. Burrows IS inspiration itself.

My film as literature teacher in my senior year of high school is Mr. Burrows.  He is the definition of inspiration; an inspiring or animating action or influence.  From day one all the way to the last day of school, he has inspired me and every other student in his class.  Even past students think he is inspiring.  The first few words that pop into people's heads when Mr. Burrows is brought up is "he is inspiring". 

Film as literature (aka "film lit") class was like a mash-up of psychology, English, film class, and art.  Your view on life will change because of this class.  The movies we watched all related to everything I listed and it all relates because; movies show our lives. 

Before we even watched movies, we took the first day to look at pictures and art.   Movies run at 24 frames per second, so looking at a picture is like practicing.  Take for example, the iceberg above.  Usually, people look at icebergs only from the top and never really think about how it looks like from the bottom.  Or a person may look at something literally rather than figuratively.  The way a person view things can explain a lot about the person him/herself.  This was the first day of Mr. Burrows' class and I still remember it to this day.  Everyday of his class was like the first day; amazing, mind-blowing, and inspirational.

Other than being able to view movies differently, my view on life has also changed by a great deal.  Whenever the students would look for a deeper meaning in something, we called it "film litting it."  During the time I was taking film lit, I couldn't stop "film litting" everything I saw.  Nowadays, I still "film lit" things, but not as much.  Every action, every picture, and every word spoken has a deeper meaning to it.  To add on to that thought, the only reason why everything has a deeper meaning to it is because death exists.  If we were all immortal, then a lot of things would not have any meaning to it. 

Everything I wrote about on this post is because of Mr. Burrows.  Without his teachings, I would be very ignorant and not be as inspired to prosper.