Summary Response: “Supersize Me: It ’s Time to Stop Blaming Fat People for Their Size” November 18‚ 2013 Being Obese Is a Choice That Has Very Few Exceptions Alison Motluk believes that people who are obese shouldn ’t be to blame for their obesity. (562). Motluk claims that “In 1992 about 13 percent of Americans were clinically obese...ten years later that figure skyrocketed to 22 percent...” (562). Many other countries such as the UK‚ Australia‚ and many other Western countries are following
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English 4‚ Unit 2: Utopia and Dystopia Vocabulary: Words to Know Directions: Using context clues from the sentences provided‚ try to guess the meaning of each word. Type the guessed meanings in the appropriate spaces provided. Then‚ use dictionary.com to listen to the pronunciation and find the meanings of the words as they are used in each sentence. Type the dictionary meanings in the appropriate spaces provided. 1. When he heard the sound of the gun‚ George winced. Hazel could tell the
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can hardly be called desirable. At the very best‚ that word is a gross understatement. As humans‚ we are expected to have a deep natural longing to better our overall quality of living. The seemingly natural condition‚ is that the grass is always greener in someone else’s pastures. No exception to this instinctive law is the description of Utopia‚ by Sir Thomas More. In his work‚ he describes a wondrous place‚ full of peaceful‚ benevolent people that coexist perfectly. A place where your labors
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crisis: Obesity. ‘Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin?’ Morgan Spurlock asks the question on everybody’s lips as waistlines expand and health declines. This leads moviegoers to supersize their responsibility of their poor decisions throughout Supersize Me‚ while Spurlock incorporates a variation of cinematic and persuasive techniques to ultimately lead us to blame corporate businesses. McDonalds prefer the chunky double profit over the wellbeing of their customers
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Bad Place "They say‚ though‚ and one can actually see for oneself‚ that Utopia was originally not an island but a peninsula. However‚ it was conquered by somebody called Utopos‚ who gave it its present name- it use to be called Sansculottia- and was also responsible for transforming a pack of ignorant savages into what is now‚ perhaps the most civilized nation in the world" (More 50). This excerpt is from the book Utopia written by Thomas More. The author explains how he heard this from a man‚
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parade of unexpected events. Between work‚ school and parenting; It’s not hard to become overwhelmed. Luckily‚ numerous companies offer services in attempt to save some time and stress. There are day care programs that look after our children‚ do our yard work and even clean our houses. One of the most popular services available to Americans is fast food. While some people have time to go grocery shopping and budget healthy eating‚ many Americans find themselves settling for the drive through once again
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Matt Torres Dr. Cay Hehner Modern New York November 1‚ 2012 Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems
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his girlfriend. A reason why Americans consume junk food constantly is due to economic reasons: it is cheap and fast and there isn’t a big price difference between the large and supersize meals. You pay a little bit more for a bigger proportion. This definitely leads to obesity. Still nowadays they stopped offering supersize portions. In addition‚ Spurlock stresses on how Macdonald’s has a great impact on the children; targeting them with ads before they realize how harmful the food is‚ and attracting
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Rule 1: Arguments are unacceptable‚ as a disagreement is as far as anything can go. Purpose 1: Arguments and fight cause physical and internal damage making a commotion‚ disturbing others and disrupting the reason of a utopia (where there is no good and bad life just is). So‚ because of this fights and anything that goes farther from a disagreement is unacceptable‚ for a disagreement is only allowed because it’s normal (for it only shows a matter of opinion). Rule 2: Any form of tardiness and rudeness
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Postman ends the chapter by saying: “Our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.” Postman describes the change in media culture by describing the changes that have taken place since the transition between reading and television. Basically‚ he says that by watching the news on television people are becoming more ignorant and the reports are becoming absurd. To conclude the chapter Postman writes‚ “Our intelligence
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