Good morning/afternoon Grade 9 Students and Mr Cooper. The documentary that I will be analysing is Super-Size Me‚ directed by Morgan Spurlock who focuses this film on the fast-food franchise McDonalds‚ which the director must diet exclusively on for an entire month‚ three times a day to study the diet’s effect on his body. The purpose of Super-Size Me is to inform people about how significant it is to be more conscious of the foods they eat‚ and the possible consequences that they may risk undertaking
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The Idea of Utopia and Dystopia in The Giver The word “utopia” has come to define our ideal of a perfect society in terms of law‚ government‚ and social and living conditions. The idea behind a utopian society is that everyone works together for common good of the society and the laws and government are meant to protect the people within the community from the evils of the human race. In many ways‚ these societies take on a communist belief that order is the way to achieve this perfect society
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Utopia Utopias are generally said to be societies in which the political‚ social and economic troubles hampering its inhabitants has been done away with. Instead the state is there to serve the people and ensure the peacefulness and happiness of everyone. The word utopia‚ which means "no place" in Greek‚ was first used to mean a perfect society in 1516 in the publication of Saint Thomas More’s story "Utopia". The story depicted life as it was with its people and social institutions on an imaginary
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English 4‚ Unit 2: Utopia and Dystopia Sir Thomas More’s Utopia Study Guide Directions: As you read‚ complete each question below. Type your answers in the appropriate spaces provided. 1. In Book I‚ who is the narrator? What point of view is this? 2. More and Giles strike up a conversation with someone. Who is this? What does he do? Why are they interested in him? 3. More and Giles believe Hythloday would make a great advisor to a king. Does Hythloday agree
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Research Paper: Love in Utopia‚ Brave New World and 1984 Love is without a doubt one of the most powerful emotions in the world. Most people in the world who have experienced this emotion know that with love‚ almost anything is possible. ¡§When in Love‚ the greater is his/her capacity for suffering‚ or anything else in that matter¡¨ (Miguel de Unamuno‚ The Tragic Sense of Life). The governments in both Brave New World and 1984 understand that eliminating love and loyalty is important in their continual
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Concrete Utopia: Utopia is the name for an ideal place society. The idea of Utopia is to improve the society for the community which refers to social equality. The name is taken from the title of a book by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society‚ and fictional societies portrayed. Concrete portrayals of ideal societies‚ after the manner of Utopia‚ contribute little
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not nutritious and has contributed to America’s weight problem. McDonald’s was also the target of the 2004 documentary "Super Size Me‚" which focused on the health decline of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock during an all-McDonald’s diet. The movie‚ "Supersize Me" is about a man’s mission to eat every meal at McDonalds for thirty days. Keep in mind that the average customer would take over six years to eat the same amount of food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock gained a lot of weight proving to the world
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Utopia :often Utopia An ideally perfect place‚ especially in its social‚ political‚ and moral aspects‚ and an impractical‚ idealistic scheme for social and political reform. Each person has their own vision of utopia‚ the above sentance is Oxford’s Dictionary’s definition of it. Utopia means an ideal state‚ a paradise‚ a land of enchantment. It has been a central part of the history of ideas in Western Civilization. Philosophers and writers continue to imagine and conceive plans for an ideal state
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Thomas More’s Utopia Thomas More’s use of dialogue in "Utopia" is not only practical but masterly laid out as well. The text itself is divided into two parts. The first ‚ called "Book One"‚ describes the English society of the fifteenth century with such perfection that it shows many complex sides of the interpretted structure with such clarity and form that the reader is given the freedom for interpretation as well. This flexibility clearly illustrates More’s request for discussion and
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The documentary‚ Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock‚ is one of the most revealing and shocking works of film that I have ever seen. This movie shows that it really does take only one man to make an effective change in the world. Supersize me revolves around one man‚ Morgan Spurlock‚ who decides to challenge the fast food industry through a shocking demonstration. He embarks on a one month experiment in which all he consumes is the famous McDonald’s fast food chain’s food. The rules are that he cannot
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