Supersize Me The golden arches‚ the taco bell dog‚ the Wendy’s girl‚ and many other symbols have become well known in our society. Everywhere you turn there is a fast food restaurant waiting to take your order. With Americas growing obesity rate you would think peoples willingness to eat fast food would die down‚ but it has not. I chose the documentary‚ Supersize Me because it shows what fast food does to our bodies and I think that Americans need to see those horrible effects. The film‚ Supersize
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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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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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Utopia Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system. The word was imported from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia‚ describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. Politics and history A global utopia of world peace is often seen as one of the possible endings of history. Within the localized political structures or spheres it presents‚ "polyculturalism" is the model-based adaptation of possible interactions between different
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Supersize Me Supersize Me is the perfect movie to watch to understand the importance of diet and eating habits. It teaches us specifically about the dangers of fast food as well as what foods are better options! Supersize Me is a great teaching tool for all who watch. This documentary shows us the risks of eating fast food‚ specifically McDonald’s. Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s fast food for thirty days straight. He gained 25 pounds and also doubled his chances for heart disease‚ which
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A Personal Utopia: An Analysis of a Key Passage in Brave New World The key passage of Aldous Huxley’s Brace New World takes place after John has been arrested and is a conversation with Mond. When John and Mond speak of ideal societies‚ a major part of Brave New World‚ the aspect of human nature which makes us search continuously for our personal Utopia‚ becomes apparent. In Mond’s study‚ the sacrifices each character makes in order to find a Utopia are interconnected. The search for
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Evaluate the pros/cons in life in Utopia Humanity always seems to debate on what makes a perfect society. Whether it is completely controlled by the government or a free nature of state. In Moore’s Utopia‚ he explores the aspects of this so called perfect society. Yet like any piece of literature‚ the reader might find pros and cons to life in “Utopia” the way Moore describes it. These can include the sx hour working day and everyone being materially equal‚ as being positive. Versus women having
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Thomas More’s Utopia is a work of ambiguous dualities that forces readers to question More’s real view on the concept of a utopian society. However‚ evidence throughout the novel suggests that More did intend Utopia to be the “best state of the commonwealth.” The detailed description of Utopia acts as Mores mode of expressing his humanistic views‚ commenting on the fundamentals of human nature and the importance of reason and natural law‚ while gracefully combining the two seemingly conflicting ideals
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no citizen is neglected. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English (1996) equality is defined asthe quality or state of being equal: the quality or state of having the same rights‚ social status‚ etc. Equality in More’s “Utopia” can be first seen in the similarity between the towns on the island. “There are fifty-four cities on the island‚ all spacious and magnificent‚ entirely identical in language‚ customs‚ institutions and laws. So far as the location permits‚ all of
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More‚ the author‚ describes Utopia as a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. However‚ this fictional society would not work especially in today’s day and age‚ because the description of the cities and farms hinges upon a general fact of Utopian life: homogeneity. Everything in Utopia is as similar as it possibly can be. According to Hythloday the cities are almost indistinguishable from each other. They have virtually the same populations‚ architecture‚ layouts
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