In 2004 I watched a documentary film that now has made me think twice about eating fast food. Morgan Spurlock had an epiphany one night while hearing about 2 young girls suing McDonalds for their health problems. He then decided to make a documentary on just how unhealthy McDonalds (fast food) is bad for you. I learned the ongoing and fast rate obesity is growing. Diabetes are also playing a key role as well as psychological changes and side affects that can happen. In the documentary Spurlock
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McDonald and the Wendy’s girl were. While it may be extreme to say companies control us Super Size Me proves that this may not be far off. Super Size Me not only gives people an excellent reason to shy away from fast food‚ but it also leads an attack on big corporate businesses that successfully control people through advertising and monopolies. In many of the interviews that separate scenes in Super Size Me we meet corporate leaders that try their absolute best to willfully ignore and lie their
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“Super Size Me” My perception of the importance of having a healthy diet and an active life Style after watching the documentary has change greatly. One would say that eating “fast food” a couple of times during a week or during a month cannot cause much damage to someone’s health‚ but in view of how Director Morgan Spurlock’s health went through significant changes with possibilities of developing serious health issues or having aftereffects that would not disappear even when returning to his normal
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Consumer Protection Paper – Super Size Me Based on our group discussion‚ we came into a conclusion that Consumer Protection are made to ensure fair transactions and along with that are truthful information’s in the marketplace. This is advantageous especially consumers‚ so that they would not fall into the traps of businesses that will not do them any good. This is also to save them from businesses that are engaged in fraud or any unfair practices that the company does. The four basic rights
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experienced emotional depression‚ mood swings‚ and he lost his sex drive according to his girlfriend. Spurlock was advised to halt the experiment as his doctor was concerned about the possible long-term damage he was possibly inflicting upon himself. Super Size Me is informative‚ eye-opening and that it may change parent’s view of fast food‚ and they may think twice before eating much fast food after watching this movie. Starting a youth group that could play sports such as basketball or tennis could get
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Super-Size Me It is evident that people in today’s society are easily manipulated. A common way people do this is with propaganda. Card stacking is a common propaganda we see every day‚ but are still unaware of. It is a type of propaganda when only the positives are presented in a statement or proposal. An entity with power is able to control someone’s decision and opinion through the use of the card stacking propaganda. Ray Kroc‚ the owner of McDonalds once said “look after
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Super Size Me 1. A vegan diet‚ is where people dont use anything od animal origin. Vegans do not use anything made from animal based products. People become vegan either because of animal rights‚ envirnmental factors‚ or becuase they want better health. Vegans do not use any product that comes from animals even clothing like Leather‚ wool or cosmetics. The difference between a vegan and a vegetarian‚ is that vegetarians eat eggs and dairy products. And use animal based products clothing‚ cosemtics
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demanding they desist and apologize‚ and‚ when they refused‚ sued them for libel in a case known colloquially as the McLibel case. In 2001‚ Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald’s’ business practices. Among the critiques were allegations that McDonald’s (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people’s health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brought
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Super Size Me a documentary film by Morgan Spurlock was about relieving the true side effects fast food industries have to the body over a period of consumption. For the next thirty days in the film‚ Morgan is going to be eating McDonalds for breakfast‚ lunch‚ and dinner. By doing this‚ the viewers are going to see that fast food is not good in any way for the body. The food is manufactured processed by big machinery and then shipped to McDonald’s companies. But before he initiated his experiment
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can take in decoding an image. These three positions are dominant‚ negotiated and oppositional. In light of Hall’s theory‚ this essay will‚ firstly explain the process of encoding and decoding and secondly will decode the following two images‚ ‘Super Size Me’ by Morgan Spurlock‚ from the genre of documentary and the Louis Vuitton advertisement featuring Keith Richards‚ from the genre of advertising (Figure 1)‚ using the Hall’s three positions. Hall’s “Encoding‚ Decoding” offers a way to demystify
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