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Evaluation of Super Size Me      Americans are fat and growing fatter with each passing day. One does not have to do look far to see how fat we are. Take a stroll to the supermarket, college campuses, offices, playgrounds, fast food restaurants, or malls and see the evidence of fat America. What is causing this epidemic of obesity? There are a plethora of reasons including overeating, lack of exercise, fast food, processed food, dieting, and sedentary lifestyles. Morgan Spurlock of New York City

Throughout Rudolfo Anaya’s book, “Bless Me Ultima”, the main character Antonio has several vivid, detailed and sometimes graphic dreams. In one of these dreams (on pages 243-244), Antonio bears witness to blood, violence, and death. In this dream, Anaya uses imagery, symbolism, similes, and specific diction to indicate that Antonio is losing faith in his religion and god. Notes: Need to adjust the words used towards the end. The imagery in this dream is scary, bloody, and dark as seen here: “The

Identity conflicts within the protagonist in Bless Me, Ultima The majority of individuals follow in the footsteps that their parents set out for them. Trying to figure out who and what an individual wants to be can be difficult, often when others want that them to go down a certain path. Research shows individuals strive to work in the field as their parents if it catches their eye. Nonetheless when an individual reaches a certain age to finally decide what they want in the long run it's their choice

of vaqueros, riding horses across the plains. Leaping from child to adult, he begins to understand the tragic between both religious, overcome obstacles to unknot the family ties that bind him from finding his own identity. In his bildungsroman Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya uses imagery and point of view to illustrate the protagonist, Antonio’s loss of innocence. Anaya’s usage of symbolism illustrate the lifetime of Antonio from a seven years old kid to the loss of his innocence.

Super-Size Me is a documentary that was created to influence the U.S about obesity. Morgan Spurlock the creator and director of this documentary decided to show the U.S what McDonalds can do to trigger obesity, he shows fake pathos using the persuasive and film devices that effects the sequence of the audio content and film arrangement. Tampering with the music in certain parts of the documentary, can give the audience a sense of distasteful emotion towards McDonalds. In the documentary there is

One consistent theme throughout Bless Me, Ultima is the influence of others’ expectations on identity. Antonio is under constant pressure from both his parents to conform to their respective family’s philosophies and beliefs—even Ultima, who appears to try to be impartial, does clearly contribute to this pressure. The Luna and Márez families clearly have different beliefs and hold different things to be important in their lives, as evidenced by the tensions between the two families in Antonio’s dream

McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the

Documentaries are used to entertain and to educate, and in order for a documentary to be successful, it has to inform the audience whilst entertaining them. Supersize Me is a documentary based around the negative effects of the fast food industry, constructed by Morgan Spurlock in 2004, it entertains the viewer and also provides information about various issues. In particular, the documentary explores the growing obesity epidemic in America and how this could be linked to fast food, the negative

Morgan Spurlock and Philippe Petit act as leading spokespearsons for society in terms of challenging themselves and corporations in the fight for freedom and justice embeded within their stunning documentries Man on Wire and Super Size Me. We see in our society today, big buisnesses start to gain enourmous power in political and societal soroundings as us the people are downgraded and demoted. These two documentries deeply question and dispute against these ideas highlighting the power and potential

When she came…[t]he magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood. In Bless Me, Ultima, just before Antonio turns seven, Ultima, a curandera, moves into his family to live the last years of her life. During her stay, Ultima sees that Antonio continuosly struggles to choose his destiny since his parents each wants him to follow only the path of Luna or Márez. Due to this, Ultima constantly offers advice to Antonio so that he will