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    Introduction “Super Size Me” is a documentary film that focuses on the effects of fast-food, McDonald’s in particular, to the human body in terms of physiological and psychological aspects. The film is directed, produced, and starred by Morgan Spurlock whom investigated and experimented on himself by eating McDonald’s every meal, every day, for 30 days. Spurlock, who in the beginning was a particularly healthy middle-aged man, began experiencing weight gain, addiction, depression, mood swings, sexual

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    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

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    In this documentary, Super High Me directed by Michael Blieden, he gives an interesting argument on how marijuana affects one individual. In this film, he shows that in one month, while using marijuana, the negative mental and physical changes that take effect. For this documentary, he chooses Doug Benson, a comedian who uses marijuana on a regular bases. What he wanted Benson to do was not smoke for the first 30 days, then have him smoke continues through the next 30 days. This film was made to

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    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

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    diabetes and 1 in 20 will develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime. Also 17 million people have diabetes just in the U.S. Also Mcdonalds has spent over 1.4 billion on ads to promote their food. In our health class we watched two documentaries Super Size Me and Fed Up. Im my opinion they were both very extreme. Because

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    Question 4: You hear about different answers to why America overeats. List the diverse cause you hear about in the documentary. Throughout the film, there are a number of explanations presented as to why Americans overeat, resulting in an epidemic of obesity and chronic health problems related to weight. According to the film, obesity is the second largest cause of death in the United States (smoking being number one). Many people believe that the fast food corporations are to blame for America’s

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    The dagger of the people is always twisting and changing the fast food world. Fast food itself has always been changing due to social, economic, and health concerns. To begin I will cover the origins of fast food, followed by a brief discussion about McDonalds as well as Burger King. This will be accompanied by a brief discussion on Taco Bell, with our final subject covering healthier fast food options. The origins of the fast food "death machine": The machines gears were forged by the company known

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    Preceding the film super size me, and the resulting claims, McDonald 's would offer customers the choice to redesign their effectively undesirable dinners to a much bigger mixture known as super size. This overlooked shopper rights in light of the fact that the foundation did not caution clients that they would be expending almost 50% of there every day calories just by having fries. Properly, McDonalds doesn 't try to trick individuals towards the undesirable alternative of super size and shows sustenance

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    Sercan İşcan - Tourism Management – 10020003017 PART I. Sherman, G. D., Haidt, J., & Coan, J. A. (2009). Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. Emotion, 9, 282-286. doi:10.1037/a0014904 This article examined how the perception of cuteness influences behavioral carefulness, enhancing people’s ability to care for infants. While researchers took physiological measures of heart activity and skin conductance, they exposed participants to a slide show of pictures of either i)

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    Fast food is the reason behind America’sepidemic of obesity. The dollar-menu has its appeal to poor urbanites who cannot afford to buy their children more nutritional meals, because the food is truly only a dollar. But the consequence of cheap food is the lack of healthy alternatives and the addictive properties that the cheaply made food contains (Tufts). McDonald’s is a billion-dollar corporation that grows off the underprivileged public’s addiction to cheap, MSG filled food. Fast food marketing

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