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    information. This brought about a bigger war between objective and subjective documentaries because along with photos came more emotion (Stott 11). How could an author of an official documentary choose photos without any bias? All this information made me want to challenge myself and make an objective documentary on tattoos. I personally have tattoos and plan on obtaining more so the challenge here is to take information attained and record it without any of my own

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    Spurlock's Case Summary

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    The rules of the experiment: • Only eat food sold at McDonald’s for thirty days • Must eat 3 meals a day • Order every item on the menu at least once by the end of the thirty days • If asked to supersize his meal, he must say yes Spurlock needed to make the examination as protected and as official as conceivable by reporting his wellbeing status all through the thirty days. Hence, before beginning the trial he went to three specialists, a general expert, a cardiologist and a gastroenterologist all

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    “Supersize Me” is an example of a Performative documentary, as it helps to emphasize the ‘subjective’ nature of the filmmaker, in which the documentary follows the filmmaker himself ‘Morgan Spurlock’, as he Is used to help gain an emotional and dramatic effect from the viewers’. Spurlock does this by putting himself through a challenge that requires him to test the effects of eating fast food products (McDonald’s) for 30 days, and to see the drastic effect it has on his ‘physical and psychological

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    Everything is bigger in Texas, or more like everything is bigger in America. In the very popular documentary “Supersize Me” directed by Morgan Spurlock, there were many examples of pathos used to draw in the audience. Spurlock uses pathos most effectively by incorporating his use of irony, references to imprinting, and appeal to the senses, to engage his audience. One of Spurlock’s main points was his use of irony. A scene in the documentary shows McDonald’s being almost everywhere, and a hospital

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    Now, what justification does Mr. Spurlock get for going on a McDonald’s diet for a month? Well before we get to that let's talk about the story that started his McDiet. Two girls sued McDonald's because they felt it was McDonald's fault that they were obese. Ashley Pelman was the young 14-year-old girl who was 4 feet, 10 inches tall and weighed about 170 pounds. Well the other girl, Jazlyn Bradley was 19 years old, 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed about 264 pounds. Multiple courts had all said

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    The documentary Super Size Me, created by director Morgan Spurlock,which came out in 2004. It also won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. This documentary was not only created to show the harmful effects of eating fast foods, especially McDonald’s, Morgan Spurlock created this film to show how much fast food has become a big component in our country’s culture. He got the idea to do this “experiment” from a case of two girls who were suing McDonald’s for their obesity. Morgan Spurlock was also

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    Along with these consequences, overeating can lead to low self-esteem and confidence, insecurity, loss of concentration, and depression. The mental effects of overeating can negatively impact relationships with other people (Ladock). The 2004 film Super Size Me demonstrated what would happen to the human body when fast food was the only food consumed. Facts gathered from this experiment include the following: “Obesity has been linked to: Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, Stroke

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    SUPER-SIZE ME VIDEO ASSIGNMENT Below are 5 critical thinking questions from the movie Super-Size Me. Please answer all of them. Answers should be several sentences long. 1. Why do you think Morgan decided to make this movie and go through with this McDonald’s binge? Did the movie impact you or challenge you to change your diet? Do you think it made a valid point? I believe he wanted to prove that eating McDonald’s every day is horrible for you. He also wanted to see what would happen if

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    Recently in health class we watched the movie Super-Size Me. This movie was about a guy named Morgan Sparks that went on a thirty day trial where he ate only McDonalds for all three meals every day. With this experiment he gained about twenty five pounds, that is almost one pound per day. Besides his major weight gain he went from eleven percent to eighteen percent of body fat. He also had irreversible changes to his body. In the next couple paragraphs I will be telling you about advertising

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    Obesity is only second to tobacco smoking as the most preventable death in the United States today. In order to publicize the obesity epidemic, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a thirty day experiment documented in his film, Super Size Me. Nutritionists, healthy eaters, and unhealthy eaters alike are shown the harmful effects of fast food. In order to emphasize the scale of the epidemic and address a large audience, Spurlock appeals to logos through his use of expert testimony, statistics, anticipating

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