Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock was a fit man in his late thirties early forties he was the daring competitor to take on the McDonalds' binge challenge and it had a big effect on him I was so surprised how much weight he gained in thirty days, he gained almost 25 pounds which is crazy to think about in such a short time interval. McDonalds is a menace to your health it's so addicting it can ruin your mental, physical, and emotional health. Morgan took the daring dive to show what…

But as a child, you never payed attention to the “quality” food you were ingesting, other than the fact that it was delicious. Morgan Spurlock, the star of the documentary Super Size Me, wanted to see if the “quality food” McDonald’s was promoting, was healthy enough to eat every day like your adolescent-self desired. By using irony, pathos, and logos, Morgan Spurlock makes the point that American’s have been brainwashed by fast…

directed by Morgan Spurlock, Mr. Spurlock sets out to see just what effect eating fast food can have on a person’s health. Numerous questions are posed during the film, so it is difficult to determine the exact thesis of the argument. After filtering through all of the information, I determined the main point of the argument to be that McDonald’s knowingly provides unhealthy food to Americans and wants us to eat as much of its food as we can, therefore making us fat. Mr. Spurlock sets out on…

capitalism. Morgan Spurlock uses the grotesque human body in his film in order to address excessive consumption and the facilitation of this consumption by capitalism. However, in doing so, he inevitably uses capitalism as a tool to promote his message, creating a paradox Ross Singer dubs a “commodified form of cinematic dissent” (150). The irony of protesting capitalism through capitalism still has the potential to result in widespread viewership and subsequent activism. Indeed, Spurlock…

professional opinions to tell the audience how damaging the food is. While I believe it’s both the consumers responsibility to eat McDonalds and other fast foods reasonably as well as the companies to not advertise to children. Throughout the film, Morgan Spurlock, consults doctors to record his progress. They talk about high cholesterol and how all the additives and preservatives affected his liver and a heart function. By using professionals it gives a very sophisticated sense and…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days: Minimum Wage both show the struggles families on minimum wage go through. Both of them highlight some of the difficulties they face daily, however, they have differences in the dynamics of the experiment. Some of these similarities include the emotional, physical, and economic strain they had on the characters. While the differences of their experience are one-person experience versus a two-person experience and the duration of…

It’s a movie made by Tom Naughton that has the intention to rebut the argument presented in the documentary Super Size me directed by Morgan Spurlock. During the film he shows many counterarguments against Morgan’s arguments but I will write about only two. The main counterargument is that people are not stupid and they have the power to say no. He shows that fast food restaurants don’t force anyone to eat fast food and if you going to the driving thru nobody forces anyone to buy anything.…

found that “We're so litigious that we're going to sue a food company, that sells us food, that we buy, that we eat and then blame them for it” (Spurlock). This quote sums up American mentality very well. Consumers pay for the product, consume or use the product, and then get upset when something doesn’t turn out the desired way. In this case, Spurlock talks about how the unexpected outcome is to gain weight or become unhealthy, yet that is what is going to happen if people are irresponsible…

my opinion should be shown to every school in the country is called “Super-size me”. This documentary was filmed and played by a man named Morgan Spurlock. His adventure began by his curiosity about two girls who tried to sue McDonalds for their health issues and obesity. The two girls of course lost their case against this fast food restaurant. Morgan Spurlock decided to take things into his own hands and did a documentary of himself. He made sure to take note of his current health status…

Obesity is determined by dividing an individual’s weight and height together to calculate their body mass index (BMI). A person’s BMI is a measure of the amount of body fat one person has, and it determines whether or not a person is obese. People, who have bigger BMIs, have a greater risk for obesity and overweight related issues (source 4). And in America not only are the houses, cities, and serving sizes bigger. But so are the people. According to recent statistics, 78.6 million people in…