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    Supersize Me and focused on the health effects of eating McDonalds. Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea for the movie when he wanted to see what would happen to his body if he ate McDonalds every day for 30 days straight. The rules he set for himself were to supersize meals only when asked, eat three meals a day, only eat from McDonalds, and try everything on the menu at least once in the 30 days. About halfway through his experiment Spurlock 's doctor told him that his McDonalds diet was…

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    body, the supervision of the staff of school members can contribute to the choices of student’s selection of food. In Morgan Spurlock’s article, A Lunchroom Named Desire, he mentions that "Now, it 's no surprise that adolescents choose pizza, fries, and candy. If you were a kid, which would you choose? That 's why kids need adults to supervise how they eat. (Spurlock 86)." Spurlock states that students, especially the young elementary students, need to be supervised by both their parents and…

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    particularly evident upon the indigenous? This is because of the undeniable feeling of hopelessness traditional people face. In the Native American episode (S3 E6) of “30 Days,” Morgan Spurlock, the star of “30 days” asks the man at the store on the way to the Navajo reservation what he will be seeing. The man tells Spurlock that he’ll see a lot of poverty and alcohol. Why is this so? It dates back to the 1880’s when Native Americans were forced to assimilate to English culture. When everything…

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    overall content of your speech to be engaging and persuading. The speech was relatable as you used yourself as an example from being a boring computer programmer to an adventurous mountain climber. At the beginning of your speech when you reference Morgan Spurlock, it was difficult for me to relate him to your overall message as I did not know who he was or if your phrase “the great American Philosopher” was a joke. I suggest that next time you leave a longer pause after a joke for people like…

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    met his girlfriend who was able to change his life around. However, in the hope of making better lives he spent a 2-month period consuming forty teaspoons per day hoping to find the effects of such a horrible diet. The director of the film Morgan Spurlock had nothing but McDonalds for a month, and consumed the equivalent of Nine BigMac’s a day. Eating so many calories in this horrible diet could place him on the path of obesity and other…

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    black adults, found that consuming fast food more than two days a week is strongly associate with weight gain (Machowsky). Furthermore, a 2004 documentary titled Super Size Me follows the filmmaker Morgan Spurlock as he consumes five thousand McDonald’s calories a day for a total of thirty days. Spurlock consequently gained a total of 24.5 pounds (Chitale). Increased weight gain may slowly lead to obesity, as seen in nearly two out of three American adults (Paula). Obesity may result in a number…

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    cutting back on the budgets for the lunchrooms which forces the kitchen staff to make difficult decisions about what to feed the kids since they don 't have as much money and they need to feed hundreds of kids. This was one of the things that Morgan Spurlock tried to inform people about throughout the…

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    At the same time they were being filmed by Morgan Spurlock for This Is Us a mix of documentary and concert footage that proved to be successful when it was released in August of 2013. While they were touring, One Direction also began work on their third album, Midnight Memories. Released just in time…

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    Folks over Knives (2011) this is research on T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Caldwell Esselstyn Jr, MD which showed that food is the best medicine you can ever have. 2. Super-Size Me is when Morgan Spurlock goes to McDonald 's and eat only their food for 30 days, this movie will show the Physical and Psychological effects of what meat can do to you. 3. Earthlings is another great film which shows how animals suffer with food, fashion, as a pet, entertainment…

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    which are good for health. Calorie dense foods are farther from readily available than ever before and obesity is increasing rapidly. Even though fast foods contain high calories, people still eat them not caring about the negative side effects. Morgan Spurlock, in his film Supersize Me, shows how most people do not even know what a calorie is. Now manufacturer boosts their profits by ratcheting up portion size and charge a little more.…

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