...I chose to watch the movie Fed Up by Katie Couric to get more insight on our healthcare crisis here in the United States. It blows me away knowing that our leaders have a big part in this dilemma. On an epidemic scale our generation is suffering from obesity. I believe that some causes of today’s crisis are but not limited to: obesity, processed foods, and the food industry attracting the eyes of children through advertisement. Obesity became an epidemic in the 1980’s and the rate has gone up drastically since then. If these rates continue go up, by 2050 one in three Americans will end up developing diabetes. Eighty percent of store shelves are stocked with processed foods. Processed foods are full of sugar and contain processed starches. If these foods aren’t loaded with sugar, then they are loaded with fructose corn syrup. These added sugars are empty calories that will eventually lead to stored fat in the body. The food industry is always advertising to children with...
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...In the documentary “Fed Up” I learned many things about the obesity epidemic in the United States. Obesity has cost America an estimated ½ trillion dollars in healthcare so far, and has surpassed smoking in the leading cause of death. It is so hard to lose weight when approximately 80% of foods in our grocery stores have added sugars, and sugar is highly addictive. Studies have shown that sugar is 8x more addictive than cocaine. The advised added daily sugar dose recommendation (according to heart.org) is no more than 6 teaspoons for women, and no more than 9 for men. However the average American will have around 19.5 tablespoons a day. Food companies care less about reducing the sugars in their products and more about selling their products....
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...American throughout the day. One would have to sit down at their house all day without going on the internet or T.V. to not be introduce to any type of processed foods via advertisements or products itself. Stephanie Soechtig wrote and produced the documentary film Fed Up in 2014 detail the affects of how the high-processed foods that people consumed contribute more to obesity than the lack of exercise. One of the most prominent ideas in the documentary is that the powerful food industry puts personal interest and greed over the well-being of the Americans (especially the youth) by giving half-truths, lies, and denying the detrimental affects of processed foods....
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...The purpose of this paper is to analyze and critique the rhetorical dimensions of the documentary film Fed Up, with an emphasis on the film’s logical argument. The method by which such evaluation will be conducted is with research that investigates the the accuracy of logical claim and analysis of how the film uses pathos, ethos and logos. The research resulted that Fed uses obese children documentaries to appeal to an audience’s emotions as well as other experts to build the authority of the documenter. In conclusion, the documentary is correct that the fast food industry is responsible for the obesity epidemic. Introduction Obesity has become a trending topic and issue in the past decade and has developed into a serious problem facing America....
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...the truth is watered down and filtered through lies. Socrates’ truth would encompass a conflict of great proportions due to the fact that in today’s society, people are not at all ready for the truth, nor do they understand it. Considering entities in society such as media, marketing, advertising, branding, political speeches, and packaging of political candidates; the list can be drawn up of how each of these no longer harper even a minute portion of truth. When media is considered, you must think of the news, reality television, and documentaries. The news is given to the people after it goes through the filtering of the gatekeepers. Society is told what the gatekeepers want them to hear. Socrates would not have adhered to the code of verbal conduct the gatekeepers of today would have offered to him. When reality television and documentaries are considered it becomes even clearer that the masses are fed sugar coated and often highly exploitive lies. Editing is a master of disguise often hiding seamlessly in the arrangement of scenarios that are not chronological in happenings. Documentaries are merely the concoction of filmmakers that are trying to tell a story from their viewpoint. Their motives are to get their biased opinion to the masses in a way that prompts them to see their side. Marketing, advertising, and branding are all molded in efforts to reel in the masses. They are often selling lies in order to attract those that will buy into their image of success and prosperity...
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...propel herself forward. Despite exercising, as well as attempting to diet, she weighs 212lb. In a new documentary, “Fed Up”, Maggie is occasionally overwhelmed, tears trickling down her cheeks: “My weight is not really going the way it’s supposed to go.” America’s obesity problem is hardly news. Indeed there are some hints that, among certain groups, it might be abating. But more than one in three American adults and one in six children are fat. Who is to blame? “Fed Up” is directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric, a prominent American newscaster, and Laurie David, who made “An Inconvenient Truth”. That film helped to popularise the fight against climate change. Ms David and Ms Couric hope to do the same for fighting flab. Obesity is a global problem (as “Fed Up” mentions in passing). But on its surface it would seem the most personal of failures: an individual eats too much and exercises too little. This ignores the work of behavioural economists and biologists. Humans have evolved over millennia to ensure that weight is hard to lose. It is too simplistic to blame obesity merely on lack of willpower. That would let both food companies and politicians off the hook. “Fed Up” is determined to hold them to account. Food companies are keen for children to eat their junk foods, which are available not just in shops but in schools. America’s politicians, “Fed Up” argues, are complicit. Notoriously, America’s school-lunch law counts the tomato paste on pizza as a vegetable...
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...The movie “Fed Up” is a stunning documentary that examines the hidden causes of childhood obesity, which has become an ever-more serious medical issue in America. The movie expresses everyone’s point of view from the obese children to higher personality in the food industries and else. the main message to this documentary is that there is a workwide spread of obesity which is putting children’s health at risk. The increased sugar intake is responsible for it, and the food industries are responsible for our increased intake because it attacks us with advertisements, puts hidden sugar in processed food, favor profit over our health. The movie successfully convinces the audience with its facts and getting close and personal with obese children....
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...Facts, fiction and coding When we turn on the TV, we immediately decode what sort of program we are watching. If we watch “Paradise Hotel”, we expect a reality show and everything we associate with the genre. We expect drama, fighting, sex, betrayal and so forth. If we turn on the News, we expect to be fed with factual information about the happenings in the world. If we see a film, we also have certain expectations. When we see a romance film, we expect love. When we see an action film, we expect a fast pace and violence. When we see a horror film, we expect to be scared and so forth. We call these genre expectations. Within the world of media/literature, we deal with two major categories, facts and fiction. Facts tell us something about events and situations, which have already happened; facts therefor have an obligation to reality. Facts involve factual information, which can be subsequently checked for accuracy. However, fiction is made up where neither the people nor the events have root in the real world. Fiction therefore has no obligation to be factually correct and we cannot subsequently check for accuracy. When we watch films, TV programs or read texts, a sort of contract of understanding occurs. The contract is defined as agreements where the sender, in accordance with the receiver, agree on whether the film/text is fact or fiction. To make sure the receiver and sender are in accord, we use fact and fiction coding to decipher/ sort out fact from fiction and...
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...Food Inc. 4/6/13 In class last Tuesday we watched a documentary called Food Inc. This film was an eye opener for most people but being that I am a sixth generation farmer I understand how the seed, meat, and poultry corporations work. This film discussed the problems with the food industry today, and what we need to do to change the future of how our food is made and processed. In the first section of this documentary they talked about the food industry as a whole and how most of the food industry is ran by four or five big industries. This should not be how it is ran as off right now and today these companies are monopolies and run unsafe facilities not for just the people that work there but how the production process is ran. This documentary also covered the meat is being produced in unsafe and unnatural way. While feeding cattle corn is a great way to make them larger quicker, it still is not the right way to feed cattle because feeding them too much corn can cause them to die because of a disease called e-coli. When cattle get this disease it sometimes is not caught and the cow gets slaughtered and ends up on our dinner plate and then we receive the disease by eating the meat. This needs to change cows need to be fed grass and hay, and should not be on a corn only diet. This film also covered the poultry industry and how poultry is being grown at a very fast rate and how the chicken houses are not safe or very sanitary. The poultry houses are sealed with no sunlight...
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...to answer for ages. There are some disputable theories and some indisputable theories; you must come to a conclusion of your own. So we must take an in-depth look at the “Becoming Human” interactive documentary to arrive at our own theory and conclusion. In the beginning the documentary they takes us to Hardar, Ethiopia where the bones of the world renowned “Lucy” was discovered. With this discovery I believe this was the beginning of many more actually believing in these evolution theories. This discovery was the first to provide concrete facts that there were human like that species have walked the earth before us. Before Lucy there wasn’t one solid object or set of fossils that future findings to could be compared too. With that missing there would be a lack evidence, phases, and knowledge within the evolution theory. There are many scientists that make ape comparisons, being that they are genetically the closest species to humans. We very rarely talk about the probability cross mating, when I say cross mating I mean mating with another species in order to get these different aspects of the body. Mating with another species could have created a different genetics sequence and combined the traits. There has to a reason this change from a crouching like position to the up right standing position. The bodies could mean that have also adapted to the climate and environment over time. For instance, in Lucy’s situation where she lived there were an enormous amount of trees...
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...In the PBS documentary, Secret State of North Korea, journalist Kiro Ishimaru is trying to expose what Kim Jong Un’s regime wants to hide. The are trying to expose the secret world of North Korean people. Jiro and the people who work for him have an undercover network, which covertly films life inside the country and smuggles their footage back across the Tumen River. Within North Korea, the State through means of television, make the country out to be a land of plenty. They show pictures of an advance economy, happy, well-fed children and shops overflowing with good. On street corners, speeches made by Kim Jong Un are pumped through speakers where he promises his people a bright economic future. There is no escape to the ever-present propaganda and ANG JIN-SUNG, a former propagandist says its for a certain reason. “As well a physical dictatorship, they oppress people with an emotional dictatorship. In North Korea, they promote the leader to be the sun. If you go too close, you burn. If you go too far, you freeze to death. You think of him as incredibly god-like.” Although it is perceived as a land of plenty this is far from the truth and throughout the film there are many examples of what Koreans face everyday. Jiro’s undercover network has filmed orphaned street kids who gather in markets. They beg for money and are constantly on the lookout for scraps of food. When interviewed an eight year old said that “My mom tried to look after me, but she said it was too hard, so...
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...HLTH 320 The documentary “The Food, INC gave me insight on food production issues that I was unaware of. The manufacturing companies have a strong hold on farmers that prevents the natural way of farming. Farmers spend thousands of dollars purchasing new equipment to make companies such as Tyson happy. These farmers end up borrowing more money than they actually make. The issues in food production include cheap labor, immigration, e-coli contamination, pesticide usage, the fast food industry, and the sanitary conditions for both animals and workers in factories. Companies such as Smithfield recruit immigrants from Mexico to work in their factories. workers are paid very low wage and endure unsafe work conditions. There is an agreement between manufacturing companies and INS so that immigrants to be deported in small numbers. This is done so that the factory’s production is not affected. I was unaware that immigrants work for these large manufacturing companies for such a low wage. These people are exploited by companies such as Smithfield. Some of these workers have been working in United States for over fifteen years. The corporations are robbing livelihood of workers and there only means of survival. We as Americans lobby against immigrant’s presence in the United States. The ham and turkey we buy that is so inexpensive for Thanksgiving dinner is made possible by immigrant workers. The fast food industry has been profitable...
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...3/6/2015 Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles dies at 88 - CNN.com Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles dies at 88 By Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter Updated 3:28 PM ET, Fri March 6, 2015 New York City, NY 23° People we lost in 2015 31 photos Click through to see people who died in 2015. 1 of 31 U.S. Edition Search CNN Sign in News U.S. http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/entertainment/feat-obit-albert-maysles-gimme-shelter-thr/index.html 1/7 3/6/2015 Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles dies at 88 - CNN.com Story highlights Albert Maysles was a pioneering documentarian Best-known films include "Gimme Shelter," about Rolling Stones Altamont concert The filmmaker also did "Grey Gardens" (The Hollywood Reporter)—Albert Maysles, who collaborated along with his late brother David in a documentary film career that included the troubling 1970 concert documentary "Gimme Shelter," has died. He was 88. The director and cinematographer, an Oscar nominee, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan of natural causes, Stacey Farrar, marketing director at the Maysles Center in New York, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. "Gimme Shelter" -- which chronicled the 1969 Rolling Stones tour that culminated in the Altamont Free Concert, in which a fan brandishing a gun was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels security man — stood in a stark and more enduring counterpoint to the myth of the documentary "Woodstock," a depiction of the glorified 1969 free...
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...Ecofeminism and Monsanto There are many different kinds of ecofeminist theories, but most are based on the belief that the patriarchal societies we live in create destruction in their need to dominate humans and nature. Ecofeminism is a belief that all struggles are connected, and are the cause of patriarchy playing “...god by manipulating, controlling and attempting to transcend nature” (Mcguire 4). This is why Ecofeminists are committed to challenging all hierarchies, oppressions, and dualistic thinking that empowers patriarchy, and deems “Otherness” as inferior. It is through this feminist theory I would like to analyze the destructive power of Monsanto, the largest agricultural corporation in the United States, has in the Unites States particularly in the farm industry, the effect they created in the food supply, and their effect as a global corporation. In order to analyze the impact of Monsanto, a feminist lens of intersectionality is needed to see how the genetically modified seeds created by Monsanto lead to their domination of the nature and humans. According to Kimberle Crenshaw, “...any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner” (58). Crenshaw argues that an experience is greater than a sum of two factors, and instead that the experience is unique due to these factors. In the case of Monsanto, I will analyze the unique effects this corporation has created in their quest to maximize their profits....
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...History of computer documentary Hardly anything defines modern life better than the computer. Whether we like it or not, computers have infiltrated every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute. For instance: supermarket scanners calculate our bill while keeping store inventory, computerized telephone switching centers play traffic cop to millions of calls and keep lines of communication untangled, and ATM’s let us conduct banking transactions from virtually anywhere in the world. But where did all this technology come from and where is it heading? To fully understand and appreciate the impact computers have on our lives and promises they hold for the future, it is important to understand their evolution. The real beginnings of computers start with an English mathematics professor, Charles Babbage. Frustrated at many errors he found while examining calculations for the Royal Astronomical Society, he declared, "I wish to God these calculations had been performed by steam!" With those words, the automation of computers had begun. By 1812, Babbage noticed a harmony between machines and mathematics: machines were best at performing tasks repeatedly without mistake, while mathematics often required a repetition of steps. The problem was applying the ability of machines to the needs of mathematics. Babbage's first attempt was in 1822 when he proposed a machine to perform differential equations, called a Difference Engine. It was powered by steam and...
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