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Monday, June 12. 2006
David Goes to the Movies; Gets Supersized/February 2005
One of the most watched documentaries is a movie now available in video stores: “Supersize Me”. The fast-food industry, especially McDonald’s, makes the claim that their food is healthy. They claim that dieticians generally agree to this proposition. In “Supersize Me”, a young man who is completely healthy decides to test this thesis. What he does is documented in every detail by the film. He decides that he will go from McDonald’s to McDonald’s around the country for one month and eat only McDonald’s foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. During the course of the month he has to have everything on the menu at least once. One of his rules is that he will never ask to be “supersized” but must accept if offered. Most of the time that is exactly what happened. Before he began his “diet” he had himself completely checked by a cardiologist, general physician and nutritionist. They continued to monitor him throughout the month. He also made it a point to ask each McDonald’s he visited for their nutritional chart which is required by law to be available.
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Wednesday, June 7. 2006
Iron Jawed Angels/October 2005
When I go to the video store and see a movie that I like, I often purchase it. Iron Jawed Angels attracted my attention because it stars Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston and is about the effort by some very dedicated women to push for and pass the Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. This is the 19th Amendment proposed during World War I and passed soon thereafter.
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