"Super-Size Me"- Summary

MORGAN PURLOCK want to explores the consequences on the body and mind of fat food by himself, so he decide to eat McDonald’s meals three times per day for a moth and changes his healthy habits for a sedentary life. He also wants to demonstrate that fast food industry is one of the first consequence of American’s obesity epidemic.

United States of America is first country with the highest percentage of obese people in the world. In the state of Alabama approximately a 30.1% of adults and a 16.7% of children and adolescents are obese.

According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition fast food as hamburgers, French fries, bacon and all processed food are a contributing factor for obesity in the United States because they content large amounts of carbohydrates, added sugar, unhealthy fats and salt. This type of food is also high in calories and frequently replaces nutritious food in diet. With the time this type of food could cause diabetes, respiratory problems, depression and addiction.

Obesity is big problem and government don’t care it because meals in public schools are the primary example of developing of nutritional choices as the foods offered are not as healthy as they are claimed to be. Some school system provide children with these popular foods that are high in fats and calories but they are cheaper.

Spurlock wanted to show the true about this type of food so he decided to do an experiment that consisted of eating three McDonald’s meals per day for a moth, he only consumed only items offered on McDonald’s menu and ate only super-sized meals. In the end of the experiment he gained 24 lb. Increased his cholesterol, experienced sexual dysfunction and many heal problems. 

Conclusion

1.    Have healthy eating habits is better than eat junk.

2.    Junk food only gives us many problems with our health.

3.    United States is a country with a high obesity rate.

4.    We don´t need a diet, if we eat healthy.

5.    If we eat healthy we will have a better life.

Personal Opinion

We think that have good eating habits is very important because it improves our health and avoid many illness.
We also think that eat junk food is not a bad thing, but we don´t have to eat it in excess, because it could causes many problems in our health. 
So "we don´t need a diet, if we eat healthy".

Analysis

This documentary evidences the effect that junk food produces in our organisms, since eat too much this kind of food increases the level of triglycerides and produces many illnesses. So the objective of this film is to make aware people about their eating habits and encourage them to improve them.

The documentary shows us the wrong eating habits that Americans have, because they eat junk food more than three times a week, reason why United States is a nation with very high levels of obesity. The protagonist of this documentary is an American with good eating habits, who will change his healthy eating habits to junk food during a month, to prove the effects that produces this kind food in our organism. On this month he going to eat junk food in breakfast, lunch and dinner like all the Americans, so he will develop some problems in his health.

Comment

This film presents us the diversity of ecosystems that the earth has. We think that this documentary is very interesting to know the habits and the ways that the wild species have to get their food depending of their habitats.

Earth- Disney Documentary

Introduction

Earth is a Disney documentary directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield and produced by Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles on 2007, also it was the first film released under the Disney nature label.

It presents us different kinds of wild habitats and species around the world that provide the viewer another perspective of the ecosystems that exist in our planet. This film focuses on three particular species, the polar bear, African bush elephant and humpback whale.

Summary

1. Artic

The movie starts in the Artic when the winter has finished and the sun begins to appear, we can see a polar bear with her cubs that are trying to get food on the sea ice before it begins to break up.

During the summer the sun never sets reason why the sea ice melt completely when august comes near. The polar bear and her cubs have to go mainland to be safe before it happens.

2. Africa

In Africa everything is different. The animals always try to walk in herds to protect themselves from predators that are constantly searching for prey. The dominant species of this ecosystem is the lion, these are some characteristics about it:

Lions are the only cats that live in groups, which are called prides. Prides are family units that many include up to three males, a dozen or so females, and their young. Young males eventually leave and establish their own prides by taking over a group headed by another male.

Summary

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserable old man like his died business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge hated happiness, love, family, generosity and specially he did not want to have nothing to do with Christmas. Scrooge refused the invitation of his nephew Fred to a Christmas dinner and also told off the people collecting charity donations with grumbles and he didn’t want to give Bob Cratchit a paid day off for Christmas, because he thought it was a theft. 

That night, he returned his apartment he received a visit of the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley, who pallid and with heavy chains, told his story to Scrooge, because he did not want Scrooge to share his same fate, to wander the Earth eternally. Marley also told Scrooge three spirits will visit him during the next three nights. 

The Ghost of Past was the first spirit that visited him, it seemed a child with a brightly head. The Ghost took Scrooge into past and showed him his childhood school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his engagement to Belle, a woman who left Scrooge because she fell in love with a richer man, scenes from the past that traced Scrooge's development from a young boy, lonely but with the potential for happiness, to a greedy young man that deny love in his life. The Ghost of the past returned him to his bed, after he shed tears of regret. 

Then The Ghost of the Christmas Present, a giant with a green robe. This Ghost took Scrooge through London to show him the importance of friends and family. The Ghost showed Scrooge Cratchit´s family preparing a feast in his poor house, and Cratchit´s crippled son, Tiny Tim, a courageous boy, who will die if the future isn´t changed. The humility and the kindness of the family moved Scrooge. Then The Ghost showed how the guests enjoyed his nephew´s party dancing and playing games. Before vanishing The Ghost showed Scrooge a boy and girl, Ignorance and Want, living under his coat and warned Scrooge to beware of Ignorance.  

Finally Scrooge was visited by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The Ghost showed him how the people were happy for his death and no one seemed pained. Scrooge also saw how Cratchit´s family maintained their unity and love although Tiny Tim died. Scrooge desperately implored the spirit to alter his fate, promising to renounce his insensitive and avarice ways and to honor Christmas with all his heart.   

After that, suddenly he woke up in his bed on Christmas day and he discovered that his adventure only took one night. 

He sent a turkey to Cratchit´s house, gave a generous donation to a charity, and had a good time in Fred´s party. He also gave Cratchit a raise, and became a second father to Tiny Tim who didn’t die.  

He kept the spirit of Christmas alive in his heart forever...