...COMM 170 Name: NIKESH KUMAR (300811080) Fall 2013 Noble award winner, Politician, philanthropist and much more(3) Mr. AL Gore’s master piece “The Moment Of Truth” and the Canada’s own Cree playwright and novelist’s dazzling yet bitter truthful essay “what a certain visionary once said” are a hard one to compare and comment on. Though both highway’s and gore’s introductory and concluding paragraphs are effective and persuasive, both of them use a different vocabulary style. Firstly, Highway’s introduction is very descriptive which paints an image in our mind (readers).whereas gore’s introduction in “The Moment of Truth” is effective because of providing scientific data to prove we are in a crisis and about criticism of the former president of the united states Mr. George Bush’s irresponsiveness to the number of environmental issues. Highway’s introductory paragraph is catchier because he use a descriptive way of narration which he gained from his real life experiences on the beauties of his countryside’s landscapes. (2) Highway’s description of the landscapes of northern Canada paints a beautiful image in the reader’s mind. The words used to represent the beauty of the landscape. And also Al Gore’s introductory paragraph in “The moment of truth,” is also equally effective. He starts off with letting the readers about the big crisis we about experience. He makes it even more interesting by explaining the meaning of crisis in Chinese and the characters’ meaning...
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...New Outlook On The Obesity Epidemic For decades, the obesity epidemic has devastated the lives of countless of people. The movie Fed Up shows how tragic and corrupt this problem is by talking about obesity, its causes, and the role the food industries play. Fed Up effectively uses appeals to get their messages across. For the appeal logos, statistics, facts, results of studies, predictions, and stories of the past were presented. The movie uses ethos by having professionals give explanations that support its purpose, like doctors and former president Bill Clinton. Pathos is also though out the entire movie. Having four kids describe how obesity has affected their lives and showing that greed is motivating food industries not to fix this...
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...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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...Before watching the documentary Fed Up, I knew that obesity was an epidemic affecting the United States. I knew it was affecting the kids, as I have a twelve year old cousin who has type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is strong on my mother’s side of the family, so I know quite a bit about it. So I understand that no one is an exception to getting diabetes. Though, I never realized that healthy foods are no where near as advertised as unhealthy foods are. Companies are quick to point out the “good” of their products, but shy away from answering questions on how unhealthy their products are. I also never knew how badly sugar could negatively affect someone’s health. I have always thought it was only bad because of the sugar rush and crash it causes....
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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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...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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...of the 14% increase in FedEx market value of equity in 2004, as the agreement to liberalize air cargo transport between the U.S. and China developed? Why did the UPS stock price lag? - The US-China agreement allowed an additional 195 weekly flights for each country- 111 by all-cargo carriers and 84 by passenger airlines- resulting in a total of 249 weekly flights by the end of a six-year phase in period. FedEx had set a goal of producing “superior financial returns” while UPS targeted “long term competitive return”. 2. In the history of the two companies leading up to that landmark agreement, how did they perform? Use the suggested template to summarize a comparison of the two firms on the basis of the financial criteria presented in the case for the period 1992 - 2003: Financial ratios (Exhibits 2 and 3); Earnings per share and total returns to investors (Exhibit 8); and Economic Profit (Exhibits 9 and 10). -Both FedEx and UPS performed well in Exhibit 2 and 3 but FedEx had a higher operating Income. Exhibit 8 shows that UPS had a higher earnings per share than FedEx. UPS weighted average cost of capital was higher for most of the years. 3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these measures of performance? -FedEx had a higher operating costs but their earnings per share was lower than UPS. UPS on the other had had a higher earnings per share but his weighted average cost of capital was higher. 4. If you were identify one of these companies as excellent...
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...chances of cancer and heart disease, which happen to be two of the leading factors of death in America. Due to these negative effects, many agencies, organizations, and other outspoken activists continue to try and battle this epidemic within America. Although many of their campaigns and ideas are effective, obesity rates are still drastically rising in America. Contrary to most campaigns and movements, instead of trying to present a positive approach to this problem, like Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, or just solely presenting pieces of evidence and statistics against the food industry, like Fast Food Nation, a documentary titled “Fed Up” tries to focus on showing the negative effects that this disease leaves on it’s victim and his or her family. While the other types of campaigns and movements were effective to some extent, “Fed Up” does a better job with making the viewer re-evaluate his or her food choices and become an advocate against obesity....
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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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...We Deserve Better Food Growing up, our parents have exposed us to plenty of processed and fake food. As a child, this has consequently caused the feeling of emptiness if we are not able to have our beloved snacks. We thrive on being able to get our hands on something that is not so good for us and most of the time we are not educated on what is actually in our packaged or fast foods. All we know is when we eat it, we enjoy every second of it until it is gone and then we crave more. The brain is always subconsciously thinking about the time our body is going to eat. In recent years, it has been more focused on knowing about what is going in our bodies, but growing up it was far less important to give the ingredients in our food the time of day. Fed Up is the most effective in convincing their audience on changing eating and shopping habits because the movie gives real life examples in American households and shocking statistics that force one to sit down and rethink the way they are living....
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...Almost every day today it seems as there are multitude of ways processed foods are introduced to the average 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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...FED EX and UPS Airfreight Industry Analysis 1. During the 1980s, the air express industry was a medium to attractive industry to already be a major player in, but not a very attractive industry to try and break into. The industry can be characterized by high rivalry from competitors who compete on the same services with very little differentiation, medium power from suppliers who supply the resources necessary to run the business, high buyer power because customers can basically find an equal service from any firm in the industry, low substitution threat from other means of shipping transportation, and low threat of new entrants due to the high initial capital outlay and need of management experience. In this analysis, we will delve deeper into each of the dynamics within Porter’s 5 Forces to form an opinion of why the industry is attractive to be in and then discuss how competition greatly increased during 1988-1989. In the air express industry, where customers can ship their packages over long distances via airplane, there is high rivalry because the firms competing in the industry all do the same service. Since there is little differentiation between firms, each firm must battle for customers by either providing better or new services, integrating new competencies into their business processes, or doing business at a low price to create bigger economies to scale which will then cut down operating costs. Firms who want to compete...
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...The movie UP is perfect for ABC yeah the movie of the house flying with a bunch of balloons. The movie consists on a young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure-spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a lost land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. So he decides to go in an adventure, while he gets stuked with a young scout kid The movie up is perfect for ABC because it covers your basic requirements. The movie UP does not contain violence or profanity it is classified PG, in addition the movie UP has a perfect length of 1hr 29 minutes. ABC wants this movie because this points are important to consider, it is important because there is going to be children of a young age that could be sensitive at violence, that could lead to an unwanted behavior. Furthermore older people can be more susceptible to violence and could dislike the movie if so, your audience will really love this movie. Don't forget about the perfect length you have to take in notice that the movie UP is not a long movie so that kids can stay focused at the movie, and is not short so that you have time to appreciate it you must consider this factor a lot so that you can make you audience happy. I guarantee that they will love it. Paul Chambers from CNN Radio, ''Pure joy and one of the best films of the year. You gotta have a good story, and this one is a gem. It even made a bit misty-eyed. Good stuff from Pixar''. Also Dan jardine from...
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...UP (2009) Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Negal, Bob Peterson Director: Pete Docter A 3D animated film named ‘ Up ‘ which directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar Animation Studio and released by Walt Disney Pictures portrays the adventure of an old widower named Carl Fredrickson (voiced by Edward Asner) fulfilling his lifelong dream along with a young Junior Wilderness Explorer named Russell (voiced by Jordan Nagai) and a talking Golden Retriever named Dug (voiced by Bob Peterson) Carl Fredrickson always dreams to become an adventurer ever since he was a kid. He then met Ellie and both of them became friends. Both of them idolized explorer Charles Muntz (voiced by Christopher Plummer) and Carl has promised Ellie he will move their clubhouse, an abandoned house in the neighborhood to a cliff beside Paradise Fall in South America. In just 8 to 15 minutes, the film has shown how Carl and Ellie grew up and got married. As both of them grow older into their old age, one day Carl decided to surprise Ellie with two flight tickets to South America but unfortunately Ellie suddenly becomes ill and passed away. Sometimes later, a court orders Carl to move to a retirement home because he accidentally injured a construction worker for damaging his mailbox. However, instead of moving to a retirement home, Carl decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie by tying balloons to his house and make it fly. A young Wilderness Explorer named Russell accidentally...
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...losses to remain that way. Memories of one who past, of the scars that led me to be here one last time an uncrowned champion, and of all the ones who brought me here. It was the last weigh-in of my life and I couldn’t have been any happier about it, all those winters married to the scale would end on this day. Herded like sheep up the freezing stair well into the meat market of the top of the event center, stripping yourself down to your nothings, holding all your clothes in hand, and standing there among all your opponents as the Nazi of a guy comes down to check hair and fingernails. 147.4, six tenths under the limit, beautiful, now it was time for one of the best parts of every tournament, eating after weigh-in. It was then time to warm up, coach always made sure that we were to be one of the first teams to be down on the mats warming up. Looking around the stadium seeing all the empty seats and clumps of kids in their team colors all eating away after their last weigh-in of the season or of their life. As I tied up my shoes I made sure my lucky state penny was still in my lace cover. I had found it the first day of the tournament heads up as I was walking in and I knew that it was a good sign of things to come. Semi-finals were first thing, they moved through the weights slowly, every match being close to going the full...
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