In the article The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food‚ Michael Mossfeb discusses the issues concerning the causes of obesity in America. Mossfeb gives many examples of how the different food companies use different methods to convince people to buy their products. For example‚ Oscar-Myer found ways to get their products into the family household by exploiting mothers that have little time to prepare meals‚ and children who want control of what they eat. The same problem occurs with Coca
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In daily routine and life-changing situations alike‚ environmental factors constantly impact people’s decision-making process. Michael Moss‚ a journalist‚ examines how the junk food industry influences its users’ appetites with both marketing and product composition in “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”. Similarly‚ writer Andrew Solomon’s “Son” details how people and their views of others can impact another’s emotions and behaviors. As a result‚ people’s ability to achieve their goals
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with‚ from police attempting to stop crime through mentioning problems to the police physically stopping the crime and dealing with the problems. In Michael Moss’s‚ The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food‚ the power of the communication that advertisers use can easily manipulate people into loving junk food which would in create an addiction that consumers would be stuck in for every long time. Systems of power are upheld with language by showing a message in a specific way to
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General Purpose Statement: To Persuade. Specific Purpose Statement: At the end of my speech‚ the audience will realize the importance of getting a flu shot. I Introduction A. 3000-49000 is the number of people per year that have died over the past 30 years from influenza according to the CDC. It started out low but keeps increasing in numbers each year. The percentage of U.S. population that gets the flu each year is on average around 20%. Over 200‚000 people are hospitalized each year due
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