can hardly be called desirable. At the very best‚ that word is a gross understatement. As humans‚ we are expected to have a deep natural longing to better our overall quality of living. The seemingly natural condition‚ is that the grass is always greener in someone else’s pastures. No exception to this instinctive law is the description of Utopia‚ by Sir Thomas More. In his work‚ he describes a wondrous place‚ full of peaceful‚ benevolent people that coexist perfectly. A place where your labors
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crisis: Obesity. ‘Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin?’ Morgan Spurlock asks the question on everybody’s lips as waistlines expand and health declines. This leads moviegoers to supersize their responsibility of their poor decisions throughout Supersize Me‚ while Spurlock incorporates a variation of cinematic and persuasive techniques to ultimately lead us to blame corporate businesses. McDonalds prefer the chunky double profit over the wellbeing of their customers
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Bad Place "They say‚ though‚ and one can actually see for oneself‚ that Utopia was originally not an island but a peninsula. However‚ it was conquered by somebody called Utopos‚ who gave it its present name- it use to be called Sansculottia- and was also responsible for transforming a pack of ignorant savages into what is now‚ perhaps the most civilized nation in the world" (More 50). This excerpt is from the book Utopia written by Thomas More. The author explains how he heard this from a man‚
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parade of unexpected events. Between work‚ school and parenting; It’s not hard to become overwhelmed. Luckily‚ numerous companies offer services in attempt to save some time and stress. There are day care programs that look after our children‚ do our yard work and even clean our houses. One of the most popular services available to Americans is fast food. While some people have time to go grocery shopping and budget healthy eating‚ many Americans find themselves settling for the drive through once again
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Matt Torres Dr. Cay Hehner Modern New York November 1‚ 2012 Research Paper The history of the urban utopia arose when theorists and city planners decided that a radical reconstruction of their cities (Venturi 4) was needed. There are problems that arose in cities of every generation and these problems have sparked the minds of the greatest thinkers‚ planner‚ architects‚ and theorists of the 19th century. These were the first attempts at correcting the problems that we deal with today. Problems
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his girlfriend. A reason why Americans consume junk food constantly is due to economic reasons: it is cheap and fast and there isn’t a big price difference between the large and supersize meals. You pay a little bit more for a bigger proportion. This definitely leads to obesity. Still nowadays they stopped offering supersize portions. In addition‚ Spurlock stresses on how Macdonald’s has a great impact on the children; targeting them with ads before they realize how harmful the food is‚ and attracting
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Rule 1: Arguments are unacceptable‚ as a disagreement is as far as anything can go. Purpose 1: Arguments and fight cause physical and internal damage making a commotion‚ disturbing others and disrupting the reason of a utopia (where there is no good and bad life just is). So‚ because of this fights and anything that goes farther from a disagreement is unacceptable‚ for a disagreement is only allowed because it’s normal (for it only shows a matter of opinion). Rule 2: Any form of tardiness and rudeness
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Good morning/afternoon Grade 9 Students and Mr Cooper. The documentary that I will be analysing is Super-Size Me‚ directed by Morgan Spurlock who focuses this film on the fast-food franchise McDonalds‚ which the director must diet exclusively on for an entire month‚ three times a day to study the diet’s effect on his body. The purpose of Super-Size Me is to inform people about how significant it is to be more conscious of the foods they eat‚ and the possible consequences that they may risk undertaking
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The Idea of Utopia and Dystopia in The Giver The word “utopia” has come to define our ideal of a perfect society in terms of law‚ government‚ and social and living conditions. The idea behind a utopian society is that everyone works together for common good of the society and the laws and government are meant to protect the people within the community from the evils of the human race. In many ways‚ these societies take on a communist belief that order is the way to achieve this perfect society
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Utopia Utopias are generally said to be societies in which the political‚ social and economic troubles hampering its inhabitants has been done away with. Instead the state is there to serve the people and ensure the peacefulness and happiness of everyone. The word utopia‚ which means "no place" in Greek‚ was first used to mean a perfect society in 1516 in the publication of Saint Thomas More’s story "Utopia". The story depicted life as it was with its people and social institutions on an imaginary
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