Morgan Spurlocks Argumentative Essay
Unrealistic? Wendell Berry, Scott Sanders, and Morgan Spurlock all take part in an unrealistic world to prove their points. They portray themselves as the perfect humans who live that idealistic life we all dream of. They do this by living simple lives, having a great deal of knowledge, and being in great shape. If you could combine these three I think you would have the perfect human. There are plenty of evident cases of this happening in their writings, or, in Spurlocks case, his movie. This causes some bias in their works. They provide these works however to show you that these ideas are not as far stretched as they seem. Spurlock, Sanders, and Berry go against the norms of society and the “establishment” in order to show why their ideal societies are better, and why you should work towards making them happen. In Health is Membership, Berry is recalling a
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We see Spurlock as a healthy man with a vegan cook as a wife, and having access to healthy foods and lifestyle. Although, we as Americans all have access to a healthy lifestyle, we normally get wrapped up in the world around us, and most people don’t have a vegan cook at home. Spurlock also becomes unrealistic with his choice of diet, “30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s, for all three meals a day.”(Super-Size Me) Many people may eat McDonald’s regularly, however not many people at all eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner every day for a whole month. This unrealistic expectation provides questions to the results of the experiment. Spurlock somewhat agrees with Berry and Sanders in the fact that technology has only made this problem worse and that change is needed. Something to point out is that Spurlocks results contradict Berry’s idea of knowledge and information. Spurlocks general practitioner knows more about the effects and what would happen to spurlock after this diet then the specialist
We see Spurlock as a healthy man with a vegan cook as a wife, and having access to healthy foods and lifestyle. Although, we as Americans all have access to a healthy lifestyle, we normally get wrapped up in the world around us, and most people don’t have a vegan cook at home. Spurlock also becomes unrealistic with his choice of diet, “30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s, for all three meals a day.”(Super-Size Me) Many people may eat McDonald’s regularly, however not many people at all eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner every day for a whole month. This unrealistic expectation provides questions to the results of the experiment. Spurlock somewhat agrees with Berry and Sanders in the fact that technology has only made this problem worse and that change is needed. Something to point out is that Spurlocks results contradict Berry’s idea of knowledge and information. Spurlocks general practitioner knows more about the effects and what would happen to spurlock after this diet then the specialist