How would you characterize our society's obsession with dieting? What can be said of our insatiable desire to have the perfect body, especially through diets? And when do our physical perfection fantasies meet the reality of American obesity rates? What do you make of preoccupation with being thin? In a concise essay, synthesize the following diverse texts into a snapshot of America's current dieting obsession:
- Sara Rue 2010 Print Advertisement from Jenny Craig
- “What's the Best Diet? Eating Less Food” by Tiffany Sharples from Time
- “Choose Your Bad” Cartoon by Cathy Thorne from EverydayPeopleCartoons
- “10 Things the Weight-Loss Industry Won't Say” by Trevor Delaneylisa Scherzer from SmartMoney
- “Hottest Bodies 2010" from People
- "Overweight and Obesity Statistics" from The US Department of Health and Human Services
- Scene from “Brush with Greatness” from The Simpsons
Requirements:
- MLA format, including parenthetical citation
- 3-page minimum
The best papers will:
- Stay within the parameters of the prompt
- Have a concise thesis
- Find "common threads" amongst a diverse group of texts and combine them to create a "snapshot" of America's current obsession with dieting
- Properly cite evidence using MLA's parenthetical citation method
- Conclude with a summation of your points
- Be in MLA Style
Due: Mon 8.8
Not sure if I am the only one with this issue but the overweight and obesity statistics link does not work o_O
ReplyDeleteIt's a PDF, so maybe that's the issue. Here's the link: http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/PDFs/stat904z.pdf
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