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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs
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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.
Super Size Me And The Conundrum Of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, And Class For The Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker, Regina Austin
Super Size Me And The Conundrum Of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, And Class For The Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker, Regina Austin
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According to director Morgan Spurlock, the idea for "Super Size Me," the hugely popular documentary that explored the health impact of fast food, originated from a news report about Pelman v. McDonald’s, one of the fast food obesity cases. Over the course of his month-long McDonald’s binge, Spurlock became the literal embodiment of fast-food’s ill-effects on the seemingly generic American adult physique. Spurlock’s take on the subject, however, ignores the circumstances that contributed to the overweight conditions of the Pelman plaintiffs who were two black adolescent females who ate their fast food in the Bronx. One of them was homeless …