Monday, February 2, 2009

Lab #11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvVmy-J_B1Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8bEz0CHzjE
These links leads to a youtube video comparing how much choices of American fast food restaurants can change a person's life. One video is about how much calories can be taken in a meal at McDonalds, and the other is recommending how it is better to eat at Quizznos instead. These videos are posted by the same person (or group).The question is, how can this make a difference in American society? When we investigated, there are more than 31,000 locations that has McDonalds, while Quizznos only has less than 1000 and not much are out worldwide. However as you can see in the video, Quiznos is much more healthier than McDonalds; which has more than 1000 calories per meal. And the difference between the numbers of location reveals to us that McDonalds have much more popularity than Quiznos. Although this may not be related to social capital, the percentage of a person getting fat when his or her friends get fat is 51%. The reason why I am discussing this is because getting fat can cause people's social capital to deform and change somebody's life. For example, if a dancer becomes fat, then that person will be fired and will have to burn the fat off or change the job, which is a total change in his or her life.

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