In the article "Don’t blame the eater" written by Zinczenko, he argues that fast food is the main reason why so many teenagers are suffering from obesity in United States. He explains that many companies will use advertisements to deceive customers. For example, a company’s website offers a chicken salad with less than four hundred calories per serving; however, they don’t label everything that the salad has In the first label. They will use separate labels in the products that the salad has on it, so the costumer gets confused and thinks that he is actually eating a four hundred calories salad that is "healthy". However, he is actually eating a seven or more hundred calories meal.
Wounds of the Past Battles were fought, lives were taken and wounds were made, some of which remain as an indication of victory or stay as a mark of failure. Whichever one it may be, there were different strategies that were used to try to heal injuries that occurred on the battlefield, more specifically during the Civil War. The problem was, there were more men dying of diseases than men that were falling on the battlefield. Doctors were required to have only two years of medical training, therefore medicine was not as profound back then compared to present day advancements. Three of many brave men that experienced injuries during the Civil War in the book Killer Angels by Michael Shaara were Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John Buford, and
Blackfish is a documentary directed by filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite in 2013. The documentary shares a story of an orca named Tilikum, who has killed three individuals while kept in captivity. This documentary uses footage to portray Tilikum as a killer whale that has not lived a pleasant life at SeaWorld, leaving the viewers feeling very emotional. What most people fail to understand is that Blackfish is mostly told by former SeaWorld trainers and does not provide balanced and accurate information. This documentary is propaganda, rather than an actual documentary; it manipulates the audience to believe that killer whales should not be kept in captivity, when they actually should.
Om-kas-toe was written by Kenneth Thomasma. It is about a mother that had twins, one boy and one girl. This was set in the early 1600s. The tribe had to leave the girl to die, but the parents refused to let the baby girl die. The twin’s names are Om-Kas –Toe, and Twin girl.
Economics and Psychology in Appalachia, An Analysis of the Novel: Above the Waterfall In the novel Above the Waterfall, Ron Rash decides to focus on the main theme of Loss. The culture within the beautiful ecosystem of Appalachia is encased with family ties that are hard to deny. Rash writes, “In a county this rural, everyone’s connected, if not by blood, then in some other way” from the relationship between Darby and Gerald to the friendship between Les and Becky, their relationships show a true loyalty to the ones they have grown up with and show that Appalachia is a tight knit community (Rash 90). The characters within the novel: Above the Waterfall demonstrate signs of loss of self, domestic violence, as well as poverty.
All But My Life, by Gerda Weissmann Klein, is an absolutely amazing autobiography. Gerda tells about her childhood and how she grows into an adult in many German labor camps. Gerda’s home town has been taken over by the Germans during the holocaust. Her wealthy jewish family is forced to live like slaves until they are separated and moved to different German camps. Gerda tells her story like the reader is there with her.
In the short story " My favorite Chaperone" by Jean Davies Okimoto ,the main characters are the members of a Russian immigrant family adjusting to their life in America. We learn about them through the eyes and thougths of Maya, the teenager daughter trying to cope with the new life and culture , while having to maintain the old life and culture at home with her parents and her little brother Nurzhan, who is the only one who understands her. Maya 's life is far from the one of a normal American teenager, when her brother gets in trouble for fighting in school, she has to take care of the situation, not only because of the language but because her parents see her as responsible for him. On the other hand she gets in big trouble when her
The book Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park where a young boy named Salva walks across South Sudan during a civil war and eventually he gets to the United States and helps South Sudan by planting wells across the country. The poem “Lost boys of Sudan” is by Leslie Lane. Many young boys survive walking for hundreds of miles through disease, war and starvation to live, but their lives will never be the same again. The theme of both texts is in the face of obstacles, maintain perseverance in order to overcome them. Though both texts present the common theme in similar ways, there are also differences in their approach and development.
The Spirit Catches You The Spirit Catches you and You fall down centers on Lia Lee, an epileptic Hmong Child who is caught in-between care of her loving parents and the responsibility of her caring doctors. Her parents are traditional Hmong’s who are hesitant towards American medicinal methods compared to Hmong traditional methods. While on the other side stands her American doctors, who were educated in American Universities and are for the most part are very much against treating Lia with anything besides the practice they’ve been educated on. This paper will first provide a short summary of the book which will mainly include the Hmong involvement in the Vietnam War. Followed by two anthropological concepts.
The book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is not a completely accurate depiction of what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The book is an example of propaganda aimed at influencing the reader into viewing the government and police in America as ineffective and ignorant. In Zeitoun, Eggers characterizes all the police and National Guard members in New Orleans after Katrina as very abusive and ignorant. When Zeitoun is arrested the police take his and his friends belongings to examine them.
This Is Where It Ends is a fictional book written by Marieke Nijkamp, which describes a fateful shooting at Opportunity High. The book is told through 4 students' perspectives and the horror that they go through in just 54 minutes. Not only does it explore the themes of courage, grief, and resilience, but it also looks through the eyes of four distinct characters that tell a tale that not only represents the reality of school violence but also examines the complex web of human emotions and reactions in fateful times. It can be described as a chilling and poignant book that is set against the backdrop of a high school being taken hostage by a shooter in a terror of a situation that is all too familiar with the society we live in today. The switching
The novel, So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, communicates through the character’s actions that families are loyal to each other even when it doesn’t benefit themselves. In the book, Yoko's actions indicate that she is counting on her family to help her when she needs it. In the book, Yoko and her family arrived at a checkpoint on their way to Seoul to escape the Korean Communists who were trying to kill them. After being treated, they had to sleep at the station which was crowded with escapees to wait for the brother who was separated.
"Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We only see the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other." by Thick Nhat Hanh. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man taken over by the interest in science.
“Song of the Forests” was written by Dimitri Shostakovich as a performance piece in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the reforestation of the Russian steppes when World War II ended. The piece was well received and Shostakovich earned the Stalin Prize for the piece. The most remarkable feature of the piece are the numerous references to Joseph Stalin as a “great gardener.” Most of the later performances of the piece omitted this reference.
My worldview is that we have not been given this planet as a resource, but that we are a part of a larger ecosystem. We may be an intelligent species that has creating a way of life different from all other species; however, every creature has the same rights and value as any other. A human being is not worth more than a wolf, a fish, or a tree, simply because we have developed out way of life into a more complex manner. I view humans as a predator, one that given out current technology and knowledge, is at the top of the food chain. This does not make us more important than the species we live with.
