Food Around The World

Peter Menzel's gallery of photos shows how different countries around the world eat different amounts of food each week and different types of food all together. He shows how some families live off small portions of food for an entire week and in one picture he shows the amount an American family eats in a week and it is substantially more that any other photo. He shows how in some countries the people dont waste anything they use all of the parts of animals when they eat and they will eat what ever they have available whether it be cooked or raw. The amount of food consumed by families across the world change on the location. He is telling us that when humans need to eat we will eat what ever is available to us.

The Pleasures of Eating

1. That every dorm have some source of sunlight being able to shine in. A porch or window, or even a balcony some way to have a light source and have the potential to grow some sort of plant.
2. Making your own food rather than going to a fast food place. Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cooking eggs ect.  
3.try to buy organic food that is from local farms. here we could go buy our food from the local farmers market.
4.make a trip to the local farms and see if you can buy directly from them.
5.gain some knowledge to what is served in your student cafeteria.
6.learn what is the best way to grow plants in your window seal or on a balcony.
7.learn and observe from your friends what they do and what they plant to get an idea what does well in your amount of sunlight available.

The Cooking Ape

In Elisabeth Townsend's story ,the cooking ape, she tells us how the simple fire has change who we are as humans. She tells us how a long time ago it took much more effort for humans to eat and digest their foods. She tells us how there may have even been a time when humans knew what fire was but had not yet used fire to cook their foods. But she tells us that when humans were about to use fire to cook their food then the physical appearance of the human body changes over time the brain and body grew therefore humans burned more calories and needed more calories. So, over time the body grew and changed. For this essay i get that fire directly related to the human physical appearance that we as humans are today.

Peer Review Workshop

I would have liked to have been able to spend a little more time and fine tune my paper. I feel that if i would have had more time to elaborate on my topic.

Rhetorical Paper Outline

Title:    Focus on Domestic Living

Thesis: If society were to consider the negative impact of our consumer driven culture in America, then families or homemakers would shift from being entirely dependent on what they purchase to a more focused approach of self-production.

Outline:

I.                   The developing interest in local food movement.

a.       Her economical stand on local food movement.

                                                                 i.      Connecting with other ecological minded homemakers.

                                                               ii.      Taking a pro-homemaker stand.

II.                The origins of homemaking.

a.       The roots of the housewife.

b.      The role of the husband.

c.       The impact from the industrial Revolution on homemaking.

d.      Separation of the sexes in the home.

                                                                 i.      The man’s occupation comes from outside the home.

                                                               ii.      The women work from within the walls of the home.

III.             Effects of the “Housewife Syndrome”.

a.       Convincement that women can do more than be at home.

b.      Pushing women into the workforce.

c.       Second family incomes become a necessity.

IV.             A national look at the radical homemaker.

a.       Hayes personal research of radical homemakers.

b.      The role of homemakers through the American Revolution.

                                                                 i.      Movements of boycotts.

                                                               ii.      The launch of a young Democratic nation.

c.       The impact of national choices of a radical homemaker

                                                                 i.      Making family and social justice a priority.

                                                               ii.      The health and well being of the planet.

d.      Living around the poverty level.

                                                                 i.      Learning to live of less.

                                                               ii.      Mastering domestic skills.

V.                Skills of the average homemaker.

a.       Tackling the domestic skills

b.      Establishment of realistic expectations.

c.       Creating pleasure rather than buying.

d.      The development of skills start at the home.

CR Chapter 4 sept 12

1.   I decided to read "Meet the Radical Homemaker" by Shannon Hayes. From reading her article i decided to first get a little background information on her and i found out that she was a farmer and also a writer out of the New England area. In compiling a rhetorical analysis i first determine the point that she is trying to get across to the reader. I then look at her article and figure out who her audience is and ask myself do i believe she is giving a strong subject.IO also would look and see if she is speaking to the appeal of reason or emotion and from my readings i believe that she is speaking to both in some way or another. And lastly i would have to determine if her article fits to the circumstances, times, and does it mesh well with the audience, to me her article is relevant to all these.
2.    She wants to show the value of homemaking in our actual homes as well as our society and economy as a whole.
3.    Her strategies go build her argument come from her knowledge and exploration of the subject in my opinion. She not only put a post on a website she also went through her mail and began to visit others like herself and her family.
4.     i feel that her ethos behind the subject was strong she had the credibility to the subject because she herself is a homemaker and she made the effort to do research on other homemakers. her pathos towards the subject was strong as well i see her passionin the text as she explains how families can get by with less mainly because she is able to get by with less she has the right to say it because she is in the moment of doing so herself.

In Class

i believe that the author is primarily driven to encourage us to think about what we are eating. Not only in the food that is in front of us but also in how the food got to where it is at that moment. How the animal was treated before its journey to the table. he prompts us to realize the affect of our readiness to eat has upon the livestock.

Rhetorical Analysis

1.    In planning to rhetorically analyse, "The Pleasure of Eating" by Wendell Berry i would first read his essay thoroughly. From his essay I see that he is very repellent to processed food so from now knowing this i venture to understand why he is against processed food. As I do a little research of Wendell Berry I realize he is a Farmer and also a write. So, from this knowledge I see that his argument of the plants and animals being treated better is backed from his experience that he would not want to eat something that has been treated cruelly. I believe in his mind he sees eating an animal that has been feed and raised in a small cubical that the livestock doesn't have enough room to turn around in is eating a cruelly treated or even beaten  animal. He bring to attention that people in the urban areas don't realize ,that from the animal living on the farm till the food showing up on their plate, there is a lot going on in the back ground and many stages in between. I would then go on to explain how he shares his opinion with his audience and also to whom is his audiences.
2.    The pleasure of eating doesn't come from eating the food but from the knowledge of where and what the food has been through.
3.   He gives us the knowledge of the cow in a stable where it couldn't even turn around and how that is cruelty he says that he would much rather eat meat that was from a happy and able to roam a wide open pasture. He gives us the thought that if we knew were and how our food was treated as livestock then we would have total freedom in eating your food.
4.   From reading his ethos I don't really understand where he is coming from but after doing a little extra research i understand his side of the argument being a framer and taking care of his livestock. In terms of his pathos i feel that he was strong is stating his pathos. he directly related the audience with his feeling towards the situation. He strongly showed his love for animals and how they are treated  even in the process for being raised for food.

Lady Power

In Nancy Bauer's story talks about Lady Gaga and Cindy Sherman and their familiarization. Cindy Sherman is an American Photographer in the Film Industry. Cindy started out and a painter in college and then realized she didn't want to copy other peoples works. so, she picked up a camera and started taking picture for herself. Her art that she created after she stopped painting was pure it was strictly what she thought was interesting it was her own work. I think she and Lady gaga are similar in the aspect of taking their individualization and running with it maybe not in the same direction but the reasons they were driven in their directions were based off the same reasons, everyone is different and individual. I think Bauer's comparison in her essay is accurate in someways but in others i don't think Cindy and Lady Gaga were totally similar.

Womb For Rent

In this short essay by Ellen Goodman she mostly talks about how surrogacy between wealthy countries and third world countries. She comments on how women in Anand will earn between $5,000-$7,000 for the delivery of a child and int heir normal day to day life they would have earned $25 a month for crushing glass in a factory. She also brings up the conclusion that surrogacy is becoming an international trade. I feel that the pathos in this argument is negative she is telling us the outcomes of the surrogacy. she portrays that surrogacy is bad and how its always the wealthy taking advantage or using the poor people of the third world.
What is the writer's purpose?
Is the writer trying to change readers' views by offering a new interception of a phenomenon, calling readers to action, or trying to muster votes or inspire future investigations?
From this question i think that she is not so much trying to change the readers' perception on the subject but trying to enlighten on the information about the subject.
Well i found it interesting and disturbing that when i realized that it is unjustly to sell yourself or your children but when it comes to surrogacy it is becoming a business that is flourishing.

Background of Catherine Breecher

I learned that Catherine was mostly driven to teach and spread the word about how a woman should be the teacher in developing the knowledge and people skills of the next generation. She was the duaghterof a Presbyterian Minister well known for his evangelism. She had a well known sister Harriet Beecher Stow who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin. At the age of 16 she had to take over the houshold and take care of the faimly.

Carolina Reader p. 253

From the essay "On the preservation of a good temper in a housekeeper", by Cartharine E. Beecher she tells us how the attitude a wife in the family directally reflects onto the entire family. She tells us that if she has a equable and cheerfule temper that it will reflect upon the family. If the housekeeper has a negative attitude thn the family  will be hindered by it. She tells us that a housekeeper can not maintain a quiet and cheerful state of mind. The quietness will turn into an evil frame of mind and will always over come her cheerful side.
Breecher gives us a list of considerations that may aid in prepairing a woman to meet her daily crosses:
1. A woman, who has charge of a large household should regard her duties as dignified, important, and difficult.(CR 250)
2. A housekeeper should feel that she has great difficulties to meet and overcome.(CR 250)
3.A woman deliberately to calculate on having her best-arranged plans.(CR 251)
4.To form all plans and arrangements in consistency with the means at command, and the character of those around.(CR 251)
5.It's very important to have consideration of the systems of the economy, and neatness.(CR 251)

SWA#3

In Eli Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner's story essay "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" they explain their definitions of information and knowledge and how the two are intertwined. They explain to us that information is all the data that we absorb from the technology in the world and the knowledge we receive from the information is all based on how we interpret and act upon the given information. In the essay it tells us that information on its on is just facts that are told to us or we read but knowledge is the information that we use and recall to our knowledge.