Another Year Of The Chicken By Vanessa Wong

“That is, I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular—shall I suck warm blood, hold my tail high, walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands?—but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive.”

We also learn about the new SAT and its essay component, which some college completely ignore. Some college and universities are eliminating their requirement for the SAT or ACT in an effort to minimize their importance and stress that surrounds them.

People often think that comedians have a straight forward job: they practically just have to joke about a topic and make people laugh. But not many realize the brutality comedians have to face when they are “forced” to change their acts according to the setting and diverse range of their audience. In the article “That’s Not Funny”, the author Caitlin Flanagan, explains on how comedians face an uphill talk when they perform in colleges and how they have to change their scripts to make sure they don’t offend students on the basis of gender, religion etc. Colleges are paying comedians big money and that’s the main reason comedians still perform even when they can’t express themselves freely through comedy. In this essay, I will explore how Caitlin argues about the unjust conditions interested comedians face who want to perform in college campuses. Caitlin builds the credibility of her work by stating strong and valid points, different types of arguments and rhetoric situations.

At some point of a kid’s life, they want to be picky about something. They want to have some control of their little world where adults are constantly telling them what to wear, what to do, and what to eat. Food, for instance, is an easy topic where kids will fight for some independence. Throwing, yelling, crying and even bribing were the essence of a battle at dinner tables. Because some parents would automatically give in to their children’s need, the kids often think they won the battle but technically they didn’t. In the story, “Picky Eater”, Julia Alvarez tells a story of her childhood experience of home meals where her and her sisters were also picky eaters, despite having healthy food served to them. Meals, she said, “at home were battlegrounds. Even if you won the dinner battle, refusing to clean your plate or drink your engrudo, you inevitably lost the war” (Alvarez 145). Battlegrounds at home can occur but it doesn’t have to end up being messy if the parents know how to handle the situation properly.

In the poem The Gift by Li-Young Lee, I believe the figurative “gift” portrays a memory of compassion and forgiveness. In the beginning of the tale, the narrator recites a memory from his childhood; a memory of his father pulling out a metal splinter buried within his skin. As the poem recites, “the flames of discipline he raised above my head,” displaying that his father's anger was directed above his head and not precisely at him. This shows the affectionate and merciful side of his dad, as he was trying his best not to scream, but be there to comfort him. Now, later in life, when the once young boy is now a man, he does the same with his wife. His wife has a splinter and it is now his turn to take the same position as his father

In the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the theme of growing up is prevalent throughout the book. Throughout the novel, a young mexican girl named Esperanza goes through experiences as she matures that involve her friends, society, dangers that expose her to the outside world and help her to realize what the real world is like.

Mother Tongue is a story that describes how Amy Tan’s mother was treated unfairly because of her “broken English”. As the second generation of Chinese immigrants, Tan faces more problems than her peers do. Her mom, who speaks “limited” English, needs Tan to be her “translator” in order to communicate with the native English speakers. Tan has felt ashamed of her mother “broken” language at first. She then contemplates her background affected her life and her study. However, she changes her thought at the end since she realizes things behind language might be more valuable than language itself sometimes. Through the various different literary devices and rhetorical strategies such as the ethos, pathos, and logos appeals, as well as a

Reflecting on this event many times in my past, I have called it an "innapropriate romance", I have called it “an unprofessional relationship”. However, most frequently, I have called it “the thing that happened that summer.” As in — remember the thing that happened that summer? What I never called it, for reasons similar to that of why I never made a fuss about it when it happened, was sexual abuse.

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

Athletes train for countless hours in hopes to help their teams win games, but sometimes they can’t always come out on top. Students put in long hours studying for tests attempting to earn a good grade. There are times where that effort is rewarded with a poor grade. Gifts are bought with the idea that whoever is receiving the present is going to love it, but the buyer realizes that they messed up because the gift is absolutely hated. These are examples of instances where people were trying to do good things but ultimately failed. In the novel, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers you see characters that have the intent to do good, but come up short and fail. Everybody has instances throughout their lives where they will try extremely hard, but fail in the end. A lot of these instances may even be just the smallest things, but when they happen it is never a good feeling. You will get feelings of disappointment, and anger, but the problems that occur in Kevin Power’s book are much more than that.

Throughout the interview the farmer discusses how Tyson will require her to update her farms in order to increase production and require her to pay for it which cause her to go into to more debt. A statistic given by the documentary states that, “ a farmer pays around $500,000 to open 3 chicken farms, and the average chicken farmer makes around $18,000 per year.” This statistic given in the documentary goes to show how the companies like Tyson maximize profit by outsourcing the work where they do have to pay the expenses of operating the farms. Along with the endless debt that is piled up there are countless side effects that come from growing the chickens and operating a chicken farm. Side effects like diseases, becoming immune to antibiotics, and the filth that surrounds the operation of a chicken farm. The debt that farmers accumulate gets to such a large number that there is no way out of the business and must deal with being connected to their company. With all the upgrades that are demanded by big poultry companies like Tyson or Perdue, and, “between 2004 and 2006 chicken farmers spent over $650 million on upgrades to their chicken farms, an average of $38,000 per farm.” This debt that is racked up is taking out by loans that farmers must pay back to the banks with no assistance from the big poultry companies. Though the

The novel Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata exposes the emerging movement from tradition to westernization in post-war Japan. Kawabata enriches his novel with a variety of intricate relationships between children and their parents, exposing how loss of tradition begins at home. Ironically, Kawabata then depicts how even teachers of tradition manipulate it with their hate and jealousy to achieve their sinister motives, tainting the new generation’s knowledge of tradition and thus moving them away from it. The movement away from tradition allows the new generation to easily recognize and be influenced by the westernization during post-war Japan. Through parents, Chikako’s poison, and the new generation; Kawabata explores the decaying tradition of the tea ceremony, successfully exposing the shift from tradition to westernization in post-war Japan.

In the United States the “Cattle inventory (as of Jan 1, 2015): 89.9 million, up 1% from Jan. 2014” (Beef USA 2015). There is a huge market for beef in the United States the

Cow-calf producers and cattle feeders were interested in the factors which may impact feeder cattle and calf prices. Many factors, such as grain and hay prices, weather, prices of competing meats, and the general economic situation of the consumer affect cattle prices (Lambert et al., 1989), producers have very little control on them. But some factors, including number of cattle sold, sex, muscle thickness, frame score, age, body weight, etc. are controllable. Understanding these factors may improve their financial management.

The article written by Lucy Craymer, US Demand lifts Australian beef prices 40pc, discusses the resulting effects on the Australian and New Zealand beef industry due to the demand by the US. Due to the droughts in the US, it has greatly impacted the supply of cattle available, and due to the US accounting for 25% of the world’s beef consumption, this is forcing them to import beef from other countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Overall, this has allowed cattle exporters to increase their beef prices by 40 percent since last year. So far this year, the US exports have brought in approximately $US1.11 billion. The farmers are greatly benefitting from the US demand, selling at premium prices and gaining substantial