Overall, I like the tri-written chapter style. The three different views all gave insight to the chapter and added information that the others did not have. The main advantages was this chance to see one thing from three different points of view. There was something that everyone could to connect to weather it be the love of canning and garden fresh tomatoes that Barbara Kingsolver or the want to know more about the Federal Farm Bill that her husband covered. Camille Kingsolver also provided a younger connection talking about the realization of August and the return of school. Barbara touches on multiple things such as the canning, to thinking about growing up rulaly, to the modern day farms and the challenges they face. Between the three of …show more content…
Some of the disadvantages are finding smooth transitions. I understand why Steven L. Hopp’s part was added where it was but it still seemed out of place. His ideas seemed to be just thrown in to add him somewhere into the chapter. With three different writers and writing styles it can be very easy to end up with a chapter that doesn’t flow well. Sometimes the writing was too sporadic and I felt like their point was not coming across.
Each author contributed something different. As I said before, Barbara Kingsolver touched on many different things. Her main idea seemed to be telling people to be detail oriented. Look into where your produce is coming from and really think about the difference in taste of garden fresh vs just produce. She wanted people to understand taking the time to can in the summer allows her to spend less preparing meals during the year. Her ideas also had a sort of nostalgic feel. “But canning doesn't deserve its reputation as an archaic enterprise murderous to women's freedom and sanity” (199-200). She also talks about growing up rural and important it is to buy from local farms. “In my own life I've had ample opportunity to reinvent myself as a city person-to pass, as it were- but I've remained tacitly
Art- Art is a way of life, life resembles this art, but art rarely has to do with life, so look at it- enjoy it- and don’t spend your life trying to understand what the artist never planned in the beginning.
Chapter 21 of Everyone's An Author with Readings (Andrea Lunsford et al.) focuses on the synthetization of ideas from the author and the referenced work. The sources should be properly cited and tie into your argument or idea. In research based areas it's important to have sources that are able to support your stance. The sources can be from the same viewpoint or from another view. The origin of the sources should be credible in their area of expertise or from a credible source. By balancing both the stated argument can be improved. The chapter then gives an example of a Synthesis. War, Cartoons, and Society: Changes in Political Cartoons between World War II and the Iraq War by Julia Landauer is an essay from her second year writing course at Stanford University. It first starts by referencing a relative cartoon then tying it into the effects and uses of such cartoons. However, the chapter cuts it off as the essay starts to bring out the main questions it's analyzing.
Nowadays, many people start living a healthy lifestyle. People realize an importance of caring about what is in their food and benefits of home cooked meals over processed food. Home Cooking is not just healthier, but also it has tons of benefits. Simple examples are saving money, controlling body weight and avoiding food poisoning. “Homemade is the New Organic” written by Rachel Jones for the Atlantic (2015), discussed the new food trend-cooking at home. In her article, she explained how cooking is becoming popular recently. An earlier time, a family which has low-income had no choice but to use homemade food. Today, however, meaning of homemade food changes. People start to appreciate the goodness of cooking at home and intentionally choose the homemade. Moreover, she mentioned that social media has a huge effect on this change. Since we have all the necessary tools and food in our kitchen, only a bit of time needs to be devoted. Basically, she tried to inform a general public that home cooking has an essential value in our life. In my opinion, Rachel successfully achieves her intention with the help of following rhetorical strategies: logos, ethos and counterpoint.
Chapter 13 was about how most writing is political. It was about how writers secretly put their political point of views into their stories. Usually political writing is boring and vague. Some writing is more political than others, but nearly all writing is political on some level.
Pollan first establishes his ethos by citing nutritionist Joan Gussow. This shows us that he has done his research in the field and provides his reflection to her speech; this makes him appear more as an equal peer talking to us about why food should be redefined. He continues to draw the reader in by bringing a pathos aspect; bringing up your great grandmother. Pollan explains, “We need to go back at least a couple of generations to a time before the advent of most modern foods” (107). He continues to encourage the reader to imagine grocery shopping with your great grandmother. Pollan brings an emotional aspect to making the reader reminisce about great grandmother’s cooking and possibly remorsefully reflect how grandma would complain about how unhealthy food is today. Then he tells us to avoid foods she would not recognize as a food that contains familiar ingredients, no extra additives
In the twelfth chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster provides various information on how to identify symbols throughout literature. The chapter stressed the individuality of identifying symbols, Foster mentions multiple times that “every reader’s experience of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to different degrees” (110). After learning this and also having read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, one thing that stood out was that the main character, Oskar, only has and only wears white clothes. Not only does Oskar often reference his various white clothes, including the white scarf that Grandma knitted
His second rule revolves around not eating out; again I disagree. There are many meals that I have had at restaurants which I feel like can not be copied. My mom could try to make potato soup, but it will never compare to the potato soup at O’Charley’s. Eating out should not be looked down upon, I am just under the impression that at least one or two days during the week should be considered a “family meal”, which is what Wendell is pushing for in this “rule.” The third rule has to do with buying locally produced foods, which is where I finally agree with Berry. It’s a very obvious statement in my opinion, as people are always looking for the freshest food choices (fruit for example), so it only makes sense to get some of your choices locally. Rule number four has never really been an option in my life, as living in Mason, Ohio hasn’t exposed me to many direct trades with farmers. There is about ten food markets closer than the nearest farm “dealer.” Therefore, making a straight trade without merchants or advertising is tough to do in the situation I live
The first chapter goes back in history and sets up the story and setting. It was the eighteenth century and the Americans were beginning to invade the lands west of the Mississippi River. This caused problems because even though Americans saw the lands as an unoccupied
The book is composed of twenty chapters each with a separate contributing author(s). Each chapter has the same format as an essay with a brief overview of the section
Within the essay Pleasures of Eating a Kentucky farmer and author, Wendell Berry, recalls several instances where after a lecture on the decline of American farming he’s asked questioned about how to take action. His answer is, “Eat responsibly” (1). He goes on the say, “Of course, I have tried to explain what I meant by that, but afterwards I have invariably felt that there was more to be said than I had been able to say” (1). Cooked suffers in a similar way, it fails to dedicate enough time to present a solution to the questions it asks; while also falling to ask all the questions necessary to form a comprehensive argument and give viewers the knowledge to make a positive change. Instead, they choose to use their time to babble off cherry picked statistics, without properly stating sources i.e, most Americans spend 27 minutes a day
Chapter 1 is more of an introduction to some important characters. We learn that Mr. Pontellier isn’t around often, and isn’t much of a family man. We meet Edna and Robert, who have a seemingly romantic connection. This chapter will likely affect the story as the relationship between Edna and Robert continues to build and cause turmoil. In Chapter 2 we learn that Edna and Robert are both aesthetically pleasing, and that Robert is not wealthy because he rolls his own cigarettes. Robert reveals he will be traveling to Mexico at the end of the summer. This chapter affects the story because Robert’s trip to Mexico will deeply affect Edna and their relationship. In Chapter 3 we learn that Mr. Pontellier and Edna’s relationship isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Mr. Pontellier leaves for the week even during their summer vacation to work, so he is rarely around. This chapter will affect the story because the problems in their marriage will contribute to Edna’s development as an individual. Chapter 4 reveals more about Edna to the reader. We learn she is not a “mother-woman”, meaning she doesn’t put her kids or spouse before herself. We also learn she is the lone non-Creole around, and is not comfortable talking about sex, unlike the Creoles. This will play into the story as a whole because Edna’s feelings of distance from the Creole community will play into her growth as a character. Chapter 5 reveals more about Robert, and how every summer he devotes his feelings to a woman,
In the an article called ‘The Pleasure of Eating’ by Wendell Berry talks about how consumers should know where the food they eat comes from and learning to adapt in producing their own food. His main idea is really focusing on the
The bad side is that this type of writing makes the story quite confusing in my opinion. The author is writing every day simple situation, and there are too many information since there are too many narrators.The readers have to read carefully and think of the reliability of the different narrators, since the narrator changes frequently, the story was being told in many different point of views, the reliability of the narrator is definitely a matter to think about. On the positive side, the multiple narrators let the readers to read the story in different point of views, let the readers understand the characters
For my missing chapter, I choose to do the point-of-view of my favorite character, Charlie Quibler. Charlie is a kind, humorous, passionate man and reading his chapters was never boring. At one point of the story, Charlie has to present his climate bill in front of the president and is continuously shut down by him. He is very passionate about his job and he loves what he does, so when this happens it really affects him. When it came down to Charlie’s boss, Phil, to choose a bill to present he didn’t choose Charlie’s because of the Presidents
Cons: some team members may get used to the problems in the team and the contradictions among the members and no team leaders may have a negative effect on the team.