Fast Food Nations intro and chapter 1 questions

Intro: How is the 'American world view' embodied in the fast food industry?
When the other nations of the world see that our obesity rates are up and the amount of unhealthy people are going because there is a lot of fasts in the united states. That puts a big view of the American world.

Chapter 1: What elements of Southern California "culture" contributed to and encouraged the development of fast food restaurants?
he saw the way industrtys for automobiles can help how he runs his fastfood restraunt and develop it more

Source 1

http://animalrights.about.com/od/animallaw/a/AnimalsProperty.htm

This article was about why animals shouldn't be considered property.  And what they should be viewed as. This helps our argument because it shows a clear reason why animals should be more than just property and it can lead into animals getting rights.

Source 2

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/may03/030515n.aspThis source had two articles in it
The article I'm going to talk about is the article about how dogs can be dangerous too. And how to dogs tend to bite people. This could help because these are the type of source that can counter our argument big time about animal rights.

Source 5

http://www.videolinks4u.net/video/videos/205850/

Food Incorporated Documentary

This documentary was talking about how a lot of fast food corporation were going against health codes. And keeping the public in the dark about what goes on in their factories. This can tie into our argument because most of these corporations miss treat the animals, some animals in the fast food factories don't even see the sunlight. This is one example of  how animals need rights too.

Source 3

http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/animal-rights

Germany votes for animal rights

 This source can help our argument, because Germany showed a major step in animal rights. Because Germany is the first country to put animal rights in their Constitution. Which limited a lot of animal experiments in Germany. 

Extra Credit Food incorporated 11/22/2011

 

Central Argument:

The industries doesn't want you to know what your eating . The people have the right to know where and what is the food coming from that they are eating from fast foods and grocery stores. 

Assertion 1: The food companies don't want the farmers talking about what goes on behind the scenes to the public, because if the public knew the truth they might not want to eat their food.

Assertion 2: The whole industrial food system began with fast food.

Assertion 3: The in industries changed the entire way chickens,cows, and pigs are raised.

Assertion 4: After the decline of tobacco farmers went to chicken farming.

Assertion 5: The companies keep the farmers under their thumb because of the debt the farmers have to them, and their contract.

Assertion 6: A typical grower who have chicken houses barrows over 500,000 dollars. And earns about 18,000 dollars a year.

Assertion 7: There is a illusion of diversity of where your food comes from in grocery stores and fast food restraints.

Assertion 8: The government pays the corn farmers and other food farmers to over produce.

Assertion 9: Corn is the main component in food ingredients. And also corn is being used to feed the animals in food factories.

Assertion 10: The food factory farming is so caught of with technology and how its improving the economic growth. They will continue to treat animals with disrespect  and used to make different products of foods.

Assertion 11: As soon as when you want your farming industries to grow your going to view the things that are important to you like costumers, workers, and animals differently.

Opinion topic: The food incorporation are keeping the public in the dark about where their food is coming from, and what they are doing to them. They are also keeping the public in the dark about how they  are treating the animals and what they would do to make economic growth. The public as the right to this behind the scenes information for the fast food companies and all the food companies. Because the public eats and buys their product. 

Sunday, November 13, 2011 Homework

A New Book Argues Against the SAT
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/sat/?scp=2&sq=argument%20essay&st=cse

Summary:Wake Forest University announced three years ago that it would make SAT opional for undergraduate applicants. Joseph Soares, a sociology professor at the university supports the choice because he believes standarize testing is bias to minorities and women.
Central Argument: The central argument is that the SAT and ACT are fundamentally discriminatory.
Assertion #1: One assertion in this eassy is when Mr. Soares saids in the story “High school grades are the single most powerful predictor of college performance,” he said. “High SAT scores over-predict how well a student is going to do in college, and they’re inversely related to academic engagement.” Which he is stating that colleges should look at high school students grades instead of maily looking at their SAT scores.
Assertion #2: When Mr. Soares saids  “I don’t blame the SAT,” he said. “But they’ve inadvertently ended up with a statistical algorithm that is systematically biased against racial minorities and women.” He is supporting what he said in the beginning of the story and states his belief that the SAT is biased against minorites and women, also the ones that are not in the higher class of society.
Rethorical Strategy:
Logo: This Article gives supporting statistics to the authors claim. And gives the readers readiblity to ask questions to themselves.
Pathos: This article shows an image of the book SAT WARS. And shows an emotional appeal of how some people feel about the SAT.
Two words i didn't know
1. inadvertently
2. discriminatory