Michael Pollan’s article Why Bother‚ has risen the awareness of the controversial issues of Global Warming. He starts his article off by bringing in the shocking feeling he got after watching Al Gores‚ "An Inconvenient Truth" His biggest issue with the document was when Gore asks the viewers to change their lightbulbs during the closing credits. After watching how threatening Global Warming is to the earth‚ he was expecting a bigger request from Gore considering how important the issue is. Knowing
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books about food also to be about bigger ideas like oppression‚ spirituality‚ and freedom‚ yet Pollan defies expectations. Pollan begins with an exploration of the food-production system from which the vast majority of American meals are derived. This industrial food chain is mainly based on corn‚ whether it is eaten directly‚ fed to livestock‚ or processed into chemicals such as glucose and ethanol. Pollan discusses how the humble corn plant came to dominate the American diet through a combination
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human population “loves” animals. But what we love the most our the animals we can make pets.We buy cats‚ dogs‚ and birds‚ bring them home and give them all our love. We are constantly watching cute videos all over the internet‚ and we cry when we see new born puppies. Abuse to dogs and kittens is one of the saddest things we can think of‚ but most people don’t see farm animals as the same way. Society doesn’t get worked up over how adorable newborn chickens are. These animals are only seen as meat
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Food Rules by Michael Pollan Michael Pollan informs us that the Western diet of highly processed foods‚ fast foods‚ loads of added fat‚ sugar‚ salt‚ and tons of refined grains is not good for our bodies and detrimental to our overall health and well being. Our bodies need many more fruits‚ vegetables‚ and whole grains than most people are eating. The overall message of this book is that anyone can nourish their bodies and become healthy if they stay away from the Western diet. Obesity‚ Type 2 diabetes
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the American people to get up and do something about it. Why Bother? written by Michael Pollan opens the reader’s eyes in a compelling way to global warming and other related environmental issues. Pollan uses rhetorical strategies such as the use of current and past events‚ pathos‚ and ethos to persuade his readers “to bother” (312) and start thinking more about the environmental issues that involves everyone. Pollan tries to persuade his reader by looking at these global issues from many different
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In the book‚ The Botany of Desire‚ the author Michael Pollan describes the relationship between human and apples. John Chapman was well known to people by his nick name Johnny Appleseed. He brought apples to everyone in the 18th century. Apple‚ as a specie‚ is heterozygous‚ which means apple will produce wilder offspring in every generation. So it becomes difficult to choose the seeds artificially. Besides‚ the desire of sweet makes humans want to keep the sweet apple trees. Since ancient Chinese
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Michael Pollan’s‚ The Omnivore’s Dilemma crosses paths with‚ “Fast Food Nation: The True Cost of America’s Diet.” Both works share similar ideas‚ themes‚ and lessons. “Fast Food Nation: The True Cost of America’s Diet” focuses on the average American diet‚ containing processed foods‚ fast foods‚ and more unhealthy products. Pollan‚ rather‚ wants to show the cycle from the farm to the food on the table. One way that the two writings are similar is that they both concern the ever-growing presence
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with the use of corn. In a section his book‚ Michael Pollan focuses on the corn industry. He finds of the “forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket...more than a quarter of them now contain corn ” Although these cheap foods can conveniently be found at any supermarket‚ constantly eating this food is destructive to ourselves . America is currently the world leader in obesity and it is because we heavily rely on corn to fatten our animals or to become the main component of processed
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Pollans summary Helping preserve our earth is something every individual should be taking a part of because our planet is on the fast track to no longer existing. Michael Pollan’s article “Why Bother?” opens reader’s eyes in a good effective manor‚ using rhetorical strategies to help them see the good that comes out of going green. He captivates his audience questioning what are they doing to help our climate change for the better without hurting the planet even more and he beliefs that it is
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Michael S. Kimmel – Reading Reflection I found “Masculinity as Homophobia” by Michael S. Kimmel to be a great read. I found it to be interesting to see how men perceive themselves in society. The reading focuses on the idea of power and men‚ along with the implications that come with trying to be seem and feel as the powerful one in society. The reading starts off with the idea of Freudian psychoanalysis of power within males and what causes it. Having a father to compete with‚ and try to prove
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