To Gavin McCarthy:
"I enjoyed your paper a lot, and i liked how you connected it back to your lifestyle and how longboarding is healthy for your lifestyle. Most people connect their papers to our society, but i think it was nice to see how you could connect this paper to your own life. it shows that you did learn a lot from this course. However, i would also like to read about how you think we as Americans can change our lifestyles, and compare it to your lifestyle. However this is just a suggestion, and does not need to be done. Overall i liked your paper a lot."
To Marco Gonzalez:
i think you made a very interesting point in your last paragraph where you talk about how people need to learn to accept themselves and think for themselves, not be robots of this soceity. what you are saying is true, and makes a lot of sense, and im glad you wrote about it. this way when people read your paper who have not taken the course they too can see how we as Americans accept what is given to us and do not question it.
i also like how you compared your paper to animals, and remarked about how we too are animals.
good job (:
To Ian:
i think that you make a good point in your paper when you comapre the use of steriods and athletes to the way animals are injected with hormones. i also liked how you connected your paper back to your family lifestyle. good job (:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Final Paper - What makes life meaningful? And what goes into a good and meaningful life?
Throughout the year, we have talked about what goes into living a good and meaningful life, and what a good and meaningful life is. Even now that the school year is over I don’t think that there is an universal definition of a good and meaningful life. If you were to ask me what a good and meaningful life consists of, or what it is, I would not be able to give you an universal definition because I do not believe that there is one. I have my own definition of a good and meaningful life, but it might not apply to everyone. Everyone has his or her own opinions on how a life should be lived. I don’t think you can judge someone’s life on your own definition, because even if you think they don’t have a meaningful life, they may think they do. Some people are fine with judging if other people’s lives are meaningful, and some are not. I am not one of those people who are fine with judging someone’s life because I do not believe their lives are for me to judge. To me, one of the definitions of a good and meaningful life is a life where you are happy and enjoying your life. You don’t need to have materialistic possessions and you don’t need to be rich, as long as you are happy that is all that matters. I also think that in order to live a good and meaningful life people should get what they deserve. By this I mean people who work hard for a living should be rewarded for it. If they do what they can to succeed in school, and try hard in their work place, they should be rewarded for it. Whether it is with praise or with a promotion, there should be some gift at the end. People who don’t work hard and just coast on by should not be able to take advantage of all the things that people who work hard deserve. People who work hard in school should get awards and praise, while people who barely try in school should not be praised for doing work. Although it might sound unfair, it’s reality. In order to have a good and meaningful life, people need to try hard to succeed, and in the end they will be rewarded for it.
I think that in order to live a good and meaningful life you need to be able to enjoy your life and everything that it has in store for you. Enjoying life can mean living it one moment at a time, or planning ahead for your future. It also means surrounding yourself with people who care about you and want to see you succeed. These people might be your friends and families, or they might be teachers or bosses. It doesn’t matter who they are, but as long as they are there it makes it easier to enjoy your life because you know they are there for you every step of the way.
People have different opinions on living a good and meaningful life. Some people’s views on what a good and meaningful life revolves around the media’s viewpoints and some revolve around what they personally think. Instead of trusting their own hearts, people rely on corporate culture to tell them how to live a good and meaningful life.
In today's society, there are many opinions about living a meaningful life. However, these opinions are not generated through the minds of people, rather forcefully shoved into their brains by corporate culture and what major companies and celebrities think a meaningful life consists of. Everywhere we turn we are smacked in the face with a new ad describing to us how to make our life better. We see beauty ads that tell old people that this anti-age cream will make them look younger, and these people buy these creams because our society values youth. We see car dealers who say that in order to be the most attractive to the opposite sex you need to have an expensive car. One example of how corporate culture tell us how to live is when you look at a magazine, such as Vogue, People, and Glamour, you see ads for clothes and cars, and pictures of celebrities with their friends, family, special someone, or shopping. These magazines are telling us that in order to live a meaningful life; you must have nice clothes, money, love, friends and family. According to corporate culture, in order to live a meaningful life, you need to have materialistic things. Instead of thinking on our own, we rely on corporate culture to tell us how to think and how we should live OUR lives.
Corporate culture also tells us men will always dominate over women. There are very few movies or TV shows in the world where women are in power. In the James Bonds’ movies, there is always a Bond girl, and she always falls for him. It doesn’t matter that she is a strong character; she always ends up with James Bond. In the movie, Not Another Teen Movie, the main character, Jake Wyler, gives a makeover to the nerdy girl, Janey Briggs, and then they end up together. In Not Another Teen Movie, Jake ends up as the hero of the story, by saving Janey from her geek status, and they end up together in the end. In most movies that corporate culture makes, the guy is always the dominant character; he’s always the hero. There aren’t a lot of movies where the female is the dominant character, and where she is a hero without the help of a male character.
Another thing that corporate culture tells us about living a meaningful life is that you should spend time with family and friends on holidays. On Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that everyone should be with his or her family and friends, and having a good time while stuffing their faces with turkey, apple pie, mash potato, along with other food. Corporate culture also tells us that we should think about what we are thankful for, and make sure everyone shares what he or she are thankful for. On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that we should wake up early in the morning to go shopping for Christmas specials. Stores open early, and have a lot of sales. Corporate culture tells us that we should “shop ‘til we drop”, and buy Christmas presents for people, since everything is reduced from its normal price. I went shopping on Black Friday this year, and found it crazy. There were people rushing all over the place to buy stuff before 1 PM (the ending time for major sales). The sales workers have been working since early into the morning, and people have been shopping since about 5 AM. I didn’t enjoy it nor do I think the people who had to work did either. It was not meaningful at all.
I was recently on Google, trying to see if I could find my blog on there. I typed in “life doesn’t have to be meaningless”, and found an interesting result that I thought I would post for everyone to see. On this link, http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1754124.aspx, someone is talking about living a good and meaningful life, and I found a comment posted to this entry very interesting. It states that:
savypat (3440) ranked 726 out of 31,111 in life
4 months ago
How can a life be meaningless? If you have the energy of God in you there is a purpose to your life, You only need to love yourself and that love will attract other love, it may be the earth, the trees, animals or space. All of that is present because you live. Do not listen to others in this matter, look in your heart and listen to your purpose. Blessings …. (is this to be continue)
I thought this was interesting because this person is talking about how a life cannot be meaningless if God is in your life. To this person, religion plays a huge part in living a good and meaningful life. Although this person does mention love, they focus more on the aspect of God in someone’s life, which I found interesting because it is very different from what other people think. When asked what makes a life meaningful, people rarely bring up religion because of the controversy it will start. They also don’t bring it up because corporate culture doesn’t tell us that religion is important when living a good and meaningful life. Corporations don't put out ads focusing on religion and God, and no one ever focuses campaigns based on religion. One reason for this might be because since there are so many religions, to just focus on one would hurt a campaign or ad. For example, if Apple made an ad about how Jewish people use iPods, and every Jewish person should own one, then that ad would only target Jewish people, and other people of different religions might not want to be an iPod, because it is not targeting them. By targeting only one group of people, corporations are narrowing down their sales, and people won't buy their products as much.
During class, Jace and Katherine both shared their views on what makes a life meaningful. Jace said that “meaningful things come from ourselves”, and that “we make our lives meaningful”. He says that we don’t need materialistic possessions in our lives to make it worth living, what we do with our lives makes it meaningful. Katherine said that in order to have a meaningful life, you need “to have love in your life”. She states that it doesn’t have to be romantic love, it could be friendly love, but as long as love makes a presence in your life is all that matters. Katherine’s view connects to what our media and surroundings tell us, because it has to deal with happiness in ones life. Jace’s view contradicts what cooperate culture tells us because he says we don’t need materialistic things, we can make our lives meaningful without it.
Marginal messages are messages that are important to living a good and meaningful life, but they are also messages that corporate culture doesn’t really show in their media. Some marginal messages that corporate culture only tells us sometimes are stand up for what you believe in, even if it means going against the system. In the movie “Pump up the Volume”, the main character, Hard Hardy, had his own underground radio show that went against the school system. On there he played inappropriate stuff that the teachers of the school he went to found out about. Hard Hardy’s radio show defied the system by telling teenagers stuff that they shouldn’t be hearing, telling a kid to kill himself (which the kid did), etc. In the movie “Foxfire”, five teenage girls stand up against a teacher who was sexually abusing one of them. Even though they were girls, they fought back, and made the teacher fear them and promise never to touch a teenage girl inappropriately ever again. Many movies never tells you directly to stand up for what you believe in, rather hiding it behind other more dominant messages. Marginal messages are more about trusting oneself rather than trusting what corporate media is telling you to do.
Folk culture is another way people get their ideas on how to life a good and meaningful life, even though it is very rare to see this happen. People get ideas from Folk culture from generations before them. Folk culture is basically the passing of ideas from generation to generation. Folk culture tells us that in order to live a good and meaningful life, we need to have love, friendships, family, struggle, and balance, to name a few. Folk culture tells us that love is one of the most important things that we can have in our lives. It’s “what makes the world go round” to quote Bob Merrill. Folk culture also tells us that having good friends and family is what makes our lives meaningful, because they are what help us live our life the right way, in a safe protected environment. Folk culture also says that we need to be able to balance all the problems in our life, because in the end, it will all be worth it. With every struggle comes a happy ending.
Corporate culture has taken our holidays and twisted them into something that would benefit their financial pockets. For example, Christmas use to be a holiday about spending time with your family, friends, and loved ones, but now huge corporations such as hallmark has turned it into a day where people go crazy buying stuff for other people, and the image of a perfect Christmas with friends and family is lost on most Americans. On Christmas, people go out and buy presents for each other. Corporate culture sends out mixed messages about Christmas, first stating that Christmas is the day where you are suppose to relax and spend time with your loved ones, but they also tell people to go out and spend money on gifts for other people. Corporate culture tells us that Christmas is a time for giving people presents, whether it be expensive or inexpensive, everyone is expected to give their loved ones presents. Some contradictions about Christmas are: corporate media portrays Christmas as a stress free day; it is a day when you need to just relax. However, Christmas is also one of the most stressful days, because you need to buy presents for everyone, and you want to make sure you are getting everyone the perfect present. Whether you’re in school or at your job, during Christmas season, buying presents for people is always on your mind, which is a huge distraction when you are trying to get your work done. TV portrays Christmas as a day when you need to spend time with your family and friends, but sometimes that might be hard for people, because they might not like spending time with their family, or they don’t have people to spend the day with. If you don’t have a family or friends, then Christmas can become a lonely day for you, and when you see images of people on TV celebrating Christmas with your family and friends, it makes you feel lonely. In order to live a good and meaningful life, corporate media tells us that we need to buy people presents on Christmas, which means that you need to have a good job, and that you need to have loved ones to give presents to. If you have a good job, you will have enough money to dish out presents for all of your loved ones, but if you don’t have a well-paying job, then you can’t get presents for your loved ones. Corporate media likes to emphasize the point of having money, especially around Christmas. Corporate media tells us that if you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to live a good and meaningful life.
Animals are all around us, and they too live good and meaningful lives, but humans always consider ourselves superior and think our lives are better than animal lives. We, as humans, seem to think that animals are just there for our purposes, and we aren’t equivalent. But why is this? One of the reasons we believe that we’re superior is because of Genesis Chapter One. In Genesis Chapter one, verse 26, it states “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” After reading this, people believe that God made animals for our purposes. We are the rulers of all animals, as they are only there for us. In Genesis chapter one verse 28, God states “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”Basically, God is saying that we as humans should multiply and take advantage of everything the earth has to offer. That means taking advantage of the fish in the sea, the fowl in the air, the cattle on the ground, and everything that“creeps”upon the earth. So if someone was to read the bible, what would make them think that we were equivalent to animals? Certainly not Genesis chapter one verse 26 and 28. Unlike Genesis, the scientific classification states that humans and animals are all the same because we are all part of the web. On the scientific classification chart, humans are the homosepiansepains (the wise humans). But since humans are in the same chart as animals, and we all came from the same place, that means we are all connected. We all divided from Eukargate, which means in some way we are all the same.
To sum up this paper, and to sum up this course, a good and meaningful life can not be defined by one definition, rather a bunch of definitions combined into one. We all live good and meaningful lives, although some might be more meaningful or meaningless than others. This course has taught me a lot about our society and how our culture works, and this paper is a wrapup of all my opinions.
I think that in order to live a good and meaningful life you need to be able to enjoy your life and everything that it has in store for you. Enjoying life can mean living it one moment at a time, or planning ahead for your future. It also means surrounding yourself with people who care about you and want to see you succeed. These people might be your friends and families, or they might be teachers or bosses. It doesn’t matter who they are, but as long as they are there it makes it easier to enjoy your life because you know they are there for you every step of the way.
People have different opinions on living a good and meaningful life. Some people’s views on what a good and meaningful life revolves around the media’s viewpoints and some revolve around what they personally think. Instead of trusting their own hearts, people rely on corporate culture to tell them how to live a good and meaningful life.
In today's society, there are many opinions about living a meaningful life. However, these opinions are not generated through the minds of people, rather forcefully shoved into their brains by corporate culture and what major companies and celebrities think a meaningful life consists of. Everywhere we turn we are smacked in the face with a new ad describing to us how to make our life better. We see beauty ads that tell old people that this anti-age cream will make them look younger, and these people buy these creams because our society values youth. We see car dealers who say that in order to be the most attractive to the opposite sex you need to have an expensive car. One example of how corporate culture tell us how to live is when you look at a magazine, such as Vogue, People, and Glamour, you see ads for clothes and cars, and pictures of celebrities with their friends, family, special someone, or shopping. These magazines are telling us that in order to live a meaningful life; you must have nice clothes, money, love, friends and family. According to corporate culture, in order to live a meaningful life, you need to have materialistic things. Instead of thinking on our own, we rely on corporate culture to tell us how to think and how we should live OUR lives.
Corporate culture also tells us men will always dominate over women. There are very few movies or TV shows in the world where women are in power. In the James Bonds’ movies, there is always a Bond girl, and she always falls for him. It doesn’t matter that she is a strong character; she always ends up with James Bond. In the movie, Not Another Teen Movie, the main character, Jake Wyler, gives a makeover to the nerdy girl, Janey Briggs, and then they end up together. In Not Another Teen Movie, Jake ends up as the hero of the story, by saving Janey from her geek status, and they end up together in the end. In most movies that corporate culture makes, the guy is always the dominant character; he’s always the hero. There aren’t a lot of movies where the female is the dominant character, and where she is a hero without the help of a male character.
Another thing that corporate culture tells us about living a meaningful life is that you should spend time with family and friends on holidays. On Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that everyone should be with his or her family and friends, and having a good time while stuffing their faces with turkey, apple pie, mash potato, along with other food. Corporate culture also tells us that we should think about what we are thankful for, and make sure everyone shares what he or she are thankful for. On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that we should wake up early in the morning to go shopping for Christmas specials. Stores open early, and have a lot of sales. Corporate culture tells us that we should “shop ‘til we drop”, and buy Christmas presents for people, since everything is reduced from its normal price. I went shopping on Black Friday this year, and found it crazy. There were people rushing all over the place to buy stuff before 1 PM (the ending time for major sales). The sales workers have been working since early into the morning, and people have been shopping since about 5 AM. I didn’t enjoy it nor do I think the people who had to work did either. It was not meaningful at all.
I was recently on Google, trying to see if I could find my blog on there. I typed in “life doesn’t have to be meaningless”, and found an interesting result that I thought I would post for everyone to see. On this link, http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1754124.aspx, someone is talking about living a good and meaningful life, and I found a comment posted to this entry very interesting. It states that:
savypat (3440) ranked 726 out of 31,111 in life
4 months ago
How can a life be meaningless? If you have the energy of God in you there is a purpose to your life, You only need to love yourself and that love will attract other love, it may be the earth, the trees, animals or space. All of that is present because you live. Do not listen to others in this matter, look in your heart and listen to your purpose. Blessings …. (is this to be continue)
I thought this was interesting because this person is talking about how a life cannot be meaningless if God is in your life. To this person, religion plays a huge part in living a good and meaningful life. Although this person does mention love, they focus more on the aspect of God in someone’s life, which I found interesting because it is very different from what other people think. When asked what makes a life meaningful, people rarely bring up religion because of the controversy it will start. They also don’t bring it up because corporate culture doesn’t tell us that religion is important when living a good and meaningful life. Corporations don't put out ads focusing on religion and God, and no one ever focuses campaigns based on religion. One reason for this might be because since there are so many religions, to just focus on one would hurt a campaign or ad. For example, if Apple made an ad about how Jewish people use iPods, and every Jewish person should own one, then that ad would only target Jewish people, and other people of different religions might not want to be an iPod, because it is not targeting them. By targeting only one group of people, corporations are narrowing down their sales, and people won't buy their products as much.
During class, Jace and Katherine both shared their views on what makes a life meaningful. Jace said that “meaningful things come from ourselves”, and that “we make our lives meaningful”. He says that we don’t need materialistic possessions in our lives to make it worth living, what we do with our lives makes it meaningful. Katherine said that in order to have a meaningful life, you need “to have love in your life”. She states that it doesn’t have to be romantic love, it could be friendly love, but as long as love makes a presence in your life is all that matters. Katherine’s view connects to what our media and surroundings tell us, because it has to deal with happiness in ones life. Jace’s view contradicts what cooperate culture tells us because he says we don’t need materialistic things, we can make our lives meaningful without it.
Marginal messages are messages that are important to living a good and meaningful life, but they are also messages that corporate culture doesn’t really show in their media. Some marginal messages that corporate culture only tells us sometimes are stand up for what you believe in, even if it means going against the system. In the movie “Pump up the Volume”, the main character, Hard Hardy, had his own underground radio show that went against the school system. On there he played inappropriate stuff that the teachers of the school he went to found out about. Hard Hardy’s radio show defied the system by telling teenagers stuff that they shouldn’t be hearing, telling a kid to kill himself (which the kid did), etc. In the movie “Foxfire”, five teenage girls stand up against a teacher who was sexually abusing one of them. Even though they were girls, they fought back, and made the teacher fear them and promise never to touch a teenage girl inappropriately ever again. Many movies never tells you directly to stand up for what you believe in, rather hiding it behind other more dominant messages. Marginal messages are more about trusting oneself rather than trusting what corporate media is telling you to do.
Folk culture is another way people get their ideas on how to life a good and meaningful life, even though it is very rare to see this happen. People get ideas from Folk culture from generations before them. Folk culture is basically the passing of ideas from generation to generation. Folk culture tells us that in order to live a good and meaningful life, we need to have love, friendships, family, struggle, and balance, to name a few. Folk culture tells us that love is one of the most important things that we can have in our lives. It’s “what makes the world go round” to quote Bob Merrill. Folk culture also tells us that having good friends and family is what makes our lives meaningful, because they are what help us live our life the right way, in a safe protected environment. Folk culture also says that we need to be able to balance all the problems in our life, because in the end, it will all be worth it. With every struggle comes a happy ending.
Corporate culture has taken our holidays and twisted them into something that would benefit their financial pockets. For example, Christmas use to be a holiday about spending time with your family, friends, and loved ones, but now huge corporations such as hallmark has turned it into a day where people go crazy buying stuff for other people, and the image of a perfect Christmas with friends and family is lost on most Americans. On Christmas, people go out and buy presents for each other. Corporate culture sends out mixed messages about Christmas, first stating that Christmas is the day where you are suppose to relax and spend time with your loved ones, but they also tell people to go out and spend money on gifts for other people. Corporate culture tells us that Christmas is a time for giving people presents, whether it be expensive or inexpensive, everyone is expected to give their loved ones presents. Some contradictions about Christmas are: corporate media portrays Christmas as a stress free day; it is a day when you need to just relax. However, Christmas is also one of the most stressful days, because you need to buy presents for everyone, and you want to make sure you are getting everyone the perfect present. Whether you’re in school or at your job, during Christmas season, buying presents for people is always on your mind, which is a huge distraction when you are trying to get your work done. TV portrays Christmas as a day when you need to spend time with your family and friends, but sometimes that might be hard for people, because they might not like spending time with their family, or they don’t have people to spend the day with. If you don’t have a family or friends, then Christmas can become a lonely day for you, and when you see images of people on TV celebrating Christmas with your family and friends, it makes you feel lonely. In order to live a good and meaningful life, corporate media tells us that we need to buy people presents on Christmas, which means that you need to have a good job, and that you need to have loved ones to give presents to. If you have a good job, you will have enough money to dish out presents for all of your loved ones, but if you don’t have a well-paying job, then you can’t get presents for your loved ones. Corporate media likes to emphasize the point of having money, especially around Christmas. Corporate media tells us that if you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to live a good and meaningful life.
Animals are all around us, and they too live good and meaningful lives, but humans always consider ourselves superior and think our lives are better than animal lives. We, as humans, seem to think that animals are just there for our purposes, and we aren’t equivalent. But why is this? One of the reasons we believe that we’re superior is because of Genesis Chapter One. In Genesis Chapter one, verse 26, it states “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” After reading this, people believe that God made animals for our purposes. We are the rulers of all animals, as they are only there for us. In Genesis chapter one verse 28, God states “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”Basically, God is saying that we as humans should multiply and take advantage of everything the earth has to offer. That means taking advantage of the fish in the sea, the fowl in the air, the cattle on the ground, and everything that“creeps”upon the earth. So if someone was to read the bible, what would make them think that we were equivalent to animals? Certainly not Genesis chapter one verse 26 and 28. Unlike Genesis, the scientific classification states that humans and animals are all the same because we are all part of the web. On the scientific classification chart, humans are the homosepiansepains (the wise humans). But since humans are in the same chart as animals, and we all came from the same place, that means we are all connected. We all divided from Eukargate, which means in some way we are all the same.
To sum up this paper, and to sum up this course, a good and meaningful life can not be defined by one definition, rather a bunch of definitions combined into one. We all live good and meaningful lives, although some might be more meaningful or meaningless than others. This course has taught me a lot about our society and how our culture works, and this paper is a wrapup of all my opinions.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Draft of the Final Paper - What makes life meaningful? And what goes into a good and meaningful life?
Through out the year, we have talked about what goes into living a good and meaningful life, and what a good and meaningful life is. Even now that the school year is over I don’t think that there is a universal definition of a good and meaningful life. If you were to ask me what a good and meaningful life consists of, or what it is, I would not be able to give you a universal definition because I do not believe that there is one. I have my own definition of a good and meaningful life, but it might not apply to everyone. Everyone has his or her own opinions on how a life should be lived. I don’t think you can judge someone’s life on your own definition, because even if you think they don’t have a meaningful life, they might think they do. Some people are fine with judging if other’s people’s lives are meaningful, and some are not. I am not one of those people who are fine with judging someone’s life because I do not believe their lives are for me to judge. To me, one of the definitions of a good and meaningful life is a life when you are happy and enjoying your life. You don’t need to have materialistic possessions and you don’t need to be rich, as long as you are happy that is all that matters. I also think that in order to live a good and meaningful life people should get what they deserve. By this I mean people who work hard for a living should be rewarded for it. If they do what they can to succeed in school, and try hard in their work place, they should be rewarded for it. Whether it is with praise or with a promotion, there should be some gift at the end. People who don’t work hard and just coast on by should not be able to take advantage of all the things that people who work hard deserve. People who work hard in school should get awards and praise, while people who barely try in school should not be praised for not doing work. Although it might sound unfair, it’s reality. In order to have a good and meaningful life, people need to try hard to succeed, and in the end they will be rewarded for it.
I think that in order to live a good and meaningful life you need to be able to enjoy your life and everything that it has in store for you. Enjoying life can mean living it one moment at a time, or planning ahead for your future. It also means surrounding yourself with people who care about you and want to see you succeed. These people might be your friends and families, or they might be teachers or professors. It doesn’t matter who they are, but as long as they are there it makes it easier to enjoy your life because you know they are there for you every step of the way.
People have different opinions on living a good and meaningful life. Some people’s views on what a good and meaningful life revolves around the media’s viewpoints and some revolve around what they personally think. Instead of trusting their own hearts, people rely on corporate culture to tell them how to live a good and meaningful life.
In today's society, there are a lot of opinions about living a meaningful life. However, these opinions are not generated through the minds of people, rather forcefully shoved into their brains by corporate culture and what major companies and celebrities think a meaningful life consists of. Everywhere we turn we are smacked in the face with a new ad describing to us how to make our life better. We see beauty ads that tell old people that this anti-age cream will make them look younger, and these people buy these creams because our society values youth. We see car dealers who say that in order to be the most attractive to the opposite sex you need to have an expensive ride. One example of how corporate culture tell us how to live is when you look at a magazine, such as Vogue, People, and Glamour, you see ads for clothes and cars, and pictures of celebrities with their friends, family, special someone, or shopping. These magazines are telling us that in order to live a meaningful life; you must have nice clothes, money, love, friends and family. According to corporate culture, in order to live a meaningful life, you need to have materialistic things. Instead of thinking on our own, we rely on corporate culture to tell us what to think and how we should live OUR lives.
Corporate culture also tells us men will always dominate over women. There are very few movies or TV shows in the world where women are in power. In movies such as the James Bond movies, there is always a Bond girl, and she always falls for him. It doesn’t matter that she is a strong character; she always ends up with James Bond. In the movie, Not Another Teen Movie, the main character, Jake Wyler, gives a makeover to the nerdy girl, Janey Briggs, and then they end up together. In Not Another Teen Movie, Jake ends up as the hero of the story, by saving Janey from her geek status, and they end up together in the end. In most movies that corporate culture makes, the guy is always the dominant character; he’s always the hero. There aren’t a lot of movies where the female is the dominant character, and where she is a hero without the help of a male character.
Another thing that corporate culture tells us about living a meaningful life is that you should spend time with family and friends on holidays. On Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that everyone should be with his or her family and friends, and having a good time while stuffing their faces with turkey, apple pie, mash potato, along with other food. Corporate culture also tells us that we should think about what we are thankful for, and make sure everyone shares what he or she are thankful for. On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that we should wake up early in the morning to go shopping for Christmas specials. Stores open early, and have a lot of sales. Corporate culture tells us that we should “shop ‘til we drop”, and buy Christmas presents for people, since everything is reduced from its normal price. I went shopping on Black Friday this year, and found it crazy. There were people rushing all over the place to buy stuff before 1 PM (the ending time for major sales). The sales workers have been working since early into the morning, and people have been shopping since about 5 AM.
I was recently on Google, trying to see if I could find my blog on there. I typed in “life doesn’t have to be meaningless”, and found an interesting result that I thought I would post for everyone to see. On this link, http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1754124.aspx, someone is talking about living a good and meaningful life, and I found a comment posted to this entry very interesting. It states that:
savypat (3440) ranked 726 out of 31,111 in life
4 months ago
How can a life be meaningless? If you have the energy of God in you there is a purpose to your life, You only need to love yourself and that love will attract other love, it may be the earth, the trees, animals or space. All of that is present because you live. Do not listen to others in this matter, look in your heart and listen to your purpose. Blessings
I thought this was interesting because this person is talking about how a life cannot be meaningless if God is in your life. To this person, religion plays a huge part in living a good and meaningful life. All though this person does mention love, they focus more on the aspect of God in someone’s life, which I found interesting because it is very different from what other people think. When asked what makes a life meaningful, people rarely bring up religion because of the controversy it will start. They also don’t bring it up because corporate culture doesn’t tell us that religion is important when living a good and meaningful life. Corporations don't put out ads focusing on religion and God, and no one ever focuses campaigns based on religion. One reason for this might be because since there are so many religions, to just focus on one would hurt a campaign or ad. For example, if Apple made an ad about how Jewish people use iPods, and every Jewish person should own one, then that ad would only target Jewish people, and other people of different religions might not want to be a iPod, because it is not targeting them. By targeting only one group of people, corporations are narrowing down their sales, and people won't buy their products as much.
Marginal messages are messages that are important to living a good and meaningful life, but they are also messages that corporate culture doesn’t really show in their media. Some marginal messages that corporate culture only tells us sometimes are stand up for what you believe in, even if it means going against the system. In the movie “Pump up the Volume”, the main character, Hard Hardy, had his own underground radio show that went against the school system. On there he played inappropriate stuff that the teachers of the school he went to found out about. Hard Hardy’s radio show defied the system by telling teenagers stuff that they shouldn’t be hearing, telling a kid to kill himself (which the kid did), etc. In the movie “Foxfire”, five teenage girls stand up against a teacher who was sexually abusing one of them. Even though they were girls, they fought back, and made the teacher fear them and promise never to touch a teenage girl inappropriately ever again. In a lot of movies, corporate culture never tells you directly to stand up for what you believe in, rather hiding it behind other more dominant messages. Marginal messages are more about trusting oneself rather than trusting what corporate media is telling you to do.
Folk culture is another way people get their ideas on how to life a good and meaningful life, even though it is very rare to see this happen. People get ideas from Folk culture from generations before them. Folk culture is basically the passing of ideas from generation to generation. Folk culture tells us that in order to live a good and meaningful life, we need to have love, friendships, family, struggle, and balance, to name a few. Folk culture tells us that love is one of the most important things that we can have in our lives. It’s “what makes the world go round” to quote Bob Merrill. Folk culture also tells us that having good friends and family is what makes our lives meaningful, because they are what help us live our life the right way, in a safe protected environment. Folk culture also says that we need to be able to balance all the problems in our life, because in the end, it will all be worth it. With every struggle comes a happy ending.
Corporate culture has taken our holidays and twisted them into something that would benefit their financial pockets. For example, Christmas use to be a holiday about spending time with your family, friends, and loved ones, but now huge corporations such as hallmark has turned it into a day where people go crazy buying stuff for other people, and the image of a perfect Christmas with friends and family is lost on most Americans. On Christmas, people go out and buy presents for each other. Corporate culture sends out mixed messages about Christmas, first stating that Christmas is the day where you are suppose to relax and spend time with your loved ones, but they also tell people to go out and spend money on gifts for other people. Corporate culture tells us that Christmas is a time for giving people presents, whether it be expensive or inexpensive, everyone is expected to give their loved ones presents. Some contradictions about Christmas are: corporate media portrays Christmas as a stress free day; it is a day when you need to just relax. However, Christmas is also one of the most stressful days, because you need to buy presents for everyone, and you want to make sure you are getting everyone the perfect present. Whether you’re in school or at your job, during Christmas season, buying presents for people is always on your mind, which is a huge distraction when you are trying to get your work done. TV portrays Christmas as a day when you need to spend time with your family and friends, but sometimes that might be hard for people, because they might not like spending time with their family, or they don’t have people to spend the day with. If you don’t have a family or friends, then Christmas can become a lonely day for you, and when you see images of people on TV celebrating Christmas with your family and friends, it makes you feel lonely. In order to live a good and meaningful life, corporate media tells us that we need to buy people presents on Christmas, which means that you need to have a good job, and that you need to have loved ones to give presents to. If you have a good job, you will have enough money to dish out presents for all of your loved ones, but if you don’t have a well-paying job, then you can’t get presents for your loved ones. Corporate media likes to emphasize the point of having money, especially around Christmas. Corporate media tells us that if you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to live a good and meaningful life.
Martin Luther King Day is another holiday that corporate culture and America has turned into a profit-making holiday. Post offices start selling stamps with Martin Luther King’s face on it, along with the “I have a dream” slogan. To many Americans, Martin Luther King Day is a important holiday because it is the day when people remember everything Martin Luther King has done for America, which is go around and give motivational speeches. His most important speech was the speech he gave before he got shot, in 1963. It was his “I have a dream speech”. In this speech, he talked about how he had a dream that African American people and white people could come together as a whole, that there would be no segregation between the two races. However, corporate culture has turned Martin Luther King into somebody he is not. To quote Andy, America has made Martin Luther King into a “postage stamp saint”, which means he was like an angel sent down from above to help the world, and after he did, our government takes his picture and his slogans and sticks them on a stamp. Corporate culture took this holiday and turned it into a holiday that would benefit them, instead of remembering a man who has done well for our country.
I think that in order to live a good and meaningful life you need to be able to enjoy your life and everything that it has in store for you. Enjoying life can mean living it one moment at a time, or planning ahead for your future. It also means surrounding yourself with people who care about you and want to see you succeed. These people might be your friends and families, or they might be teachers or professors. It doesn’t matter who they are, but as long as they are there it makes it easier to enjoy your life because you know they are there for you every step of the way.
People have different opinions on living a good and meaningful life. Some people’s views on what a good and meaningful life revolves around the media’s viewpoints and some revolve around what they personally think. Instead of trusting their own hearts, people rely on corporate culture to tell them how to live a good and meaningful life.
In today's society, there are a lot of opinions about living a meaningful life. However, these opinions are not generated through the minds of people, rather forcefully shoved into their brains by corporate culture and what major companies and celebrities think a meaningful life consists of. Everywhere we turn we are smacked in the face with a new ad describing to us how to make our life better. We see beauty ads that tell old people that this anti-age cream will make them look younger, and these people buy these creams because our society values youth. We see car dealers who say that in order to be the most attractive to the opposite sex you need to have an expensive ride. One example of how corporate culture tell us how to live is when you look at a magazine, such as Vogue, People, and Glamour, you see ads for clothes and cars, and pictures of celebrities with their friends, family, special someone, or shopping. These magazines are telling us that in order to live a meaningful life; you must have nice clothes, money, love, friends and family. According to corporate culture, in order to live a meaningful life, you need to have materialistic things. Instead of thinking on our own, we rely on corporate culture to tell us what to think and how we should live OUR lives.
Corporate culture also tells us men will always dominate over women. There are very few movies or TV shows in the world where women are in power. In movies such as the James Bond movies, there is always a Bond girl, and she always falls for him. It doesn’t matter that she is a strong character; she always ends up with James Bond. In the movie, Not Another Teen Movie, the main character, Jake Wyler, gives a makeover to the nerdy girl, Janey Briggs, and then they end up together. In Not Another Teen Movie, Jake ends up as the hero of the story, by saving Janey from her geek status, and they end up together in the end. In most movies that corporate culture makes, the guy is always the dominant character; he’s always the hero. There aren’t a lot of movies where the female is the dominant character, and where she is a hero without the help of a male character.
Another thing that corporate culture tells us about living a meaningful life is that you should spend time with family and friends on holidays. On Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that everyone should be with his or her family and friends, and having a good time while stuffing their faces with turkey, apple pie, mash potato, along with other food. Corporate culture also tells us that we should think about what we are thankful for, and make sure everyone shares what he or she are thankful for. On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, corporate culture tells us that we should wake up early in the morning to go shopping for Christmas specials. Stores open early, and have a lot of sales. Corporate culture tells us that we should “shop ‘til we drop”, and buy Christmas presents for people, since everything is reduced from its normal price. I went shopping on Black Friday this year, and found it crazy. There were people rushing all over the place to buy stuff before 1 PM (the ending time for major sales). The sales workers have been working since early into the morning, and people have been shopping since about 5 AM.
I was recently on Google, trying to see if I could find my blog on there. I typed in “life doesn’t have to be meaningless”, and found an interesting result that I thought I would post for everyone to see. On this link, http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1754124.aspx, someone is talking about living a good and meaningful life, and I found a comment posted to this entry very interesting. It states that:
savypat (3440) ranked 726 out of 31,111 in life
4 months ago
How can a life be meaningless? If you have the energy of God in you there is a purpose to your life, You only need to love yourself and that love will attract other love, it may be the earth, the trees, animals or space. All of that is present because you live. Do not listen to others in this matter, look in your heart and listen to your purpose. Blessings
I thought this was interesting because this person is talking about how a life cannot be meaningless if God is in your life. To this person, religion plays a huge part in living a good and meaningful life. All though this person does mention love, they focus more on the aspect of God in someone’s life, which I found interesting because it is very different from what other people think. When asked what makes a life meaningful, people rarely bring up religion because of the controversy it will start. They also don’t bring it up because corporate culture doesn’t tell us that religion is important when living a good and meaningful life. Corporations don't put out ads focusing on religion and God, and no one ever focuses campaigns based on religion. One reason for this might be because since there are so many religions, to just focus on one would hurt a campaign or ad. For example, if Apple made an ad about how Jewish people use iPods, and every Jewish person should own one, then that ad would only target Jewish people, and other people of different religions might not want to be a iPod, because it is not targeting them. By targeting only one group of people, corporations are narrowing down their sales, and people won't buy their products as much.
Marginal messages are messages that are important to living a good and meaningful life, but they are also messages that corporate culture doesn’t really show in their media. Some marginal messages that corporate culture only tells us sometimes are stand up for what you believe in, even if it means going against the system. In the movie “Pump up the Volume”, the main character, Hard Hardy, had his own underground radio show that went against the school system. On there he played inappropriate stuff that the teachers of the school he went to found out about. Hard Hardy’s radio show defied the system by telling teenagers stuff that they shouldn’t be hearing, telling a kid to kill himself (which the kid did), etc. In the movie “Foxfire”, five teenage girls stand up against a teacher who was sexually abusing one of them. Even though they were girls, they fought back, and made the teacher fear them and promise never to touch a teenage girl inappropriately ever again. In a lot of movies, corporate culture never tells you directly to stand up for what you believe in, rather hiding it behind other more dominant messages. Marginal messages are more about trusting oneself rather than trusting what corporate media is telling you to do.
Folk culture is another way people get their ideas on how to life a good and meaningful life, even though it is very rare to see this happen. People get ideas from Folk culture from generations before them. Folk culture is basically the passing of ideas from generation to generation. Folk culture tells us that in order to live a good and meaningful life, we need to have love, friendships, family, struggle, and balance, to name a few. Folk culture tells us that love is one of the most important things that we can have in our lives. It’s “what makes the world go round” to quote Bob Merrill. Folk culture also tells us that having good friends and family is what makes our lives meaningful, because they are what help us live our life the right way, in a safe protected environment. Folk culture also says that we need to be able to balance all the problems in our life, because in the end, it will all be worth it. With every struggle comes a happy ending.
Corporate culture has taken our holidays and twisted them into something that would benefit their financial pockets. For example, Christmas use to be a holiday about spending time with your family, friends, and loved ones, but now huge corporations such as hallmark has turned it into a day where people go crazy buying stuff for other people, and the image of a perfect Christmas with friends and family is lost on most Americans. On Christmas, people go out and buy presents for each other. Corporate culture sends out mixed messages about Christmas, first stating that Christmas is the day where you are suppose to relax and spend time with your loved ones, but they also tell people to go out and spend money on gifts for other people. Corporate culture tells us that Christmas is a time for giving people presents, whether it be expensive or inexpensive, everyone is expected to give their loved ones presents. Some contradictions about Christmas are: corporate media portrays Christmas as a stress free day; it is a day when you need to just relax. However, Christmas is also one of the most stressful days, because you need to buy presents for everyone, and you want to make sure you are getting everyone the perfect present. Whether you’re in school or at your job, during Christmas season, buying presents for people is always on your mind, which is a huge distraction when you are trying to get your work done. TV portrays Christmas as a day when you need to spend time with your family and friends, but sometimes that might be hard for people, because they might not like spending time with their family, or they don’t have people to spend the day with. If you don’t have a family or friends, then Christmas can become a lonely day for you, and when you see images of people on TV celebrating Christmas with your family and friends, it makes you feel lonely. In order to live a good and meaningful life, corporate media tells us that we need to buy people presents on Christmas, which means that you need to have a good job, and that you need to have loved ones to give presents to. If you have a good job, you will have enough money to dish out presents for all of your loved ones, but if you don’t have a well-paying job, then you can’t get presents for your loved ones. Corporate media likes to emphasize the point of having money, especially around Christmas. Corporate media tells us that if you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to live a good and meaningful life.
Martin Luther King Day is another holiday that corporate culture and America has turned into a profit-making holiday. Post offices start selling stamps with Martin Luther King’s face on it, along with the “I have a dream” slogan. To many Americans, Martin Luther King Day is a important holiday because it is the day when people remember everything Martin Luther King has done for America, which is go around and give motivational speeches. His most important speech was the speech he gave before he got shot, in 1963. It was his “I have a dream speech”. In this speech, he talked about how he had a dream that African American people and white people could come together as a whole, that there would be no segregation between the two races. However, corporate culture has turned Martin Luther King into somebody he is not. To quote Andy, America has made Martin Luther King into a “postage stamp saint”, which means he was like an angel sent down from above to help the world, and after he did, our government takes his picture and his slogans and sticks them on a stamp. Corporate culture took this holiday and turned it into a holiday that would benefit them, instead of remembering a man who has done well for our country.
Collapse Assignment 2
After reading about Easter Island and the inevitable collapse they faced, I realized that if everyone in the world keeps living the way we do, we might also have a collapse. At the rate that we are using up natural resources such as fossil fuels and oil, our world is moving toward a slow but steady decline or collapse. Although not many people are aware of this, we too are using up natural resources, and at an increasingly fast rate. According to the “Crude Impact” video we watched in class, we are using up 1.4 trillion barrels of oil a year. That is a lot of oil to waste. Even though people don’t realize it, we use oil and fossil fuels in everything we do. From the clothes we wear (which were manufactured using machines that use up oil and coal) top the transportation we use every day, the amount of natural resources we have in the world are slowly declining. We see ads talking about global warming and the demolition of our earth, but we don’t think too much about it because we don’t think it will directly affect us. This however is not true. Every time a car buys gas from a gas station, we are taking fossil fuels from the earth. Fossil fuels and oil are natural resources, and cannot be replenished. If we continue to use up these resources, we won’t have any left. It’s true the production of products that use up natural resources will still continue because we have some saved up, the production will slowly decrease once we run out of these resources.
Another hint that a collapse might be on the horizon for our way of life is the amount of people that are populating this earth. According to “Crude Impact”, for 50,000 to 100,000 years, there was a steady population of only two million people populating this earth. Once the year 1800 came around, there were one billion people living on the earth. With the increase of population came the use of more natural resources. Instead of using timber, people started using coal, which means they could cut down trees and not worry about the timber, which meant they could grow more food and more people could be born. But once the demolition of forests happened, the animals that lived in those forests had nowhere to go, and slowly died off, turning people from hunter gatherers into farmers. People began to rely more on agriculture then they did on hunting and gathering, which used up more natural resources. 130 years later, in 1930, there were two billion people populating the earth. Every so quickly, the population on earth increased. In 1960 there were three billion people, in 1974 there were four billion people, in 1987 there were five billion people and in 1999 there were six million people. The estimated total population for the year 2010 is around seven billion people. With the increasing growth of population, came the decrease of natural resources in the earth. For every calorie of food we eat that uses oil to create it, 10 calories of oil go to creating/gathering that food. That is a lot of oil that is being used up at a rapid pace.
Easter Island collapsed because the people were greedy. They used up the precious trees to build the biggest statues, instead of creating canoes that could help them gather food. Once all the trees were chopped down, people started starving to death. Instead of thinking of the consequences of their actions, they could only focus on power. Our current situation is comparable to the collapse of Easter Island. Everyone takes advantage of natural resources, and every country wants to have the biggest oil reserve. So far 15 countries have reached their oil peak, including the United States, which peaked in 1971. Each country wants to have the biggest reserve because it represents power. This thirst for power that everyone has can lead to the collapse of life as we know it. Instead of pondering the consequences, we act on impulse, taking more then we need, and using up too much of what we take for granted. If we don’t stop over using oil and fossil fuels, the production of oil and fossil fuels will decline, and a collapse of our world might be in our future. However, no one knows when this collapse will happen, we can only hope it does not happen soon.
The collapse of our beautiful earth.
Another hint that a collapse might be on the horizon for our way of life is the amount of people that are populating this earth. According to “Crude Impact”, for 50,000 to 100,000 years, there was a steady population of only two million people populating this earth. Once the year 1800 came around, there were one billion people living on the earth. With the increase of population came the use of more natural resources. Instead of using timber, people started using coal, which means they could cut down trees and not worry about the timber, which meant they could grow more food and more people could be born. But once the demolition of forests happened, the animals that lived in those forests had nowhere to go, and slowly died off, turning people from hunter gatherers into farmers. People began to rely more on agriculture then they did on hunting and gathering, which used up more natural resources. 130 years later, in 1930, there were two billion people populating the earth. Every so quickly, the population on earth increased. In 1960 there were three billion people, in 1974 there were four billion people, in 1987 there were five billion people and in 1999 there were six million people. The estimated total population for the year 2010 is around seven billion people. With the increasing growth of population, came the decrease of natural resources in the earth. For every calorie of food we eat that uses oil to create it, 10 calories of oil go to creating/gathering that food. That is a lot of oil that is being used up at a rapid pace.
Easter Island collapsed because the people were greedy. They used up the precious trees to build the biggest statues, instead of creating canoes that could help them gather food. Once all the trees were chopped down, people started starving to death. Instead of thinking of the consequences of their actions, they could only focus on power. Our current situation is comparable to the collapse of Easter Island. Everyone takes advantage of natural resources, and every country wants to have the biggest oil reserve. So far 15 countries have reached their oil peak, including the United States, which peaked in 1971. Each country wants to have the biggest reserve because it represents power. This thirst for power that everyone has can lead to the collapse of life as we know it. Instead of pondering the consequences, we act on impulse, taking more then we need, and using up too much of what we take for granted. If we don’t stop over using oil and fossil fuels, the production of oil and fossil fuels will decline, and a collapse of our world might be in our future. However, no one knows when this collapse will happen, we can only hope it does not happen soon.
The collapse of our beautiful earth.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Easter Island Collapse
After reading the Easter Island article, I thought it was really interesting. One thing that stuck out to me the most was the thirst of competition and the need to be the best. These people chopped down huge trees and wasted natural resources just so they can build the biggest statues. But after wasting all their natural resources, their lifestyles began to crumble. This is because they used the trees to build canoes, and without the trees, their canoes became leaky and were not able to sustain the weight of the civilian’s bodies. This stuck out to me because it made me think of America’s past. Every war that was ever fought, every person that has ever died to protect America’s honor, happened because of this need for power. This need to be the best, even if it means sacrificing something or someone to have it. Like the civilians who lived in Easter Island, the civilians in America’s history wanted to be the best. Americans kicked out the Native Americans for their land, manipulated and killed them to get their way. As the saying goes, history repeats itself, and when reading that the people of Easter Island competed for power and connecting it to America’s history, I realized that yes indeed, history does repeat itself. Another thing that stuck out to me while I was reading about Easter Island is that they had social classes. The rich people, who ran the large-scale plantations, got to live right in the middle of the inland, while the poor people had to live on the coast of Easter Island and had to walk miles back and forth to the inland each day. In today’s culture, we also have social classes. We have the rich, the middle-class, and the poor. Although it might have been worse to be of the poor class back then, living in Easter Island, because you would have to walk several miles each day just to get to the inland, the connection between these two points in history is that social classes are existent. Even before A.D 900, there were still social classes. The rich got to live in luxury, the poor got to live in trash. It’s funny to see that nothing has changed over the course of time.
After reading this article, I realized that if Americans kept living the way we do, we might also have a collapse. Although not many people are aware of this, we too are using up natural resources, and at an increasingly fast rate. We see ads talking about global warming and the demolition of our earth, but we don’t think too much about it because we don’t think it will directly affect us. This however is not true. Every time a car buys gas from a gas station, we are taking fossil fuels from the earth. Fossil fuels and oil are natural resources, and cannot be replenished. If we continue to use up these resources, America as we know it might collapse, and on a larger scale, the world as we know it might collapse. People think buying hybrids is their present to the earth, as a way to say “hey I’m giving back to the earth by going hybrid”, but they don’t realize that little things help as well. We can use energy-saving products, such as the special light bulbs, and learn to recycle more. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to go green, just change some of the ways of your lifestyle.
On the top is an image of how easter island use to look like...before it's collapse
On the right is an image of how America looks like right now...before it's possible collapse
After reading this article, I realized that if Americans kept living the way we do, we might also have a collapse. Although not many people are aware of this, we too are using up natural resources, and at an increasingly fast rate. We see ads talking about global warming and the demolition of our earth, but we don’t think too much about it because we don’t think it will directly affect us. This however is not true. Every time a car buys gas from a gas station, we are taking fossil fuels from the earth. Fossil fuels and oil are natural resources, and cannot be replenished. If we continue to use up these resources, America as we know it might collapse, and on a larger scale, the world as we know it might collapse. People think buying hybrids is their present to the earth, as a way to say “hey I’m giving back to the earth by going hybrid”, but they don’t realize that little things help as well. We can use energy-saving products, such as the special light bulbs, and learn to recycle more. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to go green, just change some of the ways of your lifestyle.
On the top is an image of how easter island use to look like...before it's collapse
On the right is an image of how America looks like right now...before it's possible collapse
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Final Food Paper (Final Draft)
All over America people are consuming food that has been mass-produced in major factories, without even being aware of the past behind their food. We take advantage of the food we eat, without stopping to consider where our food has come from. Little do we know, but most of the meat we eat is meat that came from animals that have been treated cruelly. Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals we live with.
In our culture, we as Americans eat a lot of industrialized food. This food is mass-produced in factories that are harmful to the animals we eat. According to The Meatrix, companies have taken over small family farms that grow their food in a healthy organic environment. When surrounded by huge companies that can produce a lot more products than small farms can, these small farms cannot survive for much longer. They are forced to shut down, therefore giving way to the harmful factories. These harmful factories infect their animals with growth hormones and other chemicals that are suppose to make these animals grow big so they can produce a lot of meat when killed. According to http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp, Chickens are fed harmful steroid-like chemicals that increase their growth at such a rapid pace that their poor chicken legs are not able to sustain the weight of their body, therefore killing them in the process. Cows and pigs are also fed harmful chemicals in the hopes of fattening them up before they are sent to the slaughterhouse. These chemicals that are in the animals bodies not only hurt them, but they are also hurting us in the process. Also according to The Meatrix, animals that are no longer healthy or dead are then used to feed other animals. For example, if a cow were not to survive, the workers would take the blood of that cow and feed it to a living cow, passing along many diseases and increasing the chance of mad cow disease in that cow. After humans eat these cows, they can also become infected. Along with fattening up their animals, large factories also take the sperm of their male animals and perform artificial insemination on their female animals. According to a video we watched in class,"Our Daily Bread", workers will bring a male cow to a female cow and get it “horny”. Once the male cow is ready to “hump” the female cow, and tries to make a move, the workers will grab the male cow and stick a tube in their body, which captures their sperm. After denying the male cow of their “pleasure”, the workers take the male cow away and back into their stalls. The reason they take the sperm is so that they can stick it into a bunch of female cows, and they will then produce babies, which workers can grow into food for us humans. Corporate factories don’t care that they are harming their animals and the people who eat these animals, they just are thinking about making money. Corporate companies and factories keep this information from us Americans because they want us to buy into the whole fast food nation of ours. If we were to know how these companies treated their animals, people would surely stop eating it. By keeping this information a secret, the companies are protecting their name and also generating profit from it. This also shows us that companies try to industrialize our food at any chance they get, and our crops are no longer being grown the natural way.
Along with abusing animals, these factories are also abusing nature. In one of the videos that we watched in class, VROOM - Farming for Kids, there was a scene that showed a huge field of crops that were getting harvested. After showing this scene, a huge truck spraying pesticides and other harmful-chemicals was shown, littering these crops with chemicals that can damage the way they are grown. In another video we watched in class, "Our Daily Bread", there was a scene another large field of plants. This time it was a field of dandelions that were blooming. Along came a huge truck, spraying chemicals onto the dandelions. The next scene that followed showed the dandelions were all dead, and a truck was going through the fields chopping all the dandelions down. This was because the farmers of these huge factories just wanted the seeds of the dandelions, and not the dandelions themselves. As you can see from these two examples, huge companies don’t care about nature, they just care about the profit they are making.
I was watching a music video by Dana White, called “Cows with Guns” (http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_animation.cgi). This music video is about how one cow tried to break away from the factory it was currently residing it, and tried to warn his cow friends who also were trapped in the factory that they were about to be sent to their death. He told them about how the workers in the family were just keeping them around in order to kill them, and turn them into beef patties. The workers found out what the cow was doing, and tried to capture him, because they did not want him to go around telling other cows the truth about what would happen to them. They were afraid he would tell too much, so they tried to kill him. While watching the workers in the video capture the cow, I realized that major companies also do this to us Americans. They don’t tell us what they do to their animals, because they don’t want us to know how they treat their animals. They try and bury any information about mistreatment of their animals. These companies keep us in our blissfully ignorant bubble that we live in, while also robbing us of our money as we spend our salaries buying mass-produced food in the supermarket and fast-food stations. Towards the end of the video, all the rebelling cows were captured by cops and it shows people that are relieved because they will get food on their plate. This made me think of how even if people know about the mistreatment of animals, they decide not to do anything about it. Although this may be for many reasons, one of the major reasons is that even though these animals are mistreated, the end product tastes delicious. To some, taste buds rule over principle.
Personally, from knowing this information, I am very turned off; however this does not mean I will turn into a full-blown vegetarian. One of the things I could do without giving up meat is researching which major companies treat their animals cruelly. I know for a fact that KFC mistreats their animals and feeds them steroid like chemicals, which is a huge turn-off to me as a consumer. By knowing this fact, I know not to ever eat at a KFC (not that I have in a really long time anyway). Not all animals are mistreated however. When buying meat from a local-grown farm, you can be sure that they did not mistreat their animals in the way that major companies do. Although the meat might cost a little more, it is also healthier in the long run for our bodies. No one is saying that you must be a vegetarian and can no longer eat meat, but next time you are eating meat, be aware of where the meat came from. It is disgusting to think about, and people would rather not, but being healthy is important, and not buying into mass-produced animal cruelty is also important.
People need to open their eyes to the food we eat. I am not saying that you must turn into a full-blown vegetarian, or even become a vegetarian, but sometimes being blissfully ignorant is not the way to go. We need to realize that the food we eat could come from factories that treat their animals in a cruel demeanor. Stop eating KFC, and other places that treat their animals badly. Eat humane meat if you can, such as Kosher or Halal meat. Kosher and Halal meat is more humane because of the way they treat and slaughter their animals. They give their animals space to run around, and be free. The animals are able to live their lives freely, rather then being stuck in a cage for their entire lives. Once they decide to slaughter their animals, they don't kill them in the way that major factories do. When it comes to Kosher meat, the Jews will try and stop their animals from feeling pain by giving their neck a single slice from a blade, then let them hang upside down to let the blood drip out in order for the animals to be pure. All though this may sound gross, it is actually better because this ensures that no harmful chemicals are in the bodies of these dead animals, instead they are pure. When it comes to Halal food, the Muslims also let their animals live a free life. Once it is time for them to slaughter their animals, they do not let their animals see the blade of the knife, rather slicing their neck from behind because the believe animals have feelings also. The Jews and Muslims know something about how to treat their animals correctly, thus resulting in their food to be more humane. I am hoping that this paper has opened your eyes to the world around you, and now you can see how sneaky companies are. Once again, to reiterate myself, Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals around us.
In our culture, we as Americans eat a lot of industrialized food. This food is mass-produced in factories that are harmful to the animals we eat. According to The Meatrix, companies have taken over small family farms that grow their food in a healthy organic environment. When surrounded by huge companies that can produce a lot more products than small farms can, these small farms cannot survive for much longer. They are forced to shut down, therefore giving way to the harmful factories. These harmful factories infect their animals with growth hormones and other chemicals that are suppose to make these animals grow big so they can produce a lot of meat when killed. According to http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp, Chickens are fed harmful steroid-like chemicals that increase their growth at such a rapid pace that their poor chicken legs are not able to sustain the weight of their body, therefore killing them in the process. Cows and pigs are also fed harmful chemicals in the hopes of fattening them up before they are sent to the slaughterhouse. These chemicals that are in the animals bodies not only hurt them, but they are also hurting us in the process. Also according to The Meatrix, animals that are no longer healthy or dead are then used to feed other animals. For example, if a cow were not to survive, the workers would take the blood of that cow and feed it to a living cow, passing along many diseases and increasing the chance of mad cow disease in that cow. After humans eat these cows, they can also become infected. Along with fattening up their animals, large factories also take the sperm of their male animals and perform artificial insemination on their female animals. According to a video we watched in class,"Our Daily Bread", workers will bring a male cow to a female cow and get it “horny”. Once the male cow is ready to “hump” the female cow, and tries to make a move, the workers will grab the male cow and stick a tube in their body, which captures their sperm. After denying the male cow of their “pleasure”, the workers take the male cow away and back into their stalls. The reason they take the sperm is so that they can stick it into a bunch of female cows, and they will then produce babies, which workers can grow into food for us humans. Corporate factories don’t care that they are harming their animals and the people who eat these animals, they just are thinking about making money. Corporate companies and factories keep this information from us Americans because they want us to buy into the whole fast food nation of ours. If we were to know how these companies treated their animals, people would surely stop eating it. By keeping this information a secret, the companies are protecting their name and also generating profit from it. This also shows us that companies try to industrialize our food at any chance they get, and our crops are no longer being grown the natural way.
Along with abusing animals, these factories are also abusing nature. In one of the videos that we watched in class, VROOM - Farming for Kids, there was a scene that showed a huge field of crops that were getting harvested. After showing this scene, a huge truck spraying pesticides and other harmful-chemicals was shown, littering these crops with chemicals that can damage the way they are grown. In another video we watched in class, "Our Daily Bread", there was a scene another large field of plants. This time it was a field of dandelions that were blooming. Along came a huge truck, spraying chemicals onto the dandelions. The next scene that followed showed the dandelions were all dead, and a truck was going through the fields chopping all the dandelions down. This was because the farmers of these huge factories just wanted the seeds of the dandelions, and not the dandelions themselves. As you can see from these two examples, huge companies don’t care about nature, they just care about the profit they are making.
I was watching a music video by Dana White, called “Cows with Guns” (http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_animation.cgi). This music video is about how one cow tried to break away from the factory it was currently residing it, and tried to warn his cow friends who also were trapped in the factory that they were about to be sent to their death. He told them about how the workers in the family were just keeping them around in order to kill them, and turn them into beef patties. The workers found out what the cow was doing, and tried to capture him, because they did not want him to go around telling other cows the truth about what would happen to them. They were afraid he would tell too much, so they tried to kill him. While watching the workers in the video capture the cow, I realized that major companies also do this to us Americans. They don’t tell us what they do to their animals, because they don’t want us to know how they treat their animals. They try and bury any information about mistreatment of their animals. These companies keep us in our blissfully ignorant bubble that we live in, while also robbing us of our money as we spend our salaries buying mass-produced food in the supermarket and fast-food stations. Towards the end of the video, all the rebelling cows were captured by cops and it shows people that are relieved because they will get food on their plate. This made me think of how even if people know about the mistreatment of animals, they decide not to do anything about it. Although this may be for many reasons, one of the major reasons is that even though these animals are mistreated, the end product tastes delicious. To some, taste buds rule over principle.
Personally, from knowing this information, I am very turned off; however this does not mean I will turn into a full-blown vegetarian. One of the things I could do without giving up meat is researching which major companies treat their animals cruelly. I know for a fact that KFC mistreats their animals and feeds them steroid like chemicals, which is a huge turn-off to me as a consumer. By knowing this fact, I know not to ever eat at a KFC (not that I have in a really long time anyway). Not all animals are mistreated however. When buying meat from a local-grown farm, you can be sure that they did not mistreat their animals in the way that major companies do. Although the meat might cost a little more, it is also healthier in the long run for our bodies. No one is saying that you must be a vegetarian and can no longer eat meat, but next time you are eating meat, be aware of where the meat came from. It is disgusting to think about, and people would rather not, but being healthy is important, and not buying into mass-produced animal cruelty is also important.
People need to open their eyes to the food we eat. I am not saying that you must turn into a full-blown vegetarian, or even become a vegetarian, but sometimes being blissfully ignorant is not the way to go. We need to realize that the food we eat could come from factories that treat their animals in a cruel demeanor. Stop eating KFC, and other places that treat their animals badly. Eat humane meat if you can, such as Kosher or Halal meat. Kosher and Halal meat is more humane because of the way they treat and slaughter their animals. They give their animals space to run around, and be free. The animals are able to live their lives freely, rather then being stuck in a cage for their entire lives. Once they decide to slaughter their animals, they don't kill them in the way that major factories do. When it comes to Kosher meat, the Jews will try and stop their animals from feeling pain by giving their neck a single slice from a blade, then let them hang upside down to let the blood drip out in order for the animals to be pure. All though this may sound gross, it is actually better because this ensures that no harmful chemicals are in the bodies of these dead animals, instead they are pure. When it comes to Halal food, the Muslims also let their animals live a free life. Once it is time for them to slaughter their animals, they do not let their animals see the blade of the knife, rather slicing their neck from behind because the believe animals have feelings also. The Jews and Muslims know something about how to treat their animals correctly, thus resulting in their food to be more humane. I am hoping that this paper has opened your eyes to the world around you, and now you can see how sneaky companies are. Once again, to reiterate myself, Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals around us.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Final Food Paper (First Draft)
All over America people are consuming food that has been mass-produced in major factories, without even being aware of the past behind their food. We take advantage of the food we eat, without stopping to consider where our food has come from. Little do we know, but most of the meat we eat is meat that came from animals that have been treated cruelly. Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals we live with.
In our culture, we as Americans eat a lot of industrialized food. This food is mass-produced in factories that are harmful to the animals we eat. According to The Meatrix, companies have taken over small family farms that grow their food in a healthy organic environment. When surrounded by huge companies that can produce a lot more products than small farms can, these small farms cannot survive for much longer. They are forced to shut down, therefore giving way to the harmful factories. These harmful factories infect their animals with growth hormones and other chemicals that are suppose to make these animals grow big so they can produce a lot of meat when killed. According to http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp, Chickens are fed harmful steroid-like chemicals that increase their growth at such a rapid pace that their poor chicken legs are not able to sustain the weight of their body, therefore killing them in the process. Cows and pigs are also fed harmful chemicals in the hopes of fattening them up before they are sent to the slaughterhouse. These chemicals that are in the animals bodies not only hurt them, but they are also hurting us in the process. Also according to The Meatrix, animals that are no longer healthy or dead are then used to feed other animals. For example, if a cow were not to survive, the workers would take the blood of that cow and feed it to a living cow, passing along many diseases and increasing the chance of mad cow disease in that cow. After humans eat these cows, they can also become infected. Along with fattening up their animals, large factories also take the sperm of their male animals and perform artificial insemination on their female animals. According to a video we watched in class, that I cannot remember the name of, but I do know it was a video made in Europe, workers will bring a male cow to a female cow and get it “horny”. Once the male cow is ready to “hump” the female cow, and tries to make a move, the workers will grab the male cow and stick a tube in their body, which captures their sperm. After denying the male cow of their “pleasure”, the workers take the male cow away and back into their stalls. The reason they take the sperm is so that they can stick it into a bunch of female cows, and they will then produce babies, which workers can grow into food for us humans. Corporate factories don’t care that they are harming their animals and the people who eat these animals, they just are thinking about making money. Corporate companies and factories keep this information from us Americans because they want us to buy into the whole fast food nation of ours. If we were to know how these companies treated their animals, people would surely stop eating it. By keeping this information a secret, the companies are protecting their name and also generating profit from it. This also shows us that companies try to industrialize our food at any chance they get, and our crops are no longer being grown the natural way.
Along with abusing animals, these factories are also abusing nature. In one of the videos that we watched in class, VROOM - Farming for Kids, there was a scene that showed a huge field of crops that were getting harvested. After showing this scene, a huge truck spraying pesticides and other harmful-chemicals was shown, littering these crops with chemicals that can damage the way they are grown. In another video we watched in class, that I cannot remember the name of, but I do know it was a video made in Europe, there was a scene another large field of plants. This time it was a field of dandelions that were blooming. Along came a huge truck, spraying chemicals onto the dandelions. The next scene that followed showed the dandelions were all dead, and a truck was going through the fields chopping all the dandelions down. This was because the farmers of these huge factories just wanted the seeds of the dandelions, and not the dandelions themselves. As you can see from these two examples, huge companies don’t care about nature, they just care about the profit they are making.
I was watching a music video by Dana White, called “Cows with Guns” (http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_animation.cgi). This music video is about how one cow tried to break away from the factory it was currently residing it, and tried to warn his cow friends who also were trapped in the factory that they were about to be sent to their death. He told them about how the workers in the family were just keeping them around in order to kill them, and turn them into beef patties. The workers found out what the cow was doing, and tried to capture him, because they did not want him to go around telling other cows the truth about what would happen to them. They were afraid he would tell too much, so they tried to kill him. While watching the workers in the video capture the cow, I realized that major companies also do this to us Americans. They don’t tell us what they do to their animals, because they don’t want us to know how they treat their animals. They try and bury any information about mistreatment of their animals. These companies keep us in our blissfully ignorant bubble that we live in, while also robbing us of our money as we spend our salaries buying mass-produced food in the supermarket and fast-food stations. Towards the end of the video, all the rebelling cows were captured by cops and it shows people that are relieved because they will get food on their plate. This made me think of how even if people know about the mistreatment of animals, they decide not to do anything about it. Although this may be for many reasons, one of the major reasons is that even though these animals are mistreated, the end product tastes delicious. To some, taste buds rule over principle.
Personally, from knowing this information, I am very turned off; however this does not mean I will turn into a full-blown vegetarian. One of the things I could do without giving up meat is researching which major companies treat their animals cruelly. I know for a fact that KFC mistreats their animals and feeds them steroid like chemicals, which is a huge turn-off to me as a consumer. By knowing this fact, I know not to ever eat at a KFC (not that I have in a really long time anyway). Not all animals are mistreated however. When buying meat from a local-grown farm, you can be sure that they did not mistreat their animals in the way that major companies do. Although the meat might cost a little more, it is also healthier in the long run for our bodies. No one is saying that you must be a vegetarian and can no longer eat meat, but next time you are eating meat, be aware of where the meat came from. It is disgusting to think about, and people would rather not, but being healthy is important, and not buying into mass-produced animal cruelty is also important.
People need to open their eyes to the food we eat. I am not saying that you must turn into a full-blown vegetarian, or even become a vegetarian, but sometimes being blissfully ignorant is not the way to go. We need to realize that the food we eat could come from factories that treat their animals in a cruel demeanor. Although I am not saying stop eating meat, I am saying that you should be aware of where your food has come from. Stop eating KFC, and other places that treat their animals badly. Eat humane meat if you can. I am hoping that this paper has opened your eyes to the world around you, and now you can see how sneaky companies are. Once again, to reiterate myself, Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals around us.
COMMENTS:
Carrie Jonas LiLi Feedback: I thought the essay was very well written, although there was a lot of repetition towards the end. You should try to change certain phrases in the conclusion when you're trying to sum up your paper so that it flows more and we can "hear" it in a different way. But overall, it was really good. You were obviously bias (in a good way) and that really helped bring your point across that something should be done about animal cruelty in the food industry.
In our culture, we as Americans eat a lot of industrialized food. This food is mass-produced in factories that are harmful to the animals we eat. According to The Meatrix, companies have taken over small family farms that grow their food in a healthy organic environment. When surrounded by huge companies that can produce a lot more products than small farms can, these small farms cannot survive for much longer. They are forced to shut down, therefore giving way to the harmful factories. These harmful factories infect their animals with growth hormones and other chemicals that are suppose to make these animals grow big so they can produce a lot of meat when killed. According to http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp, Chickens are fed harmful steroid-like chemicals that increase their growth at such a rapid pace that their poor chicken legs are not able to sustain the weight of their body, therefore killing them in the process. Cows and pigs are also fed harmful chemicals in the hopes of fattening them up before they are sent to the slaughterhouse. These chemicals that are in the animals bodies not only hurt them, but they are also hurting us in the process. Also according to The Meatrix, animals that are no longer healthy or dead are then used to feed other animals. For example, if a cow were not to survive, the workers would take the blood of that cow and feed it to a living cow, passing along many diseases and increasing the chance of mad cow disease in that cow. After humans eat these cows, they can also become infected. Along with fattening up their animals, large factories also take the sperm of their male animals and perform artificial insemination on their female animals. According to a video we watched in class, that I cannot remember the name of, but I do know it was a video made in Europe, workers will bring a male cow to a female cow and get it “horny”. Once the male cow is ready to “hump” the female cow, and tries to make a move, the workers will grab the male cow and stick a tube in their body, which captures their sperm. After denying the male cow of their “pleasure”, the workers take the male cow away and back into their stalls. The reason they take the sperm is so that they can stick it into a bunch of female cows, and they will then produce babies, which workers can grow into food for us humans. Corporate factories don’t care that they are harming their animals and the people who eat these animals, they just are thinking about making money. Corporate companies and factories keep this information from us Americans because they want us to buy into the whole fast food nation of ours. If we were to know how these companies treated their animals, people would surely stop eating it. By keeping this information a secret, the companies are protecting their name and also generating profit from it. This also shows us that companies try to industrialize our food at any chance they get, and our crops are no longer being grown the natural way.
Along with abusing animals, these factories are also abusing nature. In one of the videos that we watched in class, VROOM - Farming for Kids, there was a scene that showed a huge field of crops that were getting harvested. After showing this scene, a huge truck spraying pesticides and other harmful-chemicals was shown, littering these crops with chemicals that can damage the way they are grown. In another video we watched in class, that I cannot remember the name of, but I do know it was a video made in Europe, there was a scene another large field of plants. This time it was a field of dandelions that were blooming. Along came a huge truck, spraying chemicals onto the dandelions. The next scene that followed showed the dandelions were all dead, and a truck was going through the fields chopping all the dandelions down. This was because the farmers of these huge factories just wanted the seeds of the dandelions, and not the dandelions themselves. As you can see from these two examples, huge companies don’t care about nature, they just care about the profit they are making.
I was watching a music video by Dana White, called “Cows with Guns” (http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_animation.cgi). This music video is about how one cow tried to break away from the factory it was currently residing it, and tried to warn his cow friends who also were trapped in the factory that they were about to be sent to their death. He told them about how the workers in the family were just keeping them around in order to kill them, and turn them into beef patties. The workers found out what the cow was doing, and tried to capture him, because they did not want him to go around telling other cows the truth about what would happen to them. They were afraid he would tell too much, so they tried to kill him. While watching the workers in the video capture the cow, I realized that major companies also do this to us Americans. They don’t tell us what they do to their animals, because they don’t want us to know how they treat their animals. They try and bury any information about mistreatment of their animals. These companies keep us in our blissfully ignorant bubble that we live in, while also robbing us of our money as we spend our salaries buying mass-produced food in the supermarket and fast-food stations. Towards the end of the video, all the rebelling cows were captured by cops and it shows people that are relieved because they will get food on their plate. This made me think of how even if people know about the mistreatment of animals, they decide not to do anything about it. Although this may be for many reasons, one of the major reasons is that even though these animals are mistreated, the end product tastes delicious. To some, taste buds rule over principle.
Personally, from knowing this information, I am very turned off; however this does not mean I will turn into a full-blown vegetarian. One of the things I could do without giving up meat is researching which major companies treat their animals cruelly. I know for a fact that KFC mistreats their animals and feeds them steroid like chemicals, which is a huge turn-off to me as a consumer. By knowing this fact, I know not to ever eat at a KFC (not that I have in a really long time anyway). Not all animals are mistreated however. When buying meat from a local-grown farm, you can be sure that they did not mistreat their animals in the way that major companies do. Although the meat might cost a little more, it is also healthier in the long run for our bodies. No one is saying that you must be a vegetarian and can no longer eat meat, but next time you are eating meat, be aware of where the meat came from. It is disgusting to think about, and people would rather not, but being healthy is important, and not buying into mass-produced animal cruelty is also important.
People need to open their eyes to the food we eat. I am not saying that you must turn into a full-blown vegetarian, or even become a vegetarian, but sometimes being blissfully ignorant is not the way to go. We need to realize that the food we eat could come from factories that treat their animals in a cruel demeanor. Although I am not saying stop eating meat, I am saying that you should be aware of where your food has come from. Stop eating KFC, and other places that treat their animals badly. Eat humane meat if you can. I am hoping that this paper has opened your eyes to the world around you, and now you can see how sneaky companies are. Once again, to reiterate myself, Industries and major companies have changed the way we as Americans eat, and are pushing little farms out of business and bringing animal-abusing, mass-produced factories into our society that harm nature and the animals around us.
COMMENTS:
Carrie Jonas LiLi Feedback: I thought the essay was very well written, although there was a lot of repetition towards the end. You should try to change certain phrases in the conclusion when you're trying to sum up your paper so that it flows more and we can "hear" it in a different way. But overall, it was really good. You were obviously bias (in a good way) and that really helped bring your point across that something should be done about animal cruelty in the food industry.
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