Monday, November 24, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Assignment for Tuesdays Nov 18
The homework you did for this class asked you to do the first
steps of evaluating your sources.
Now that you’ve done that, choose one of the sources you did a
preliminary evaluation of to read.
I suggest that you read at the very least The Introduction, and one or
two chapters that you think will be relevant to your interests. If your preliminary evaluation yielded
NO helpful texts, then please go to your list of sources (gleaned for your
research and from the texts you evaluated to find another, more helpful, text
to work with). For
Tuesday, please write a summary of the text based on your reading, which fairly
describes the text’s argument while also attempting to clue your reader in on
YOUR stance towards the material in the text. (Your summary should be between 1-2 pages typed).
Please bring TWO hard copies of this assignment to class.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Questions to answer for your two sources
Please bring a hard copy of your repsonses to class on Thursday. You must complete the underlined tasks. For the rest of the tasks, choose 3 to complete.
1. Write down the bibliographic information for the text, in MLA format. See the Purdue Owl website for reference help if needed.
2. Read the preface/introduction--What does the author want to accomplish? Browse through the table of contents and the index.This will give you an overview of the source. Is your topic covered in enough depth to be helpful? If you don't find your topic discussed, try searching for some synonyms in the index.
3. Check for a list of references or other citations that look as if they will lead you to related material that would be good sources.
4. Determine the intended audience. Are you the intended audience? Consider the tone, style, level of information, and assumptions the author makes about the reader. Are they appropriate for your needs? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
5. If the source is opinion, does the author offer sound reasons for adopting that stance? (Consider again those questions about the author. Is this person reputable?) (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
6. How timely is the source? Is the source twenty years out of date? Some information becomes dated when new research is available, but other older sources of information can be quite sound fifty or a hundred years later. (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
7. How credible is the author? If the document is anonymous, what do you know about the organization? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
8. Are there vague or sweeping generalizations that aren't backed up with evidence? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
9. Are arguments very one-sided with no acknowledgement of other viewpoints? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
1. Write down the bibliographic information for the text, in MLA format. See the Purdue Owl website for reference help if needed.
2. Read the preface/introduction--What does the author want to accomplish? Browse through the table of contents and the index.This will give you an overview of the source. Is your topic covered in enough depth to be helpful? If you don't find your topic discussed, try searching for some synonyms in the index.
3. Check for a list of references or other citations that look as if they will lead you to related material that would be good sources.
4. Determine the intended audience. Are you the intended audience? Consider the tone, style, level of information, and assumptions the author makes about the reader. Are they appropriate for your needs? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
5. If the source is opinion, does the author offer sound reasons for adopting that stance? (Consider again those questions about the author. Is this person reputable?) (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
6. How timely is the source? Is the source twenty years out of date? Some information becomes dated when new research is available, but other older sources of information can be quite sound fifty or a hundred years later. (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
7. How credible is the author? If the document is anonymous, what do you know about the organization? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
8. Are there vague or sweeping generalizations that aren't backed up with evidence? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
9. Are arguments very one-sided with no acknowledgement of other viewpoints? (Provide examples to back up your answer.)
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows
The book “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows” by Melanie Joy is interesting
and also evoked my curiosity. She explores the invisible system that form our perception
of the meat we eat because of our love for some animals like dogs. However we eat other
animals like pigs and cows without knowing why it is okay to eat them. In the chapter
two, she named the system carnism. It is a kind of belief or ideology system which
controls us to choose which animals become our food. This system is also on the basis
of the psychology and social mechanisms. Later the author mentioned that carnism is
violence because it involves the killing of animals. The main idea of why we eat meat in
this book is very visible---our psychology.
and also evoked my curiosity. She explores the invisible system that form our perception
of the meat we eat because of our love for some animals like dogs. However we eat other
animals like pigs and cows without knowing why it is okay to eat them. In the chapter
two, she named the system carnism. It is a kind of belief or ideology system which
controls us to choose which animals become our food. This system is also on the basis
of the psychology and social mechanisms. Later the author mentioned that carnism is
violence because it involves the killing of animals. The main idea of why we eat meat in
this book is very visible---our psychology.
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows. If the "we" represents all human being then this sentence is false. While dogs are viewed as humans best friend in most part of the world, there are some regions around the world where dogs are not kept as pets, they can even be viewed as a dish on the table. Eating pigs may seems common to most of us, but they are described as filthy and unholy animals that can cause diseases to humans according to the Islam religion. You can't judge another culture just because they seem odd to you. Going back to the dog loving thing. Even though I do love dogs myself, but keeping dogs in the house as pets is like keeping cows and pigs in a slaughter house. All of these animals are supposed to be in the wild, and not being kept by humans. Both of these examples shows how human are basically caging these animals up for pleasure, except ones emotional pleasure (keeping as pets) and ones physical pleasure (eating the animal).
Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows
Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows, is a question that should be asked to every american. Eating dogs and animals that are consider "inedible" is wrong in every americans mind. We wouldn't eat dogs because they are like our friends. Dogs have emotions, we play, run with them, feed them when they are hungry, take them to the doctor when they are sick, we treat them like any other human being. But has anyone ever thought that cows, pigs, and chickens have emotions too? Even if it may be odd to find people treating chickens and pigs like pets but in some countries this is what people are doing. Then, do people in those countries find us weird for eating their pets? I believe that there is no correct way of eating, or what is correct food to consume. What everyone eats throughout the world is different depending on their difference in lifestyles and cultures.
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
"Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows", usually I had think a similar question like this years ago, when I heard about eating rare or even protected animals and cannibals. Why do we eat very different than our ancestors? Different than other species? I heard answers like we are born in these ways, the developments/changes of our gene change our behaviors, or we choice to live in these ways. I think this starts with curiosity. Our ancestors or even us now, can't directly eat raw meat, therefore we cook the meat to make it eatable. We are curious about what other food taste like, so we developed the technique of cooking. Laster, we learn to captive animals. But we still treat animals as food only. Gradually, our views of animals had change. We see they also have feelings and become friends with some of them. We aren't eat our friends. But why we are Carnism and not vegetarian? Some say this is because the need of nutrients. However, I belief there is a bias. A bias with no an actual scale.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows
When it comes to food I'm usually open minded, I like trying different foods that are labeled to be "exotic" to others. I wouldn't say its "physic numbing", I do think about where the food comes from. I sometimes even do my own research online or ask people how they prepare for it. For example, I eat pig blood. I can guarantee that nine out of ten people would find that disgusting and inhuman. Since I perceive it differently, I don't notice anything disgusting or disturbing. To me, bacon is pig, pig blood is still pig. Anything that comes from a pig is pig, it wasn't taught to me nor was it learned. My family members don't eat pig blood and they find it very disturbing. I don't see anything wrong, raw bacon is sometimes even soaked in pig blood. And unlike what the author had said about how people don't visualize their food because it's "natural", I'm actually one of those people who do.
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