What's in your food?
educate yourself, educate others
educate yourself, educate others
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Below is a short video from Michael Pollen, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemna", who advises us to eat food, not that much, mostly plants. Pollan talks briefly about how the food industry can manipulate advertisements to "turn it into a new way for us to buy food". His advice this time? Don't eat food that you see on tv!! This is a collaborative list made by Kim Ostrander and I
1. Is the advertising Walmart doing for organic food effective? 2. What are some of the pros and cons of eating organically? 3. Is there an organic substitute for every food? 4. Is meat check at the slauder house every time it leaves? 5. What is really in our food? 6. What are some ways to prevent E coli? 7. Does healthy eating effect a child's developmental growth? 8. Are children or adults effected more by E coli and other diseases? 9. How many individuals actually read the labels at the store before purchasing items? 10. What are some ways to convince American to eat healthier? Like It Was> A complete Guide to Writing Oral History
Chapter III: Conducting the Interview "Answers that are interesting include not just information, but also feelings and interpretations."(pg37) Fact: people love to talk. Bigger fact: people like to talk about themselves. And why wouldn't they? Life is full of mishaps, coincidences, tragedy, love, loss. It's interesting and unpredictable. Not only that, life (and culture for that matter) still have a rippling affect on the past, present, and future. Interviewing the people is a great way to get a glimpse of apart of the past that you can't get from a history book. Browns's book, @ least chapter 3, is the guru's guide on doing interviews. It maps out all the important preperations we need to make, and mind sets we need to have as future interviewees. The key to giving a good interview is to ask good questions, be a good listener, and take time to prepare your interview. The interviewer's involvment isn't a major role, but it's an important one. The interview needs to have some purpose overall, and it's the interviewer's job to help get towards that goal, without having an overly pressing influence. Some really good advice I got from this chapter was to jot down things you want the narrator to go back and explain, names so you can check for spelling, and questions you have. You have to keep these things in mind when you're doing an interview, because it's way too easy to lose yourself in the story. Gotta keep in mind that it's not just an interview or storytime, it's about doing justice to the narrator's oral history. It's important not to control the interview, but to make sure it doesn't go completely off course. All in all it was a very helpful chapter, and a good preview of what to except when I give my interview. 1. who are the characters in your twitterive
2. what connection/disconnection do you/characters feel about the place 3. when does this story take place 4. where does this story take place? 5. why does/did this story take place. how will it unravel 6. how did this story take place? 1. The main character in my Twitterive is, unfortunately, me. I don't like getting personal on the internet, but i think my project will be stronger if it's real, because it is. Other characters include Amanda, one of my oldest friends, and Sarah, someone I was best friends with, but now we're sortv enemies. I really want her absent from the project, but I don't think it's possible. 2. There's a strong connection b/w the characters, the place, and myself. The Lake Spot, where my project is based, is a palce we used to go all the time in our adolescence. It was a hang out spot, and personal retreat for myself. Not only that, but it's a very spiritual place. I used to go there to think, or draw. Even though i don't go there much anymore, it's still somewhere i'll think about and miss, just like my old friends. 3. The story takes place about 3 years ago, when I was never home and always out doing things with friends. It's present time, so it's a modern story. 4. The story takes place @ the Lake Spot. It's a little niche in the woods that line Mirror Lake in Browns Mills. Browns Mills is the main town about 15 minutes from where I live, which is Presidential Lakes. It's a little spot off the lake, like ones where people dock canoes or boats. There are roots cascading down the hill, so it's a perfect spot for a couple people to sit. Every genre, mode, writing, etc included takes place @ the Lake Spot, whether journal entry, drawing, poem, picture, memory. 5. This story takes places as a metaphor for my old friends. It represents a life that i don't have anymore. Everyone gets nostalgic, and I feel connected in that way to the Lake Spot. 6. How did this story take place? Not sure how to respond to that. The story took place bc right now in my life i don't have many friends anymore, and i miss my old ones. I don't trust people easily, and i get emotionally attached to them when i do. Especially "best friends". And everyone can relate to missing someone/something. The story took place as a coping mechanism I suppose... I couldn't help but feel appalled @ "Rock My Network" by Theodora Stites. Is our generation really so caught up in the digital world that we spend the majority of our time being nosy, instead of actually looking up interesting information on the internet? Social networking it just something I don't care about. I can only be logged onto these social networking sites for about ten minutes without getting bored out of my mind.
1. Does it makes sense?
2. How can I make it flow?/ Which story should I begin with? (end to beginning, beginning to end? 3. Should I bring in the children(s) point of view or keep it to only the brothers? 4. At what moment should the brothers reconcile? 5. Do you feel like this situation will make an impact on readers?/ Does it feel authentic? |
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