Response

In today’s society there is issues with eating out at restaurants, not just that American’s are becoming fat from it, but there is another issue. This issue is that people are become sick from unclean restaurants. In the article Dirty Restaurant’s: Sounding an Alarm, it shows how many issues there are with the sanitation issues, and why so many American’s become sick after eating out. There are many different cases, but one example was the ice machine ad mold growing in it. Another example was a subway was using a sink for the employees to wash their hands and to wash the lettuce without sanitizing in between. In this case one of the employee’s was sick leading to the others to become sick and the lettuce to become contaminated. Some of the other issues is that the cutting boards, and knifes that are used aren’t cleaned in between uses. This leading to one cook coming by and cutting chicken, wiping It off with a towel and putting it back. Then another cook comes along and cuts fresh lemons to go into water, leaving the bacteria from the chicken on there causing illnesses.
The author doesn’t seem to really have a voice in this article, but they constantly referred to Sarah Klein who seemed extremely upset about the situation as a whole. Klein is a staff attorney for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). She feels as though the people have a right to know what kinds of restaurant that they are going into eat at. As of right now this information isn’t all that easy to access, but CSPI is trying to get the information out there for the public to see. This article is an eye opener for me, to be able to see how many restaurants aren’t taking the precautions to assure a safe eating environment. If things get to out of hand many of these restaurants will be shut down, leaving the workers out of a job. So that leads me to the question of why don’t they try to do something about the issue now, while they still have jobs.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1831421,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

Paper 2

For paper two my group has decided to write about alcohol and teens. The idea of the paper is that the drinking age should be lowered, if there should even be one at all. The three main points of this paper is the argument that teens only do something like this to rebel. Another reason is that in Europe often times they don’t have as many issues with drinking and teens because it isn’t something that teens do to rebel, and they are accustomed to it because they grew up drinking. However the naysayer would be that there is research showing the drinking as a child or even a teen can cause physical damage to the individual. Each of us in the group are going to take one of these three topics and address it, and then bring the whole paper together. I would have to say that my only main concern would be that since there are three of us that we may restate some information because they all relate to the same topic.

Reponse

Two years ago there was a man who was involved in a train accident, and he saved himself in my point of view. He was one of the workers on the train, and he had fallen off. With the train still moving he held on for as long as he could, which was about 20 seconds. By this time he could hold no longer. His lower half of his body was then ran over by the 20,000 pounds of weight that was on the train. While still conscious and loosing blood Dunncan called 911 himself. He told the operator that he what had happened. While still laying there he called his family and talked to his oldest son, who said he loved his father. The Doctor that was called in to operate didn’t think that there was any possible way that Dunncan was going to live, that it was a miracle. The authors view of this article is completely third party, and is amazed. It is amazing that this man lived. As with many people they wanted to know what was going on in this mans head while this was all happening. Dunncan choose not talk to the public at all about his accident until two years later. The article goes on to talk about how the mans house had to be completely redone so that it could be wheel chair friendly. It is amazing to everyone that this man survived, and his health insurance paid for everything in his house to be redone. He is now able to drive and get around, all while still playing football with his kids. He wants to eventually learn how to use prostatic limbs.
I find the whole prostatic limbs very interesting, and I would want to learn more about them in the future, and how this man feels about his life now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26834245

Summary of Part 1

In part one of Graff and Birkenstein the book is trying to eliminate students using the term, “They say.” Often times when writers are trying to write a research paper or any type of paper using sources, they tend to uses the phrases such as, X said this, or he calls it that. One of the best’s ways that the book introduces additional ways for writers to introduce others opinions is by giving templates to use. The templates are easy to understand, and frequently are set up so that the students are able to use them in their own writing. Part one also shows the reader that there is more than one type of way to introduce what others are trying to say. This section also informs us that you want keep your ideas in view once they have been stated, so that it doesn’t confuse the reader of the paper.

Exercise 1

The author in Cash for Trash, uses references to other items frequently. He as with many authors uses many of the templates that were provided in the book. The main one that he uses was “X calls it.” He introduces the topic “paradox of deleveraging” by saying, some call it, and then going right into the idea. The author then goes on to use this idea in the rest of his article minimal times. He doesn’t choose to base his article off this one statement. He uses the statements as an informational piece to the rest of his article. After reading the chapter, I think that he did a good job of introducing the quotations into the writing. However he didn’t really choose to put all that many in the article giving it more of the opinion based feel, rather than the idea that he had researched anything and came up with new topics.

Response

The two men from China, were sent to jail should be getting more than just jail time for killing two babies. The two men were arrested for adding Melamine to the baby formula, to make it appear that it had more protein. It not only killed two babies already, but it also sickened 1,200 others. There is a team that is going in on Monday, September 15, 2008, to remove all the substandard milk from the market. This not only makes these two men look bad, but their whole company now has to deal with it, as with China’s product safety system.
This is to bad that it had to come to something this bad. The fact that these men felt that they needed to add the product, Melamine to the formula is horrible, because it shows that they are just trying to make the sale. They must not care about the well being of the children, or else they wouldn’t have put it in the formula. Some would argue, what if they didn’t know the affects that it would have on the babies? But my response to something like that is they should have researched it better. The fact that there are lives that are at risk is a major concern that should have been going through their minds.
The topic is similar to many of the other issues that are going on around the world today. It has to do with people who are only worried about themselves. These two men wanted to add these chemical to the milk because they wanted to make it look as though it had more protein than it actually did. Had they just been honest about their product they wouldn’t be in jail right now, and there wouldn’t be two babies dead, along with at least 1,200 others at risk.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_re_as/china_baby_formula_recall;_ylt=AvZkl7enGrJuYDg8K6Px6aSs0NUE

Graff and Birkenstein Ex 1

In the article “Keep the Drinking Age at 21,” Robert A. Corrigan argues that there are less overall deaths with the drinking age being higher. In the college atmosphere many students choose to drink, and the major path towards making bad choices is too much alcohol. Corrigan emphasizes that changing the legal drinking age from 21 to 18, is going to increase the number of accidents in vehicles. He claims that students have to deal with visiting the ER while in college frequently, because their friends are there due to alcohol related issues.
In my opinion, however the concern doesn’t come into play because alcohol is the problem, there are other factors that are causing the issue. While it is true that there are students having to go to the ER, this has to do with the fact that students want to rebel. Take away the temptation and it will no longer be exciting for kids. For example in Germany, and other foreign countries there is no drinking age, and these countries aren’t having half the amount of issues we are. Telling kids they can’t do something only gives them the drive to want to do it more.

A Writer’s Resource

Some of the things that I will take from, A Writers Resource book are learning h0w to structure my personal essays. There are the three main ways to format the personal essay chronological, emphatic, and suspenseful. The chronological is writing in order from the start to the beginning. Empathetic, formats the paper from most important to least important, or visa versa. Suspenseful writing is used to keep the writer hooked and wanting to continue reading. The suspenseful writing doesn’t have an exact method but one example was starting with the end of the story, and telling it from there. I also always thought that as a writer you are supposed to put yourself out of the story and tell it from the third point of view. However, tells the students to use the present tense strategy, this is used to get the writer in the story and allows them to feel as if they are really there. The example that is given in the book really encourages me to want to write in the same form.