Coming Home Again/ Somehow Form a Family

Coming Home Again

In this story the author talks about his family and how they act. The action in this story is the author was going to a school away from home and when his mother got really sick he felt like he was needed at home. So moving back home he had to do all the things his mother used to do. For example, cooking, cleaning, and running errands. In this story he relates his relationship with his mother through cooking. Also, there is a conflict of him not respecting his family and somewhat embarrassed of his mother. And when she passed away he felt that he missed his chances of getting in touch with his family.

Somehow Form a Family.

In this story the author talks about his childhood and how it affects him now. The author relates his own life to the tv shows he watched. When thigns went wrong in his life he sought comfort in the television. So as life went on he couldn’t tell the difference between reality and a sitcom on TV. So when he saw thing on tv he felt they had to be real and based his whole life on that feeling and sense of a perfect family.

Track and Ties

In Track and Ties it was kinda hard to read but in this story I felt that the boys in the story didn’t have a sense of security. Like the felt unsafe. But after that one kids friends died he was sad but thought he deserved it in a sense.  I felt it was a confusing story!

Coming Home Again

In Coming Home Again the author talks about how his mother is sick with cancer. Also, talks about how he wishes he paid more attention to his family while he had the chance. He told stories about how his mother and him didn’t get along and how him going away to school changed his relationship with his mother. After she died he wish he could go back and change the way things were. He also used his mother’s cooking to show the connection they had.

Spelling Bee documentary

I pick Angela from Perryton, Texas. She grew up on a cow farm. She is going for it to get into college and get money for her family. Her and her family is lower class citizens and her family is from Mexico. I picked her because she looked like she could be the one who needs the money the most.

 

Another child I picked was Neil from San Clement, California. He and his family are from India and he is upperclass. His sister was ranked 5th place in the national spelling bee the year before. So he will be the one to win the National Spelling Bee. Neil is just naturally smart and it comes so easy to him.

Chapter 12, 13, and 14

In chapter 12 it was sort of a hard chapter to read with all the detailed and in dept visuals on how the chicken was killed. This chapter expressed the way the chicken went from living to being sold that same day on a polyface farm. He had some of his friends come and help him with the process of preparing the chicken to be sold. They all had their own stations.  And Pollen tried his hand at all the stations first with the killing of the chickens.

In chapter 13 Pollen talked about his journey to help sell polyface chickens to local restaurants and kitchens. He would go with one of  the farmers friends. The farmer gave his friend all of the products so he could get back on his feet. He sold meat eggs and all other things. this chapter was meant to express how good and better polyface food is and why chefs prefer it more.

In Chapter 14 is the chapter where it gets personal. The farmer goes home and creates a  feast for all his close friends and family with the stuff he grew on his farm.

Lobbyists views on Food

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/23/700777/-Updated:-Video-Exposing-Food-Lobbyists-%28no-one-covered-this

In this article the author presents information about a topic he has researched for about two years. This topic is about the obesity in young kids and teens in America. He talks about how the school lunches are a huge part of the obesity in America. For instance, one lunch at a school consists of 1350 calories. Each person should consumer the most around 2100 calories a day, and that is if your very active. Also another fact he talks about is the fact that the average kid has replaced french fries and ketchup with abot 46% of their fruit and vegetable intake. This shows how the teens are making the wrong decisions on their health.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250263/ns/health-food_safety/

In this article the author is presenting an issue that one was the scare of the nation. The salmonella epidemic that went across America due to the peanut butter. This little scare brought down the profits of the peanut farmers about half a billion dollars across America. After the incident occurred it was really hard for the farmers to bounce back from it. So the farmers themselves went to the white house in Washington D.C to talk with the Congress to convince them to help bring the peanut industry back to where it once was.\

http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2531

In this article the author talks about how GMA represents over 300 household beverage and consumer goods. this article tells us about how biofuels are connected to the food companies. In this article the biofuels were planning to go against the energy independence and security act. And Glover Park Group undermined GMA for going against them.

Writing assignment in class

Once upon a time there was a green monster who loved oranges.

The green monster loved oranges so much that he moved to florida.

He lived in Miami’s South Beach.

He met a smoking hot purple monster there.

They decided to live together in a condo.

But then the homewrecker blue monster moved in.

The blue monster killed the green monster in his sleep.

The green monster was just dreaming he is still alive.

The blue monster and purple monster decided to get married.

The blue and purple monster had a baby and it was a ugly little baby.

So the purple monster left the blue monster with the baby and tried to get the green monster back.

So the purple monster went out and got the freshest and nicest oranges she could find and gave them to him and they got married.

Chapter 6 & 7

In chapter 6 they show the similarities between the Alcohol binge in the 1800′s to the Eating binge in the current day and age. Also this chapter lets us know that for the price of corning being so low gives the government and the big companies the opportunity to put corn in everything just to save a dime. In chapter 7 it talks about how the fast food is so avaliable to us that we just keeping adding the calories. And it explains how Michael Pollan created the such thing as supersize orders. This is to get more money from the customer.

Chapter 4&5

In chapter 4 and 5 of the Omnivore’s Dilemma Micheal Pollan explains what it is like to be at a Foodlot. This is where the cows are put on a special diet and get really meaty to be butchered for a lot of money. He also purchased a calf and is going to keep it till slaughter. He bought the calf at about three months old and is now paying the feedlots for a place to keep the steer and for it to be feed and medicated. He is only paying $1.60 a day to keep the steer there. And when the cow is roughly around a year or so old it is at the fullest size that the cow will grow. But during these chapters Micheal interviewed a lot of Doctors and and asked them all questions on why they have to be put on these special diets. And why the can’t just graze the fields and eat grass. This just goes to show how industrial the farming industry has become.

Chapter 2&3

In chapters 2 and 3 of Omnivore’s Dilemma we were introduced to a farmer that live in Greene County, Iowa. His name is George Naylor. His lives on a farm that has been in his family for many years. In the book he goes to talk with this farmer about how he grows his crops and the basic information about farming in general. George tells us about all the new and updated chemicals to help grow corn. But George likes to do things the old fashion way. He still uses the tractor that his father grew up with. The reason George doesn’t buy the new chemicals is because he is poor from paying more to plant the corn then he is making by growing it.