Tuesday, April 26, 2011

10 topics for the final paper

1. School vending mechines.
2.Why companies are allowed to add high fructose corn syrap to most foods if it is vary harmful for people's health.
3. Subsidies organic food company.
4. How dairy products are produce.
5. what is the differences between nutritional ingredients and real food.
6. How meat companies are continuing slavery.
7. what FDA actually does for people's health.
8.caning proces.
9. Food company workers regulation.
10.Food flavoring.

Tahmina's personal responce for food stamps

The article "New York asks to bar use of Food Stamps to buy sodas" by Anemona Hartocollis is about the argument that if food stamps should be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks or it should not be used. Mr Hacker said in this article that " the world would be better, I think, if people limited their perchase of sugared beverages". I agrre with him, because too much sugary drinks is not good for health. I Also agree with Tom Laskawy who said that food stamps should be reserved for whole, nutritious foods such as meats, gran, dairy, and fresh fruits and vegetables rether than the sugary drinks, because no one should have right to use public money for unhealthy foods that causes illness for consumers.















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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Tahmina's personal responce about supersize me and food inc chapter 2

The documentary movie “Supersize me” by Morgan Spurlock open my eyes to see what inside the fast food especially the McDonalds foods in America. The name of this movie already told you what are making you super in size. There is no doubt. If you want to ask a question about why are Americans so fat? The supersize menu of McDonalds can give you an absolute right answer.
    When I was in my country, I heard a lot about American food safety and believed that American government strictly care about its people’s right and health especially children’s health. I left so much back to my country but was happy to think about that this country would give me and my daughters an opportunity to have a bright future and at least healthy food to eat and live healthy lives. As I go deeper and deeper to know about the American food industry, it always made me so scared and upset. If you could not get healthy food, you never can get bright future because health is wealth. The truth of American food industry threw me up in the dark and made me so wrong- very wrong.
      By reading Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and watching supersize me, now I could tell you how McDonalds, one of the biggest food companies in the United States are encouraging children to buy their infected foods to destroy their future health by providing play ground in the stores, adding plastic toys in the meal and producing cartoon characters in their commercials.
 The most upsetting thing is that school lunch that most parents and students believed healthy are not different from the food of McDonalds. Now I am really concern about my daughters health because I could help them stop eating food from McDonalds but how could I stop them eating school lunch. Like my daughters most children believe that what they learn from school is very true and what they eat from school must be healthy. There can not be anything wrong in school. Poor children!
 American government should stop going war to save the world from its imaginary enemy before having a war to save American people from its infected foods.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Tahmina self review

Writer’s Name: Tahmina Haque

Paper Title: The quality of Heritage Diet vs. Present Diet

Date: 03/18/11

Editor’s Name: Tahmina Haque

Peer Review Worksheet

1.      What can you identify Introduction: How does the first paragraph introduce both the paper’s topic and the writer’s approach or general conclusion? Is the first sentence attention-getting and relevant to the topic?
 -  I think the introduction is ok. It is clearly related to the topic that writer wants to compare   and it unambiguously gives a view point about the whole essay
 - Yes, its first sentence is attention getting and relevant to the topic. 

1.   As a thesis statement? (Re-write it below) Suggest, if possible, a way to improve the introduction or thesis statement.
- Thesis: “the quality of ingredients for this recipe, like rice, vegetables, lentils and spices has changed over the time because food is now grown and processed commercially by using chemicals that helps make the food less healthy than before”.
- Suggestion: “by using chemicals from soil to food, the ingredients for this recipe like rice, vegetable and lentils has become less healthy than before”.
3.                  Structure: Can you identify the organization of the paper from the main idea of each paragraph? What are the main concepts explored in the paper? Does each paragraph make a relevant point that is distinct from what has already been covered? What are the main conclusions?
- Each paragraph has its thesis statement that is very easy to identify because it is the first sentence of every paragraph. Also the organization of the paper can be identified from the main idea of each paragraph.
- Of course thesis sentence is related to its concept. The main point of this paper is about the quality of food and how this quality became bad over the time.
- Each paragraph explored is clearly related to its thesis. All the paragraph of this essay has a relevant point that already has been covered.  
4.                  Clarity/Style: Did you find distracting grammar, punctuation, spelling, or word usage problems? Identify any patterns or themes you detect. Is the tone of the essay formal? If you find awkward sentences, try to explain why they don’t make sense to you.

- This paper has some grammar and clarity issue.
- There are some repetitions. Some sentences are really long.
-Need to pay attention to the verb form and word form.
5.                  Resources: Does the author clearly identify his/her sources? Is proper in-text and reference format used?
- Sources are very clear and that can be identified very easily.
- Writer paid attention to use qualitative sources and she put the work cited at the end of this essay that is really important.

6.        What is/are the paper’s greatest strength(s)? Explain.
- The strength of this paper is to its good organization. It also provided all the information that is collected from the reliable sources.