Post Secret Extra Credit

I chose the picture that says "I cried for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode III...but not for the tsunami victims."  The implicit statement is that we have lost the ability to empathize with people who we don't know personally or who we've seen their life story.  I think the author is probably a person who lives from away from the tsunami victims and isn't directly involved with any tsunami victims.  There isn't very much textual support because it is literally just a fact.  However this statement leads to assumptions.

Response to Hungry Planet photos

I think the photographer does a good job of showing how in different parts of the world the accessibility of food for people.  The availability of food is very prevalent in first world countries especially because the quantity is so large compared to the family size, while in the third world countries the amount of food for a larger family is substantially smaller.  Even just the place the food is displayed is significantly different.  More first world families are in homes with a kitchen that has a sitting area with some sort of a table.  The food presented is more processed, cooked or baked and there is more packaged.  The lower class or impoverished families are seen outside with maybe only a mat or a pot just sitting on the ground containing the food.  The food that they have is mostly raw grains.  Also it just shows the different tastes in each parts of the world.

Extra Credit CR pg. 81 #3

This is the source I used from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/books/27garn.html?pagewanted=all
Garner states that Wrangham's view on mankind and the use of fire is a new and interesting idea.  He says that many people, including himself are very surprised by this idea.  He also brings up the idea that with the development of cooking, women were forced into a male dominated culture due to the need of the male's protection from other males.

CR pg. 87 #3

You could easily grow some very simple herbs in your room such as chives or parsley.  However you could join a gardening club at school or a local gardening club where they may have a garden and allow you to grow some vegetables or something else to eat.  Instead of eating packaged and processed foods you could just choose the simple options such as the salad bar or fruits.  Many college campuses, USC included, have a farmers market where you can buy locally grown foods.

CR pg. 81 #1

Wrangham links the use of mastering fire for cooking around 1.9 million years ago because humans have not had a substantial development in the way our bodies digest food since then.  By cooking food, it becomes softer thus letting humans develop smaller jaws and less teeth.  Also the male and female relationship, where the male protects the female's food in return for a portion is explained by the relationship of cooking and using fire.  Women could also quit nursing children at a younger age thus giving the woman more energy and allowing her to have more children at a sooner time.  He also suspects that because humans receive so much more energy because cooking our foods increases the ability to receive more calories from a smaller amount of food we are able to divert some of that extra energy to our immune systems thus increasing our life span.  Also more energy allowed us to develop more expensive organs such as our brains but it also made our intestinal system for efficient by making our stomachs smaller and increasing our small intestine to absorb more nutrients.

Questions/Concerns about Draft 1

Some questions about my draft are:

1. Is there any place that needs to be elaborated more?
2. Is my conclusion a strong one?
3. Does it flow?

Some concerns I have are:

• the length

SWA # 7 Formal Outline

Title:  Rhetorical Analysis of "The Story of a Snitch"
Thesis:  Jeremy Kahn uses many appeals to his audience's pathos by detailing struggles of witnesses thus strengthening his argument on how many crimes go unsolved due to increasing violence against witnesses.
I. Kahn uses a specific story to bring his audience closer to someone who has experienced the legal system multiple times.
      A. John Dowery's struggles with the life of a person awaiting trial and a witness.
II. The ethos is strengthened by facts and statistics.
      A. Placement of statistics in placement with in people's personal experiences.