Thinking about the research project

What are you thinking about doing for the research project? What topics do you find interesting? What rhetorical angles? Do you see yourself using any of the essays we've recently read as models for your project?

Food and Gender

Please discuss your responses to Susan Bordo's assertions about women and food advertising. Can you think of any contemporary examples? If you can't, try a Google Images search of "people eating" and compare the men and women. Is her argument dated?

check it out

Obama eats and folks take notice.

Thursday's (1/22) Readings

Hey everyone: Let's start thinking about context in these texts as it relates to the the other elements of rhetoric. Y'all did an amazing job in class on Tuesday (my colleague was impressed!) and I think we can keep the ball rolling with the same kind of analysis on the texts for 1/22.

Readings for Jan. 15

Hey, what did you think?

"In Meatless Mondays are Good for You... and the Earth", I believe that Julie Upton intended for the audience to be people who obviously eat meat, and are unaware of the harmful effects that meat has on your body and the earth. Also to people who didn't know that being a vegitarian was so good for you. I found this article to be most interesting of all three, because Julie Upton was short and sweet and had many facts, and statistics. She appeals to the audience because the article is concerning thier health. She uses statistics to try to convince her audience to go meatless, and also ties emotions in with weight control seeing as this is America and many people have weight issues. She also ties in the environment very well by discussing how and why all the meat we produce pollutes the air. This is a topic I have never thought about because I never realized how bad meat was for your health, or for the earth. I also never knew that being a vegitarian was so good for you.

Welcome

I have forgotten a lot of my blogging skills, so this blog might be kinda boring to look at for a few weeks. We will use this space to discuss ideas about the readings each night as well as any comments or suggestions about class. Feel free to publish links that you find relevant to the topic of food rhetoric, and broaden our conversation. 

For our first post, let's talk about the connection between meat and the environment. Who do you think the assigned texts were written for? What kind of audience appeals do they make? Is the topic something you've thought about before?