In this blog post I will discuss my process for before, during, and after writing my research paper. I co-authored my research paper with Kelli Keffer, a student from another class. Here is a link to her blog. Before writing this post we reviewed the video Reflective Writing. This video describes a useful way to write a reflective writing piece. We just finished the first draft of our Research Paper: Eat Great, Perform Greater. We have a lot of revising and editing to do. Our Research Paper provided an argument on how America should serve healthier elementary school lunches.
I set myself up in my basement where there is an oversized desk, put headphones in, and stayed there almost all day. This was the first time I ever did this. Typically I go to Starbucks to do my work because it's easier for me to stay on task when I'm not in the comfort of my own home. I think writing down there is going to be apart of my new process.
While watching "Where to Invade Next" seeing how the French serve lunches in school really grabbed our attention. We are also very into healthy eating and nutrient so we knew it would be interesting to us. We did however think that there would be more information on it. Why wouldn't you want your children's school lunches to be healthier? But it was a little harder to find information on it then we were was expecting.
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In this blog post I will provide you with an annotated bibliography for my research paper. An annotated bibliography consists of a summary of the source, an evaluation of the text, and an explanation of how the source is relevant to the topic. I will be co-authoring this research paper with Kelli Keffer; a student from another class. Here is a link to her blog! Our research question is: Should elementary schools in America serve healthier lunches? Source 1
In this blog post I will select three controversial topics from the documentary Where to Invade Next and create a research question for each one. You can find a summary of the film on my previous blog post. #1
This blog post is about a documentary we watched in class called Where to Invade Next, with Michael Moore as the interviewer. I will provide you with a summary of the film, as well as a rhetorical analysis. Below is a picture of Michael Moore surrounded by government officials. He used this false anecdote in the first scene of the documentary. He claimed that they came to him for help with saving America. In the documentary Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore travels to various countries around the world to learn about their methods on controversial topics such as work, drugs, school, maternity leave, and many others. The idea of the documentary is that Michael Moore “steals” the Europeans ideas and brings them back to convince America to use them. In the beginning of the film, Michael visits a middle-class couple in Italy. They begin to explain how each year, they are given an 8 week paid vacation, that even carries over into the following year if they still have days left over. They work short hours and get great benefits. The Italians believe that it is important to vacation. If you don’t, your brain becomes too stressed and too much stress causes illness. He then proceeded to visit France, Slovenia, and Finland. All three of these countries provide amazing, nearly free schooling for their students. France really emphasizes their lunch period. They extended it to be an hour long, with a 4-course meal freshly made by their school chefs. The French see lunch as an opportunity to teach children early about having a balanced diet and proper etiquette. In Norway, Michael visited their maximum-security prisons and was in shock. They allow their prisoners to have keys to their rooms, computers, music, good food, and freedom. They treat them with respect and surprisingly it created a lower reimprisonment rate for their country. This documentary shows you that European countries care more about the well-being of the people than anything else and thats something America needs to take into consideration. Rhetorical Analysis
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