Over the semester you're going to write, piece by piece, an exhibition style paper outline based on the major focus of the course. Naturally, an exhibition style paper needs a thesis, supporting arguments, and lots of evidence.
So you will first select a tentative thesis for the overarching paper, and then write a supporting argument (including lots of evidence) from the food unit. Next unit you will write a supporting argument for the overarching thesis from the "Illness & Dying" unit.
1. So right now you need to select a tentative overarching thesis. Some options are below - but feel free to write your own, from any political perspective or angle. But make sure it includes the phrases ("normal routines" or "dominant social practices" AND the phrase some version of the phrase "nightmarish industrial atrocities").
Many of the dominant social practices in our society - practices that define a "normal" life - on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.
Sustainable and humane alternatives to nightmarish dominant social practices in our culture fail the tests of scalability, achievability, and/or desirability.
Dominant social practices in our culture - nightmarish industrial atrocities they may be - evolved to fit this culture's demands and will not be replaced by voluntaristic feel-good tree-hugging utopian fantasies.
An individual living in our culture must recognize and respond to the nightmarish industrial atrocities at the root of dominant social practices in order to live a morally satisfactory life.
2. Using the food unit as a basis, outline a persuasive argument that supports the thesis you've selected. You can think of this as "Argument 1" proving your thesis. "Argument 1" will include its own major claim, several supporting claims, and several pieces of evidence for each claim.
Supporting Your Thesis Video
For instance, if I selected the thesis;
Dominant social practices in our culture - nightmarish industrial atrocities they may be - evolved to fit this culture's demands and will not be replaced by voluntaristic feel-good tree-hugging utopian fantasies.
Then my food argument would attempt to show that food practices in our culture haven't been and likely won't be changed by feel good "eat right" campaigns. So my outline would look like this;
Major Claim: The failure of the ongoing food movement to significantly alter U.S. food ways shows that voluntaristic fantasies can't resist the juggernaut logic of our culture.
Supporting claim 1: There has been a food movement, it's gotten a lot of press.
Evidence: Sales of Pollan, Schlosser, and viewers of "Food, Inc."
Evidence: Michelle Obama's campaign
Evidence: Sampling of titles from the last 6 months in the NYT.
Supporting claim 2: The food practices in our society keep getting worse despite the food movement's efforts.
Evidence: Still rising obesity rates.
Evidence: Still rising diabetes rates.
Evidence: Continued expansion of fast food restaurants.
Evidence: Continued increases or maintenance of per capita meat and corn syrup.
Evidence: Continued expansion of corn-based practices - such as fish farming.
3. Now please find the proof of all the related evidence that you've named so that you have at least one hyperlink or text citation for each piece of evidence. Put those in a works cited at the end of the outline and hyperlink the evidence that you have good sources for.
4. You don't have to write the paper! (at least not yet).
Due Monday, Nov. 1 at 8:30am.
So you will first select a tentative thesis for the overarching paper, and then write a supporting argument (including lots of evidence) from the food unit. Next unit you will write a supporting argument for the overarching thesis from the "Illness & Dying" unit.
1. So right now you need to select a tentative overarching thesis. Some options are below - but feel free to write your own, from any political perspective or angle. But make sure it includes the phrases ("normal routines" or "dominant social practices" AND the phrase some version of the phrase "nightmarish industrial atrocities").
Many of the dominant social practices in our society - practices that define a "normal" life - on further investigation turn out to involve nightmares and industrial atrocities.
Sustainable and humane alternatives to nightmarish dominant social practices in our culture fail the tests of scalability, achievability, and/or desirability.
Dominant social practices in our culture - nightmarish industrial atrocities they may be - evolved to fit this culture's demands and will not be replaced by voluntaristic feel-good tree-hugging utopian fantasies.
An individual living in our culture must recognize and respond to the nightmarish industrial atrocities at the root of dominant social practices in order to live a morally satisfactory life.
2. Using the food unit as a basis, outline a persuasive argument that supports the thesis you've selected. You can think of this as "Argument 1" proving your thesis. "Argument 1" will include its own major claim, several supporting claims, and several pieces of evidence for each claim.
Supporting Your Thesis Video
For instance, if I selected the thesis;
Dominant social practices in our culture - nightmarish industrial atrocities they may be - evolved to fit this culture's demands and will not be replaced by voluntaristic feel-good tree-hugging utopian fantasies.
Then my food argument would attempt to show that food practices in our culture haven't been and likely won't be changed by feel good "eat right" campaigns. So my outline would look like this;
Major Claim: The failure of the ongoing food movement to significantly alter U.S. food ways shows that voluntaristic fantasies can't resist the juggernaut logic of our culture.
Supporting claim 1: There has been a food movement, it's gotten a lot of press.
Evidence: Sales of Pollan, Schlosser, and viewers of "Food, Inc."
Evidence: Michelle Obama's campaign
Evidence: Sampling of titles from the last 6 months in the NYT.
Supporting claim 2: The food practices in our society keep getting worse despite the food movement's efforts.
Evidence: Still rising obesity rates.
Evidence: Still rising diabetes rates.
Evidence: Continued expansion of fast food restaurants.
Evidence: Continued increases or maintenance of per capita meat and corn syrup.
Evidence: Continued expansion of corn-based practices - such as fish farming.
3. Now please find the proof of all the related evidence that you've named so that you have at least one hyperlink or text citation for each piece of evidence. Put those in a works cited at the end of the outline and hyperlink the evidence that you have good sources for.
4. You don't have to write the paper! (at least not yet).
Due Monday, Nov. 1 at 8:30am.
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