Ashley Davis
Comp 106:
Professor A. Yerks
Oct. 30, 2009
Our Thirst for Bottled Water
Within the persuasive essay “Our Thirst for Bottled Water,” Tom Standage explores the various assumed notions that are held by Americans in association with bottled water in regards to health and seeks to educate the reader of the harmful waterborne diseases that ail third world countries that lack sanitary drinking water.
Standage provides the reader with knowledge of the harmful affects that the American obsession with bottle water is having on poorer regions of the world. In America bottled water is being exploited and taken in vain to be perceived as a necessity when people in countries beyond our borders are dying daily due to preventable diseases.
He provides the reader with the undeniable fact that over one billion people in the world lack sanitary water. Standage points out the fact that Americans have little concern about water issues due to the abundance of it and that we take for granted the fact that we’re afforded with the seemingly trivial opportunity of having sanitary tap water available to us when and wherever. However, poorer countries are not provided with the same privilege. There are five million deaths related to preventable waterborne diseases annually.
Standage aims to educate the reader on proven facts that bottled water, contrary to belief, is not healthier than tap water, but that they are both equivalent in their sectors associated with health and hydration. He challenges the reader to overcome the naivety that one may have about waterborne diseases and take a stand to make a difference by not abusing bottled water and making use of tap water. He argues that by lessening the intake of bottle water that one might consume daily could conserve water, thus making it a step easier for countries that have issues with water sanitation.
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Article summaries
Ashley Davis
Comp: 106
Professor A. Yerks
Oct. 7, 2009
Academic Article Summaries
Due to it being one of my chief areas of study, the chosen genre of each of my articles is sociology. The articles focus on the sociological stand point of the relevance of race within the act of remembering. Though memory remains the main theme between the three; they each explore the mechanisms used to engage in remembering and instances of specific memories in distinct manners.
Within “Generations and Collective Memory” Revisited; Race Region, and Memory of Civil Rights from the American Sociological Review( 2004), Larry J. Griffin explores a confirmed theory that suggest that certain age groups recall distinct world events differently; helping to create generational identity. Griffin aims to revise this theory in the specific case of civil rights and directs his argument to all critics of collective memory. He finds that this theory and its principles provide vastly different outcomes in regards to civil rights. He argues region and race are solely responsible for the discrepancy. The theoretical idea expressed is that where highly charged events happen, consciousness and memory are shaped, suggesting that the idea of social location of generational identity information is place specific, as well as age and race dependent. Griffin states that “Before we understand how people deploy memory, however, we must know what people remember and why they remember the particular events they do.” Griffin relates his findings in an academic style using sociologic terms while dually making it decipherable to any reader. The article represents science through its nature of study and observation.
Since studies of race relations generally ignore collective memory’s role in shaping racial norms and attitudes, Griffin and Bollen analyze how memories of racial oppression, conflict, and reconstruction shape race relations within the article “What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes” from the American Sociological Review (2009). They examine how American’s recollections of the civil rights movements influence their racial attitudes and racial policy preferences.
Within Individual Differences in Race Schematicity as Predictors of African American and White Children’s Race-Relevant Memories and Peer Preference from The Journal of Genetic Psychology, Gary D. Levy studies how stereotyping is positively associated with inaccurate memories of race with children.
Each of the articles concludes that race is a major factor within categorizing what each individual remembers.
(Please don’t comment on the missing aspects, clearly I’m aware of that seeing that it’s a very rough draft I’m going to provide more detail. Try to focus your attention and comments on what you can take from what I’ve provided and what information would add to the overall substance.) Thanks
Comp: 106
Professor A. Yerks
Oct. 7, 2009
Academic Article Summaries
Due to it being one of my chief areas of study, the chosen genre of each of my articles is sociology. The articles focus on the sociological stand point of the relevance of race within the act of remembering. Though memory remains the main theme between the three; they each explore the mechanisms used to engage in remembering and instances of specific memories in distinct manners.
Within “Generations and Collective Memory” Revisited; Race Region, and Memory of Civil Rights from the American Sociological Review( 2004), Larry J. Griffin explores a confirmed theory that suggest that certain age groups recall distinct world events differently; helping to create generational identity. Griffin aims to revise this theory in the specific case of civil rights and directs his argument to all critics of collective memory. He finds that this theory and its principles provide vastly different outcomes in regards to civil rights. He argues region and race are solely responsible for the discrepancy. The theoretical idea expressed is that where highly charged events happen, consciousness and memory are shaped, suggesting that the idea of social location of generational identity information is place specific, as well as age and race dependent. Griffin states that “Before we understand how people deploy memory, however, we must know what people remember and why they remember the particular events they do.” Griffin relates his findings in an academic style using sociologic terms while dually making it decipherable to any reader. The article represents science through its nature of study and observation.
Since studies of race relations generally ignore collective memory’s role in shaping racial norms and attitudes, Griffin and Bollen analyze how memories of racial oppression, conflict, and reconstruction shape race relations within the article “What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes” from the American Sociological Review (2009). They examine how American’s recollections of the civil rights movements influence their racial attitudes and racial policy preferences.
Within Individual Differences in Race Schematicity as Predictors of African American and White Children’s Race-Relevant Memories and Peer Preference from The Journal of Genetic Psychology, Gary D. Levy studies how stereotyping is positively associated with inaccurate memories of race with children.
Each of the articles concludes that race is a major factor within categorizing what each individual remembers.
(Please don’t comment on the missing aspects, clearly I’m aware of that seeing that it’s a very rough draft I’m going to provide more detail. Try to focus your attention and comments on what you can take from what I’ve provided and what information would add to the overall substance.) Thanks
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