Fast Food Nation ACADEMIC PAPER RESEARCH PROJECT

ACADEMIC PAPER
Rowland Solano
Dr Mason
Comp 2000
3/20/09

Fast Food Nation
In today’s society of hard working people with very busy lifestyle, no one has time anymore to cook a good home style meal for their families. Everyone seems to only have time to buy fast food for themselves and their families. When I was growing up I know my parents always made sure to prepare healthy meals for me and my other siblings. They knew we needed wholesome food to nourish our bodies. If we continue to feed our bodies unhealthy foods, our bodies would respond by being unhealthy. When we eat it should be for the purpose of satisfying hunger and to nourish our bodies, for this reason we should be very careful with the types of food we choose to eat. People from all different parts of the world eat different types of food for the same reason. Elsevier states that “Eating is a complex human behavior that is influenced by cultural, social, personality and food intake in terms of amount or type of food for the purpose of weight control or restraint eating.” Elsevier. "Eating . Psychology of." Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (2004).
Certainly when we eat our main concern should be to eat healthy for the sole purpose of maintaining good health. This means if we know that there is a certain kind of food capable of raising the cholesterol levels in our bodies we should keep away from that food source. For some unknown reason more and more people are choosing to eat unhealthy foods, such as fast food, and having their bodies as a living sacrifice for others to see them struggle with obesity. Some of the popular fast food outlets are Mc Donald, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Pizza Hut and the list goes on…. ..These fast food outlets are not putting out healthy, nutritious food to the public, it all about the taste to keep people hooked to their menu. I strongly believe there are some people out there who are addicted to fast food, so having fast food every day is the only way they can be truly happy. When they eat they are satisfying their tongues in their mouths and depriving their bodies of the proper nutrition it needs to stay healthy. These types of cravings are what keep these fast food companies in business. Don’t get me wrong now; the food does taste very delightful. On the other hand we are not here to be solely delighted by taste, we need nutrition, our nutritional values are of great importance to us, this fast food is just not healthy, but in today’s world more and more people are turning to the fast food industry as a means of obtaining their meals. Rutledge explains, “Technology made mass produced fast food possible by automating agricultural production and food processing. Globally, fast food provided a service for busy people who lacked time to buy groceries and cook their meals or could not afford the cost and time associated with eating traditional restaurant fare.” Routeledge. Food processed and fast. Enclyclopedia of 20th Century Technology. (2005). As the economy world wide gets deeper and deeper in debt , people could no longer afford to sit in a decent restaurant to have a decent meal, and also we work two and three jobs to be able to have enough money to survive. People don’t have time to look in the grocery stores for the fruits and vegetables to prepare a healthy meal, it has become the american norm, to pick up the phone and order a pizza with everything on it if you please. People have strayed away from the values of preparing meals as a family unit, most families today eat on the go and do not take the time to sit down as a family, and have meal time as a family unit, even for ceremonies, foods are catered from companies.
Mifflin says, “Cooking food is an activity that transends culture. The ways in which food is cooked, and ingredients, depend on the environment. The ceremonies that surrounds its cooking and its eating are very much a product of human culture. Native American cuisine is a product of basic human needs, a wide range of environmental conditions, and a cultural understanding of how people relate to their environments in practical and ceremonial ways.” Mifflin, Hughton. "Food AND CUSINE." Enclycopedia of North American Indians (1996).
Most cultures today still endulge in their native way of eating, but they do not have very much time to do it themselves. This situation came about a very long time ago as nations evolve people life styles change and their eating habits as well. According to the Cambridge world history of food. “ Important Changes have occurred in the production as well as consumption of food. The alianation of cook from food had already become apparent by 1950s.” press, cambridge university. "Food and Identity." Cambridge World History of food (2000).
Foods are being made fast to satisfy more people on the go, so most families are not cooking and preparing meals as they used to. The fast food epedemic is reaching all cultures, once a culture is expose to this fast food nation, they have no choice most time but to fall in the web of unhealthy eating. Some times circumstances rule and people have to step out of their nornmal way of doing things. ABC-Clico said, “To complicate matters further, changes in food production, distribution networks, and food-processing technologies, along with the introduction of mass-produced food products, including “junk” food, has significantly altered Mexican eating habits and Mexican cuisine.” ABC-Clio. "Food." 2004. An enclycopedia of Contemporary culture and history. 22 february 2009. The Mexican fast food, example Taco Bell is a fast food chain that has altered the Mexican cuisine; it is no longer their normal healthy meat, rice, vegetables. Now the foods are processed foods, all the way to the bathroom.
If Americans are not careful with their risky eating habits, a host of health related problems would continue to plague the nation, men, women, and children especially, need to be extra cautious when indulging in fast food for their every day meals. According to Dr. Ahmad Hammou, “Obesity has been linked to sexual dysfunction in men, overeating in this country due to the variety of available fast food has been responsible for a great number of obese cases in the United States. previous studies have found that obesity is correlated to lower sperm count, and hormonal changes and diminished sexual quality of life long obese men are related to the degree of obesity.” Foundation, The Hormone. "The Obesity Crisis, What's it All About?" 2008. Obesity In America. http://www.obesityinamerica.org Obesity due to the overeating of fast food, would eventuall claim the happiness of men, because more obese men may end up suffering from sexual dysfunction, while some doctors say the condition is reversable , why should anyone take the risk?
Mc Donald’s would do anythingto attract their customers, even give the public what they want. If the public is calling for more healthy foods, well there you have it, healthy fruits on the menu, but more and more people are still buying the junk because they are still selling it. According to Melanie Warner. “McDonald's has attracted considerable attention in the last few years for introducing to its menu healthy food items like salads and fruit. Yet its turnaround has come not from greater sales of healthy foods but from selling more fast-food basics, like double cheeseburgers and fried chicken sandwiches, from the Dollar Menu.” Warner, Melanie "Salads or No, Cheap Burgers Revive McDonald’s." The New York Times 19 April, 2006. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. 5 February 2008.
What Mc Donald’s need to do is to completely change up their menu to sell healthier foods, instead of the high fat, high cholesterol foods they sell so fast to the public?
Too much fast food can have a devastating effect on our bodies. In the case of film maker Morgan Spurlock, who went on a Mc Donald binge for thirty days, all he ate was the super size meals on the menu. During the course of his experiment, Morgan explains, “I have experienced massive headaches if I did not eat Mc Donald’s I would also get mood swings, felt depressed and exhausted, I was at double risk for heart failure, double risk for heart disease, considering all blood work and vital signs were normal before the experiment. My liver turned to fat, my cholesterol went up to 230, I gained 24 pounds, and my sex life was worthless.” Super Size Me. Dir. Scott Ambrosy. Perf. Morgan Spurlock. 2004. Morgan used himself as a specimen in this experiment to show Americans what fast food would do to a humans if they eat Mc Donald’s junk food for thirty days.


BIBLIOBRAPHY
ABC-Clio. "Food." 2004. An enclycopedia of Contemporary culture and history. 22 february 2009 .
Abington:Helicon. "british foods: Two Diverging Paths." The hutchinson unabridged Encyclopedia with atlas and Weather guide (2008).
Elsevier. "Encyclopedia of applied psychology." 2004. Psychology Of Eating. 02 february 2009 .
Foundation, The Hormone. "The Obesity Crisis, What's it All About?" 2008. Obesity In America. .
Helicon, Abington:. "British foods: Two Diverging Paths." 2008. The Hutchinson Unabridged Enclycopedia With Atlas and Weather Guide. 22 February 2009 .
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Press, Cambridge University. "Cambridge World History of Food." 2000. Control of Food Additive. 22 February 2009 .
Press, Cambridge University. "Food and Identity." 2000. Cambridge world hISTORY OF FOOD. 22 February 2009.
Routledge. "Processed andFfast Food." 2005. Enclycopedia of 20th CenturyTechnology. 22 February 2009 .
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Comp 2000- Journal entry 4

COMP 2000 – Journal Entry 4

After reading the Preface and Introduction to They Say/ I Say, complete exercise 2 on page 14. The template is typed below for you.

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In the Introduction to They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to help students who are unsure of what to say.
Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer will help student make a whole host of sophisticated moves. As the authors themselves put it, “_these templates do not dictate what you say.” Although some people believe it would turn them into writing robots, Graff and Birkenstein insist that these templates will actually help your writing become more original and creative. In sum, then, their view is that it represents the stock and trade of sophisticated thinking.

I agree/disagree/have mixed feelings. In my view, the types of templates that the authors recommend will help my writing. For instance, it suggest a way of formatting what I say. In addition, Once I become comfortable with the templates in this book, I would be able to improve creatively. Some might object, of course, on the grounds that templates are very straightforward and they have problems recognizing that even the most creative forms of expression depend on established patterns and structure. Yet I would argue that the templates offered here are learning tools to get you started, not structures set in stone. Overall, then, I believe templates still gives the passage its underlying structure—an important point to make given that creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms, but in the imaginative use of them.

Comp 2000 Research Proposal 2/20/09

COMP 2000- Research Proposal 2/20/09
Proposal Title: Is fast food a daily eating option?
Submitted By: Rowland Solano
Introduction
This project will give me the opportunity to conduct my own research into determining why fast food has become a daily eating option. My questions are can people change their unhealthy eating habits? Do people understand what it means to eat healthy? Are people aware of all the health problems that exist in this country, due to poor eating habits?
My interest is to find out if people are getting valuable enough information regarding their health? Are people interested at all in eating healthy? Is it much more expensive to eat healthy? I am very concern about obesity in people, because I know some people who suffer from obesity. I would like to know what it would take to spread information throughout America to educate people about eating healthy
Research Method
In this research project I would first search the Internet for information concerning fast food and the cultural background that controls the eating habits of people in America. I would interview 30 people at different fast food restaurants to participate in my study. During the actual study the participants would be asked a series of simple questions concerning their eating habits, their family background, their working schedule, their financial situation, I would ask them if they had the opportunity to educate someone about healthy eating how would they go about doing it, and educate them on the benefits of healthy eating as oppose to eating unhealthy fast food, my intention is to understand their eating habits, and educate them on healthy eating. This study should take one week to complete, and after all the data has been gathered, I would read the information I received from the participants to see how more people can benefit from this study.






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Comp 2000 journal entry 10 2/13/09

THE FOUR AREAS OF ENGLISH STUDIES
A} 1) Rhetoric & Composition-Does the healthcare system in the United States really care about
healing the sick or generating an income from them?
2) English Education- Should school essays replace in class exams for students?
3) Cultural Studies- Does violence in movies have a negative effect on young people?
4) Discourse Analysis- Which database would give me more professional information for my
research project?
B} 5 TOPICS I COULD RESEARCH ON WRITING
1) Is the war in Afghanistan of any benefit to the United States?
2) Should the U.S. send aid to poor under developed countries?
3) should doctors recommend massage therapy as a source of medicine?
4) Should healthcare be socialized in the U.S.
5) Should college students be made more aware of the dangers of alcohol?

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SEX AND FERTILITY * An estimated 1.38 billion women in the world are of childbearing age (15-44). During most of their childbearing years, women are sexually active but do not want to have a child. * Initiation of sexual intercourse--as part of or apart from marriage--by age 20 is common. 77% of women in developed countries have had intercourse by age 20, compared with 83% in Sub-Saharan Africa and 56% in Latin America and the Caribbean. * In many countries, couples have more children than they desire--or have a child at a time that they do not want one. For example, in Kenya, the average woman has 6 children, and the desired family size is 4; Bangladeshi women desire 3 children but have, on average, 4. UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES * Worldwide, more than a quarter of women who become pregnant have either an abortion or an unwanted birth. * In developed countries (where average desired family size is small), of the 28 million pregnancies occurring every year, an estimated 49% are unplanned, and 36% end in abortion. * In developing countries (where average desired family size is larger), of the 182 million pregnancies occurring every year, an estimated 36% are unplanned, and 20% end in abortion. ABORTION INCIDENCE * The reasons women give for choosing to have an `abortion include that they have had all the children they want, they want to delay their next birth, they are too young or too poor to raise a child, they are estranged from or on uneasy terms with their sexual partner, and they do not want a child while they are in school or working. * 46 million women around the world have abortions each year. Of these women, 78% live in developing countries and 22% in developed countries. * About 11% of all women having abortions live in Africa, 58% in Asia and 9% in Latin America and the Caribbean. The remainder live in Europe (17%) and elsewhere in the developed world (5%). * For every 1,000 women of childbearing age, 35 are estimated to have an induced abortion each year. * Overall, women in developed and developing regions have strikingly similar abortion levels--39 procedures per 1,000 women and 34 per 1,000, respectively. * Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland have abortion rates below 10 per 1,000 women of reproductive age; in all other countries of Western Europe and in the United States and Canada, rates are 10-23 per 1,000. * Romania, Cuba and Vietnam have the highest reported abortion rates in the word (78-83 abortions per 1,000 women). Rates are also above 50 per 1,000 in Chile and Peru. * Worldwide, the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman. ABORTION LAW * About 26 million women have legal abortions each year, and 20 million have abortions in countries were abortion is restricted or prohibited by law. * In much of the world, liberalization of abortion laws occurred rapidly between 1950 and 1985. By early 1986, 36 countries had liberal abortion laws, permitting women to obtain the procedure for social or medical reasons or without regard to reason. * Between 1985 and 1997, 10 developed and 9 developing countries with populations of more than 1 million eased restrictions on abortion.* 39% of the world's women live under restrictive abortion laws: 25% in parts of the world where abortion is permitted only to save a woman's life or is prohibited altogether, 10% where abortion is allowed only when it is necessary to protect a woman's physical health or her life, and 4% in places where abortion is permitted only for these reasons or to protect a woman's mental health. * 61% of the world's women live in parts of the world that permit abortion to protect a woman's life or her physical or mental health, for socioeconomic reasons or without regard as to reason (at least during the early months of pregnancy). * In the 55 countries where abortion is permitted on broad grounds, the law usually stipulates some conditions, such as gestational limits, consent requirements, counseling and waiting periods, and restrictions on where and by whom abortions may be performed. SAFE VS. UNSAFE CONDITIONS * Abortion mortality is low in developed countries, where the procedure is usually legal (0.2-1.2 deaths per 100,000 abortions). But in developing regions (excluding China), where abortion is often illegal or highly restricted, abortion mortality is hundreds of times higher than in developed countries (330 deaths per 100,000 abortions). * Within the first 12 weeks of gestation, when most terminations are carried out, vacuum aspiration is the most commonly used method in the developed world. At later stages of pregnancy, dilation and evacuation and medical induction are commonly used. * The World Health Organization defines "unsafe abortion" as a "procedure for terminating an unwanted pregnancy [carried out] either by a person lacking the necessary skills or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both." It estimates that almost 20 million unsafe abortions occur each year--19 million in developing countries and the remainder mostly in Eastern Europe. * In developing countries with restrictive laws, wealthier women seek abortions primarily from physicians, but millions of poor women attempt to end their pregnancies by unsafe means. * Unsafe and often ineffective methods include taking various drugs or caustic substances by mouth; inserting objects into the vagina or flushing the vagina with caustic liquids; and having the abdomen massaged vigorously by women who are trained in this procedure. * About one-third of women undergoing unsafe abortions experience serious complications, but fewer than half of these women receive hospital treatment. * Of the estimated 600,000 annual pregnancy-related deaths worldwide, about 13% (or 78,000) are related to complications of unsafe abortion. * Mortality due to abortion is highest in Africa--an estimated 680 deaths per 100,000 procedures. PREVENTING UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES * The average woman must use some form of effective contraception for at least 20 years if she wants to limit her family size to 2 children, 16 years if she wants 4 children. * Globally, 58% of married women are practicing contraception. About 65-80% use a method in developed regions, Latin America and the Caribbean, and East Asia; 42% in the rest of Asia; and only 20% in Africa. * Nearly 230 million women worldwide--roughly 1 in 6 women of reproductive age--are in need of effective birth control methods. * In 8 developing countries that have information on contraceptive behavior among sexually active, unmarried women, between one-third and two-thirds are not using any contraceptive method; a further 10-40% are using a traditional method with a high failure rate, predominantly periodic abstinence. * U.S. data illustrate how contraception can reduce abortion. Women using a method of contraception are only 15% as likely as women using no method to have an abortion. SOURCES The data in this fact sheet are the most current available. Most of the data are from research conducted by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and published in Sharing Responsibility: Women, Society and Abortion Worldwide; Hopes and Realities: Closing the Gap Between Women's Aspirations and Their Reproductive Experiences; Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives; Induced Abortion: A World Review, 1986, sixth ed.; and the peer-reviewed journal Family Planning Perspectives. An additional source is the United Nations Population Division. Worldwide Pregnancies

More than a third of pregnancies do not end in the birth of a baby.

Miscarriages and still births (15%)
Induced abortions (22%)
Live births (63%)

210 million pregnancies, 1999 (projected)
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RETHORICAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT CORRECTED VERSION

Sex and fertility

This paper being analyzed is called SEX AND FERTILITY, it is broken down into five parts
which discusses unplanned pregnancies, abortion incidence, abortion law, safe versus unsafe
conditions, and preventing unplanned pregnancies. The CLAIM the writer is trying to make is in many countries of the world today couples are having much more children than they really want, or having a child at the time when the do not desire one. This claim is a claim of fact, and the writer uses plenty of stastical data to back up his arguement, and we can see most of the evidence he provides have some truth to it. for example he said in the first paragraph that "worldwide , more than a aquarter of women who become pregnant have either an abortion or an unwanted birth." the thesis is setting the stage for us to believe that his claim is true, and as we continue to read the writer is very cleverly gives stastical date to further back up his claim, with this data he attached some more evidence while he breaks the world down into developed and developing countries.

The DATA the writer uses to support his claim is endless, he uses stastical data from countries around the world as evidence to solidily support his claim. the way he uses his evidence to support the explaination of his reasoning seems very convincing, and makes it easy to accept his claim. The data he uses for example to explain the incedence of abortion is he said , "Overall women in developing regions have strictly similiar abortion levels . 39 procedures per 1,000 women and 34 per 1,000 respectively.

The WARRANTS this writer is making touches home base, in the sense that he makes his arguement very convincing and easy for anyone reading this paper to accept. It is clear to everyone that women do have abortions in all countries around the world and he gives evidence of how much, and he specifies the selected countries, so we can get an idea of the values and commonly accepted beliefs of certain countries also it appeals to human motives and this strategy makes his arguement acceptable.

The BACKINGS the writer uses to further support his warrent is very strong, because first of all he makes it clear for all that women do have unwanted pregnancies, and they do have abortions for many different reasons.

The GROUNDS the writer to further back up his data seems trustworthy enough, he is saying he did the research by giving the names of certain organizations that if we check with them we are sure to get credible evidence. One example is he mentions that he got some of his evidence from the "World HEALTH ORGANIZATION."

There is always grounds for REBUTTAL in any arguement, in this paper the writer seems so very convincing that one would think with all his stastical data from the credible sources he mentions in his paper, we can only accept what he said to hold to be true, but when he mentioed that in developing countries with restrictive laws, richer women have abortions primarily from doctors as opposed to poorer women who have abortion by unsafe means, this could be a ground for rebuttal, because in todays society women are very health concious, and most women would not take the chance of further endangering their lives.

COMP 2000 JOURNAL ENTRY #3 INVENTING THE UNIVERSE

1} Bartholomae means by saying, that students must "invent the university" when they write a
paper. Students should learn the language of teh type writing they are involved in and use
standardize formatting and language for that particular field of study. eg if they are writing a
history paper, economics, or psychology paper etc...

2} Barthomomae suggest a way for students to become "insiders" within an academic discourse
is by imagining themselves being given the right to speak and being inside an established
powerful discourse.

3} In the first essay the writer sees himself as being creative, but the second writer did not
really see themself as being very creative, but in another sense she did think she was being
creative.

B} The writer of this paper thinks that the first paper was not very creative and elegant, but the
second paper, he thinks that creativity began there.

Comp 2000 Journal entry 9 PARTICIPANT & INSTITUATIONAL IDENTITY

1}Through the writers resrearch they are trying to find out more about writers identity as they
represent themselves in various genres of an activity system.
b} The research question that guides their work are. How student writers constructs of self are
reflected in school genres [categories of literary composition] and how their backgrounds,
specific academic dicciplines, and institutional goals affect their constructs.
2} The author collects the data she needs for her research project by analyzing the way student
writers reveal themselves through their writings and interactions with teachers, researchers,
friends, and families at the Catholic College.
3} On Nova university campus and South Plantation High School, I see students heavily
involved in clusters of cliques, with each clique having its own identity. The students want to
have something to associate their identity with, the are either studying together quietly,
some are observing their different styles by the way they are dressed, some are loud,
aggressive, or there are the ones who wants to be looked upon as the intelectuals.

comp 2000 journal entry 8 "4 real: Authenticity.

1} The author is trying to find out more about the authenticity of musicians. The research
Question guiding his work is, does the rock bands live up to the accusation of not being
authentic. is their performance and their music such that it is lowering the reputation of the
spirit of music.
2} The author quotes from the radio station NME music radio news letters, books and books
from other authors to build his arguement. books from the author Richard Dyer, Bill Flanagan
and also Simon Frith. Simon Frith was the former rock music critic and sociologist who was
also specialized in popular music culture.
3} I see others around me attempting to establish their authenticity by trying to stay original
in what they do and by being realistic with their music, such as the late Bob Marley, he sang
about rignteousness about his roots and culture.

journal entry 7 professional editing strategies

1) The writer is trying to find out more about the approach used by professional editors for the purpose of perfecting their revision process.

2) The research methodiology of this article is called Retrospective Verbalization. They collect their information by having their assiatant scroll down the written text, and stopping at each modification. With the editor sitting nearby, they ask the editor questions based on their reasons for justifying their choiceof solution. The verbalresponse is recorded and at the end of the session the editoe ensures a number of questions within the framework of a semistructured interview.

3) Professional editing differ from student review in the sense that professionals use a standardize method of analysys with the use of an assistant, and whereas students revise their work looking for minor errors own their own or with another classmate.

sex is a sacred union between two people that should be kept only between a husband and a wife. It differenciated a relationship between friendship and marriage.

comp 2000 journal entry 6

1) By rhetorical situation, Bitzer does not mean a physical situation to be involved in. eg an embarrasing or dangerous situation to be involved in.

2) By rherorical situation, Bitzer means the implied characteristics of a context in which speakers and writers generate ideas for conversation.

3) Exigence is the whole atmosphere of an event. eg. what happened, what was said, who was there, did it rain enough to flood the place, and ruin the event for everyone?

b) An example of an exigence someone could respond to in writing, would be to ask someone to write about their trip to spain, and explain if they accomplished everything they set out to do on their trip.

journal entry 5 Specialization Problem

In discussion of the problem of specialization one controversal issue is English studies has been subjected to specialization more than any other discipline in the humanities and the social science fields. On the other hand this problem is not just an academis phenomenom argues Evan Dewey, but of the conditions of the contemporary world. On the other hand the more specialized our scholarships are, the more separated it becomes from our academic world, contends Michael Berbe. Others even maintain that fusion is one of the most promising models for curricular reform in Englisg studies. My own view is I agree with the idea of fusion of the different disciplines of English instead of letting it fall apart.

Abortion

Rowland Solano 1/23/09
Dr Mason
Comp 2000 project 1

Sex and Fertility
There is an estimation that 1.38 billion women in the world today are of child bearing age and this age range is from 15-44 years of age. According to the article these women are more than likely sexually active but they do not wish to have children, for whatever their personal reason is. The author is making a very valid point with the statistics when he writes that most women are introduced to sex at about the age of twenty in most countries, his statistic shows that in most develop countries 77% of women have had intercourse at age 20 and 83% in sub- Saharan Africa and 56% in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author goes on to write about the amount of children couples have in most countries. He stresses the fact that couples have more than the amount of children than they desire or they have children in times when they do not want one.
The authors claim is basically couples having unwanted pregnancies, in countries all around the world. This author is making a claim of value; he writes that for every 1,000 women of childbearing age, 35 are expected to have an abortion
The big question is what happens next should abortion be the solution for unwanted children or should couples go through an unwanted birth. The author uses statistical data to back up his claim by writing, 28 million pregnancies occur per year in developing countries where the average family size is small, he stresses 36% end in abortion and 49% go through with the unplanned pregnancy. In larger families there are 182 million pregnancies occur annually, 20% end in abortion and 36% give birth to the unplanned pregnancy.
The author’s facts are that 46 million women have children around the world annually; he writes 78% live in developing countries and 22% in developed countries. The author gives the value in this article by writing, the reasons women give for having an abortion are, they have enough children, they want to delay the next birth of their child, they are too young or not economically enough to have a child, they do not want to be a single parent, they have to finish school first, or they do not want children while they are working. In 39% of the world women live under restrictive laws the author writes, where abortion is given the ok to save a woman’s life. Due to unsafe practices of performing abortion women are experiencing serious health complications. The author makes a point that poor women attempt to terminate their pregnancy with unsafe methods. An estimated 6000,000 million annual pregnancy-related deaths worldwide and 13% are related to unsafe abortion practices. The author is letting the readers know how serious this situation is before someone plans to have an abortion, this is a very effective technique in helping his argument, about abortion and unwanted birth. Should abortion be legal? This debatable topic would be with us until eternity.

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hot stone therapy
spa treatments
children
health
high cholesterol

obsety in children journal entry 2

Parents should make sure kids eat healthy to ensure a healthy life for their children.
Probably some parents weren't taught to eat healthy when they were growing up.
Most parents want to know that their children are healthy all their lives.
Some kids become overweight becauce of uncontrollable cercumstances, such as a genetic disorder in their family.
Parents should be very particular with what their children eat for the maintenance of their good health later on in their lives.
The experts say that 15% of kids are overweight in this country, and another 15% are at risk for becoming overweight. website http://pediatrics.about.com/ .
Kids dont know what is best for them to eat at this young age. They eat whatever taste good to them.

Controlling what your kids eat journal entry 1

Parents should find creative ways to influence and control their kids diet, just to make sure they are taking in the proper nutrients needed for their health.
It is true, if children do not learn the basics from their parents about the right and wrong ways to eat, most of them could have some serious health problems later on in life.
When children do not follow a sensible diet, which is their foundation for good health, chances are they sometimes suffer from obsety and malnutrition.
Parents should not leave their children to eat whatever and whenever they want to eat.
A} The claim is parents should control what their kids eat to preserve their good health.
B} This is a claim of fact.
C} The appeals of fact is being used to show what could happen to childrens' health if they are
are not controlled.