...The meaning of dynamic nominalism is that in naming classifications of human types, people come to fit the label given. A new possibility is offered and this can influence individuals to adopt characteristics and thus fit in to the new classification. This differs from inert nominalism and realism as this label may not always be the same one used for the individual, as social change gives birth to new opportunities, individuals may move categories. This essay is going to explore Hacking’s term dynamic nominalism through the illustration of some of the issues in the emo society. The concept of dynamic nominalism claims that in giving a name to a category a new opportunity is created for human types to adopt. New types of people start to exist that in some respects did not before. We can see this through the emergence of the emo society. The term emo is short for emotional it was first used as a description for a genre of music named emotional hardcore, with lyrics full of sad and depressed emotions. As the music became more popular adolescents found a sense of belonging within the music, (Gorce 2005) and a new possibility that allowed their emotions to be expressed emerged. As dynamic nominalism explains “new slots were created in which to fit”. (Hacking 2002:100) The emo society was custom made to fit the youth who wanted to express their emotion. The emo society and the emo person were born in unison, in the same way that dynamic nominalism states “a kind of person came into...
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...Eat Drink Man Woman Anthony Bourdain, an American chef and author of the book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, displays that food is a way of ceasing haggard and pessimistic feelings, and bringing forth true and real emotions through his following quote; “For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food” (Bourdain, A, 2000). From the viewpoint of communication studies, food has been, and remains to be, a significant representation in our foundation of meaning. Food, as an everyday necessity of social life, is an important aspect to study as it expresses current social studies through distinct relationships of class, education, gender, and sexuality. In addition, the customs of sharing foods and meals have been key in communicative practices in cultures all over the world. In the following paragraphs, the Taiwanese feature film Eat Drink Man Woman, managed and written by well-known director Ang Lee, who also successfully directed movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Hulk, will be analyzed to see how food is constructed and represented in the movie. In the film it is stated by character Jia-Chien that they “communicate by eating” (Lee, A, 1994). This is important because it displays that food is a form of expression and communication, a form that is commonly misunderstood or avoided...
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...them), someone exclaims, “I have an announcement to make”. With these words, the words that follow initially appear detrimental to the very fabric of the family. When Jia-Chen explains that she is moving out, or when Jia-Jen and Jia-Ning discuss their wishes to marry, Master Chu realizes that just like his sense of taste, his girls are leaving him in his old-age. However, the actions that push the family farther apart ultimately bring them closer together. Eat Drink Man Woman drives home the theme that father knows best. Throughout the film, Chu’s Confucian fatherly figure, for the most part, lacks fluent communication with his daughters; yet, in the end, he exploits the strength of family ties and the importance of verbalizing his love. Even though there may have been both a contrast between his and his children’s attitude towards the dynamics of the family and a distinct separation between their perceptions of being selfish and selfless, Chu elects to redefine himself and his relationship with his daughters. Perhaps Eat Drink Man Woman’s most intriguing attribute is...
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...Kimberly Riblet HRM135 XP Anthony McPhee 2/21/2011 Alice Waters I chose Alice Waters. More than any other single figure, she was instrumental in developing New American Cuisine. Alice Waters was Born in Chatham, New Jersey on April 28, 1944. She graduated from the University of California in 1967 with a degree in French Cultural Studies. She is married to Stephen Singer, a wine and olive oil merchant and a painter, and has a daughter, Fanny, who was born in 1983. Alice interest in food began when she traveled to France during her junior year to study at the University of Paris. She couldn’t get enough of the tastes of fresh local foods. After graduating in 1967, she went back to Europe, for postgraduate study at the Montessori School in London. She returned to Berkeley and began teaching at the Montessori School there. After longing for the same kind of freshness from the local food she tasted in France, she decided to open her own business. She opened Chez Panisse in 1971, serving a five-course, fixed-price menu that changed daily. This was the great transformative event in American culinary history. The principle of Chez Panisse was that food—both animal and vegetable—should be absolutely fresh, and that meant absolutely local (Weinberger). Because all her food has to be fresh, she only buys from local ranchers, fishermen and farmers. Local farmers’ markets and organic foods grown without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or hormones, are just a few of the trends...
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...thestarted making the connection between my family's lives and mine. I finally understood that the reason I never had the started making the connection between my family's lives and mine. I finally understood that the reason I never had the started making the connection between my family's lives and mine. I finally understood that the reason I never had the How important is it for a family to eat dinner together? I am currently the sole source of income for my family. My husband is a stay at home husband and we have a 9 1/2 year old son. My husband simply does not like to sit down at the dining room table and eat with my son and I. He prefers to sit in the living room in front of the tv or in front of the computer in the computer room and eat his dinner while either watching tv or surfing the net. It makes me feel like he is sending us a message that he is too good to sit down and eat with us. He will make exceptions for holiday meals or birthday meals. I have insisted that he sit down and eat with us and told him how it makes me feel, but he tells me that most families don't eat together anymore. I'd love to hear what you all do at meal time and what...
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...How to Eat to Live Book 1 "There is no way for us to learn the right way to eat in order to live a long life, except through the guidance and teachings of Allah, Who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, How to Eat to Live...Book one Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Right Way to Eat Vegetables Food God Suggests Why They Urge You to Eat the Swine The Pig...Swine Fasting One Meal A Day Beware of Starchy Foods and Sweets How Allah's Way Prolongs Life How To Keep Food from Hurting Us The Proper Food and the Proper Time to Eat it The Right Food and the Proper Time to Eat it is becoming a "MUST" Fruit is digested better when eaten Raw Overindulgence, The Enemy Our Biggest Problem is Eating too Much and too Often Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Why and How we Fast in December The Food and It's Eater Food Can be Life or Death How to Live More than 100 Years Proper Food for Body and Mind Equals Good Health The Benefits of Eating Once a Day A List of Foods We Must Not Eat You Don't Need Numerous Diets; Just Eat Once Daily Feeding Babies Meat, Part 1 Know the Truth About the Flesh of The Swine Live a Thousand Years Train Yourself to Eat as Allah has Prescribed...
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...information about nutrition. The truth of the matter is your nutrient intake can affect your current and future health. Besides you are what you eat. Too much saturated fat can increase your risk of heart disease, and too little of calcium can increase your risk of osteoporosis. Americans are trying to find ways to improve their diets. In the United States today heart disease and diabetes are now appearing in younger and younger groups. A diet that lacks a healthy diet or physical activity plays a vital role in ones day to day life. A healthy diet plan can be a cup of broccoli which has more calcium, vitamin C, vitamin A, and folate that have a fewer calories than a half a cup of french fries. There are six classes of nutrients that are needed to help us stay alive, live healthy, grow, and reproduce. These nutrients are water, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, and minerals (Nutrition). This is a view of my daily food plan that was done for three days from the diet analysis showing my eating habits. The website that I viewed features President Obama wife Michelle Obama endorsing the My Plate that replaced the USDA food pyramid in 2011. The goal of the site is to show just how easy it is to monitor what you eat on your plate in a healthier way that even a child can do it. As I monitored my 3 Day Diet Analysis which showed me that I am not the most healthy eater which I already knew. One reason that I know that I am not a healthy eater is because I do not like eating...
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...that the individual scored that improved were me eating healthier, eating more fruit and vegetable servings, eating more calcium, and avoiding a lot of fast food meals. I think what helped me improve in these areas was for Lent, which is where I have to give up something for 40 days. So for Lent, I decided to give up meat, fast food, sweets, and anything but water. I think the only way my diet didn’t change or improve was me still not eating 3 meals a day. I still tend to eat big meals twice a day instead of eating 5-6 small meals a day or spreading out my eating times. I think what helped contributed to that was me not preparing my own meals, not eating at the right times or me just not being hungry. One similarity that I noticed from these two records was that I still eat only 2-3 big meals a day and don’t really know how to eat smaller portions. But I did notice that in my second records, I ate a healthy breakfast (yogurt and berries) all three days while in my first record, I would only eat a special K bar. Another difference that I noticed was that I didn’t have any fast food at all and ate more homemade meals, like tilapia with vegetables. I also noticed in the second records that I started to eat more servings of fruits and vegetables in my breakfast and dinners compared to my first records where I barely ate any servings of both. Behavior Change Contract I did succeed on reaching my goal! What helped me reach it was me telling and making myself prepare my breakfast...
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...Fast Food Approachability I have spent quarter of my life in a miserable condition. I really feel distressed when I remember my past days. When I was in a refugee camp, one of the organizations distributed rice as a main food. Being a refugee, I did not have proper clothes to wear, a house to live in, and food to eat. I did not have any other options than to eat rice. I ate rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Because of rice, I was able to survive. Therefore, the need of rice has become my want and desire. It does not matter what I eat, I don’t feel I am full until I eat rice. Rice can only make me satisfied, happy, and satiated; after coming to the U.S the environment change and I felt like now I get everything that I didn’t have when I was in my country. But as time pass I learned, America is the fastest moving country in fast food eating. People tend to eat outside of the house. This is one of the main factors that cause obesity. There are lots of reasons that people choose to eat processed foods. Today in our society, time is one of the biggest issues on their schedules because the people in here are always busy working or engaging in some sort of activities. For example, work, college and their personal time consume a lot of time on a daily basis. Besides those activities, all these fast food restaurants, good taste of fast or processed food, and less time to prepare processed food are making people lazy and they ignore to cook at home. It will even be better if at...
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...Super Size Me Assignment To begin with, I have seen this movie Super Size Me before in high school. This is my second time watching it and I am still shocked by what is said in this movie. With that being said, I do eat fast food quite often. I eat it about 2-3 times a week. I do not live at home so I no longer get home cooked meals from my mom. I try to cook by myself sometimes but there are only so many things I know how to make and is sometimes more convenient for me just to drive down the street and get Del Taco or Weiner Schnitzel’s. Also with work and school I try my best to bring my own lunch or eat at a restaurant rather than going to a fast food joint. This film relates to the NF15 course in many ways, one of them being that when the narrator interviewed random people on the streets, nobody knew what a calorie was. This shows that people hear the word calories and see it on every food label and everywhere they look that there’s food, but still do not know what it is. This goes to show that people do not generally care about calories and how much they take in. Most people who eat fast food also do not know how many calories they are taking in from the food that they ordered. The foods ordered from fast food restaurants do not have food labels and only some will give you a nutrition facts sheet if asked for one. The film also showed that an order of small fries had 200 calories while the large order had 600 calories. That is 3 times the amount of calories...
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...not having a peanut allergy. Luckily up to this day I’ve never have a reaction. From 3 to 11 I’ve been having to be careful about what I eat. My mom and my dad have been really careful about what I eat, and they care about me. There also very protective when it comes to stuff. When you have a peanut allergy you need to be responsible, so if you don’t know if you can eat...
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...for me to follow my list. I realized that if I kept myself busy I won’t be starving, and I kept myself busy by playing soccer on my free times and that makes me drink a lot of water which also keeps me away from starving. ‘’ we are what we eat’’ is an old expression people used back in time, but I think that it is more accurate to say “we are what we absorb”. In my opinion it does not matter what we eat, it matters how we eat it. For example, if I eat fast food from McDonalds every day, I don’t think that I will get fat because I won’t eat a lot to get my stomach full, but I will eat enough so that my stomach won’t starve. I like to eat my food slowly and mindfully because I want to enjoy my food and I think that it is the way to eat healthy. Some factors affect the way I eat for example, skipping breakfast. When I skip breakfast my stomach starves and when my stomach starves I eat more than I suppose to on my lunch time. I don’t really care about the nutrients when I am starving. My opinion about organic food that it is the real food than nonorganic. When I eat organic food, it taste better than GMO’s because I think that when they grow foods with some chemicals it ruins the taste. Organic foods are the healthiest food in this world comparing to any other food however when we compare the prices organic foods are way more expensive than nonorganic food. To me, nonorganic food are the same as junk food. I actually knew some of them but the other ones surprised me like...
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...3-Day Diet Analysis The 3-day diet analysis was very interesting to me, and has given me some very useful and challenging information pertaining to my health. I know I do not have the healthiest eating habits, and after using the SuperTracker I plan to do my best at changing my diet. My current eating habits are not very bad, but not very good or healthy. I do not eat breakfast, but when I do I eat breakfast I eat food that is for lunch or dinner. I know that is not good, but eating some breakfast food makes me feel sick. Honestly, I like to eat breakfast food at night. Lately, I have not wanted to eat breakfast at all. So when lunch time comes around I am starving and I sometimes eat more than I should. I also stuff myself when I am eating. I have this mentality that I should eat everything on my plate, even when I am full. The recommendations I received from the SuperTracker pertaining to my servings from each food group were mostly under the serving size. I received a good report in the protein category. I love to eat meat. The vegetable category was okay in some areas, but needs improvement. I also need to improve in the calorie area. Apparently, I was under my 1800 calories, but the empty calories I was over the limit. As I mentioned before my eating habits are not good at all. I can adjust my diet by eating the appropriate nutrients. I need to eat more fruits because my results were not good in that category. I can add...
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...3 Day Diet Plan Kerry Case SCI/241 12/2/2012 William Connor For many years now it has been a struggle to eat healthy, and smoked on regular basis until this past June. When I quit smoking I replaced one bad habit with another and that bad habit was food. When it came to eating my current schedule does not allow me the time to eat like I should. My schedule at work requires me to be at work early so being able to fix something to eat just takes up too much time. I have also found that even if I do eat just a banana it makes me very tired, and with my job being a school bus driver, falling asleep at the wheel is not good. In the morning I usually buy a soda to drink. This usually lasts me from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Then from 9 a.m. to around 12:15 I purchase another soda. Usually around lunch I bring something to eat that I have previously cooked the following night from dinner. Sometimes I just don’t feel like eating so I throw that back into our work refrigerator and leave it for the next day. I clock back in around 1:30 p.m. and purchase another soda that lasts me until I get off work at 5 p.m. I rush home to fix something quick for dinner such as spaghetti with garlic bread, and a soda to drink. After dinner is done I help my children with their homework as I clean up from dinner. When the children have done their homework and gotten ready for bed is when I finally sit down and do my own homework. Finally around midnight I am ready for bed to just turn around and get up at...
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...disorders even. It all just depends on who you are. For me I do not have a nutritional problem per say. I have a poor diet. My nutritional needs are that I need to add healthier foods into my diet. Going to eat for lunch every day at Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King, or even Wendys is not healthy. When I get home eating a bunch of junk is not healthy either. This causes me not eat dinner. Now all I have in my diet is unhealthy foods. Instead of going out to eat on my lunch every day I should pack a few small snacks. Something small and light like fruit and vegetables. The nutrients in fresh fruits and vegetables are a lot better than the junk I am putting in my body on a daily basis. The unhealthy foods can cause me to gain weight or cause heart problems to be even worse for me. Heart issues are a big health problem that runs in my family. While I pack a small snack for early morning then on in the afternoon it makes it so that I do not over eat either. This is another issue I have with food. If I eat a meal I eat way more than I should. Also when I get home from work I would be able to have another small light snack like crackers and cheese. Even though I had a small snack I will not eat as much at dinner as I might if I eat dinner. I think that by eating the light snacks I will want to eat dinner and I will not eat so much. Finding that just eating lunch and not dinner, I get hungry around midnight again and eat again. Eating before bed is not the best thing to. When...
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