...she is simply forcing herself to appear to be drawn into whatever her surroundings are. She is not showing her true emotions or at least not showing them in her true form. This example also shows that she places a high priority on her image and wants to be involved in everything. Typically this would not be seen as a negative quality for an individual, but this goes against the normal order of a Nun because they usually want to be in the background and unnoticed. Other prime examples of how her qualities are projected in a false manners are: “She helped herself to meat with immense discretion” (136) and “By seeing a mouse caught in a trap, dead/ Or bleeding, she barely controlled the tears she shed” (144-145). These descriptions make the reader believe that the reason she is so selective with meat is because she is so soft hearted, and pitiful for any person or animal in suffering that she would not consume meat. Yet owns a pack of small dogs that she...
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...lives once they’re feeling healthier.” A plant-based lifestyle produces more energy than one involving animal products. Centering one’s diet exclusively around vegetables and fruits will energize the body better than eating mostly meat and dairy products. In Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, Phil Staples goes on a sixty day fruit and vegetable cleanse. By the end of his experiment, many of his peers said that he was much healthier looking and more energetic than before (Fat, Sick). The longer that Staples was exclusively on a plant-based diet the more energy he began to have....
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...CHAPTER 2 FACTORS AFFECTING FOODWAYS AND CULINARY PRACTICES INTRODUCTION Food culture is multi-faceted, influenced by a number of factors, of which the main ones are presented and briefly explained in this chapter. Examples are given for better understanding and appreciation of how a factor could affect the foodways of a population group or area. One factor may have more impact on bringing about changes than other factors. Each has varying degrees and extent of influences that makes cultural foods around the world interesting and challenging to the readers and culinary afficionados. Geographical Location The geographical location of a country determines the kind of climate it has throughout the year. Also, its neighboring countries and bodies of water (ocean or sea) influence the available food added to foods inherent in its culture. An example is the African continent: North African nations with coastal lines of the Mediterranean Sea have common foodways with Greeks, Italians and other nations that also get food sources from this sea. Another example is about countries in the tropical belt, having fruits that cannot grow in wintry areas of the world. Thus, what are exotic to the non-tropical countries are common and cheap in tropical countries. Conversely, grapes, berries, and different varieties of apples imported to the tropical countries are expensive. While climate is one of the factors in the study of geography, its impact on cultural foods is very significant...
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... First and foremost, I Miss Imkumsungla would like to express my sincere gratitude to our teacher Sir Moa and Miss Aien who was kind enough to lead and help us throughout the project. Secondly, I would like to share my deepest gratitude to the school authority and NBSE for being thoughtful in giving us this project, through which we experience and learned so much. Lastly, my word of thanks for all my fellow students, friends and relatives who have helped me throughout the project and giving me more idea. Imkumsungla Class-11 Rollno-27 Sec-A Introduction Animal husbandry benefits us in many ways. Rearing of livestock can be done by every household. It must be encourage among rural household. We must rear animal not only for red meat but also for the economic purpose for a household. They also help in raising the standards of a farmer. We can also define animal husbandry as a subject that can be studied, often in the college environment. Some people who raise animals may also take a class or two in animal husbandry to learn how to do certain things, like how to dock tails, make use of the newest technology to milk animals, or how to breed animals using artificial insemination techniques. From a scientific standpoint, specialists in animal husbandry may try to address specific problems occurring in large groups of animals. For...
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...Meat without Guilt of Ethics Jessica Paxton Devry University America today has developed a unique relationship with meat. They love meat because it is part of everyday life, but they have guilt about the process the meat has been thru to get to them. Meat in America goes through slaughterhouses that have been called into question more and more. Slaughterhouses stop many people from eating meat because of guilt, but changing the process by; first reevaluating the ethical treatment the animals go through, secondly meat needs to not have a sense of guilt come with it, then change the assembly line process when killing the animals, and finally reverting back to hunting animals for just what we need. First, slaughterhouses need to be reevaluated for the ethical treatment of how the animals are killed. There are rules that they slaughterhouses are supposed to abide by both ethical and legal. However, there are many situations where those rules are being broken, but nothing is really being done about it. There was one instance where PETA came in and found that one slaughterhouse was treating the animals with cruelty when they investigated. http://www.peta.org/features/Agriprocessors.aspx http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-slaughterhouse-cruelity-humane-death-myth In this specific case it shows how animals are inhumanely stored to be slaughtered. These companies plead guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty after the investigation was over. They had been killing animals...
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...The Murder of Oetzi An unexpected visit in the night led to the devastating destruction of the Italian Alps village. The wind gusted across the entire village as it took with it clumps of orange, red, and yellow crunchy leaves which spread the smells of decomposed leaves. While the hooting owls softly accompanied the soothing sounds of the winds. The trees that surrounded the village stood eerily still where most of them were naked and barren with only a few lonely leaves attached to their arms. The pitch black sky was illuminated by the full moon and many stars. The hundred villagers slept soundlessly in their mud worn huts. Particularly, a well-respected man with the name of Acca, chief of the village, who should have been awake to watch over the village alerting his villagers if intruders were to attack. Unfortunately, a woman’s agonizing cry served as the warning bell instead. A blood-curdling scream awoke Acca from his peaceful dream. “Wh-what was that?” growled the sleepy man slurring his speech. He yawned and rubbed his eyes with his rough hands out of habit. As he sat up on the ground he wondered whether the scream was merely an aspect of his bizarre dream. The side of his prominent, hooked nose twitched involuntarily which signaled that danger is near. He rotated his body slightly to the left trying to see if he could catch a glimpse of something that could prove whether the scream was real or not. While doing so the moonlight that beamed through the window revealed...
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...Final 1. In James Turner Johnson’s article ‘Threats, values and defense: does the defense of values by force remain a moral possibility?’ (60) he cites four justifications for war. What are they? From a pacifist’s point of view why are these reasons problematic? In this article the four justifications for going to war are: defense of the innocent, recovery of something wrongly taken, punishment of evil, and defense of aggression in progress. From a pacifist's point of view there are some major problems with these justifications for war. Each and every justification is met with its own singular problem. The defense against the innocent seems like it is justified but there arises two arguments against it. In a war more than just soldiers are killed. Other civilians will be killed and many of the soldiers don’t want to fight, they are just ordered too. That means we are killing innocent civilians and soldiers to protect some innocent. From a utilitarian view we must ask if this the death of the innocent will outweigh the death of the other innocent if we do or don’t go to war. Yet, deontologists would say that killing is bad and that needs to be punished because killing is wrong. So kill people to stop killing. For a pacifist that is just wrong. The other problem from defending the innocent is that violence is key in war and many times over we have been shown that violence is not always the best way. We should try and support people and ideas like Gandhi, to win with non-violence...
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...in the institution where I worked, I was planning an international conference for 200 people and went for a meeting at the La Palm Beach Hotel, to finalise arrangements for the conference. I heard the telephone on my desk ringing when I was about to enter my office. I quickly opened my office door and entered my office. The phone kept ringing, I picked the handset. The receptionist told me that my sister was on the phone and wanted to speak with me. I had not visited Yoyo for some weeks and she had called to check on me. We agreed to meet during the weekend. I went to the shop to buy some cookies for Yoyo’s kids and set off to visit her at her residence in North Kaneshie. Yoyo informed me that her friend Ewurama’s younger brother was dead. “Too bad,” I said and we continued chatting. We did not discuss the funeral, since we are usually not interested in going for funerals. A week later, Yoyo told me that she would have to go for the funeral, considering her closeness with Ewurama at the time. Ewurama was one of Yoyo’s school mates and I knew her quite well. Yoyo wanted me to accompany her to the funeral and the...
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...Just the other day I went to a sit down restaurant and ordered chicken wings. Obviously there are laws protecting people from getting tainted food, but the source of this food was unknown to me and could of had something wrong with it. Luckily I am fine and I survived that meal, but the process of how that food got to my plate and how that animal was treated before it was slaughtered to become my food was unknown to me. Even though farm animals such as chickens, pigs, and cows are most likely going to be killed for food purposes, they are living things and do deserve to live a decent life before they become our food. The opposition might argue that there are too many people in this world who eat meat, so these means are necessary to feed all the people. But if the meat eating society were to look closely at how these animals were treated before becoming our food in most cases they would not see a very good life and even would be disgusted with the environments as well as the treatment of these animals. Due to this fact the way in which animals are treated before and while being slaughtered needs to be altered to a more humane way. In the past, animals were treated almost as part of the family, since they usually were the family’s only source of food or means of getting money. This is still...
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...Week 2 Reading summaries Claude Fischler “Food, Self and Identity” (1988) * Food goes deeper than being a source of nutrition, it is central to our individual identity given that we are constructed, biologically, psychologically and socially by the food we choose to incorporate into our lives. * Omnivore’s paradox: One of the fundamental components of our identity as omnivores is that we have the autonomy, freedom and adaptability to consume a wide range of food. However this liberty also implies dependence and constraint. Omnivores cannot obtain all the nutrients it needs from one food alone and omnivores must also avoid harmful foods. * The principle of incorporation dictates that food and cuisine are a central component of the sense of collective belonging. * Disgust is a socially constructed biological safeguard. The psychology of eating behavior reveals that children have the tendency to accept only a limited range of food they are familiar with. This gives us insight into our natural instinct as humans to put new exotic foods through thorough examination before we consume it. * Because of how complex identifying a food can be based on its cultural origins, the culinary system provides a pre-fabricated matrix where one can identify a food by understanding its place in the world. * In today’s society as food is becoming more processed and integrated through globalization our cultural and physiological identity through food is becoming...
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...A Practical Stand on why it is Okay to Eat Meat. By: Francisco Ron For: Professor Hill January 22, 2012 As humans we recognize that we are at the top of the food chain. There are many contrasting views on the subject if it is morally right to eat animals. Anthropologists discovered that when humans learned how to cook with fire there was a major evolvement in the human brain. By cooking meat from dead animals that were hunted, a viable source of protein was introduced and adapted throughout our history. Obviously humans are so intelligent that we have now created a way to extract protein from other non-animal sources. Is that a justificatory defense not to eat meat? Eating meat is not wrong, but the whole process of how the meat gets to our freezers is not morally right. Animal rightist may say that the meat eaters are involved in speciesism. The discrimination of animals based on the belief that humans are superior. Animal rightist do not eat animals because they are living things and can suffer. Aren’t plants living things? And therefore, they may suffer when killed too. If that was the case, humanity will had starved to death long ago. So why is eating a cow or a chicken so wrong to these people? I would like to believe the reason behind animal rightist not eating meat is on the practice of how the meat is handled. There have been numerous reports about animal abuse and malpractice in farms and slaughter houses. I do not agree on how the cows, pigs, and chickens...
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...Neanderthals originated from Africa and moved up to the north to Europe and Asia (daily mail). Archeologists found the mostly populated place was in Europe and looked for any fossils (netflix). Homo sapiens used fire to make the meat and the tough plants they eat more consumed more easily (national geographic). Neanderthals were handy with tools so they could get food to eat. Most of the Neanderthals were dead by the age of 30 years old (netflix). Around 400,000 years ago the homo sapiens arrived (netflix). About 10,000 years the Neanderthals (netflix). Neanderthals used sap for glue for spears so the piece of flint stone would stay in place (netflix). Scientist used a clearing solution to get to the Neanderthals D.N.A. (netflix)....
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...Background The following is a Questionnaire to be administered to farmers in regard to brucellosis disease. The objectives of the essay will include: investigation the degree of knowledge among farmers towards certain aspects that are related to the disease such as knowledge on vaccination, usage and storage; the second objective is to determine the level of awareness among the farmers and thirdly to investigate the degree at which farmers have embraced preventive measures towards preventing this disease. Questionnaire Section one How many animals have you ever seen that are suffering from the brucellosis disease? What are some of the common signs and symptoms that are related with brucellosis disease? How many animals have you witnessed dying from this disease? Do you think that there ways upon which farmers can use to prevent animals from getting this disease? (If yes, what ways do you think can prevent animals from suffering from this disease? if not, then why do you think that there are no ways of protecting animals from this disease? Have you ever carried out ant vaccination process to your animals? (If yes, answer the following question)What safety measures did you take when carrying out the process of vaccination? Did you involve a professional such as a vet officer? Did you use protective gear such as gloves and masks? Where did you store your vaccination medicine? (In open place, away from children, cool temperatures or anywhere) After the vaccination process...
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...Diseases Avoid contact with dead hogs since they can carry illnesses. Wild, feral hogs can also carry disease too. One of those diseases is brucelllosis. It can be passed to humans through contact with blood or tissue from the hog carrying the disease. They can also carry pseurdorabies, which is fatal to livestock and pets. Animals with the disease will scratch and bite themselves viciously. Be aware of the signs, and throw out the carcass carefully after the kill. 36. Parasites...
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...Abstract This study aims to determine if Haram foods actually affect the health of Muslims WHETHER GOOD OR BAD. THE RESEARCH PAPER examined DIFFERENT KINDS OF HARAM AND HALAL FOODS AND THE DISADVANTAGES OF NOT ACQUIRING HARAM FOOD like not getting a certain nutrient from a Haram food. The researcher's hypothesis is that there are positive and negative effects of haram foods to the Muslims, IT MIGHT BE REGARDING HEALTH OR THE DIET OF THE MUSLIMS. The research paper will also show what the Muslims do to compensate for not eating Haram foods and the reasons why they are not allowed to eat Haram foods. The researchers first think of the topic that is inclined to their line of specialty then the researchers’ created an outline that will guide the research along the right path and to search for books, journals, & websites that would help them produce this research paper. Effect of Haram food to the health of Muslims There are many types of food but to the Muslims, there are 2 more kinds that depict whether the food is permitted to be eaten or not. These categories are called Halal and Haram. They have no certain advantages and disadvantages but the question is, does Haram food limit or affect the actual health of the Muslims? An important issue that has been with humanity even after generations have passed is the issue of what is right and what is wrong. It is part of our nature to be selfish sometimes if not, most of the time. Laws and some certain substances...
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