Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
Watching TV Makes You Smarter. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with readings. Second Edition. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 277-294. Print.
In the 2005 piece by Steven Johnson, Watching TV Makes You Smarter, he discusses the topic of television and how he believes it can make you smarter. With the complexity of TV in this day in age and what he refers to as the sleeper curve, we benefit from this by enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down(279). Johnson used a great explanation as to why he believed that TV actually helps grow our intelligence. Johnson used logical appeal to explain how television stimulates the brain and keeps us thinking throughout an entire episode. We can even learn new ideas from TV. In my case, television was a great tool. My first language is Spanish; I learned how to fluently speak English by watching cartoons. It was a very effective way for me to learn how to speak in the correct form and I also helped with my comprehension. Murray, Charles. Are Too Many People Going to College? They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with readings. Second Edition. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 223-242. Print.
Clarke 2 The next essay I would like to call to your attention is Are Too Many People Going to College? by Charles Murray, published in The American on Sept. 8, 2008. In this essay Murray uses ethos to persuade us into considering our journey through college and career paths. Maybe college is not the correct decision for everyone as our society makes us believe, says Murray. He makes a great point by bringing up that a more important tittle does not necessary guarantee you a job or a higher salary. You would be better off doing a job that comes naturally to you and giving you a better chance of job security. As Murray says A good way to make sure you always can find work is to be among the best at what you do (235). The essay brought on some very interesting points that I dont think many of us even think of before we start college. At this point in time we are all expected to go to college in order to have a career. I do agree with him that we should not focus so much on getting higher education just so we can be the boss if that is not a strength we already have. Murray brought a great point on how getting to know yourself and your abilities will benefit you greatly when choosing your career. Even though I do believe we should all follow our dreams and have a career rather then hoping from job to job I think having a college degree is essential. We do not know what is going to happen in life so having a degree to fall back on a great investment. Not only that but college is an experience in itself. Its a great place to meet people from all different backgrounds with many ideas and different perspectives. Its a place where we can grow and get to know ourselves. Zinczenko, David. Dont Blame the Eater. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with readings. Second Edition. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.391-394. Print.
Clarke 3 David Zinczenkos essay Dont Blame the Eater published in the New York Times on November 23, 2002 is about the problem of a poor diet. Zincsenko starts out by calling to our attention the lawsuits against McDonalds by kids for making them fat. He goes on to compare it to middle-aged men suing Porsche for making them get speeding tickets(391). He continues by pointing out that the accountability of responsibility for ones own actions is completely disregarded. Zinczenko does point out that access to fast food is much greater then a place to buy healthier foods. He uses pathos by adding that when he was a kid his parents divorced, his mother got a job, which led to most of their meals being fast and cheap. By age 15 Zinczenko was at 212 pounds on his 5-foot-10 frame. He then adds that obesity and Type 2 Diabetes is at an all time high. He continues by pointing out that Fast-Food companies should take some of the responsibility because they are marketing to children with proven health hazards and no warning labels. Zinczenko was right to point out that we should be accountable of our own health but also pointing the finger to the marketing done by Fast-Food companies for tricking the consumer into blindly ingesting their product. Of course Fast-Food chains care more about making a quick buck then preventing health hazards for their costumers. I completely agree that any food should have a nutritional label on their product so we as the public have the chance of getting educated on what we consume. But at the end of the day it is our own personal responsibility to take care of our own bodies and getting educated on our health. Weaver, Janelle. Sesame Street Provides Lessons About Natural Brain Development In Children. Plos Biology 11.1 (2013): 1. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Apr. 2014.
Clarke 4 In the article by Janelle Weaver, Sesame Street Provides Lessons about Natural Brain Development in Children published in PLOS Biology in 2013, she discuses the correlation between educational television and childrens developing brain. Weaver states children showed adult-like brain responses while watching clips from Sesame Street predicted their performance on math and verbal IQ tests. In this experiment Weaver documented that 27 children 4-11 years of age watched a 20-minute Sesame Street video with clips of various topic, including letters and numbers. Afterward the children took standardized test for mathematics and verbal IQ she notes. In their results, Weaver adds, children that were exposed to real world education television such as Sesame Street had higher test scores and more adult-like pattern of neural responses. This article used ethos to convince me that not all TV is bad for our intelligence. Sure we should be pickier of what we watch but I guess that is more of a personal preference topic. In the article Weaver discusses how real world educational programs can give children an advantage with school. These programs are designed to teach in the way children are taught in school so it helps prep them to absorb information in their learning environment. Pridgeon,A., and K. Whitehead. A Qualitative Study To Investigate The Drivers And Barriers To Healthy Eating In Two Public Sector Workplaces. Journal Of Human Nutrition & Dietetics 26.1 (2013): 85-95. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Apr. 2014. The article A qualitative Study To Investigate The Drivers And Barriers To Healthy Eating In Two Public Sector Workplaces By A. Pridgeon and K. Whitehead the topic of health in the workplace. Pridgeon and Whitehead identified four themes that influence
Clarke 5 food and healthy eating in the workplace: workplace structures and systems; cost, choice and availability of food; personal versus institutional responsibility; and food messages and marketing. Pridgeon and Whithead also added Benefits of workplace health promotion include improved productivity, job satisfaction and morale, reduced absenteeism and improved staff retention (Department for Work & Pensions & Department of Health, 2008). By promoting a healthy life style, employers are making an investment on their employees by giving them more job satisfaction and decreasing the probability of health problems that could enable an employer to do their job efficiently say Pridgeon. Workplaces can support staff to take responsibility for their own health by encouraging healthier life style behaviors in the workplace, they say, by point of purchase labeling and increasing availability of healthy foods. This article had a great view of the situation. The authors wanted to enlighten the audience of a problem that could easily be considered and fixed. Even though I dont believe that many companies want to invest in their employees as they see them to be replaceable. That is why it is important that we ourselves take the matter into our own hands. If having good health is something that is important to us we should make it a priority.
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