{"id":14662,"date":"2024-03-11T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/research-essay-on-food-related-topic-to-explore-and-what-relative-weight-to-give-to-similarities-and-differences-alternatively-you-may-focus-mainly-on-similarities-so-as-to-study-a-food-related-top\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T23:18:48","slug":"research-essay-on-food-related-topic-to-explore-and-what-relative-weight-to-give-to-similarities-and-differences-alternatively-you-may-focus-mainly-on-similarities-so-as-to-study-a-food-related-top","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/research-essay-on-food-related-topic-to-explore-and-what-relative-weight-to-give-to-similarities-and-differences-alternatively-you-may-focus-mainly-on-similarities-so-as-to-study-a-food-related-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Research essay on food-related topic to explore and what relative weight to give to similarities and differences. Alternatively, you may focus mainly on similarities so as to study a food-related topic in the two texts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Research essay
\nlength: about 1500-2000 words (include essay, quotes, works cited)<\/span><\/p>\n

Your essay will be
\ngraded for originality, persuasiveness, and insightfulness of argument,
\nstrength of textual analysis, use of textual examples, quality of research, synthesis of research
\nideas, organization, writing skills, MLA format.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research:
\n Students will appraise the usefulness of research sources, use research
\n as participation in critical dialogue, communicate research materials
\nto an academic audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research materials: Include at least <\/span>4<\/strong> research sources e.g., peer reviewed journal articles, chapter(s) from ebook, online articles, magazines, encyclopedia<\/span>
<\/p>\n

Support
\n your argument with references to the chosen texts and research
\nsources.   You may consider research information for your topic and
\ntexts that is material to your essay.  Provide a title for your essay.
<\/span><\/p>\n

This assignment
\nleaves you the choice of which two<\/strong> texts to focus on, what food-related topic
\nto explore, and what relative weight to give to similarities and
\ndifferences.  Alternatively, you may focus mainly on similarities so as to
\nstudy a food-related topic in the two texts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose two<\/strong> of the following primary texts and write an essay in which you develop a strong argument in a food-related topic. <\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure you
\ndo not<\/span><\/strong> choose text(s) that you have analyzed in your short
\nessay, creative response project, or presentation.  Essays that
\ndo not follow this guideline will receive a zero.( I have removed the topics i did my essays on)(also can you let me know the 2 topics that you have chosen as i need to submit it as well ( and i will give you the pdfs for it too please do let me know).
<\/span><\/p>\n

Primary texts:<\/span><\/p>\n

Laura Palotie, “A Finnish Poet and His Pastry”<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana Abu-Jaber, “A House and a Yard”<\/p>\n

David Wong Louie, “Eat, Memory”<\/p>\n

\n

Blake Gopnik. \u201cThe
\nBig Debate: Can Food Be Serious Art?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Susan
\nSmillie.  \u201cIs Food Art?\u201d <\/p>\n

Jason Farago, “Chef Ferran Adri\u00e0 and the Problem of Calling Food Art”<\/p>\n

Lad Tobin, \u201cHere Everything is Possible\u201d <\/span>
<\/p>\n

Bob
\nDylan, \u201cOne More Cup of Coffee\u201d <\/span>
<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift, “Champagne Problems”<\/p>\n

Lauren
\nvan den Berg, \u201cComfort with Eggs\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Edwidge Danticat, \u201cA Grain of
\nComfort: The Magic of Simple White Rice\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Lisa Yockelson, \u201cIn Pursuit of
\nthe Cream Waffle\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Amanda
\nMull, \u201cInstagram Food is a Sad, Sparkly Lie: How Influencers Transformed Eating
\nfrom an Activity into an Aesthetic\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Alicia
\nKennedy.  \u201cThe Biggest Names in Food are Just Regular People on Tik
\nTok\u201d  <\/p>\n

Jaya
\nSaxena, \u201cWhy Do Tech Bros Have Such a Weird Relationship to Food?\u201d   <\/p>\n

Lizzie Widdicombe, “The End of Food”<\/p>\n

Hillary Bonhomme, \u201cWhy is There So Much Food in My Skin
\nCare?\u201d  <\/p>\n

Natalie
\nBaszile. \u201cThe Boudin Trail\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

J.J. Goode, \u201cSingle-Handed Cooking\u201d
<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Morton, \u201cTable Manners\u201d <\/p>\n

Shirley Le,
\n\u201cThe MSG Myth: My \u2018Clean Eating\u2019 Obsession Alienated Me from My Community\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

Chelsea Ritschel, “Botanist Criticizes ‘Clean Eating’ Instagrammers after One Topped a Pudding with Toxic Flowers”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ray Gonzalez, \u201cHangover Cure: The Red Badge of Menudo Stains\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Jhumpa
\nLahiri, \u201cIndian Takeout\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Maya Angelou, \u201cThe Health-Food Diner\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Lev Grossman, \u201cGeneral Tso\u2019s Tofu\u201d <\/span>
<\/p>\n

Janet Raloff and Peter Menzel, “Insects (The
\nOriginal White Meat)\u201d <\/p>\n

Michael Paterniti, \u201cThe Last Meal\u201d 
<\/p>\n

Interstellar<\/em>, dir. Christopher Nolan<\/p>\n

Anna L\u00facia Carolsfeld
\n& Susan L. Erikson, \u201cBeyond Desperation: Motivations for Dumpster\u2122 Diving
\nfor Food in Vancouver\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Bryan Johnston, “every night at @dunkin. Not including the 40 bagels too”<\/span><\/p>\n

Campbell McGrath, “Capitalist Poem #5”<\/span><\/p>\n

Calvin Trillin, \u201cMagic Bagel\u201d 
<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracy K. Smith, \u201cThe Good Life\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Hanif
\nAbdurraqib, \u201cOde To The Waffle House\u201d  <\/p>\n

Daniel Tobin, “A Waffle House near the Biltmore House”<\/p>\n

Jeffery Renard Allen, \u201cAppropriation Is an Undeniable Fact of
\nHuman Interaction (aka Authentic African Cooking)\u201d  <\/p>\n


<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose a research
\ntopic that you are interested in.  Potential research topics: <\/span><\/p>\n

n.b.  Some research topics may overlap one another.<\/p>\n

food images, or  absence  \/ scarcity of food images<\/span><\/p>\n

food on social media<\/span><\/p>\n

food and cultural
\ntraditions, cultural authenticity<\/span><\/p>\n

food and memory (place, home; spiritual connection; death; loss, etc.)<\/span><\/p>\n

food and identity
\n(cultural, national, gender, social status etc.)<\/span><\/p>\n

food and capitalism: social injustice, social inequality; <\/span>mass production food
\nindustry; globalization; industrial food and nutrition <\/span>
<\/p>\n

healthy food and junk
\nfood; fast food stigma; food choice; food snobbery; food prejudice<\/span><\/p>\n

healthism; clean eating; tech bro biohacking diet; meal replacement; food skincare products
<\/span><\/p>\n

food symbolism; food rituals; food as art; food as language; food as plot device<\/p>\n

food and emotion (pleasure, depression, mental health, etc.)<\/span><\/p>\n

comfort foods<\/span><\/p>\n

American Dream, assimilation into American culture, respectability; table manners, etiquette<\/span><\/p>\n

wildlife preservation; sustainable food consumption; environmental
\ndegradation; ecological sustainability; blight pathogen and food crop;
\nfood and human livelihood
<\/p>\n

food waste,  food insecurity, survival strategies, scavenging, equitable food system, food activism
<\/p>\n

kitchen; eating space, e.g., outdoors; indoors (eatery, restaurant, at home, etc.)<\/p>\n

food and disability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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