The reading assignment for this week consists of Balko (651-655), Pollan (624-631), Zinczenko (647-656), Freedman (681-721), and Maxfield (641-646). Youll notice Maxfield and Freedman bring up Pollans ideas in the course of their articles to show the ways in which they disagree with him and to refine their own position.
Write a short (300 word) essay which makes reference to at least TWO of the authors above and describes your own approach to the idea of diet and personal responsibility. Also, think about the claims made in the articles in order to make your definition of personal responsibility precise. For example, David Zinczenko states, Then [the mid-1980s] as now, these [fast food restaurants] were the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal (648). Do you think this is true? Does personal responsibility rest on convenience or not? Similarly, you also might want to look closely at Radley Balkos assertion that if we must pay the bill for medical treatment ourselves, well all make better choices about diet, exercise, and personal health (654). What does personal responsibility have to do with financial decisions?
Heres the MLA Works Cited format for two or more selections from an anthology (like the Graff text) or a collection:
Provide an entry for the entire anthology and a shortened entry for each selection. Alphabetize the entries by authors or editors last names.
Example:
Entry for the entire anthology:
Graff, Gerald, et. al., editors. They Say/I Say with Readings, 4th ed. W.W. Norton, 2018.
Shortened entry for selection:
Balko, Radley. What You Eat Is Your Business. Graff, et. al., pp. 651-654.
