Diary or Blog or Letter about Your Issue Connected to My Year of Meats
(Paper #4) Check on Nov. 28 (6 posts). Final url on Dec. 6 midnight.
Content: This is NOT a persuasive essay but a record of your research and thinking about the topic and issue of your persuasive essay. It should include notes about all the ways in which your topic appears in My Year of Meats as well as notes about your primary (survey and interview) research, your library research, and your online research. Possible topics/ issues are listed below.
Form: Minimum of 1000 words of writing. Maximum of fifteen pages or twenty posts. You may turn in a hard copy diary or letter or send me the url for a blog. Quotations and paraphrases should clearly be shown as such and should include complete notes about each source.
Grading: 100 points possible. 30 points for writing about connections between My Year of Meats and your topic, including all the quoted lines from the novel. 20 points for analysis of two websites (why they are appropriate and what is useful on them). 10 for description of your primary research. 10 points for describing your library research. 10 points for grammar and clarity. 10 points for describing your thinking about your topic/ issue. 10 points for quoting, paraphrasing, and documenting. No Works Cited needed. Organization will not be a factor in grading.
What is truth? What is authenticity?
Documentary film
Advertising, especially across international borders
Relationships and Intimacy
Migration of species and people
Is it possible to maintain cultural diversity without prejudice?
Men as seen in My Year of Meats
Women as seen in My Year of Meats (Jane vs. Akiko vs. ___)
Cultural, ethnic, and/ or gender stereotypes
Media as it perpetuates or dismantles the above stereotypes
Media (television, print, radio, web, social media, Twitter, etc.)
Journalism (including documentaries) and ethics
Sei Shonagon/ the Heian Court/ Lady Murasaki
Meats and the meat industry/ Ways of feeding and raising cattle
Hormones in meat
Global business
Globalization
Power of the imagination
Vegetarian alternatives
Religion
Being bi-racial
Assimilation
Ruth Ozeki