Conquering Food Deserts With Green Carts

Summary

In the article, "Conquering Food Deserts With Green Carts", David Bornstein, argues about how low income people who live far from supermarket can get foods. The problem is that people who live in rural area or inner city eat foods which are available at the corner shop or convenience store and are rarely healthy. This unhealthy eating correlates with obesity. According to the author, there are two solutions for lack of access to healthy foods: bring in new produce vendors or add product to existing vendors. The author explains about New York City's Green Cart, a Healthy Bodegas Initiative.and EBT system as example of solutions.

The author also shows the questions "Why don't supermarket open there if there is read demand?"

To answer this, the author shows one example that shows opening shop in inner city  without government fund or grant is impossible. Then, he explains about how funds work for problem if government commit more funds to subsidize for grocery store in low income area.

In conclusion, the author claims these study must be considered the research that suggest that low income people suffer from inequitable access to foods.

Summary and response - soda tax-

-Summary
  First, this article talks about how bad sugary beverages. Marlene B. Schwartz says there are many researchs that say sugary drinks realy increase risk of obesity and other disease and insists american will be healthier if they reduce the consumotion of sugary drinks. However, drink industry questions whether sugary juice really link to obesity because obesity rate is increasing even though consumption of soft drinks is decreasing. Lastly,this article shows the proposal for a federal tax on sugary drinks; sugary beverage would impose a 1-cent tax on each teaspoon of sugar in soft drinks.

-Response
As this article says, sugary beverages definitly have bad infuence to our health and some state has proposal to regulate or impose tax. However, I don't think tax on juice will really work well.
People should be responsible for their health. Probably people won't stop drinking sugary juice until "they" make their decision that they stop drinking it for their health.not "government".

Summary and response - food regulation-

-Should foods linked to diet-related disease be regulated?
-Summary

This article shows two opinions about this topic.
   One side claims foods that linked to diet-related disease should be regulated. The author shows some opinions by experts. Deborah Cohen, a physician and researcher, insists goverment should regulate foods that linked to diet-related disease as government regulate alcohol and tobacco because overeating is at least as harmful as drinking. She also government should make policy protect us from triggers that make us eat when we are not hungry. Robert Lusting, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics, also cites the regulation of alcohol and tobacco. He claims we should limit consumption of sugar as we limit alcohol or tobacco. Both experts argue that we should think about sugar as well as alcohol and tobacco and that government should act because food industry won't do it.
  The other side claims that government shouldn't regulate because it denies consumer's choice. Elaine Kolish, vice president of CFBAI says protection for children is "a role for a nanny, not the government". Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow, claims food taxes is bad idea because it is anti-responsibility. This side respects consumer's choice.

-Response

I agree with that government shouldn't regulate foods that linked to diet-related disease. As some experts say in this article, it is consumer's choice and people should take responsibility about what they eat. Some experts claims foods should be regulated because they are as harmful as alcohol or tobacco. However, I think foods and alcohol or tobacco has difference. Foods are essential for people while alcohol or tobacco are not essential and they are for our pleasure.Therefore, I think people should be able to be responsible for at least our essential things.

Fed Up

summary
"Fed up", document program which is produced in 2014, appeals to government, foods industry, and people, especially American, to face and know how bad their foods life style are and what government and foods industry do in long American food history. This shows some children who try to lose weight to be healthy by exercising. However, they can't lose weight so much by exercising. Their weight were almost same even when they did exercise. However, their obesity isn't only children or his/her parents. Government and foods industry really relate to this problem. Government have been avoiding to face this problem and always made new method to lose weight by just changing words. That new method's surface seems to work to solve this children's problem.
The evidences that the government shows prove that government always avoid to think about solution and also what kind of trap there are around people. For example, this film shows relation between "sugar" and "fat". When products has less fat, it has more sugar. This film is also trying to make people think about health and what to believe because there are many "fake healthy foods"

response
Actually I saw that situation when I went high school in New York. In every lunch time, students ate french fries,hamburger, pizza, or chips. I was shocked about that. However, I also felt they were addicted to junk foods. Some of people seemed to walk really hard because they were too fat.
However, they didn't stop eating any snacks even in short break time. At that time, I wondered why some adults around them stop them from eating too much. However, I changed my mind after watching this film. As the film shows, Government or some company which have rights to decide rule in country have been avoiding to make effective solution. How can children recover from that problem? It must be really hard. Even if parents buy "half fat" foods, it has "double sugar". The environment around children make them fat really easily and children are caught in such a trap easily because they're still young. I understand now about it is not obese person's fault.

・Why does government make effective solution, why has government been avoiding it for long time?

writers on revising

     I agree with what people insist in this video. We can't think the first draft is good enough. There must be a lot of things that can be better. After watching this video, I understand writing is not just done by writing. To write good essay, we need not only just write, but also go over and think about how to make it better.
     I missed important class for essay so I need to go over it and think about it by myself. but obviously there are still many points that i can make better, like structure, vocabulary, quotation or paraphrase.

Response

After I read this article, I really agree with something and I doubt about few things.  I agree with the problems that she explains in this article. Recently when we talk and keep using phone at the same time, our conversation is about very light topic and no one pay attention so much even though we feel it's not good. I feel we're obssesed by cell phone, we're addicted to cell phone and almost forget how to enjoy conversation.Cell phone is great human's invention. But our way of using cell phone doesn't make our "real connection" better. Therefore, we have to think about and solve these problems.
However, I'm wondering "Are we losing empathy? Have we ever expect world to work like app?" I understand our conversation is changing and becoming weird. But I feel we still can read others feeling, still have empathy. The example author uses in article says "She was almost robotic in her response.She couldn’t read the signals that the other student was hurt.” Does it happen because of only cell phone or technology? I'm still wondering. My sister, 15yrs old, also always use cell phone or laptop, but she's not robotic in her response and can read feeling, her friends,too. That's why I'm wondering if cell phone really can affect not only our conversation but also our humanity.

Summary of "Stop googling. Let's talk."

In the essay,"Stop googling.Let's talk" in new york times at September 26,2015, Sherry Turkle, professor in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT talk about how technology has changed our conversation and connection and about our resilence. Technology that she mentioned in this essay is especially cell phone. First, she explains how cell phone affect to our conversation. A 2015 study by the Pew research center shows that 82 percent of adults felt that the way they used their cell phone hurt the conversation. The author also says the mere precence of cell phone changes both what they talk about and the degree of connection they feel, even a silent phone disconnectes us. These a study and what author says means using cell phone and the presence of it hurt our conversation and connection. She also explains how technology affect to our empathy. According to her, the old conversation taught empathy. However, recently we don't allow that conversation to happen in the first place. Therefore,she think students understand each other less. The other issue of technology is that we fall to the way of thinking that we expect the world to respond like an app and work like algorithms.People whose attitude is like that seem to have lack of empathy.
However, we have not only problems but also solutions. She says we are resilent.There is experiment whose result is that people became able to read emotions and correctly identify emotions after five days without phones or tablets. We have resilence. The conversation can solve not only problem of empathy but also the way of thinking "algorithm". She states conversation is the antidote to the angorithmic.  To conclude, we should admit the unitended consequences of the technologies,but also we can respect the resilence so we can recover from these problems.

Response

I disagree with his opinions. Actually when I read sentence that author wrote he was sexism, I wonder "Then how can you talk about racism problem? first, you should think about your problem." Whether he tries not to seeing women as object and admit he is sexism and not innocence, he is still sexism. I also don't think white people should think they're racism like author admit he's sexism. Because I think white people's hidden racism that author said and his sexism are different kind of problem. White people's hidden racism that he mentioned is unconsciously involved with system whose a part can be racism. However, his sexism isn't problem that is accidentally involved with something. It occurs from his thought that women were inferior than men. I think just some of white people might be still racism but definitely not all white people. But not only some of white people are racism but also some of other color people have some discriminatory thought . Therefore, I think what he insist in Dear White America is extreme opinion.

Summary of "Dear White America"

In the essay, " Dear White America" in New York times at December 24,2015,George Yancy demand that we, especially white people, think about our hidden racism and know love and knowledge that can be solution to this problem. This racism is hidden from your comfort. Yancy said " As you reap comfort from being white, we suffer for being black and people of color" Because you are in comfort, realizing your hidden racism is difficult. Therefore, author suggest that we know and accept  the knowledge that someone's comfort is linked to someone's pain even though this is hard to accept and taboo. The another reason why racism is hidden is part of racism is systemic. If you're white, you're benefiting from white privilege in the system that values black lives on the cheap. Then, even if you've never discriminate someone or work hard at not being racism, you still are because you're in this system. Therefore, there is another author's suggestion,love. He suggests a form of love that enables you to see the role that you play in that system. His suggestions, love and knowledge, will make people realize their  hidden racism and know what their role is.

After reading

     After reading strategies, I noticed I didn't read critically and analyze well. I think I read by almost intuitive. However, there are some strategies that I have already used, such as underlining, anotating, considering situation, and thinking about patterns. But I noticed I considered writer's purpose but I didn't consider "Who is the intended audience?" "What is gerne?" "What is the medium, How does it affect you the way you read?" My considering wasn't enough. Also when I read about "identifying patterns", I noticed my identifying wasn't enough. In my reading, when I found some words were repeated or found synonyms,I marked them. But in example on the textbook, the words are clasyfied to several groups,not only synonym or same words:such as group "life,death, and rebirth"= birth, reborn,  "words that directly addresses the reader"= Consider~, Do not listen~. Therefore, I have to change my reading process more critically
    A strategy that I was really interested in when I read those strategies is "Reflecting, Rereading, Persisting" I guess some people might think these are nothing new for our reading but I found especially peristance is very important for me. As I wrote in before reading, I sometimes give up after rereading several times if I still can't understand. This textbook says successful students see difficult texts as challenges" I'm going to keep working on this texts until I make sence of it" This is so different from my atittude for  difficult reading.
    From strategies on textbook, I noticed I didn't read critically and I have to be persistent for difficult texts. Strategies that I used are very shallow, not deep or profoud. Therefore, I have to study these strategies in detail.

Before reading

I like reading something that I am interested in but I'm reluctant to read something that I'm not interested in, usually it's academic long essays. I often read novels or some funny posts on Facebook for my pleasure and sometimes read academic essay to improve my english. When I start reading assingment,first, I play music that don't have lyrics and then, I just read all paragraphs. Whan I read whole paragraphs, I underline some sentences or write some sign on example sentences. When I am given reading  assignment, I sometimes think about purpose of assignment because I think it can help me to think where I should read carefully. Also I sometimes think about what instructor want me to find in reading but I'm not sure if it is correct. I think I should ask that from next time. As  I wrote on this page, I am really reluctant to read something I'm not interested in. Therefore, I have to think about how I can motivate myself to read that. Whenever I feel bored in reading, I spend a lot of time doing that and even when I finish reading, I still don't understand what essay want to say. I, however, still don't know how to motivate myself. When reading academic essays, I underline,annotate text, and write important points on tags.Thay help me to understand and review well. Also when I read essays that I'm not interested in, I sometimes really can't understand. Therefore,in order to understand well, I read again and again but when I still don't understand it, I give up reading and write something that I don't understand in reading and I will listen to class carefully. I think reading is very nice process to improve my english. It can improve my reading speed, vocabulary, and also grammar. But I think reading is the hardest things in studying English

Introduction

Hi, I'm Sumika Sato. Please call me Sumika. I'm from Japan and a new student in foothill.
My birthday is October 3 and I'm 19. My major is engineering.
I like playing winter sports because my hometown has much snow.
I also really like playing badminton and reading Japanese comics so much~.
Nice to meet you and talk to me~