In “Meatless
Like Me”, I feel like the author was very open and effective in explaining his
situation and his beliefs of living the life of a vegetarian. He starts his
story by sharing an experience that can well lead perfectly into his story. He
told the reader about how people looked at him differently for being a vegetarian
and that he came off as strange to some officials and didn’t receive a
scholarship because of it. Throughout the reading, the author successfully uses
humor to show that vegetarian are really no different from omnivores or
carnivores. He explained how he knows how people think he should be physically
and mentally if he was a vegetarian but he quickly disposes that idea and
explains that he’s normal just like everyone else. To make his justification
for becoming a vegetarian, he compares eating meat with a bunch of obnoxious things.
He uses this humor to show readers who look at vegetarians differently that he
is just a normal guy. Just because he is a vegetarian, doesn’t mean he’s
completely different and should be shamed in society. He brings up that he
became a vegetarian because he ended becoming disgusted of the things producers
do to animals to get the meat. I personally liked how he was able to sum of
being a carnivore by calling them “people who eat things that had eyes”. He
also makes a lot insults to people who look at him differently. He often uses
inappropriate language to show that he isn’t some stuck up non meat eater who
thinks that he’s better than everyone else just because he isn’t a savage meat
eater. Also goes to show that he really is just a normal guy. From the
beginning, you could tell this writing was some kind of journal entry or some
free response writing. Its very casual and very effective in getting his point
across. At the end of his story, he mentions that he was smoking weed while
coming up with his writing entry and I could say I’m not surprised. I guess he
made all of those crazy relations to meat eaters from having a clear mind on
everything.
In the
reading, “The Nurture of Nature”, the author describes how not only is seeing
the environment a pleasant view, but also a way to cope with stress and pain.
Throughout the reading, the author brings up different research from different
psychologist and they all state that seeing the environment provides nothing
but healthy and positive feelings. In the reading, there are three different
research studies ranging from driving through the scenic route, trees in the
window of hospitals, or seeing the environment through the higher floors of
buildings instead of pavement. Pretty much all of the research studies stated
that seeing the environment helps people deal with stress, anger, depression,
and sadness. It seems like the beauty of the environment is pleasant to the
human eyes. Seeing something you like often makes you happy or feel good about
yourself and there’s pretty much no one in the world who doesn’t enjoy the
beauty of the outdoors. Whether it be a beautiful open field, or trees lined up
with a road going through, everyone can appreciate seeing something nice. The
reading is pretty short and only really talks about the different research
studies. To improve the reading, the author could’ve went more in depth in
explaining what patients and other people think about the environment and
relate to their research studies. The author also didn’t explain what exactly
the environment is actually doing to people. I feel like the author is just taking
the outcomes of different studies and just puts them together to make it a read
that people will enjoy.
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