Introduction to Contemporary Literacy 1/24/2021

  After reading, researching and discussing the topics of fast food when it comes to obesity with my group and between my own thoughts, I think fast food is the new tobacco. Obesity is the result of an extremely poor diet and many Americans face obesity, which can lead to worse health issues. Fast food plays a huge role in obesity and just like tobacco it’s everywhere.  How do so many people gain access to fast food and tobacco if it is known to have as many long lasting Health effects as it does ? In the article “ Don’t Blame the Eater ” the author says “Then as now, these were the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal.” I agree that these fast food meals are the only available option we see everywhere. These fast food restaurants are always being marketed, when we go somewhere, even to a different state or country they are everywhere and they are usually very affordable compared to preparing a home cooked meal. I’ve also read in other articles that some

 Is Pop Culture Good For Me?  February 7, 2021 Is pop culture good for me? Pop culture is good for me and the rest of the world, how else would I be updated on everyday events going on around the world. For the past week I have been learning about and studying pop culture in the television, media, through fashion and etc and I have come to the realization that pop culture is in our everyday society. From what I have been viewing and exploring these last few days with this assignment, I have learned way more about pop-culture than what I knew before. The class readings and the group discussion have given me a new thinking pattern as to what I really know about pop-culture. Different pop-culture platforms, specifically television exercises to parts of your brain that map social networks that fill in the missing information that connects different parts of your brain. The kind of thinking that you do while watching pop culture is important because it is a kind of thinking that you have to