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Being critics of our thinking
Independent thinking is something we all have. We understand the world by our own observations, experience and knowledge. However, our minds will be affected by the external world. We behave based on the environment, the expectation and the judgments people give us rather than our own judgments and thoughts. Some people even behave against to their thoughts because of the personal profits. People are divided into different classes because people with same human experience, thoughts, status and value tend to gather together. A class is composed of a big group of people who have similar ideas and lifestyles. External world (environment, expectation, personal profits and etc.) sometimes makes people feel stressful,
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Most of the time, they feel “I can not do anything but I have to do it”. All of this insecure, unknown and defenseless feeling can be defined as their vulnerabilities. In the essay “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” Leslie Bell discusses different sexual behaviors and opinions of different types of girls. Young women feel vulnerable when they cope with the traditional and contemporary expectation of sex. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “The Power of Context” states that people are vulnerable to the environment by telling that the dirty, dark and rowdy environments are the main reason people mug and cheat the ticket unscrupulously in the New York City subway. Michael Moss asserts the situation that food companies focus only on the taste of the food but not the nutrition even though the highly increase of the obesity in “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”. Some food companies try to make healthy food but eventually give up doing so because of …show more content…
In Moss’s essay, Stephen Sanger said in the C.E.O. meeting: ‘Look, we are not going to screw around with the company jewels here and change the formulations because a bunch of guys in white coats are worried about obesity’ (Moss 261). From the conversations of the C.E.O meeting, we know that how important profits are for the companies. Food companies can be divided into two classes: profit-maximized companies and health-orientated companies. Literally, profit-maximized companies are those companies which pursue the profits by no means. Health-orientated companies are companies that produce healthy food for consumers. In the food market, “company jewels” is the most significant thing. Therefore, profit-maximized companies are the top of the ranking because they make more profits than health-orientated companies. Is the existence of classism bad to the society? Does it bring advantage to society or only disadvantage to

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