Kitchen Controversial And The Great Forgetting: Article Analysis

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After thoroughly reading the six articles, I chose the two that interest me the most. “Kitchen Controversial” by Rebecca Traister and “The Great Forgetting” by Nicholas Carr were my twpo favorite. These two articles had great information on their subject and both authors made agreeable arguments.
For instance, in “Kitchen Controversial” Traister argues the idea that girls shouldn’t be the only ones to take Home Economics. In her article she wrote, “the number of stay-at-home fathers has nearly tripled in the last 20 years – to a meager 214,000. One census study showed that among men married working women with children under four, 20 percent of fathers served as the caretakers.”. That quote alone shows the importance of why boys should take

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