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Evening Thoughts by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry argues that a confluence of developments and ideologies of mankind has led to an end of the Cenozoic era, and that the “expansion of the life systems of earth is being terminated,” necessitating a commitment by mankind to embark upon a “transformation from an anthropomorphic norm of reality and value to a biocentric or geocentric norm,” which he describes as the Ecozoic era (43). He proposes that the underlying impetus to mankind’s troubled…

Wendell Berry is centered on the topic of eating throughout the whole passage. The title itself reveals clearly that it is going to talk about the pleasure eaters could get out of eating. Eating is one of the most common things human beings do every day, but it seems that few people would seriously study the art of eating. Wendell Berry’s The Pleasure of Eating is such a passage focused on the simple action of eating and a series of things involved correspondingly. It aims to draw the public’s…

our minds to work. The simple accessibility to shortcuts such as calculators are deferring us from using our common sense and knowledge and can eventually lead to advancements in which we lose control of what we have invented. Two authors, Wendell Berry and Lauren Slater give us instances that portray what can result…

In "The Pleasures of Eating" Wendell Berry talks about what eating responsibly actually means. Normally, the typical consumer wouldn’t think that eating is anything else but an action; however, Berry insists that eating is an agricultural act and is important for eating responsibly. He makes the claim that to eat responsibly consumers need to know what eating really is. To support his claim, he talks about how and why people don’t know eating is an agricultural act because of the food industry.…

Lost at Berry College Many people how beautiful the grounds of Berry College are, but what they don’t know is there are 26,000 acres of them. The length of the hiking, biking trails is stated at 40 miles, but that is just the service roads and main trails. If you get off the main trails at Berry you can get lost, and end up in a different county; that is what I did. It was a beautiful autumn day, a day that only November in Northwest Georgia could provide. You could see your breath in the…

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consumers know where their food originates from. When consumers are exposed to advertisements and commercials, they are drawn into the products that big food companies are trying to sell. In the short essay “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry, Berry talks about how consumers do not know where their food comes from and how people are consuming foods with toxic chemicals. In “When a Crop Becomes King” by Michael Pollan, Pollan states that companies are putting corn related products into…

at Knott’s Berry Farm with my friends from church. It was my first time going and it was totally awesome. I was really looking forward to going with my church. It was also my first time going to Knott’s Berry Farm without my parents. It was a Sunday and the 11-13 year olds were getting hot dogs, drinks, and chips ready to sell. The reason we were selling these food items was because we were having a fundraiser so each of us could pay for our ticket, so that we could go to Knott’s Berry Farm. I…

Berry Gordy Jr was born on 28 November 1929 in Detroit. After a period as a professional feather-weight in the late Forties, Gordy was then drafted for service in the Korean War in 1951. Discharged in 1953, he married 19-year-old Thelma Coleman. Then in 1959, at the age of 30, Berry Gordy Jr. started a company called Motown based off a eight-hundred dollar loan from his family. Little did Gordy know that his automobile assembly line based music label would be starting a revolution. He wanted to…

America, Wendell Berry dives deep into the relationship between modern industrial agriculture in America and environmental and rural communities. Berry believes that these new forms of agriculture practice are hurting our environment and are leading to a higher rate of cancer and other problems in our communities. He argues that farmers need to practice and return to a smaller scale of farming, one that is sustainable to the environment and one that is safer for our health. Berry explores the…