Freedman

The article by David H. Freedman titled “How Junk Food Can End Obesity”, is about how a lot of people think that junk food, or processed food, is the reason for the obesity problem when it really is not. Freedman makes the claim that junk food is not the only problem because even most wholesome food has as much or even more fat and calories as processed food and he gives different examples that prove this claim throughout his article. This claim is a claim of policy because he wants his audience…

legs (Kluger 30), muscle pains, and even to a fever (Freedman 51), which ranged from 103 degrees Fahrenheit and higher (Roosevelt and Brough 140). In response to Roosevelt's condition, Eleanor ordered a doctor to examine him (Osinski 42). Although the physician believed it was a minor cold, Eleanor brought in a second opinion (Osinski 42), who diagnosed Roosevelt with…

expense. In Freedman’s case, he was not on a trip for business purpose rather traveling in between his place of employment as a manager at Zimmerman’s to Bolton where he has a 50 percent partnership in. Being that the two business are separate and Freedman was traveling to business deeming it of a personal nature thus being denied the ability to deduct the expense because the drive to a place of employment is not considered to be related to…

in (Freedman 2). If the conditions did not meet her standards, she would attempt to reform through the policies of the Roosevelt administration. She completely changed the role of the First Lady forever; she changed it through her acts on the rights of youth, her influence on feminism, civil rights, and her involvement with the arts. (Freedman 1). Eleanor…

In chapter 2 Freedman describes the time between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and 9/11 was a time of great technical advancements in America. During this time Freedman says Americans became confident/unconcerned and gained a sense of entitlement that changed the traditional American principles, they increasingly got what they wanted when they wanted. According to Freedman after 9/11 Americans lost sight of American principles and priorities were flipped upside down. Freedman says Baby…

asked the bigger request (which would be unlikely for people to comply to). Anything can be used as a request, as long as it is evident to gain a favorable result. This compliance tactics is deployed as the Foot-in-the-Door Technique (Jonathan L. Freedman, 1966). The Foot-in-the-Door technique involves in getting a person to agree to a small request first, and then to the bigger request later on. Due to this tactic, many people (companies, agencies, etc.) throughout the world have used it to…

breakthroughs that have been derived from using GMO’s. Within the informative article “Are Engineered Foods Evil?” by David Freedman, scientists such as Robert Goldberg, David Williams, and David Zilberman all made substantial claims in which some were attacked by their opposers, but were still legitimately and statistically convincing nonetheless. In this article, Freedman utilizes the discoveries made by these scientists to find a common ground, and explore the truth behind the issue of GMOs…

emotionally. In “Swift’s Struldbruggs, Progress, and the Analogy of History,” William Freedman stated that the Struldbrugs was read to be “an attack on Gulliver’s own foolishness and personal ambition” (Freedman). Freedman believed that this episode of the Struldbrugs was an “assault on humanity’s sobering lesson on that humanity is always the same, and there is no escape from our vices and our trivialities.” I believe that Freedman fails to notice that Gulliver was not foolish when he…

Michael Pollan’s article “Escape from the Western Diet” has provided the knowledge on effects of consumption of western diets which is mostly a processed food and how to change a diet from processed food to wholesome food. In contrast, David Freedman’s article “How junk food can End Obesity” compares the nutrition level and healthiness of wholesome food and processed food and also discusses the obesity issues and how to tackle it through processed food. According to pollan, the nutritionist or…

Non Fiction Response to Literature: Immigrant Kids Kyra Fetherston Russell Freedman greatly explains the trouble immigrant children experienced coming to America during the New and Old Immigration periods in his book Immigrant Kids. Freedman tells of what they went through at Ellis Island, he interviewed people who were immigrant children at the time coming to America. In doing this he created an amazing description that gives you the best idea of what those poor people went through when they…