Paula Deen

popular culture, but a few are left that utilize these ideas. Music genres like rap or hip-hop stereotype women and colored people, but when it is used by a television personality, people become outraged. One incident in particular, a famous cook, Paula Deen, used degrading terms to describe an African-American, but those and similar terms are used in popular music today (Dowd). All minorities alike will become outraged when derogatory terms are used by those on television, but overlooked when…

The first article introduces the concept of food rhetoric and foodways. Foodways are the intersections of where food meets culture and history. It is the interconnected nature of dining, cooking, eating together with others, going into a grocery store, supporting a local farmer’s market, boycotting big food businesses, reading labels and such. To illustrate rhetoric, the example of the TV series Portlandia is used; this show is about two hipsters who go on a four-year journey to make sure the…

foods and develop an unhealthy lifestyle. The nutritional information of indicates that it is bad for anyone’s health. We basically feed our bodies grease and toxins. Chef Paula Deen states, "I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is only one molecule away from eating plastic.”(Paula Deen’s Craziest Quotes). Paula refused to use a healthier substitute for butter, however, when she was diagnosed with diabetes she quickly changed her mind for health reasons. The junk that we think we…

anger them and in return get kicked out of office, lose votes, or even worse, cost someone the election. One person who does not care about being PC is good ol’ Trump. Donald Trump seems to be doing surprisingly well despite being more racist than Paula Deen referring to black people as the N word. For example, Trump saying he wishes to build a wall to keep out the Mexicans, and have them pay for it. Or the time Trump said, “The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear…

The novel, Strange Fruit written by Lillian Smith is about an interracial relationship between an African American women named Nonnie Anderson, and a white man named, Tracy Deen. This relationship started when they were young kids who began to grow into two strong lovers. Unfortunately, in the 1920 's there were strong racism against African Americans, which affected the southern town Maxwell, Georgia and the people around it. Conflicts suddenly arise for Nonnie and Tracy 's secret relationship…

that good old soul food many fail. Back in days while blacks were the primary cooks in white homes the lady of the house would sometimes pose as the cooks of a good soul food meal. White people try to calm old time recipes as their own, look at Paula Deen. AT one point in time she was making a fortune from soul food. In conclusion we live in America; a society that loves black culture but does not accept black people all too much. I agree completely with this statement because America takes…

was now almost eleven, and i was thinking the women might have been right, tomorrow was definitely going to be the birth date, check. Eleven flew by fast as she was ready, she tried going to the bathroom but no use she couldn 't get up. My sister paula and my dad left the room to get everyone pizza about an hour ago, while i stayed out with my mom huff and rachel and my Nonna. Watching the nurse work was fascinating, being 15 she was now one of my role models, soon what made me fall in love…

“I’m Offended,” this phrase is one of the most common things we hear in today’s society. People in America today have become oversensitive. There are so many things these days that set people off and cause them go on a rampage for the smallest actions or for someone not agreeing with them. People have come to the realization that if you disagree with them that they are all of a sudden a bad person and people feel the need to have control of their words to make people be politically correct.…

In a nation that was built by slaves with their blood, sweat, and tears for about two hundred forty-five years, it is hard to detect the demolishing of racism in America 's future. America has a rich history of people of European descent being immoral and unethical towards minorities through many forms. The people of European descent continued the “Us vs. Them” idea and kept their superiority by placing laws that separated themselves from the minorities and provided certain privileges to white…

In a 2011 poll, “75% of Americans said “the American Dream was still possible and achievable for other people like you.”(Strain) A 2014 poll showing, “ A whopping 63 percent of adults ages 18-34 believe the American Dream has become impossible for most people to achieve.”(Strain) As with the tanking of our economy a few years ago, Americans have gotten back from much worse things like the Great Depression and the Civil War. In which in one case it may have just been the economy but having a…