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    Wendell Berry argues that we should ‘’eat responsibly’’, meaning that the individual is responsible. Along with David Barboza notes that big food companies say ‘’despite some promises to offer healthier foods and in some cases to limit marketing in schools,…

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    deteriorating for a numerous amount of reasons . John McKnight explains his theories of the professional problem that helps explain the role it plays into the community and how there are too strong of service systems that weaken the communities. Wendell Berry argues about globalization and the loss of the many factors of our planet that looses the community as well . McKnight would explainexlpains that professionals are well educated and are taking advantage of the lower classes that then…

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    societies overall health and awareness. In the article, “When a Crop Becomes King,” by Michael Pollan, the author describes the way corn has completely dominated the farming and food industry, and how it has negatively hurt land and local farmers. Wendell Berry introduces the point of how consumers play a crucial role in the continuation of the mistreatment and abuse of animals in his article, “Pleasures of Eating.” David Barboza in his article, “If You Pitch It, They Will Eat It,” that…

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    almost tag-teams, authors Wendell Berry and Michael Pollan establish that healthy eating surrounds the consumption of plants with the intent of being an active participant in the agriculture behind the foods we eat. Although Louise Fresco doesn’t reject their claim, she argues that fruits and vegetables are not going to end world hunger. Accordingly, she offers her own solution to this big picture question but ultimately agrees with the base of the others’ claim. Wendell Berry’s…

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    “The Farmer among the Tombs” by Wendell Berry presents a surface level call to action in utilizing the space taken up by graveyards, affecting the audience in a powerful way; however, when read closely this poem shows its other side, a side contained in Berry’s nuanced hints that draw the reader to a deeper conclusion. It is obviously that this poem contains a specific structure: two sections (or sentences) that convey contradictory tones separated by a line of two short imperative commands.…

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    The phrase, “the sky is the limit,” although very corny, Wendell Berry discusses the meaning and importance of limits in today’s society in his essay, “Faustian Economics”. Berry believes that too much advancement may be divergent. In Berry’s credit, limits allow us to value what society gives us but on the other hand, limitlessness allow us to grow outside the known realm of knowledge and therefore advance our society; all done by taking risks. Although I believe some of Berry’s opinions and…

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    best of the best when it comes to materials. In “Waste”, Berry said: “It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom—a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom—and all of us are involved in it.” (Wendell Berry, pg. 485-486). People want new materials that make their lives easier, and the production of new materials create a never ending cycle of waste. Berry shows that although people could live without…

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    tend to write about their own lives and their own experiences which allows the readers to relate to them with ease. The poems I chose to compare are “Autumn Movement” by Carl Sandburg, “Birches” by Robert Frost and “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry. Why did I choose these three poems? Well its simple, these poems have one theme in common which is they are all about…

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    11/1/14 FYS Professor Lauritzen “In wildness is the salvation of the world” – Aldo Leopold All three of the writers that we read pieces from would agree with Leopold in this quote. It is a common theme across the literature of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, and William Faulkner that we are using the land selfishly and recklessly. Each believes that we should have upmost respect for the earth we have been blessed to live on. First off, in “The Land Ethic” by Leopold, it becomes evident that he…

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    This is seemingly as revolutionary as economists challenging principles of micro and macroeconomics in mainstream economics. Wendell Berry states that though he senses bringing religion into the conversation is a risky approach, “our present problems demand that we have recourse to our cultural heritage including a concern with religion which at the minimum shatters the selfish context…

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