Academic Article and Visual

While trying to look out for a visual for class I came across this specific photo and it made me stop and glance at it for a while. A few of my friends are actually vegan and I have nothing against it at all, people are able to chose what they want to eat and do in life. However, this photo, I believe, took things to far and is trying to show that all meat is bad for you. In the image it shows an over sized kid stuffing her face with a hamburger. First, this is not the only kind of meat there is out there and some meats are actually very healthy for you. Second, not every kid will go out every day eating hamburgers, yes obesity is growing gradually in America, but still, not everyone eats these meats on a daily basis. I understand people have different views and such on whether or not to eat meat, however this ad is more insulting than trying to change peoples views in a good way. The ad to me is very negative and I think that this negativity does not really help the point PeTA is trying to make. Once again, not against anyone who does not eat meat, just more against the way this ad portrays people who do consume meat.

Looking up academic sources, this journal had popped up several times within the different searches I had made. The journal basically is about a study of people eating chicken. They tested the people whom had consumed the chicken versus people who did not. They did the test and it showed that chicken is actually healthy for you and showed that there were better performances for all of the cognitive tests they had done. The results also showed that this chicken meat arises the promotion of attention and prefrontal cortex functions and is a healthy choice. I thought this article had fit in with my belief of this ad, showing that chicken, for example, is an actual healthy meat that people should consume. Not all meat is bad for you and will not "abuse your children".

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Assignment Reflection

After finally completing this assignment, I feel more confident in my writing skills. I really liked the time we had to spend on this assignment. I also felt that having workshops and peer editing were very helpful. Having three different people review my drafts had helped me a lot and had pointed out mistakes that I may not have seen editing it myself over and over again. Another thing that had lead to my paper being more successful were the sources that I had found to help support it throughout. It was a little difficult for me at first using the databases online and finding an academic article that had really fit into my paper. I do believe these make papers much stronger versus finding any ordinary website that is filled with a bunch of facts. However, once again, they are also challenges for me to find a accurate source. Many of the sources I find that are academically written sometimes are to hard to understand and go into so much detail that I easily get lost into what the purpose even is of that post. But, there are many academic sources out there and can be both a challenge and a win to find one that makes sense to you and really helps support your topic. I found this assignment hard at first, trying to think of a surprising topic, but after I found that topic things changed. I found a lot of sources that really had helped me make my paper and show that my topic needs more awareness due to the little surprise it may have on the public.