Oatmeal: The Infiltration Of Modern Day Society

The film, “The Breakfast Club”, demonstrates the sociological topics such as socialization, culture, stereotypes, education, family, deviance, socio-economic status, and cliques. Five students have somehow ended up in Saturday detention for a total of nine hours. These individuals have nothing in common. As high school students, they are each stereotyped differently and placed into cliques. Claire is the princess, Andrew is the athlete, Brian is the brain, John is the criminal, and Allison is the basket case.

O'Brien argues using an attack and an appeal to health that governments need to let consumers know where food is produced for their safety. The author attacks government by stating "the government needs to make sure all fresh food is safe... it is up to our government to ensure food safety". Through the use of this technique, O'Brien positions the government to think about how safe food is when it is imported and feel concerned for the citizens, which could prompt them to change laws to state that all products must have the country of origin on it. Additionally, O'Brien appeals to health and states that "some of those affected by hepatitis were disgusted to find berries... were in fact from China, or Chile but packed in China. " This may make the

The sovereignty of sourcing, trading and cultivating healthy and safe seeds has been a tradition farmers have practiced for centuries. Food Inc. demonstrates how mega chemical corporations, including Bayer and Monsanto, have threated, with mob-like tactics with manipulation, legal and physical threats and social ostracizing in giving farmers no other choice but to comply with their demands or risk financial ruin. Jadwiga Lopata, an “activist who has worked for rural preservation since the mid-1980’s…” reports on the manipulating tactics such corporations have over Polish farmers. Land which has been leased to Polish farmers is being sold off in large scale. “This land is being bought by foreign companies of mainly Dutch, Danish, German and

(2009) Camaroff and Camaroff wrote about the commodification of culture and knowledge, this is equivalent to the appropriations occurring in India. Shiva demonstrates for millennia Indians have cultivated hundreds of species of rice. Yet, U.S. corporations have gained a patent on their intellectual property, engineered it, and now claim the new rice is substantially different (Siwach, Priyanka, et al. 25-32). In previous research, I found that corporations and the U.S. government simultaneously assert that the genetically modified rice remains enough like the original to resist testing for fitness of consumption. These same corporations are preventing farmers from saving and exchanging seeds and knowledge, and thereby causing a rift between the past and future of

I can remember rare occasions as a child when I would wake up for school and there would be pancakes, eggs and bacon on the table and orange juice or Sunny Delight to drink. These exciting occasions, however, were just that: rare. Most days I would bound down the stairs to the toaster loaded with Pop-Tarts. I would usually be disappointed that I couldn't devour a wholesome breakfast, but I later came to understand the convenience of the Pop-Tart. My parents could put pastries in the toaster and continue to get ready for their day without having to worry about too much clean-up. It was during these early days of my education that I really found a love for the sugary, fruit-filled pastries.

“Screws fall out, the world is an imperfect place.” –The Breakfast Club. This quote captures the theme of the movie of a flawed society in which cliques override human nature. The Breakfast Club is a timeless movie as it shows a social hierarchy, human intuition, and the inevitable imperfections of life that will always live on our world.

In the film Bitter Seeds, Dr. Shiva attempts to convey the consequences of globalization on the residents of Monsanto and the use of GM crops, specifically the anthropological focus on the movement of money and ideas. With the introduction of globalization to the populations that heavy relies on agricultural means make ends meet, this lead to those residents to redefine the idea of money, from a form of currency to a dependence to have money to survive. As result, this dependence on money forced the idea of procuring money by any means necessary, via borrowing money loan shark with high interest, or else they will commit suicide. With the addition of structural violence, specifically the way that poor environment the resident live in and the

We do not know what is nutritious. We also do not recognize what is in our diet. This leaves us unable to analyze the nutrition benefits vs deficits. However, one thing is for certain. We can still control what we put into our body. If you are a healthy person, you have the ability to not only do more activities but to do what you want to do, better. I want to change how much processed food I eat because becoming a stronger, healthier, and more informed person is important to me.

Racial and ethnic differences can be better understood with the use of the sociological imagination. The sociological imagination is a term coined by C. Wright Mills that explains the ability to understand things socially. Using the sociological imagination, we can dissect racial and ethnic differences of the past to discuss the experience of these groups in greater detail.

These facts are a cataclysmic revelation for most people: they are unsettling, they are upsetting, and moreover they are downright inconvenient. The condemnation of wheat is as paradigm shifting, earth shattering, and life changing as the emergence of the Internet, the packaging of collateralized debt obligations and the collapse of mortgage markets, the upheavals of the Arab Spring … events that shook core beliefs, upended comforting habits, and changed worldviews.

Working hard has never been a problem in my life; it 's the question of "Will it ever be enough," that plagues my mind. I am from London, Ohio, which is a small town twenty minutes west of Columbus. The town in which I grew up is predominantly white; blacks make up about 5% of the total population. By the standards of our society I am within that 5%, being born of a black man and a white woman. It wasn 't far along in my education that I learned I started behind. Not only was I African-American but a member of the poor working class. The school system was a decent one, but it doesn 't compare to that of private schools. A private Catholic High School that is twenty minutes from

OMG Active Cereal is a new breakfast cereal which is based on rice bran. Rice bran has a high nutrition value and is rich in anti- oxidants and beta-glucan, which naturally helps lower cholesterol re-absorption. It is made from 100% wholegrain rice imported from China DongBei where produces the top rice in the world. It is also high in fibre, iron and the B vitamins, B1, B2 and niacin. OMG

From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills addresses a distinction between personal troubles and public issues. Mills uses specific examples like unemployment and societal development. Mills explains the ability to connect the individual problems with societal problems. Throughout the text, we can see how Mills uses the perspective of an individual to explain the perspective of society and vice versa. Using sociological imagination, I will explain how education is influenced by society and history, and how there is positive and negative lessons to be taken out of The Sociological Imagination.

Looking from the conflict perspective the, amount of control the government has in terms of regulating what kinds of food are “safe” to eat is appalling. Seventy Five percent of all non-organic processed foods in grocery stores today contain genetically engineered ingredients and over 90% of Americans don 't know that there food contains GMO’s (Cambell, 2003). Genetically modifying foods (GMFs) are

 While some have it for breakfast, for others it is a complete wholesome meal.