Literacy History Blog - Destiny Portillo

  Is Fast Food the New Tobacco? By: Destiny Portillo       This week within our course module we touched upon the subject of whether or not fast food is the new tobacco and or "addiction".  My group focused on breaking apart the article "What You Eat Is Your Business" by Radley Balko.  In this particular article readers were displayed the idea of taking self responsibility for the consumption of food they decide for their "own" bodies.  Instead of having the idea that individuals will have the government to rely and depend on when it comes to making choices.      As a group we decided as whole that in fact fast food is truly the new tobacco.  This being due to the fact that our "backbone" the government has in fact been the downfall of society.  They have deemed obesity as a renowned issue; when in fact they have limited the healiter opportunities for plenty within society.  In the text it states, " And if t...

  Is Pop Culture Good for You? By: Destiny Portillo Pop culture is the arrangement of beliefs, preferences, and items that exemplify the most comprehensively shared implications of society.  After having read the articles "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" by Steven Johnson and "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" by Malcolm Gladwell; I agree with Gladwell that pop culture is not quite the best for us in some ways.  Although Johnson depicts in his article that the effects of pop culture allow individuals to become more intelligent, we don’t seem to use it to our proper and fullest advantage. As a group, we understood and agreed more in line with Gladwell’s perspective on pop culture; being that it may have its advantages, but it does have its flaws.  Pop culture is viewed as a mass systems administration web-based entertainment stage that permits thousands to join together and support each other.  While allowing thousands to unite it does allow fo...