When I was twelve years old my family set out on the journey of moving to the United States of America. We lived in a small city which takes two days to get to Moscow on the train. It also takes an eight hour drive to get to the largest city of Murmansk from the city that I am from. So I can safely say that seeing a first fast food restaurant, McDonalds in my cast, for the first time at twelve years old wouldn’t be so surprising. I have never heard of it before, but it seems like my parents have and they wanted to take me and my younger brother to McDonalds in Moscow before our flight to US. When we got there I didn’t think much of it, just a regular “stolovaya” which was the communist era fast food joint you can find in any Russian city back when I use to live there. How it tasted and how I felt about it I can't quite remember, but I don't think I was impressed simply because I never thought of it as something amazing and I had to have it. However it did leave a mark on my younger brother. I remember him as kind of a kid who was always hungry and liked to eat. He would wake my parents in the middle of the night and ask them to warm up some soup for him or make a salad. He in particular didn’t think much of McDonalds either however, after a short time he got really sick. Extremely sick a couple of days before our flight to US. Right away he thought of McDonalds and that in particularly the french fries that did that to him. He was seven at the time and because he went though such a thouma to this day he does not eat any kind of potatoes in any form. Whether that's to blame the french fries from McDonalds or McDonalds itself can be a stretch, but never the less thats the feeling we got for the fast food industry to come in America....
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...high in carnitine actually shifts our gut microbe composition to those that like carnitine, making meat eaters even more susceptible to forming TMAO and its artery-clogging effects” (Wyatt). Same shows when it comes to cancer and being vegan “When cancer researchers started to search for links between diet and cancer, one of the most noticeable findings was that people who avoided meat were much less likely to develop the disease. Large studies in England and Germany showed that vegetarians were about 40 percent less likely to develop cancer compared to meat eaters” (Unknown).
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Making a good and persuasive argument is very much an acquired skill. It requires much practice and perfecting. It takes more than just having passion and making good points. Just because a person is passionate about the topic or has supporting details does not mean they can make a successful argument. Much more thought and skill is required. Gordon Adams, in his letter to the Arizona State University standards committee, demonstrates this quite well. Gordon Adams writes a passionate argument, yet his argument lacks several critical aspects.
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With regards to your first paragraph, you are right on point. Excellent perception. Understanding in life there are always three sides of every story, it is impossible to keep everyone happy even when the result appears to be positive. Think about when planning a wedding and how exciting a wedding is and how this time in a couple's life ends up causing so many problems, heartaches, and many times destroys not only friendships, families, but also results in the marriage never taking place after all is said and done. The point I bring to the table about being a liar for educational purposes is from experience I know students are concerned with offending each other so instead of voicing their opinions openly they simply agree with everything their classmate's write. This procedure serves absolutely no valuable educational purpose if everyone agrees with each other even when they disagree with what they wrote. This is why I openly offer your classmates and you to write whatever you want about me. I will not get offended and I actually encourage you to DISAGREE with anything and everything I write, but I ask that you defend you position with facts. And if you choose not to disagree with me - I WILL DISAGREE WITH YOU! Understand, there is nothing you can write that will actually offend me, but I do ask that you not purposefully offend your classmates. (In class I openly say things to the students so they know I'm okay with being challenged verbally and while I cannot illustrate that to your class and you on a discussion board, accept that it is acceptable.)
The health benefits of a vegetarian diet are hard to ignore. Vegetarians have a lower chance of developing many diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Women who eat meat daily are more likely to develop breast cancer. According to an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, “consumption of well-done meats and, thus, exposures to heterocyclic amines (or other compounds) formed during high-temperature cooking may play an important role in the risk of breast cancer.” Men are also more than almost more likely to develop prostate cancer than those who do not include meat in their everyday diets. “Up to 80 percent of prostate cancer is attributed to dietary practices, and international comparisons show strong positive associations with meat consumption” (Alexander, 2010). Vegetarians have also shown to have lower blood pressure, better digestion, and more energy than humans with a meat based diet. The effects of a vegetarian life style ...