Monday, July 7, 2008

Here's to Your Health

Last week in my English writing class we had to read an essay entitled Here's to Your Health. Joan Dunayer is the writer of Here's to Your Health. She is the author of a couple of books. The book titles are Speciesism and Animal Equality: Language and Liberation. All of the books that Dunayer has done over the year have been of animal rights and issues in the world. Her essays that she has written have been in magazines, college textbooks, journals, and anthologies. Dunayer is a writer, editor, and animal rights advocate. She is the graduate of Princeton University where she got her degrees in English Literature, English Education, and psychology.

To go along with Here's Your Health, we had to look up what propaganda was and what propaganda there is around the world today or in the past.
Propaganda is a concerted set of massages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of a large group of people. Propaganda was used a lot in the Second World War on both sides. Propaganda was also used in the Cold War between the Soviets and the United States, that happened after the Second World War.
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/collab/ColdWar/Propaganda/CivDefProp.jpg
This is one of the things that the United States used during the Cold War with the Soviets.

Do you think Dunayer's essay is one-sided or balanced? Explain. What additional points could be used to support her point or to rebut it?
Personally, I think that Dunayer's essay is one-sided and not balanced at all. To address the things at once she could have added why people drink in the first place and to add the statics that doctors have found out what might happen if people drink a little bit a day in there life.

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