Shaniyah’s Blog

  Summary #1 After some extensive research, I came across a blog called, “ Our Little Roses Blog “. While browsing the website there was a post named, “ Embracing Cultural Identity in Children Through Food”. The post talks about how food plays a role in shaping the youth’s cultures. It talks about the development of their personal beliefs, customs, and values. In my opinion I believe this statement to be true, because from my own experiences certain have played a huge part in my life, and even represent sentimental moments in my life, and helped me create many more. I believe food can play a part in different aspects of our lives. The post states “ Culture is an integral part of our development. It helps us differentiate ourselves from other social groups and gives us a sense of belonging to our environment. Cultural identity refers to values, ideologies, and customs that make us recognize ourselves as part of a community. ” The post continues to say,“ Having cultural identity hel...

    The article I read was from Culture Decanted, it was called “  Eating yourself: We consume identity through food?” The article focuses on how the food we consume contributes to who you are as a person. Using the 10-n-1 method I was able to come up with a couple ideas/observations about the article. 1. Food can contribute to kind of person you are. 2. Food can be found as common ground for everyone and anyone you meet. 3. Food can be used as a way to communicate with those around you. 4. Food can be used in a political way, for example the kind of foods you eat can represent your class. 5. The quality can represent your social ranking. 6. Food can be a considered a key factor in language and literature and art. 7. Cultural identities can connect to the foods you eat. 8. The effects of what we consume can connect to the down fall of our environment. 9. Food is the foundation of who we are, “You are, what you eat”. 10. Your diet connects to your actions and how you ...

                After learning a lot about how food identity connect, I decided to do some research and finds some other people's take on the topic. In the article   “Food, Self and Identity”   It talks about how food connects to people in different ways, the article states “The approach it adopts, however, is based on the realization that the human relationship to food obviously is a complex one. It combines at least two different dimensions. The first runs from the biological to the cultural, from the nutritional function to the symbolic function. The second links the individual to the collective, the psychological to the social. Yet a rapid overview of the abundant literature on human food suggests that few of the salient works on the subject have directly addressed this multi-dimensional character.” This quote basically explains how you can connect with food on a mental level and not just through culture. In ...

      REFLECTION  The message I was trying to convey to the audience is these modified foods such as hotdogs are the worst thing you can possibly consume. They are made in factories and are mixed with hundreds of ingredients and we eat it like its candy. I dont agree with hotdogs and thats why I made this video. Canva was the website that I used and it was very beneficial. I was able to reference a template and this saved me lots of time. Joy Bauer’s website talks about how unhealthy the processed meat is and how it can cause colon cancer. I came across a blog named Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, it talks about how hotdogs can cause colorectal cancer, cardiovascular disease, and early death.The genre of my PSA opened me up into the life of a factory worker and the process to making a hotdog. It is much more abstract then the final product we get and thats why I felt I had to share the message. I think I did a pretty good job at convincing my audience ...

Snickers Ad:  https://youtu.be/MixNh9L7G5M     Snickers ads has to be my ultimate favorite, especially the one with Joe Pesci and Don Rickles. The ad starts off with the two guys flirting with 2 other females as the conversation progresses you Joe Pesci get loud with the two girls and start to cause a scene. He then gets pulled away from them by his friend, his friend then offers him a snickers suggesting he’s not himself, implying that he’s hangry. After eating the snickers he turns into a regular college boy and goes back to talk to the girls. When the get back he notices the girl he was talking to turned into Don  Rickles, and called him a loser implying he rubbed her the wrong way.     I’ve always loved the ad not only because it was funny, but also because I could relate to it. When I’m hungry I tend not to be my best self, and could come off as angry or bitchy. But after I eat I tend to go back to my regular self. I also liked the ad because I really ...

       After all my ranting and raving about my aunt and banana pudding, I decided it was only fair to show her the project. After her telling me how much she loved it, I went onto ask her some questions. One question I asked   was , what was her favorite part of the presentation? And she replied, “My favorite part was the entire project, the fact that you took the time to write about me of all things, I’m glad I was able to make such an impact”. I also asked what   was something   she realized? And she stated that she didn’t realize how much boxed pudding had an effect on me, and not just me but her as well. Now that she’s heard my perspective on   our   bonding experience, she says “making banana pudding was something that made me happy because it made you happy, especially when I watched you eat the rest of the pudding mix out of the bowl. I don’t know why but, it just did something to me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, ...