Preparation for the midterm:
you can bring in an outline, cluster, freewrite or brainstorm for the following midterm question: You may use your book, but you may not bring in additional notes.
Directions
for the midterm:
write
an in-class essay based on the following instructions:
What
theme is represented in the quote
and how does
this theme represent a problem in the FF industry?
Turn
in one prewriting with your essay
(brainstorm, freewrite, cluster, outline).
good
luck!
FFN—“Today it can take years for an injured worker to receive workers’ comp benefits. During that time, he or she must pay medical bills and find a source of income” (185).
FFN—“At
the IBP beef plant in Dakota City, Nebraska, for example, the company kept two
sets of injury logs:
one of them recording every injury and illness at the slaughterhouse, the
other provided to visity OSHA inspectors and researchers form the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. During a three
month period in 1985, the first log recorded 1,800 injuries and illnesses at the
plant. The OSHA log recorded only
160—a discrepancy of more than 1,000 percent” (179-180).
FFN—[Charles
“Mike” Harper]….gave each of his top executives a personalized,
inspirational plaque. On it was a
cartoon of two vultures sitting in a tree. ‘Patience,
my ass,’ one vulture says to the other. ‘I’m gonna go kill somebody’”
(159).
FFN—“By
the mid-1960s the American flavor industry was churning out compounds to supply
the taste of Pop Tarts, Bac-Os, Tab, Tang, Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and
literally thousands of other new foods” (124).
FFN
– “Eight-year-olds are considered ideal customers; they have about
sixty-five years of purchasing in from of them. Entering the schools makes
perfect sense” (54).
FFN—“Tyson
was one of the nation’s leading chicken processors, and it soon developed a
new breed of chicken to facilitate the production of McNuggets.
Dubbed ‘Mr. McDonald,’ the new breed had unusually large breasts”
(140).
FFN—“A recent IBP press release, announcing the recall of more than a quarter million pounds of ground beef possibly tainted with E.coli 0157:H7, suggests that the industry’s need and those of the consumers are not always the same” (213).