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Essay Assignment #2: Casual Analysis

Overview:Ie nadeen

For this assignment, you have looked into multiple sources, from our Ted Talk, John Oliver’s segment, a few journalist articles and an academic journal. By now, you should be quite knowledge about the issue of food waste. Therefore, I now ask you to develop a casual analysis, answering the two questions below:

1. What are some of the causes leading to the amount of food waste the United States experiences?
2. What are socio-economic effects of such waste?

In order to answer the question, you will select support from a minimum of three of the sources we have discussed. You may find additional sources, if you would like, but you will need to cite those as well. You will need to choose and Ie nadeen a minimum of three different cause and/or effects. In each paragraph, you will provide at least two pieces of expert support from your sources and research (if you choose to find more).

In your introduction, you will present the issue and discuss what is happening and why we, as a society, should be aware/worried. You can use personal examples here only. Your thesis will state the issue and provide a plan of development (the three causes or effects you plan to discuss).

You will need: 1) an introduction with a hook, background information about the issue, and thesis with a plan of development; 2) 3 body paragraphs each with a topic sentence in your own words and 1 or 2 examples from the sources and explanations/analysis; 3) a conclusion that restates the thesis, reviews your body paragraph, and comes to a conclusion; and 4) to use MLA format and cite your illustrations correctly.

Guidelines

This essay should be 1000-1200 words in length, double-spaced, typed in a 12pt font (Times New Roman). Make sure to introduce all of your sources, use in-text citations and create a Works Cited page. If you need help with those, please review information under MLA Resources on our site.

Final Tips

• Transitions: Between new ideas and paragraphs, you should always use transitional phrases and words.
• Please proofread for run-ons, fragments, or any other grammatical errors.
• Make sure you have a Works Cited page (not included in page
• https://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_stuart_the_glob…
• https://gcccd.instructure.com/courses/11727/files/…
• Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141013-food-waste-national-
  1. Rhetorical Context (Who wrote it or created? Why was it written? What is it trying to do to or for its readers? What is it? Where does it appear? When was it published? )

  Who wrote it: Elizabeth Royte
  Why was it written: To raise the point that one third of food is wasted
  What is it doing for its readers: Making them aware of how and where food wastage occurs in its many forms. The article also asks readers to combat this wastage issueWhat is it: An online news post
  Where does it appear: National Geographic News (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141013-food-waste-national-security-environment-science-ngfood/) When was it published: October 13, 2014

  1. Summary (What does the text say? What are its main points? What did you find most interesting?)

  The text speaks about food wastage and that 30% of food grown does not get used in any sense.
  The main points are the ways in which food is wasted or lost (and the difference: waste occurs at the end of the food chain with consumer levels and loss is at the front of the food chain i.e. the farmers during and after production), the impact that food wastage and loss has on labor costs, land and water as well as the greenhouse effect due to higher greenhouse gas emissions.
  What I found most interesting was people found it easy to throw something away just because it was cosmetically imperfect or past its use-by date even when it has not gone off in an obvious way and has been refrigerated well. Another point I found interesting was that due to lack of storage, so much food goes to waste.

  1. What are THREE golden lines from the text (quotes that stood out to you most)
  1. “We forget to eat our leftovers, we leave our doggy bags in restaurants, and we suffer little or no consequence for scraping edible food into a bin.”
  2. “If global food waste were a country, it would be the third largest generator of greenhouse gases in the world behind China and the United States.”
  3. “ Feeding livestock on the food we currently waste, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, would globally liberate enough cereals to feed three billion people.”

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