Joshua’s Blog

  The epidemic of easily-accessible, 24/7, simple foods is an ever-growing one, expanding wait lines and businesses all around the country. While the fast food has seen an increase in prices, the consumption of them has done anything but slow down. Similar to tobacco, there is a myriad of health issues that arise from fast food, and there is also a major need for government regulation involved. In looking at David Zinczenko’s  "Don’t Blame the Eater" , Radley Balko’s  "What You Eat Is Your Business" , and the documentary  "What the Health" , it is easy to gather that the serious effects of fast food, similar to tobacco, in the various health dangers it carries, as well as how the need for government regulation is imperative for the health and safety of the American people; fast food IS the new tobacco.  David Zinczenko discusses in his article, “Don’t Blame The Eater”how eating fast food as a youth did not necessarily mean that he was taking into a accou...

  It is a constant throughout all generations to complain and compare one generation to the previous and next ones. It is seen throughout all of history, and continues to be a continuing trend, perhaps even tradition, in today’s world. While Pop Culture is one of the main focuses of this, it is constantly changing with the interests and habits of the ever-changing world, and a rapidly-changing world at that. What a was cool or interesting last month, let alone last decade, is not the trend today. With it, these trends and other elements of pop culture help shape the interests of today’s society, as well as the creativity, communication and social life, and overall inspiration. Current music and art of today’s world inspires what is yet to come, and what came before today and inspired what the present holds. Overall, pop culture, despite the admittedly various controversial aspects it brings upon society, is a good thing that keeps the creative fuel and drive alive.     ...